چون چنین بردیست ما را بعد مات ** راست آمد ان فی قتلی حیات

Since there is such a victory for us after the checkmate (of death), (the words) “verily, in my being slain there is a life” are true.

فعل و قول و صدق شد قوت ملک ** تا بدین معراج شد سوی فلک

Action and speech and sincerity became the food of the angel, so that by means of this ladder he mounted to heaven,

آنچنان کان طعمه شد قوت بشر ** از جمادی بر شد و شد جانور

Just as (when) that morsel became the food of Man, it mounted from (the state of) inanimateness and became possessed of soul.

این سخن را ترجمه‌ی پهناوری ** گفته آید در مقام دیگری 4190

As regards this topic, a wide (far-reaching) explanation will be given in another place.

کاروان دایم ز گردون می‌رسد ** تا تجارت می‌کند وا می‌رود

“The caravan (of spirits) is incessantly arriving from heaven, that they may traffic (on the earth) and go back again.

پس برو شیرین و خوش با اختیار ** نه بتلخی و کراهت دزدوار

Go, then, sweetly and gladly with free-will, not with bitterness and loathing, like a thief.

زان حدیث تلخ می‌گویم ترا ** تا ز تلخیها فرو شویم ترا

I am speaking bitter words to thee, in order that I may wash thee (clean) of bitternesses.

ز آب سرد انگور افسرده رهد ** سردی و افسردگی بیرون نهد

The frozen grape is thawed by cold water and lays aside its coldness and congealment.

تو ز تلخی چونکه دل پر خون شوی ** پس ز تلخیها همه بیرون روی 4195

When, from (having endured) bitterness (self-mortification), thy heart is filled with blood (like the grape), then thou wilt escape from all bitternesses.

تمثیل صابر شدن مومن چون بر شر و خیر بلا واقف شود

A comparison showing how the true believer becomes patient when he understands the inward meaning and the beneficial nature of tribulation.

سگ شکاری نیست او را طوق نیست ** خام و ناجوشیده جز بی‌ذوق نیست

(If) a dog is not (kept) for hunting, he has no collar: the raw and unboiled is naught but the insipid.”