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هاتفست این داعی من ای عجب ** یا پری‌ام می‌کند پنهان طلب
- “I wonder,” said he, “is it a hátif, this voice which is calling me, or is it a peri (jinní) summoning me mysteriously?”
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چون پیاپی گشت آن آواز و بیش ** گفت هاتف نیست باز آمد به خویش
- When the shouts followed one another in succession and increased, he said, “’Tis not a hátif,” and recovered himself.
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عاقبت دانست کان بانگ و فغان ** بد ز صندوق و کسی در وی نهان 4495
- At last he perceived that the shouts and cries for help came from the chest and that somebody was concealed in it.
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عاشقی کو در غم معشوق رفت ** گر چه بیرونست در صندوق رفت
- The lover who has fallen passionately in love with an (earthly) object of affection has gone into the chest, though (in appearance) he is outside.
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عمر در صندوق برد از اندهان ** جز که صندوقی نبیند از جهان
- He has spent (wasted) his life in the chest on account of (worldly) cares: he can see nothing of the world except a chest.
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آن سری که نیست فوق آسمان ** از هوس او را در آن صندوق دان
- The head that is not (raised) above the sky—know that it is (confined) in that chest by its vain desires.
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چون ز صندوق بدن بیرون رود ** او ز گوری سوی گوری می‌شود
- When he (such an one) goes forth from the chest of the body, he will (only) go from one tomb to another tomb.
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این سخن پایان ندارد قاضیش ** گفت ای حمال و ای صندوق‌کش 4500
- This topic is endless. The cadi said to him, “O porter, O carrier of the chest,
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از من آگه کن درون محکمه ** نایبم را زودتر با این همه
- Give news of me to my deputy at the court of justice and acquaint him with all (the details of) this (affair) as quickly as possible,
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تا خرد این را به زر زین بی‌خرد ** هم‌چنین بسته به خانه‌ی ما برد
- In order that he may buy this (chest) with gold from this witless fellow and take it fastened, just as it is, to my house.”