داند این را هرکه ز اصحاب نهاست ** که نهاد من فزون‌تر از شماست

Whoever is one of those possessed of intelligence knows this, that my nature is superior to yours.”

جملگان دانند کین چرخ بلند ** هست صد چندان که این خاک نژند

(The Christian said), “All know that this lofty heaven is a hundred times as great as this low earth.

کو گشاد رقعه‌های آسمان ** کو نهاد بقعه‌های خاکدان 2485

How can the wide expanse of the celestial domains be compared with the (limited) character of the terrestrial regions?”

جواب گفتن مسلمان آنچ دید به یارانش جهود و ترسا و حسرت خوردن ایشان

How the Moslem in reply told his companions, the Jew and the Christian, what he had seen (in his dream), and how they were disappointed.

پس مسلمان گفت ای یاران من ** پیشم آمد مصطفی سلطان من

Then the Moslem said, “O my friends, to me came Mustafá (Mohammed), my sovereign,

پس مرا گفت آن یکی بر طور تاخت ** با کلیم حق و نرد عشق باخت

And said to me, ‘That one (the Jew) has sped to Sinai with him (Moses) to whom God spake, and has played the game of love (with God);

وان دگر را عیسی صاحب‌قران ** برد بر اوج چهارم آسمان

And the other (the Christian) has been carried by Jesus, the Lord of happy star, to the zenith of the Fourth Heaven.

خیز ای پس مانده‌ی دیده ضرر ** باری آن حلوا و یخنی را بخور

Arise, O thou who hast been left behind and hast suffered injury, at least eat up the sweetmeat and comfit!

آن هنرمندان پر فن راندند ** نامه‌ی اقبال و منصب خواندند 2490

Those (two) talented and accomplished men have pushed forward and have read the book of fortune and honour.

آن دو فاضل فضل خود در یافتند ** با ملایک از هنر در بافتند

Those two eminent men have attained to their (proper) eminence and because of their talents have mingled with the angels.

ای سلیم گول واپس مانده هین ** بر جه و بر کاسه‌ی حلوا نشین

Hark, O foolish simpleton who hast been left behind, jump up and seat thyself beside the bowl of halwá!’”