On whichever limb he let his gaze fall, each seemed to him more pleasing than the other.
بر هر آن عضوش که افکندی نظر ** هر یکش خوشتر نمودی زان دگر
Besides elegance and beauty and spiritedness, God had bestowed on it (other) exquisite qualities.
غیر چستی و گشی و روحنت ** حق برو افکنده بد نادر صفت
Then the king's mind sought to discover what it could be that waylaid (and overpowered) his reason,3350
پس تجسس کرد عقل پادشاه ** کین چه باشد که زند بر عقل راه
Saying, “My eye is full and satisfied and wanting naught: it is illumined by two hundred suns.
چشم من پرست و سیرست و غنی ** از دو صد خورشید دارد روشنی
Oh, the rook of (other) kings is (but) a pawn in my sight, (and yet) a demi-horse enraptures me without any justification.
ای رخ شاهان بر من بیذقی ** نیم اسپم در رباید بی حقی
The Creator of witchery has bewitched me: ’tis a (Divine) attraction (exerted upon me), not the peculiar virtues of this (horse).”
جادوی کردست جادو آفرین ** جذبه باشد آن نه خاصیات این
He recited the Fátiha and uttered many a lá hawl, (but) the Fátiha (only) increased the passion in his breast,
فاتحه خواند و بسی لا حول کرد ** فاتحه‌ش در سینه می‌افزود درد
Because the Fátiha itself was drawing him on: the Fátiha is unique in drawing on (good) and averting (evil).3355
زانک او را فاتحه خود می‌کشید ** فاتحه در جر و دفع آمد وحید
If (aught) other (than God) appear (to you), ’tis (the effect of) His illusion; and if (all) other (than God) vanish from sight, ’tis (the effect of) His awakening (you to the reality).
گر نماید غیر هم تمویه اوست ** ور رود غیر از نظر تنبیه اوست
Then it became certain to him (the king) that the attraction was from Yonder: the action of God is producing marvels at every moment.
پس یقین گشتش که جذبه زان سریست ** کار حق هر لحظه نادر آوریست