آن سپد خود را چو پر از آب دید ** کر استغنا و از دریا برید

When the basket saw itself to be full of water, it behaved with independence and parted from the sea.

بر جگر آبش یکی قطره نماند ** بحر رحمت کرد و او را باز خواند

(Afterwards, when) not a single drop of water remained inside it, the sea showed mercy and called it back.

رحمتی بی‌علتی بی‌خدمتی ** آید از دریا مبارک ساعتی

From the (Divine) Sea comes an uncaused undeserved mercy in a blessed hour.

الله الله گرد دریابار گرد ** گرچه باشند اهل دریابار زرد 3625

For God's sake, for God's sake, frequent the Seashore, though those who dwell on the seashore are pale,

تا که آید لطف بخشایش‌گری ** سرخ گردد روی زرد از گوهری

In order that the grace of a Benefactor may come (to thee) and that thy pale face may be reddened by a jewel.

زردی رو بهترین رنگهاست ** زانک اندر انتظار آن لقاست

Yellowness (paleness) of face is the best of complexions, because it is in expectation of that meeting (with God);

لیک سرخی بر رخی که آن لامعست ** بهر آن آمد که جانش قانعست

But the redness on a face that is beaming appears (there) because his (its owner's) soul is content;

که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل ** نیست او از علت ابدان علیل

For (mere) hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.

چون ببیند روی زرد بی‌سقم ** خیره گردد عقل جالینوس هم 3630

The reason of even (a physician like) Galen becomes distraught when it sees a pale face without (unaccompanied by any symptom of) disease.

چون طمع بستی تو در انوار هو ** مصطفی گوید که ذلت نفسه

When thou hast fixed thy hope on the Light of Him (God), Mustafá (Mohammed) says (concerning such an one), “His carnal self is abased.”