بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا

A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.

در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو 2330

In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!”

او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو

He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.

در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی

Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”

من نمی‌کردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها

Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”

دید یوسف آفتاب و اختران ** پیش او سجده‌کنان چون چاکران

Joseph saw (in dream) the sun and the stars bowing low before him, like servants.

اعتمادش بود بر خواب درست ** در چه و زندان جز آن را می‌نجست 2335

He relied upon the true dream: in the dungeoun and prison he sought nothing but that.

ز اعتماد او نبودش هیچ غم ** از غلامی وز ملام و بیش و کم

Because of his reliance upon that, he cared naught for servitude or reproach or (anything else whether) more or less.

اعتمادی داشت او بر خواب خویش ** که چو شمعی می‌فروزیدش ز پیش

He had a (great) reliance upon his dream which was shining in front of him like a candle.

چون در افکندند یوسف را به چاه ** بانگ آمد سمع او را از اله

When they cast Joseph into the well, there came to his ear a cry from God-