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  • The water-bird (his soul) was plunged in a sea of honey— the fountain of Job, to drink and wash in,
  • مرغ آبی غرق دریای عسل ** عین ایوبی شراب و مغتسل‌‌

  • Whereby Job, from his feet to the crown of his head, was purged of afflictions (and made pure) like the light of the sunrise.
  • که بدو ایوب از پا تا به فرق ** پاک شد از رنجها چون نور شرق‌‌

  • If the Mathnawí were as the sky in magnitude, not half the portion of this (mystery) would find room in it,
  • مثنوی در حجم گر بودی چو چرخ ** درنگنجیدی در او زین نیم برخ‌‌

  • For the exceeding broad earth and sky (of the material world) caused my heart, from (their) narrowness (in comparison with the spiritual universe), to be rent in pieces;
  • کان زمین و آسمان بس فراخ ** کرد از تنگی دلم را شاخ شاخ‌‌

  • And this world that was revealed to me in this dream (of the minstrel) has spread wide my wings and pinions because of (its vast) expansion. 2100
  • وین جهانی کاندر این خوابم نمود ** از گشایش پر و بالم را گشود

  • If this world and the way to it were manifest, no one would remain there (in the material world) for a single moment.
  • این جهان و راهش ار پیدا بدی ** کم کسی یک لحظه‌‌ای آن جا بدی‌‌

  • The (Divine) command was coming (to the minstrel)—“Nay, be not covetous: inasmuch as the thorn is out of thy foot, depart”—
  • امر می‌‌آمد که نی طامع مشو ** چون ز پایت خار بیرون شد برو

  • (Whilst) his soul was lingering there in the spacious demesne of His (God's) mercy and beneficence.
  • مول مولی می‌‌زد آن جا جان او ** در فضای رحمت و احسان او

  • How the heavenly voice spoke to ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, while he was asleep, saying, “Give a certain sum of gold from the public treasury to the man who is sleeping in the graveyard.”
  • در خواب گفتن هاتف مر عمر را رضی الله عنه که چندین زر از بیت المال به آن مرد ده که در گورستان خفته است

  • Then God sent such a drowsiness upon ‘Umar that he was unable to keep himself from slumber.
  • آن زمان حق بر عمر خوابی گماشت ** تا که خویش از خواب نتوانست داشت‌‌

  • He fell into amazement saying, “This is (a thing) unknown. This has fallen from the Unseen, ’tis not without purpose.” 2105
  • در عجب افتاد کاین معهود نیست ** این ز غیب افتاد بی‌‌مقصود نیست‌‌