Know that the saying, “God's earth is wide,” refers to an exceedingly sublime expanse belonging to the prophets.
آن که ارض الله واسع گفته‌‌اند ** عرصه‌‌ای دان کانبیا در رفته‌‌اند
The heart is not oppressed by that spacious expanse: there the fresh boughs of the palm-tree do not become dry.
دل نگردد تنگ ز آن عرصه‌‌ی فراخ ** نخل تر آن جا نگردد خشک شاخ
At present thou art bearing (the burden of) thy senses: thou art becoming weary and exhausted and (ready to fall) headlong.
حاملی تو مر حواست را کنون ** کند و مانده می‌‌شوی و سر نگون
Since, at the time of sleep, thou art borne (on high), and art not bearing (the burden), thy fatigue is gone and thou art free from pain and anguish.3185
چون که محمولی نه حامل وقت خواب ** ماندگی رفت و شدی بی‌‌رنج و تاب
Regard the time of sleep as a (mere) taste (sample) in comparison with the state in which the saints are borne (on high).
چاشنیی دان تو حال خواب را ** پیش محمولی حال اولیا
The saints are (like) the Men of the Cave, O obstinate one: they are asleep (even) in rising up and turning to and fro.
اولیا اصحاب کهفند ای عنود ** در قیام و در تقلب هم رقود
He (God) is drawing them, without their taking trouble to act, without consciousness (on their part), to the right hand and to the left.
می‌‌کشدشان بی‌‌تکلف در فعال ** بی‌‌خبر ذات الیمین ذات الشمال
What is that right hand? Good deeds. What is that left hand? The affairs of the body.
چیست آن ذات الیمین فعل حسن ** چیست آن ذات الشمال اشغال تن
These two (kinds of) actions proceed from the prophets, (while) they are unconscious of them both, like the echo:3190
می‌‌رود این هر دو کار از انبیا ** بی‌‌خبر زین هر دو ایشان چون صدا
If the echo causes thee to hear good and evil, the mountain itself is unconscious of either.
گر صدایت بشنواند خیر و شر ** ذات کوه از هر دو باشد بی‌‌خبر
How the guest said to Joseph, “I have brought thee the gift of a mirror, so that whenever thou lookest in it thou wilt see thine own fair face and remember me.”
گفتن مهمان یوسف علیه السلام را که آینه آوردمت ارمغان تا هر باری که در وی نگری روی خوب خود بینی مرا یاد کنی