O Lord who knowest the secret, do Thou preserve us from these attractions by the attraction of Thy grace!
زین کششها ای خدای رازدان ** تو به جذب لطف خودمان ده امان
Thou, O Purchaser, art dominant over (all) attractors: it would be fitting if Thou redeem the helpless.”2905
غالبی بر جاذبان ای مشتری ** شاید ار درماندگان را وا خری
He turned his face to the King as a thirsty man to a cloud— he who on the Night of Power was the Full-moon's own.
رو به شه آورد چون تشنه به ابر ** آنک بود اندر شب قدر آن بدر
Since his tongue and his spirit were His (the King's), (he was not afraid, for) he who is His may converse with Him boldly.
چون لسان وجان او بود آن او ** آن او با او بود گستاخ‌گو
He said, “We have been bound (in chains) like the spirit in its prison of clay: Thou art the Sun (illuminator) of the spirit on the Day of Judgement.
گفت ما گشتیم چون جان بند طین ** آفتاب جان توی در یوم دین
O King whose course is concealed (from view), the time is come for Thee graciously to make a movement (sign) with Thy beard in clemency.
وقت آن شد ای شه مکتوم‌سیر ** کز کرم ریشی بجنبانی به خیر
Each one (of us) has displayed his specialty: all those talents have (only) increased (our) ill-fortune.2910
هر یکی خاصیت خود را نمود ** آن هنرها جمله بدبختی فزود
Those talents have bound our necks, by those high attainments we are (thrown) headlong and (laid) low.
آن هنرها گردن ما را ببست ** زان مناصب سرنگوساریم و پست
(Our) talent is a cord of palm-fibre on our neck: there is no help (to be gained) from those accomplishments on the day of death.”
آن هنر فی جیدنا حبل مسد ** روز مردن نیست زان فنها مدد
(None of them avails) save only the specialty of that man endowed with goodly perceptions whose eye was recognising the Sultan in the (darkness of) night.
جز همان خاصیت آن خوش‌حواس ** که به شب بد چشم او سلطان‌شناس