- 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
- He embodies the spirits divested (of body), He makes each body pregnant (laden) again (with actions and works).
- روحهای منبسط را تن کند ** هر تنی را باز آبستن کند
- He makes the steed of the souls bare of saddle: this is the inner meaning of “Sleep is the brother of Death”; 400
- اسب جانها را کند عاری ز زین ** سر النوم اخ الموت است این
- But in order that they may return in the daytime, He puts a long tether on their leg,
- لیک بهر آن که روز آیند باز ** بر نهد بر پایشان بند دراز
- So that in the daytime He may lead it back from that meadow and bring it from the pasture (to go) under the load.
- تا که روزش واکشد ز ان مرغزار ** وز چراگاه آردش در زیر بار
- Would that He had guarded this spirit as the Men of the Cave or as the Ark of Noah,
- کاش چون اصحاب کهف این روح را ** حفظ کردی یا چو کشتی نوح را
- That this mind and eye and ear might be delivered from the Flood of wakefulness and consciousness!
- تا از این طوفان بیداری و هوش ** وارهیدی این ضمیر چشم و گوش
- Oh, in the world there is many a Man of the Cave beside you, before you, at this time: 405
- ای بسی اصحاب کهف اندر جهان ** پهلوی تو پیش تو هست این زمان
- The Friend is with him, the Cave is in converse with him; but your eyes and ears are sealed, (so) what does it avail?
- غار با او یار با او در سرود ** مهر بر چشم است و بر گوشت چه سود
- Story of the Caliph's seeing Laylá.
- قصه‌‌ی دیدن خلیفه لیلی را
- The Caliph said to Laylá: “Art thou she by whom Majnún was distracted and led astray?
- گفت لیلی را خلیفه کان توی ** کز تو مجنون شد پریشان و غوی