چون بیامد پیش گفتش کیستی ** از یمن زادی و یا ترکیستی

When he came before him, he (the master) said, “Who art thou? Art thou a native of Yemen or a Turcoman?

گو غلامم را چه کردی راست گو ** گر بکشتی وا نما حیلت مجو

Tell (me), what hast thou done to my slave? Speak the truth! If thou hast killed him, declare it! Do not seek evasion.”

گفت اگر کشتم بتو چون آمدم ** چون به پای خود درین خون آمدم

He replied, “If I have killed him, how have I come to thee? How have I come with my own feet into this blood?”

کو غلام من بگفت اینک منم ** کرد دست فضل یزدان روشنم

(He asked again), “Where is my slave?” He (the slave) said, “Lo, I am (he): the hand of God's grace hath made me resplendent.”

هی چه می‌گویی غلام من کجاست ** هین نخواهی رست از من جز براست 3185

“Eh, what art thou saying? Where is my slave? Hark, thou wilt not escape from me except by (telling) the truth.”

گفت اسرار ترا با آن غلام ** جمله وا گویم یکایک من تمام

He (the slave) said, “I will relate all thy secret dealings with that slave, one by one;

زان زمانی که خریدی تو مرا ** تا به اکنون باز گویم ماجرا

I will relate what has passed (between us) from the time when thou didst purchase me until now,

تا بدانی که همانم در وجود ** گرچه از شبدیز من صبحی گشود

That thou mayst know I am the same in (my spiritual) existence, though a (bright) dawn has opened forth from my night-hued (body).

رنگ دیگر شد ولیکن جان پاک ** فارغ از رنگست و از ارکان و خاک

The colour is changed; but the pure spirit is free from colour and from the (four) elements and the dust.”

تن‌شناسان زود ما را گم کنند ** آب‌نوشان ترک مشک و خم کنند 3190

They that know the body (alone) soon lose us; (but) they that quaff the (spiritual) water abandon the (bodily) water-skin and jar.