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.

کاش چون اصحاب کهف این روح را ** حفظ کردی یا چو کشتی نوح را

Would that He had guarded this spirit as the Men of the Cave or as the Ark of Noah,

تا از این طوفان بیداری و هوش ** وارهیدی این ضمیر چشم و گوش‌‌

That this mind and eye and ear might be delivered from the Flood of wakefulness and consciousness!

ای بسی اصحاب کهف اندر جهان ** پهلوی تو پیش تو هست این زمان‌‌ 405

Oh, in the world there is many a Man of the Cave beside you, before you, at this time: