کوچکین رنجور بود و آن وسط ** بر جنازه‌ی آن بزرگ آمد فقط
The youngest (brother) was ill, and (so) the middle one came alone to the funeral of the eldest.
شاه دیدش گفت قاصد کین کیست ** که از آن بحرست و این هم ماهیست 4635
(When) the King espied him, he said with a purpose, “Who is this?—for he is of that sea, and he too is a fish.”
پس معرف گفت پور آن پدر ** این برادر زان برادر خردتر
Then the announcer said, “He is a son of the same father: this brother is younger than that (deceased) brother.”
شه نوازیدش که هستی یادگار ** کرد او را هم بدان پرسش شکار
The King greeted him affectionately, saying, “Thou art a keepsake (from thy brother to me)”; and by this enquiry (gracious attention) made him too his prey.
از نواز شاه آن زار حنیذ ** در تن خود غیر جان جانی بدیذ
In consequence of the kindness shown (to him) by the King, that wretched man, (who was) roasted (in the fire of love), found in his body a soul other than the (animal) soul.
در دل خود دید عالی غلغله ** که نیابد صوفی آن در صد چله
He felt within his heart a sublime emotion which the Súfí does not experience during a hundred chilas.
عرصه و دیوار و کوه سنگ‌بافت ** پیش او چون نار خندان می‌شکافت 4640
Court-yard and wall and mountain woven of stone seemed to split open before him like a laughing (bursting) pomegranate.
ذره ذره پیش او هم‌چون قباب ** دم به دم می‌کرد صدگون فتح باب
One by one, the atoms (of the universe) were momently opening their doors to him, like tents, in a hundred diverse ways.
باب گه روزن شدی گاه شعاع ** خاک گه گندم شدی و گاه صاع
The door would become now the window, now the sunbeams; the earth would become now the wheat, now the bushel.
در نظرها چرخ بس کهنه و قدید ** پیش چشمش هر دمی خلق جدید
In (men's) eyes the heavens are very old and threadbare; in his eye ’twasa new creation at every moment.