بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا

A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.

در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو 2330

In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!”

او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو

He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.

در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی

Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”

من نمی‌کردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها

Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”

دید یوسف آفتاب و اختران ** پیش او سجده‌کنان چون چاکران

Joseph saw (in dream) the sun and the stars bowing low before him, like servants.

اعتمادش بود بر خواب درست ** در چه و زندان جز آن را می‌نجست 2335

He relied upon the true dream: in the dungeoun and prison he sought nothing but that.

ز اعتماد او نبودش هیچ غم ** از غلامی وز ملام و بیش و کم

Because of his reliance upon that, he cared naught for servitude or reproach or (anything else whether) more or less.

اعتمادی داشت او بر خواب خویش ** که چو شمعی می‌فروزیدش ز پیش

He had a (great) reliance upon his dream which was shining in front of him like a candle.

چون در افکندند یوسف را به چاه ** بانگ آمد سمع او را از اله

When they cast Joseph into the well, there came to his ear a cry from God-

که تو روزی شه شوی ای پهلوان ** تا بمالی این جفا در رویشان

“O paladin, one day thou wilt become king, so that thou mayst rub this wrong upon their faces.”

قایل این بانگ ناید در نظر ** لیک دل بشناخت قایل را ز اثر 2340

He who utters this cry is not visible, but the heart (of Joseph) recognized the Speaker from the effect (of the words.)

قوتی و راحتی و مسندی ** در میان جان فتادش زان ندا

From that (Divine) allocution a (great) strength and peace and support fell into the midst of his soul.

چاه شد بر وی بدان بانگ جلیل ** گلشن و بزمی چو آتش بر خلیل

Through that Majestical cry the well became to him a rose-garden and banquet, as the fire to Abraham.

هر جفا که بعد از آنش می‌رسید ** او بدان قوت بشادی می‌کشید

Bu means of that strength he cheerfully endured every affliction that came to him afterwards-

همچنانک ذوق آن بانگ الست ** در دل هر مومنی تا حشر هست

Even as the delicious savour of the cryAm not I (your Lord)? Subsists in the heart of every true believer till the Resurrection,

تا نباشد در بلاشان اعتراض ** نه ز امر و نهی حقشان انقباض 2345

So that they do not rebel in tribulation or shrink from (obeying) the commands and prohibitions of God.

لقمه‌ی حکمی که تلخی می‌نهد ** گلشکر آن را گوارش می‌دهد

The rose-conserve (of spiritual delight) digests the morsel, that is, the (Divine) decree, which bestows bitterness;

گلشکر آن را که نبود مستند ** لقمه را ز انکار او قی می‌کند

(But) he that does not rely upon the rose-conserve vomits the morsel in disgust.

هر که خوابی دید از روز الست ** مست باشد در ره طاعات مست

Any one who has dreamed of the Day of Alast is drunken in the path of devotional works, drunken:

می‌کشد چون اشتر مست این جوال ** بی فتور و بی گمان و بی ملال

Like a drunken (frenzied) camel, he is bearing this (heavy) sack without flagging and without questioning and without fatigue;

کفک تصدیقش بگرد پوز او ** شد گواه مستی و دلسوز او 2350

The froth round his muzzle, namely, his confession of faith, has become a witness to his (inward) intoxication and heart-burning.

اشتر از قوت چو شیر نر شده ** زیر ثقل بار اندک‌خور شده

Through the strength (bestowed on him) the camel becomes like a fierce lion; beneath the heavy burden he eats little (food).

ز آرزوی ناقه صد فاقه برو ** می‌نماید کوه پیشش تار مو

In (his) longing for the she-camel a hundred starvations (lie lightly) on him; the mountain seems to him (as) a strand of hair.

در الست آنکو چنین خوابی ندید ** اندرین دنیا نشد بنده و مرید

(But) he who has not dreamed such a dream in Alast does not become a servant and seeker (of God) in this world;