At night my consciousness would not go (from me) without my bidding, and my birds (senses and faculties) would be under my trap.2325
شب نرفتی هوش بی‌فرمان من ** زیر دام من بدی مرغان من
I should be aware of the stages (of the journey) of the soul (both) at the time of sleep and unconsciousness and (at the time of) tribulation.
بودمی آگه ز منزلهای جان ** وقت خواب و بیهشی و امتحان
Inasmuch as my hand is (made) empty by this (sovereign) power of His to loose and bind, oh, I wonder, from whom comes this self-conceit of mine?
چون کفم زین حل و عقد او تهیست ** ای عجب این معجبی من ز کیست
I have even deemed that what I saw was not seen (by me), and (like a beggar) I have again held up the basket of invocation.
دیده را نادیده خود انگاشتم ** باز زنبیل دعا برداشتم
Like alif, I possess nothing, O Gracious One, except a heart more constricted with anguish than the eye of mim.
چون الف چیزی ندارم ای کریم ** جز دلی دلتنگ‌تر از چشم میم
This alif and this mím are the mother (umm) of our existence: the mím of umm is narrow (distressful), and the alif is (begging for deliverance) from it (like) a sturdy beggar.2330
این الف وین میم ام بود ماست ** میم ام تنگست الف زو نر گداست
(The state denoted by) ‘alif possesses nothing’ is forgetfulness (unconsciousness); the distressful mím is (denotes) the time of rationality (consciousness).
آن الف چیزی ندارد غافلیست ** میم دلتنگ آن زمان عاقلیست
During the time of unconsciousness I am nothing at all; during the time of consciousness I am in torment.
در زمان بیهشی خود هیچ من ** در زمان هوش اندر پیچ من
Do not lay another nothing upon a nothing like this; do not put the name of ‘(worldly) fortune’ upon a torment like this.
هیچ دیگر بر چنین هیچی منه ** نام دولت بر چنین پیچی منه
Truly (the state of) ‘I possess nothing’ suits me better, since these hundred troubles arise from imagining that I possess (something).
خود ندارم هیچ به سازد مرا ** که ز وهم دارم است این صد عنا