هیبتی بنشسته بد بر خاص و عام ** پر شده نور خدا آن صحن و بام

An awe had settled (descended) on high and low (alike): the court and roof (of the mosque) had become filled with the Light of God.

هر که بینا ناظر نورش بدی ** کور زان خورشید هم گرم آمدی

Whoever possessed vision was beholding His Light; the blind man too was being heated by that Sun.

پس ز گرمی فهم کردی چشم کور ** که بر آمد آفتابی بی‌فتور 500

Hence, by reason of the heat, the blind man's eye was perceiving that there had arisen a Sun whose strength faileth not.

لیک این گرمی گشاید دیده را ** تا ببیند عین هر بشنیده را

But this heat (unlike the heat of the terrestrial sun) opens the (inward) eye, that it may see the very substance of everything heard.

گرمیش را ضجرتی و حالتی ** زان تبش دل را گشادی فسحتی

Its heat has (as effect) a grievous agitation and emotion, (but) from that glow there comes to the heart a joyous (sense of) freedom, an expansion.

کور چون شد گرم از نور قدم ** از فرح گوید که من بینا شدم

When the blind man is heated by the Light of Eternity, from gladness he says, “I have become seeing.”

سخت خوش مستی ولی ای بوالحسن ** پاره‌ای راهست تا بینا شدن

Thou art mightily well drunken, but, O Bu ’l-Hasan, there is a bit of way (to be traversed ere thou attain) to seeing.

این نصیب کور باشد ز آفتاب ** صد چنین والله اعلم بالصواب 505

This is the blind man's portion from the Sun, (and) a hundred such (portions); and God best knoweth what is right.

وآنک او آن نور را بینا بود ** شرح او کی کار بوسینا بود

And he that hath vision of that Light—how should the explanation of him (his state) be a task (within the capacity) of Bú Síná?

ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان ** که بجنباند به کف پرده‌ی عیان

(Even) if it be hundredfold, who (what) is this tongue that it should move with its hand the veil of (mystical) clairvoyance?