That length and shortness is in bodies (alone): where is that long and short in the soul?
آن دراز و کوتهی در جسمهاست ** آن دراز و کوته اندر جان کجاست
The three hundred and nine years of the Men of the Cave seemed to them one day (that passed) without grief and woe;
سیصد و نه سال آن اصحاب کهف ** پیششان یک روز بی اندوه و لهف
And (only) then did it seem to them one day even, when their spirits came back from non-existence into their bodies.2940
وانگهی بنمودشان یک روز هم ** که به تن باز آمد ارواح از عدم
When there is no day and night and month and year, how should there be satiety and old age and weariness?
چون نباشد روز و شب یا ماه و سال ** کی بود سیری و پیری و ملال
Since there is (for us) selflessness in the rose-garden of non-existence, there is (for us) intoxication caused by the goblet of Divine grace.
در گلستان عدم چون بی‌خودیست ** مستی از سغراق لطف ایزدیست
Any one that has not drunk (thereof is in the same case as those to whom the saying, ‘Whoso) has not tasted does not know’ (is applicable): how should the dung-beetle conceive the (fragrant) breaths of the rose?
لم یذق لم یدر هر کس کو نخورد ** کی بوهم آرد جعل انفاس ورد
It is not conceivable: if it were conceivable, it would become non-existent, like (all) objects of conception.
نیست موهوم ار بدی موهوم آن ** همچو موهومان شدی معدوم آن
How should Hell conceive Paradise? Does a beauteous face shine (forth) at all from an ugly pig?2945
دوزخ اندر وهم چون آرد بهشت ** هیچ تابد روی خوب از خوک زشت
Hark, do not cut your own throat! Take heed, O despicable one, (when) such a morsel as this has reached your mouth.
هین گلوی خود مبر هان ای مهان ** این‌چنین لقمه رسیده تا دهان
We have brought the hard ways to an end; we have made the way easy for our own people.”
راههای صعب پایان برده‌ایم ** ره بر اهل خویش آسان کرده‌ایم
How the people (of Sabá) repeated their resistance to the (prophets') hope (of converting them and set themselves) against the prophets, on whom be peace.