هر چه کردند از علاج و از دوا ** گشت رنج افزون و حاجت ناروا

The more cures and remedies they applied, the more did the illness increase, and the need was not fulfilled.

آن کنیزک از مرض چون موی شد ** چشم شه از اشک خون چون جوی شد

The sick girl became (thin) as a hair, (while) the eyes of the king flowed with tears of blood, like a river.

از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود ** روغن بادام خشکی می‌‌نمود

By Divine destiny, oxymel increased the bile, and oil of almonds was producing dryness.

از هلیله قبض شد اطلاق رفت ** آب آتش را مدد شد همچو نفت‌‌

From (giving) myrobalan constipation resulted, relaxation ceased; and water fed the flames, like naphtha.

ظاهر شدن عجز حکیمان از معالجه‌‌ی کنیزک و روی آوردن پادشاه به درگاه خدا و در خواب دیدن او ولی را

How it became manifest that the physicians were unable to cure the handmaiden, and how the king turned his face towards God and dreamed of a holy man.

شه چو عجز آن حکیمان را بدید ** پا برهنه جانب مسجد دوید 55

When the king saw the powerlessness of those physicians, he ran bare-footed to the mosque.

رفت در مسجد سوی محراب شد ** سجده گاه از اشک شه پر آب شد

He entered the mosque and advanced to the mihráb (to pray): the prayer-carpet was bathed in the king's tears.

چون به خویش آمد ز غرقاب فنا ** خوش زبان بگشاد در مدح و ثنا

On coming to himself out of the flood of ecstasy (faná) he opened his lips in goodly praise and prayer,

کای کمینه بخششت ملک جهان ** من چه گویم چون تو می‌‌دانی نهان‌‌

Saying, “O Thou whose least gift is the empire of the world, what shall I say, in as much as Thou knowest the hidden thing?

ای همیشه حاجت ما را پناه ** بار دیگر ما غلط کردیم راه‌‌

O Thou with whom we always take refuge in our need, once again we have missed the way.

لیک گفتی گر چه می‌‌دانم سرت ** زود هم پیدا کنش بر ظاهرت‌‌ 60

But Thou hast said, ‘Albeit I know thy secret, nevertheless declare it forthwith in thine outward act.’”