If thou art a man, dig earth, like a well-digger, from this earthen body, that thou mayst reach some water;
هم‌چو چه کن خاک می‌کن گر کسی ** زین تن خاکی که در آبی رسی
(And) if the pull (inspiration) of God come (to thee), the running water will bubble up from the earth without thy well having been dug.2045
گر رسد جذبه‌ی خدا آب معین ** چاه ناکنده بجوشد از زمین
Be always working, do not pay heed to that (hope of being enabled to dispense with work): keep scraping away the earth of the (bodily) well little by little.
کار می‌کن تو بگوش آن مباش ** اندک اندک خاک چه را می‌تراش
To every one who suffers a tribulation there is revealed a treasure: every one who makes an earnest endeavour comes into a fortune.
هر که رنجی دید گنجی شد پدید ** هر که جدی کرد در جدی رسید
The Prophet hath said that acts of genuflexion and prostration (in the ritual prayer) are (equivalent to) knocking the door-ring of (mystical) attainment on the Divine Portal.
گفت پیغمبر رکوعست و سجود ** بر در حق کوفتن حلقه‌ی وجود
When any one continues to knock that door-ring, felicity peeps out for his sake.
حلقه‌ی آن در هر آنکو می‌زند ** بهر او دولت سری بیرون کند
How the Amír who was the author of the mischievous intrigue came at midnight with his officers to open the chamber of Ayáz, and saw the sheepskin jacket and rustic shoon hanging (there) and supposed that this was a trick and pretence; and how he dug up every suspected corner and brought excavators and made holes in the walls and discovered nothing and fell into confusion and despair. So (it is with such) evil thinking men (as those) who imagined vain things about the work of the prophets and saints, saying that they were magicians and self-advertisers and (only) sought to occupy the chief position (among their people): after having investigated, they are covered with confusion, but it does not avail them.
آمدن آن امیر نمام با سرهنگان نیم‌شب بگشادن آن حجره‌ی ایاز و پوستین و چارق دیدن آویخته و گمان بردن کی آن مکرست و روپوش و خانه را حفره کردن بهر گوشه‌ای کی گمان آمد چاه کنان آوردن و دیوارها را سوراخ کردن و چیزی نایافتن و خجل و نومید شدن چنانک بدگمانان و خیال‌اندیشان در کار انبیا و اولیا کی می‌گفتند کی ساحرند و خویشتن ساخته‌اند و تصدر می‌جویند بعد از تفحص خجل شوند و سود ندارد
Those trusted (officers) came to the door of the chamber: they began to search for the treasure and the gold and the jar.2050
آن امینان بر در حجره شدند ** طالب گنج و زر و خمره بدند
A number of them, (urged) by vain desire, unlocked the door with infinite dexterity and skill;
قفل را برمی‌گشادند از هوس ** با دو صد فرهنگ و دانش چند کس
For it was a formidable lock with intricate bolts: he (Ayáz) had selected it from (many other) locks,
زانک قفل صعب و پر پیچیده بود ** از میان قفلها بگزیده بود
Not that he was avaricious of silver and riches and crude (uncoined) gold, (but) in order to hide that secret (of his) from the vulgar,
نه ز بخل سیم و مال و زر خام ** از برای کتم آن سر از عوام