- The spirits are set free every night from this cage, independent, neither ruling nor ruled by anyone.
- میرهند ارواح هر شب زین قفس ** فارغان، نه حاکم و محکوم کس
- At night prisoners are unconscious of their prison, at night governors are unconscious of their power. 390
- شب ز زندان بیخبر زندانیان ** شب ز دولت بیخبر سلطانیان
- There is no sorrow, no thought of gain or loss, no fancy of this person or that person.
- نه غم و اندیشهی سود و زیان ** نه خیال این فلان و آن فلان
- This is the state of the ‘árif (gnostic), even without sleep: God said, (Thou wouldst deem them awake) whilst they slept. Shy not at this.
- حال عارف این بود بیخواب هم ** گفت ایزد هم رقود زین مرم
- He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world, like a pen in the hand of the Lord's control.
- خفته از احوال دنیا روز و شب ** چون قلم در پنجهی تقلیب رب
- One who sees not the hand in the writing thinks (that) the act (of writing proceeds) from the pen by means of movement.
- آن که او پنجه نبیند در رقم ** فعل پندارد به جنبش از قلم
- He (God) hath shown forth some part of this state of the ‘árif, (inasmuch as) the intellect too is carried off (overtaken) by sleep of the senses. 395
- شمهای زین حال عارف وانمود ** خلق را هم خواب حسی در ربود
- Their souls are gone into the desert that is without description: their spirits and bodies are at rest;
- رفته در صحرای بیچون جانشان ** روحشان آسوده و ابدانشان
- And with a whistle thou leadest them back to the snare, leadest them all (back) to justice and to the judge.
- وز صفیری باز دام اندر کشی ** جمله را در داد و در داور کشی
- Like Isráfíl (Seraphiel), He (God) who causes the dawn to break brings them all from those lands (of spirit) into (the world of) form.
- فالق الإصباح اسرافیلوار ** جمله را در صورت آرد ز ان دیار