ساربانا بار بگشا ز اشتران ** شهر تبریزست و کوی گلستان
O camel-driver, unload the camels: ’tis the city of Tabríz and the district of the rose-garden.
فر فردوسیست این پالیز را ** شعشعه‌ی عرشیست این تبریز را
This garden hath the splendour of Paradise: this Tabríz hath the brilliance of Heaven.
هر زمانی نور روح‌انگیز جان ** از فراز عرش بر تبریزیان 3115
At every moment of time joy-enkindling odours diffused by the Spirit (are floating down) from above the empyrean upon the inhabitants of Tabríz.”
چون وثاق محتسب جست آن غریب ** خلق گفتندش که بگذشت آن حبیب
When the poor stranger sought the Inspector's house, the people told him that the loved one had passed away.
او پریر از دار دنیا نقل کرد ** مرد و زن از واقعه‌ی او روی‌زرد
“The day before yesterday,” they said, “he removed from this world: (every) man and woman is pale (with grief) for the calamity that has overtaken him.
رفت آن طاوس عرشی سوی عرش ** چون رسید از هاتفانش بوی عرش
That celestial peacock went to Heaven, when the scent (intimation) of Heaven reached him from invisible messengers.
سایه‌اش گرچه پناه خلق بود ** در نوردید آفتابش زود زود
Although his shadow was the refuge of people (seeking protection), the Sun rolled it up very quickly.
راند او کشتی ازین ساحل پریر ** گشته بود آن خواجه زین غم‌خانه سیر 3120
He pushed off his boat from this beach the day before yesterday: the Khwája had become sated with this house of sorrow.”
نعره‌ای زد مرد و بیهوش اوفتاد ** گوییا او نیز در پی جان بداد
The (poor) man shrieked and fell senseless: you would say that he too had given up the ghost (and followed) on the heels (of his friend).
پس گلاب و آب بر رویش زدند ** همرهان بر حالتش گریان شدند
Then they threw julep and water on his face: his fellow-travellers wept and bewailed his plight.