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زان جهان کو چارهی بیچارهجوست ** صد هزاران نادره دنیا دروست
- From the World that is seeking a remedy for them that have no remedy: hundreds of thousands of wonders of the (present) world are (contained) in it.
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ابشروا یا قوم اذ جاء الفرج ** افرحوا یا قوم قد زال الحرج
- Rejoice, O people, since the relief has come; be glad, O people: the distress is removed.
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آفتابی رفت در کازهی هلال ** در تقاضا که ارحنا یا بلال
- A Sun went into the hut of the new-moon, making urgent demands and saying, “Refresh us, O Bilál!
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زیر لب میگفتی از بیم عدو ** کوری او بر مناره رو بگو
- From fear of the foe thou wert wont to speak under thy breath: (now), to his confusion, go up into the minaret and speak (aloud).”
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میدمد در گوش هر غمگین بشیر ** خیز ای مدبر ره اقبال گیر 1100
- The announcer of glad news is shouting in the ear of every sorrowful one, “Arise, O unlucky man, and take the road to fortune.
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ای درین حبس و درین گند و شپش ** هین که تا کس نشنود رستی خمش
- O thou that art in this prison and amidst this stench and these lice, beware lest any one hear! Thou hast escaped (from prison): be silent!”
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چون کنی خامش کنون ای یار من ** کز بن هر مو بر آمد طبلزن
- How shouldst thou keep silence now, O my beloved, when a drummer has appeared from the root of every hair (in thy body)?
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آنچنان کر شد عدو رشکخو ** گوید این چندین دهل را بانگ کو
- The jealous foe has become so deaf (that) he says, “Where is the sound of all these drums?”
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میزند بر روش ریحان که طریست ** او ز کوری گوید این آسیب چیست
- The fresh sweet basil is touching his face, (but) in his blindness he says, “What is this annoyance?”
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میشکنجد حور دستش میکشد ** کور حیران کز چه دردم میکند 1105
- The houri is nipping his hand and drawing (him towards her): the blind man is distraught and says, “Wherefore is he (some one) hurting me?