کاندرین خواری نقدت فتحهاست ** نک فلان قلعه فلان بقعه تراست

For in this present abasement of thee there are victories: lo, such and such a fortress, such and such a town, are (given) to thee.”

بنگر آخر چونک واگردید تفت ** بر قریظه و بر نضیر از وی چه رفت 4505

Consider, after all, when he retreated in haste, what (great things) he did against Qurayza and Nadír.

قلعه‌ها هم گرد آن دو بقعه‌ها ** شد مسلم وز غنایم نفعها

The fortresses, also, round those two settlements submitted (to him), and (many) advantages (in the shape) of spoils (came into his hands).

ور نباشد آن تو بنگر کین فریق ** پر غم و رنجند و مفتون و عشیق

And if that be not so, consider that this class (of persons) are sorrowful and woeful and distraught and enamoured (of God).

زهر خواری را چو شکر می‌خورند ** خار غمها را چو اشتر می‌چرند

They eat the poison of abasement, like sugar; they feed, like camels, on the thistle of sorrows.

بهر عین غم نه از بهر فرج ** این تسافل پیش ایشان چون درج

(This they do) for the sake of the sorrow itself, not for the sake of relief (from sorrow): in their eyes this lowliness is as a ladder.

آنچنان شادند اندر قعر چاه ** که همی‌ترسند از تخت و کلاه 4510

So glad are they at the bottom of the pit that they are afraid of the throne and the tiara.

هر کجا دلبر بود خود همنشین ** فوق گردونست نه زیر زمین

Every place where the Beloved himself is their companion is above the sky, not below the earth.

تفسیر این خبر کی مصطفی علیه السلام فرمود لا تفضلونی علی یونس بن متی

Commentary on the Tradition that Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, said, “Do not declare me to be more excellent than Yúnus ibn Mattá.”

گفت پیغامبر که معراج مرا ** نیست بر معراج یونس اجتبا

The Prophet said, “No preference is (to be given) to my ascension as being superior to the ascension of Yúnus (Jonah).

آن من بر چرخ و آن او نشیب ** زانک قرب حق برونست از حساب

Mine was up to heaven, and his was down below (in the belly of the Fish), because nighness unto God is beyond calculation.”