از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود ** روغن بادام خشکی می‌‌نمود

By Divine destiny, oxymel increased the bile, and oil of almonds was producing dryness.

از هلیله قبض شد اطلاق رفت ** آب آتش را مدد شد همچو نفت‌‌

From (giving) myrobalan constipation resulted, relaxation ceased; and water fed the flames, like naphtha.

ظاهر شدن عجز حکیمان از معالجه‌‌ی کنیزک و روی آوردن پادشاه به درگاه خدا و در خواب دیدن او ولی را

How it became manifest that the physicians were unable to cure the handmaiden, and how the king turned his face towards God and dreamed of a holy man.

شه چو عجز آن حکیمان را بدید ** پا برهنه جانب مسجد دوید 55

When the king saw the powerlessness of those physicians, he ran bare-footed to the mosque.

رفت در مسجد سوی محراب شد ** سجده گاه از اشک شه پر آب شد

He entered the mosque and advanced to the mihráb (to pray): the prayer-carpet was bathed in the king's tears.

چون به خویش آمد ز غرقاب فنا ** خوش زبان بگشاد در مدح و ثنا

On coming to himself out of the flood of ecstasy (faná) he opened his lips in goodly praise and prayer,

کای کمینه بخششت ملک جهان ** من چه گویم چون تو می‌‌دانی نهان‌‌

Saying, “O Thou whose least gift is the empire of the world, what shall I say, in as much as Thou knowest the hidden thing?

ای همیشه حاجت ما را پناه ** بار دیگر ما غلط کردیم راه‌‌

O Thou with whom we always take refuge in our need, once again we have missed the way.

لیک گفتی گر چه می‌‌دانم سرت ** زود هم پیدا کنش بر ظاهرت‌‌ 60

But Thou hast said, ‘Albeit I know thy secret, nevertheless declare it forthwith in thine outward act.’”

چون بر آورد از میان جان خروش ** اندر آمد بحر بخشایش به جوش‌‌

When from the depths of his soul he raised a cry (of supplication), the sea of Bounty began to surge.

در میان گریه خوابش در ربود ** دید در خواب او که پیری رو نمود

Slumber overtook him in the midst of weeping: he dreamed that an old man appeared

گفت ای شه مژده حاجاتت رواست ** گر غریبی آیدت فردا ز ماست‌‌

And said, “Good tidings, O king! Thy prayers are granted. If to-morrow a stranger come for thee, he is from me.

چون که آید او حکیمی حاذق است ** صادقش دان که امین و صادق است‌‌

When he comes, he is a skilled physician: deem him veracious, for he is trusty and true.

در علاجش سحر مطلق را ببین ** در مزاجش قدرت حق را ببین‌‌ 65

In his remedy behold absolute magic, in his temperament behold the might of God!”

چون رسید آن وعده‌‌گاه و روز شد ** آفتاب از شرق، اختر سوز شد

When the promised hour arrived and day broke and the sun, (rising) from the east, began to burn the stars,

بود اندر منظره شه منتظر ** تا ببیند آن چه بنمودند سر

The king was in the belvedere, expecting to see that which had been shown mysteriously.

دید شخصی فاضلی پر مایه‌‌ای ** آفتابی در میان سایه‌‌ای‌‌

He saw a person excellent and worshipful, a sun amidst a shadow,

می‌‌رسید از دور مانند هلال ** نیست بود و هست بر شکل خیال‌‌

Coming from afar, like the new moon (in slenderness and radiance): he was nonexistent, though existent in the form of phantasy.

نیست وش باشد خیال اندر روان ** تو جهانی بر خیالی بین روان‌‌ 70

In the spirit phantasy is as naught, (yet) behold a world (turning) on a phantasy!

بر خیالی صلح‌‌شان و جنگشان ** وز خیالی فخرشان و ننگشان‌‌

Their peace and their war (turn) on a phantasy, and their pride and their shame spring from a phantasy;

آن خیالاتی که دام اولیاست ** عکس مه رویان بستان خداست‌‌

(But) those phantasies which ensnare the saints are the reflexion of the fair ones of the garden of God.

آن خیالی که شه اندر خواب دید ** در رخ مهمان همی‌‌آمد پدید

In the countenance of the stranger-guest was appearing that phantasy which the king beheld in his dream.

شه به جای حاجبان واپیش رفت ** پیش آن مهمان غیب خویش رفت

The king himself, instead of the chamberlains, went forward to meet his guest from the Invisible.

هر دو بحری آشنا آموخته ** هر دو جان بی‌‌دوختن بر دوخته‌‌ 75

Both were seamen who had learned to swim, the souls of both were knit together without sewing.

گفت معشوقم تو بوده ستی نه آن ** لیک کار از کار خیزد در جهان‌‌

The king said, “Thou wert my Beloved (in reality), not she; but in this world deed issues from deed.

ای مرا تو مصطفی من چون عمر ** از برای خدمتت بندم کمر

O thou who art to me (as) Mustafá (Mohammed), while I am like unto ‘Umar—I will gird my loins to do thee service.”

از خداوند ولی التوفیق در خواستن توفیق رعایت ادب در همه حالها و بیان کردن وخامت ضررهای بی‌‌ادبی‌‌

Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper, to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline.