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  • خواست یاری گفت چون بیرون روی  ** پیش شه گردد امورت مستوی 
  • He besought him for help and said, “When you come out (of prison), your affairs will prosper with the king.

  • یاد من کن پیش تخت آن عزیز  ** تا مرا هم وا خرد زین حبس نیز 
  • Make mention of me before the throne of that mighty prince, that he may redeem (release) me also from this prison.”

  • کی دهد زندانیی در اقتناص  ** مرد زندانی دیگر را خلاص 
  • (But) how should a prisoner in captivity give release to another imprisoned man?

  • اهل دنیا جملگان زندانیند  ** انتظار مرگ دار فانیند 
  • All the people of this world are prisoners (waiting) in expectation of death in the abode that is passing away;

  • جز مگر نادر یکی فردانیی  ** تن بزندان جان او کیوانیی  3405
  • Except, to be sure, in the rare case of one who is single (fardání), one whose body is in the prison (of this world) and his spirit like Saturn (in the seventh heaven).

  • پس جزای آنک دید او را معین  ** ماند یوسف حبس در بضع سنین 
  • Therefore, in retribution for having regarded him (the fellow-prisoner) as a helper, Joseph was left in prison for several years.

  • یاد یوسف دیو از عقلش سترد  ** وز دلش دیو آن سخن از یاد برد 
  • The Devil erased from his mind the recollection of Joseph and removed from his memory those words (which Joseph had spoken).

  • زین گنه کامد از آن نیکوخصال  ** ماند در زندان ز داور چند سال 
  • In consequence of the sin which proceeded from that man of goodly qualities (Joseph), he was left in prison for several years by the (Divine) Judge,

  • که چه تقصیر آمد از خورشید داد  ** تا تو چون خفاش افتی در سواد 
  • Who said, “What failure was shown by the Sun of justice that thou shouldst fall, like a bat, into the blackness (of night)?

  • هین چه تقصیر آمد از بحر و سحاب  ** تا تو یاری خواهی از ریگ و سراب  3410
  • Hark, what failure was shown by the sea and the cloud that thou shouldst seek help from the sand and the mirage?

  • عام اگر خفاش طبعند و مجاز  ** یوسفا داری تو آخر چشم باز 
  • If the vulgar are bats by nature and unreal (unspiritual), thou, at least, O Joseph, hast the eye of the falcon.

  • گر خفاشی رفت در کور و کبود  ** باز سلطان دیده را باری چه بود 
  • If a bat went into the blind and blue (the world of darkness and misery), (’tis no wonder, but) after all what ailed the falcon that had seen the Sultan?”

  • پس ادب کردش بدین جرم اوستاد  ** که مساز از چوب پوسیده عماد 
  • Therefore the (Divine) Master punished him for this sin, saying, “Do not make thy prop of rotten wood”;

  • لیک یوسف را به خود مشغول کرد  ** تا نیاید در دلش زان حبس درد 
  • But He caused Joseph to be engrossed with Him, to the end that his heart should not be pained by that imprisonment.

  • آن‌چنانش انس و مستی داد حق  ** که نه زندان ماند پیشش نه غسق  3415
  • God gave him such intimate joy and rapture that neither the prison nor the mirk (of his dungeon) remained (visible) to him.

  • نیست زندانی وحش‌تر از رحم  ** ناخوش و تاریک و پرخون و وخم 
  • There is no prison more frightful than the womb—noisome and dark and full of blood and unhealthy;

  • چون گشادت حق دریچه سوی خویش  ** در رحم هر دم فزاید تنت بیش 
  • (Yet), when God has opened for you a window in His direction, your body (hidden) in the womb grows more (and more) every moment,

  • اندر آن زندان ز ذوق بی‌قیاس  ** خوش شکفت از غرس جسم تو حواس 
  • And in that prison, from the immeasurable delight (which you feel therein), the senses blossom happily from the plant, your body.

  • زان رحم بیرون شدن بر تو درشت  ** می‌گریزی از زهارش سوی پشت 
  • ’Tis grievous to you to go forth from the womb: you are fleeing from her (your mother's) pubes towards her back.

  • راه لذت از درون دان نه از برون  ** ابلهی دان جستن قصر و حصون  3420
  • Know that the way of (spiritual) pleasure is from within, not from without: know that it is folly to seek palaces and castles.

  • آن یکی در کنج مسجد مست و شاد  ** وآن دگر در باغ ترش و بی‌مراد 
  • One man is enraptured and delighted in the nook of a mosque, while another is morose and disappointed in a garden.

  • قصر چیزی نیست ویران کن بدن  ** گنج در ویرانیست ای میر من 
  • The palace (body) is nothing: ruin your body! The treasure lies in the ruin, O my prince.

  • این نمی‌بینی که در بزم شراب  ** مست آنگه خوش شود کو شد خراب 
  • Don't you see that at the wine-feast the drunkard becomes happy (only) when he becomes ruined (senseless)?

  • گرچه پر نقش است خانه بر کنش  ** گنج جو و از گنج آبادان کنش 
  • Although the (bodily) house is full of pictures, demolish it: seek the treasure, and with the treasure put it (the house) into good repair.

  • خانه‌ی پر نقش تصویر و خیال  ** وین صور چون پرده بر گنج وصال  3425
  • ’Tis a house filled with pictures of imagination and fancy, and these forms (ideas) are as a veil over the treasure of union (with God).