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  • در دعا بود او که ناگه نعره‌ای ** از دل قبطی بجست و غره‌ای
  • He was (still) praying when suddenly a loud cry and roar burst from the heart of the Egyptian,

  • که هلا بشتاب و ایمان عرضه کن ** تا ببرم زود زنار کهن 3505
  • (Who exclaimed), “Come, make haste and submit (the profession of) the Faith (for my acceptance), that I may quickly cut the old girdle (of unbelief).

  • آتشی در جان من انداختند ** مر بلیسی را به جان بنواختند
  • They have cast a fire into my heart, they have shown affection with (all) their soul for an Iblís (like me).

  • دوستی تو و از تو ناشکفت ** حمدلله عاقبت دستم گرفت
  • Praise be to God! Thy friendship and (my) not being able to do without thee have succoured me at last.

  • کیمیایی بود صحبتهای تو ** کم مباد از خانه‌ی دل پای تو
  • My consortings with thee were (as) an elixir: may thy foot never disappear from the house of my heart!

  • تو یکی شاخی بدی از نخل خلد ** چون گرفتم او مرا تا خلد برد
  • Thou wert a bough of the palm-tree of Paradise: when I grasped it, it bore me to Paradise.

  • سیل بود آنک تنم را در ربود ** برد سیلم تا لب دریای جود 3510
  • That which carried away my body was a torrent: the torrent bore me to the brink of the Sea of Bounty.

  • من به بوی آب رفتم سوی سیل ** بحر دیدم در گرفتم کیل کیل
  • I went towards the torrent in hope of (obtaining) water: I beheld the Sea and took pearls, bushel on bushel.”

  • طاس آوردش که اکنون آب‌گیر ** گفت رو شد آبها پیشم حقیر
  • He (the Israelite) brought the cup to him, saying, “Now take the water!” “Go,” he replied; “(all) waters have become despicable in my sight.

  • شربتی خوردم ز الله اشتری ** تا به محشر تشنگی ناید مرا
  • I have drunk such a draught from God hath purchased that no thirst will come to me till the Congregation (at the Last Judgement).

  • آنک جوی و چشمه‌ها را آب داد ** چشمه‌ای در اندرون من گشاد
  • He who gave water to the rivers and fountains hath opened a fountain within me.

  • این جگر که بود گرم و آب‌خوار ** گشت پیش همت او آب خوار 3515
  • This heart, which was hot and water-drinking—to its high aspiration water has become vile.

  • کاف کافی آمد او بهر عباد ** صدق وعده‌ی کهیعص
  • He (God), for the sake of His servants, became (symbolised by) the (letter) káf of Káfí (All-sufficing), (in token of) the truth of the promise of Káf, Há, Yá, ‘Ayn, Sád.

  • کافیم بدهم ترا من جمله خیر ** بی‌سبب بی‌واسطه‌ی یاری غیر
  • (God saith), ‘I am All-sufficing: I will give thee all good, without (the intervention of) a secondary cause, without the mediation of another's aid.

  • کافیم بی‌نان ترا سیری دهم ** بی‌سپاه و لشکرت میری دهم
  • I am All-sufficing: I will give thee satiety without bread, I will give thee sovereignty without soldiers and armies.

  • بی‌بهارت نرگس و نسرین دهم ** بی‌کتاب و اوستا تلقین دهم
  • I will give thee narcissi and wild-roses without the spring, I will give thee instruction without a book and teacher.

  • کافیم بی داروت درمان کنم ** گور را و چاه را میدان کنم 3520
  • I am All-sufficing: I will heal thee without medicine, I will make the grave and the pit a (spacious) playing-field.

  • موسیی را دل دهم با یک عصا ** تا زند بر عالمی شمشیرها
  • To a Moses I give heart (courage) with a single rod, that he may brandish swords against a multitude.

  • دست موسی را دهم یک نور و تاب ** که طپانچه می‌زند بر آفتاب
  • (Such) a light and splendour do I give to the hand of Moses that it is slapping the sun (in triumph).

  • چوب را ماری کنم من هفت سر ** که نزاید ماده مار او را ز نر
  • I make the wooden staff a seven-headed dragon, which the female dragon does not (conceive and) bring to birth from the male.

  • خون نیامیزم در آب نیل من ** خود کنم خون عین آبش را به فن
  • I do not mingle blood in the water of the Nile: in sooth by My cunning I make the very essence of its water to be blood.

  • شادیت را غم کنم چون آب نیل ** که نیابی سوی شادیها سبیل 3525
  • I turn thy joy into sorrow like the (polluted) water of the Nile, so that thou wilt not find the way to rejoicings.

  • باز چون تجدید ایمان بر تنی ** باز از فرعون بیزاری کنی
  • Again, when thou art intent on renewing thy faith and abjurest Pharaoh once more,

  • موسی رحمت ببینی آمده ** نیل خون بینی ازو آبی شده
  • Thou wilt see (that) the Moses of Mercy (has) come, thou wilt see the Nile of blood turned by him into water.

  • چون سر رشته نگه داری درون ** نیل ذوق تو نگردد هیچ خون
  • When thou keepest safe within (thee) the end of the rope (of faith), the Nile of thy spiritual delight will never be changed into blood.’