The King's eye hath smitten the eye of the falcon-heart, and its falcon-eye hath become mightily aspiring,
چشم شه بر چشم باز دل زدست ** چشم بازش سخت با همت شدست
So that, because of the great aspiration which it has gained from the (King's) look, the royal falcon will (now) catch (hunt) nothing but the fierce lion.
تا ز بس همت که یابید از نظر ** می‌نگیرد باز شه جز شیر نر
What (of the) lion? The spiritual royal falcon is Thy quarry and at the same time Thou art its prey.2810
شیر چه کان شاه‌باز معنوی ** هم شکار تست و هم صیدش توی
The call uttered by the falcon-soul in the meadow of devotion is cries of “I love not them that set.”
شد صفیر باز جان در مرج دین ** نعره‌های لا احب الافلین
From Thy infinite bounty there came an (inward) eye to the falcon-soul that was flying for Thy sake.
باز دل را که پی تو می‌پرید ** از عطای بی‌حدت چشمی رسید
From Thee its nose gained (the inward sense of) smell, and its ear the (inward) hearing: to each sense was allotted a portion (of the spiritual sense that was) distributed (amongst them all).
یافت بینی بوی و گوش از تو سماع ** هر حسی را قسمتی آمد مشاع
Since Thou givest to each sense the means of access to the Unseen, that (spiritual) sense is not subject to the frailty of death and hoary eld.
هر حسی را چون دهی ره سوی غیب ** نبود آن حس را فتور مرگ و شیب
Thou art the Lord of the kingdom: Thou givest to the (spiritual) sense something (peculiar to itself), so that that sense exercises sovereignty over (all) the senses.2815
مالک الملکی به حس چیزی دهی ** تا که بر حس‌ها کند آن حس شهی
Story of the night-thieves with whom Sultan Mahmúd fell in during the night (and joined them), saying, “I am one of you”; and how he became acquainted with their affairs, etc.
حکایت شب دزدان کی سلطان محمود شب در میان ایشان افتاد کی من یکی‌ام از شما و بر احوال ایشان مطلع شدن الی آخره
While King Mahmúd was roaming about alone at night he encountered a band of thieves.
شب چو شه محمود برمی‌گشت فرد ** با گروهی قوم دزدان باز خورد
Thereupon they said to him, “Who art thou, O honest man?” “I am one of you,” replied the King.
پس بگفتندش کیی ای بوالوفا ** گفت شه من هم یکی‌ام از شما