پیش شیخی در بخارا اندری ** تا به خواری در بخارا ننگری

In the presence of a Shaykh you are in “Bukhárá”: see that you do not look on “Bukhárá” as lowly.

جز به خواری در بخارای دلش ** راه ندهد جزر و مد مشکلش

Save with lowliness (shown by you), its difficult ebb and flow will not give (you) entrance into the “Bukhárá” of his heart.

ای خنک آن را که ذلت نفسه ** وای آنکس را که یردی رفسه

Oh, happy he whose carnal soul is abased! Alas for that one whose recalcitrance destroys (him)!

فرقت صدر جهان در جان او ** پاره پاره کرده بود ارکان او 3795

Separation from the Sadr-i Jahán had shattered (the Wakíl’s) foundations to pieces in his soul.

گفت بر خیزم هم‌آنجا واروم ** کافر ار گشتم دگر ره بگروم

He said, “I will rise up and go back thither: if I have become an infidel, I will believe once more.

واروم آنجا بیفتم پیش او ** پیش آن صدر نکواندیش او

I will go back thither and fall before him-before its (Bukhárá’s) kindly-thinking Sadr (Prince).

گویم افکندم به پیشت جان خویش ** زنده کن یا سر ببر ما را چو میش

I will say, ‘I throw myself before thee: revive (me) or cut off my head, like a sheep!

کشته و مرده به پیشت ای قمر ** به که شاه زندگان جای دگر

‘Tis better to be slain and dead before thee, O Moon, that to be the king of the living in another place.

آزمودم من هزاران بار بیش ** بی تو شیرین می‌نبینم عیش خویش 3800

I have put it to the test more than a thousand times: I don not deem my life sweet without thee.

غن لی یا منیتی لحن النشور ** ابرکی یا ناقتی تم السرور

Sing to me, O object of my desire, the melody of resurrection! Kneel, O my she-camel! The joy is complete.