ابرکی یا ناقتی طاب الامور ** ان تبریزا مناخات الصدور
Kneel down, O my camel! All goes well: verily, Tabríz is the place where princes alight (and abide).
اسرحی یا ناقتی حول الریاض ** ان تبریزا لنا نعم المفاض
Graze, O my camel, round the meadows: verily Tabríz is for us the most excellent source of bountifulness.
ساربانا بار بگشا ز اشتران ** شهر تبریزست و کوی گلستان
O camel-driver, unload the camels: ’tis the city of Tabríz and the district of the rose-garden.
فر فردوسیست این پالیز را ** شعشعه‌ی عرشیست این تبریز را
This garden hath the splendour of Paradise: this Tabríz hath the brilliance of Heaven.
هر زمانی نور روح‌انگیز جان ** از فراز عرش بر تبریزیان 3115
At every moment of time joy-enkindling odours diffused by the Spirit (are floating down) from above the empyrean upon the inhabitants of Tabríz.”
چون وثاق محتسب جست آن غریب ** خلق گفتندش که بگذشت آن حبیب
When the poor stranger sought the Inspector's house, the people told him that the loved one had passed away.
او پریر از دار دنیا نقل کرد ** مرد و زن از واقعه‌ی او روی‌زرد
“The day before yesterday,” they said, “he removed from this world: (every) man and woman is pale (with grief) for the calamity that has overtaken him.
رفت آن طاوس عرشی سوی عرش ** چون رسید از هاتفانش بوی عرش
That celestial peacock went to Heaven, when the scent (intimation) of Heaven reached him from invisible messengers.
سایه‌اش گرچه پناه خلق بود ** در نوردید آفتابش زود زود
Although his shadow was the refuge of people (seeking protection), the Sun rolled it up very quickly.
راند او کشتی ازین ساحل پریر ** گشته بود آن خواجه زین غم‌خانه سیر 3120
He pushed off his boat from this beach the day before yesterday: the Khwája had become sated with this house of sorrow.”
نعره‌ای زد مرد و بیهوش اوفتاد ** گوییا او نیز در پی جان بداد
The (poor) man shrieked and fell senseless: you would say that he too had given up the ghost (and followed) on the heels (of his friend).
پس گلاب و آب بر رویش زدند ** همرهان بر حالتش گریان شدند
Then they threw julep and water on his face: his fellow-travellers wept and bewailed his plight.
تا به شب بی‌خویش بود و بعد از آن ** نیم مرده بازگشت از غیب جان
He remained unconscious till nightfall, and then his soul returned, half-dead, from the Unseen.
باخبر شدن آن غریب از وفات آن محتسب و استغفار او از اعتماد بر مخلوق و تعویل بر عطای مخلوق و یاد نعمتهای حق کردنش و انابت به حق از جرم خود ثم الذین کفروا بربهم یعدلون
How the poor stranger was informed of the Inspector's death and begged God to pardon him for having relied upon a created being and having rested his hopes upon the bounty of a created being; and how he remembered the blessings he had received from God, and turned to God and repented of his sin: “then those who disbelieve equal (Him with others).”
چون به هوش آمد بگفت ای کردگار ** مجرمم بودم به خلق اومیدوار
When he came to his senses, he said, “O Maker, I am a sinner: I was setting my hopes on (Thy) creatures.
گرچه خواجه بس سخاوت کرده بود ** هیچ آن کفو عطای تو نبود 3125
Though the Khwája had shown great generosity, (yet) that was never a match for Thy bounty.
او کله بخشید و تو سر پر خرد ** او قبا بخشید و تو بالا و قد
He gave the cap, but Thou the head filled with intelligence; he gave the coat, but Thou the tall figure and stature (of its wearer).
او زرم داد و تو دست زرشمار ** او ستورم داد و تو عقل سوار
He gave me gold, but Thou the hand that counts gold; he gave me the beast for riding, but Thou the mind that rides it.
خواجه شمعم دادو تو چشم قریر ** خواجه نقلم داد و تو طعمه‌پذیر
The Khwája gave me the candle, but Thou the cool (bright and cheerful) eye; the Khwája gave me the dessert, but Thou the food-receiving (stomach).
او وظیفه داد و تو عمر و حیات ** وعده‌اش زر وعده‌ی تو طیبات
He gave me the stipend, but Thou life and animate existence; his promise was gold, but Thy promise the pure things (of the spirit).
او وثاقم داد و تو چرخ و زمین ** در وثاقت او و صد چون او سمین 3130
He gave me a house, but Thou the sky and the earth: in Thy house he and a hundred like him (grow) fat.
زر از آن تست زر او نافرید ** نان از آن تست نان از تش رسید
Gold is Thine: he did not create gold. Bread is Thine: bread came to him from Thee.
آن سخا و رحم هم تو دادیش ** کز سخاوت می‌فزودی شادیش
Thou also gavest him generosity and pity, and his joy was increased by (showing) that generosity.
من مرورا قبله‌ی خود ساختم ** قبله‌ساز اصل را انداختم
I made him my qibla (object of desire): I let the original qibla-Maker fall (into neglect).”
ما کجا بودیم کان دیان دین ** عقل می‌کارید اندر آب و طین
Where were we when the Judge of Judgement (Day) was sowing reason in the water and clay (of Adam)?—
چون همی کرد از عدم گردون پدید ** وین بساط خاک را می‌گسترید 3135
Since (’twas for us that) He was producing the sky from non-existence and spreading this carpet of earth,