خفته از احوال دنیا روز و شب ** چون قلم در پنجه‌‌ی تقلیب رب‌‌

He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world, like a pen in the hand of the Lord's control.

آن که او پنجه نبیند در رقم ** فعل پندارد به جنبش از قلم‌‌

One who sees not the hand in the writing thinks (that) the act (of writing proceeds) from the pen by means of movement.

شمه‌‌ای زین حال عارف وانمود ** خلق را هم خواب حسی در ربود 395

He (God) hath shown forth some part of this state of the ‘árif, (inasmuch as) the intellect too is carried off (overtaken) by sleep of the senses.

رفته در صحرای بی‌‌چون جانشان ** روحشان آسوده و ابدانشان‌‌

Their souls are gone into the desert that is without description: their spirits and bodies are at rest;

وز صفیری باز دام اندر کشی ** جمله را در داد و در داور کشی‌‌

And with a whistle thou leadest them back to the snare, leadest them all (back) to justice and to the judge.

فالق الإصباح اسرافیل‌‌وار ** جمله را در صورت آرد ز ان دیار

Like Isráfíl (Seraphiel), He (God) who causes the dawn to break brings them all from those lands (of spirit) into (the world of) form.

روحهای منبسط را تن کند ** هر تنی را باز آبستن کند

He embodies the spirits divested (of body), He makes each body pregnant (laden) again (with actions and works).

اسب جانها را کند عاری ز زین ** سر النوم اخ الموت است این‌‌ 400

He makes the steed of the souls bare of saddle: this is the inner meaning of “Sleep is the brother of Death”;

لیک بهر آن که روز آیند باز ** بر نهد بر پایشان بند دراز

But in order that they may return in the daytime, He puts a long tether on their leg,

تا که روزش واکشد ز ان مرغزار ** وز چراگاه آردش در زیر بار

So that in the daytime He may lead it back from that meadow and bring it from the pasture (to go) under the load.