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  • قدر جان زان می‌ندانی ای فلان  ** که بدادت حق به بخشش رایگان 
  • O such-and-such, you know not the value of your soul because God bountifully gave it to you for nothing.

  • نقد رفت و کاله رفته و خانه‌ها  ** ماند چون چغدان در آن ویرانه‌ها  4210
  • His ready money went and his furniture and houses went: he was left (alone) like owls in the deserts.

  • گفت یا رب برگ دادی رفت برگ  ** یا بده برگی و یا بفرست مرگ 
  • He cried, “O Lord, Thou gavest (me) provision: the provision is gone: either give (me) some provision or send death.”

  • چون تهی شد یاد حق آغاز کرد  ** یا رب و یا رب اجرنی ساز کرد 
  • When he became empty, he began to call unto God: he started the tune of “O Lord!” and “O Lord, protect me!”

  • چون پیمبر گفته مومن مزهرست  ** در زمان خالیی ناله گرست 
  • Since the Prophet has said that the true believer is (like) a lute (mizhar), (which) makes music (only) at the time when it is empty—

  • چون شود پر مطربش بنهد ز دست  ** پر مشو که آسیب دست او خوشست 
  • (For) as soon as it is filled, the minstrel lays it down—do not become full, for sweet is the touch of His hand.

  • تی شو و خوش باش بین اصبعین  ** کز می لا این سرمستست این  4215
  • Become empty and stay happily between (His) two fingers, for “where” is intoxicated with the wine of “nowhere.”

  • رفت طغیان آب از چشمش گشاد  ** آب چشمش زرع دین را آب داد 
  • Frowardness departed (from him) and released the water (tears) from his eye: his tears watered (revived) the crops of devotion.

  • سبب تاخیر اجابت دعای مومن 
  • The reason why the answer to the true believer's prayer is delayed.

  • ای بسا مخلص که نالد در دعا  ** تا رود دود خلوصش بر سما 
  • Oh, how many a sincere (worshipper) moans in prayer, so that the smoke of his sincerity ascends to Heaven,

  • تا رود بالای این سقف برین  ** بوی مجمر از انین المذنبین 
  • And from the lamentation of the sinful the perfume of the censer floats up beyond this lofty roof!