پر زنان آمن ز رجع سرنگون ** در هوا که انا الیه راجعون
Flapping their wings, secure from falling back headlong, (soaring) in the (spiritual) air and saying, “Verily unto Him we are returning.”
بانگ می‌آید تعالوا زان کرم ** بعد از آن رجعت نماند از حرص و غم
From that Bounty comes the call, “Come! After that returning (unto Me) desire and anxiety are no more.
بس غریبیها کشیدیت از جهان ** قدر من دانسته باشید ای مهان
As exiles in the world ye suffered many indignities: ye will have learned to value Me, O nobles.
زیر سایه‌ی این درختم مست ناز ** هین بیندازید پاها را دراز
Hark now, stretch your legs beneath the shade of this tree of Mine in the intoxication of delight,
پایهای پر عنا از راه دین ** بر کنار و دست حوران خالدین 4185
(Stretch) your legs, (which are) fatigued by (travel on) the Way of Religion, resting for ever on the bosoms and hands of the houris,
حوریان گشته مغمز مهربان ** کز سفر باز آمدند این صوفیان
(While) the houris amorously and fondly say, ‘These Súfís have returned from their travels.
صوفیان صافیان چون نور خور ** مدتی افتاده بر خاک و قذر
The Súfís pure as the light of the sun, who for a long time had fallen into (the world of) earth and filth,
بی‌اثر پاک از قذر باز آمدند ** هم‌چو نور خور سوی قرص بلند
Have (now) come back stainless and undefiled, as the sunlight to the lofty orb (of the sun).’”
این گروه مجرمان هم ای مجید ** جمله سرهاشان به دیواری رسید
(Ayáz said), “This company of sinners likewise, O glorious (King)—all their heads have come against a wall.
بر خطا و جرم خود واقف شدند ** گرچه مات کعبتین شه بدند 4190
They have become aware of their fault and sin, although they were defeated by the King's two dice.
رو به تو کردند اکنون اه‌کنان ** ای که لطفت مجرمان را ره‌کنان
Now they turn their faces towards thee, uttering cries of lamentation. O thou whose clemency is making way for sinners,
راه ده آلودگان را العجل ** در فرات عفو و عین مغتسل
Speedily grant the defiled ones admission into the Euphrates of (thy) pardon and the fountain (which is) a (cool) washing-place,
تا که غسل آرند زان جرم دراز ** در صف پاکان روند اندر نماز
That they may wash themselves clean of that prolonged sin and join in prayer among the ranks of the purified—
اندر آن صفها ز اندازه برون ** غرقگان نور نحن الصافون
Among those innumerable ranks plunged in the light of ‘We are they that stand in line.’”
چون سخن در وصف این حالت رسید ** هم قلم بشکست و هم کاغذ درید 4195
When the discourse reached the description of this (exalted) state, at once the pen broke and the paper tore.
بحر را پیمود هیچ اسکره‌ای ** شیر را برداشت هرگز بره‌ای
Did any saucer measure the sea? Did a lamb ever carry off a lion?
گر حجابستت برون رو ز احتجاب ** تا ببینی پادشاهی عجاب
If you are veiled, go forth from enveilment, that you may behold the marvellous sovereignty (of God).
گرچه بشکستند حامت قوم مست ** آنک مست از تو بود عذریش هست
Although the drunken fellows broke Thy cup, (yet) there is an excuse for him that is intoxicated by Thee.
مستی ایشان به اقبال و به مال ** نه ز باده‌ی تست ای شیرین فعال
Is not their intoxication with fortune and riches (the result) of Thy wine, O Thou whose actions are sweet?
ای شهنشه مست تخصیص توند ** عفو کن از مست خود ای عفومند 4200
O Emperor, they are intoxicated with Thy election (of them): pardon him that is intoxicated with Thee, O Pardoner!
لذت تخصیص تو وقت خطاب ** آن کند که ناید از صد خم شراب
The delight of being elected (singled out) by Thee at the moment of Thy addressing them has an effect that is not produced by a hundred jars of wine.
چونک مستم کرده‌ای حدم مزن ** شرع مستان را نبیند حد زدن
Since Thou hast intoxicated me, do not inflict a penalty: the Law does not see fit to inflict a penalty on the intoxicated.
چون شوم هشیار آنگاهم بزن ** که نخواهم گشت خود هشیار من
Inflict it (only) at the time when I become sober; for indeed I shall never become sober (again).
هرکه از جام تو خورد ای ذوالمنن ** تا ابد رست از هش و از حد زدن
Whoso has drunk of Thy cup, O Gracious One, is for ever delivered from self consciousness and from the infliction of penalties.
خالدین فی فناء سکرهم ** من تفانی فی هواکم لم یقم 4205
Their intoxication consists in a state of unconsciousness of self (faná), (in which they are) abiding for ever: he that passes away from self in love for Thee will not arise.