- This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.
- این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بیداد یا رب داد تست
- Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.
- بیطلب تو این طلبمان دادهای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشادهای
- How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.
- مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد
- When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.
- چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت
- Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow, 1340
- شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ میزد شادمان تا مرغزار
- Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.
- دست میزد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ
- Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;
- شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد
- The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;
- برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند
- With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,
- با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** میسراید هر بر و برگی جدا
- Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.” 1345
- که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی
- (Even so) the spirits bound in clay, when they escape glad at heart from their (prisons of) clay,
- جانهای بسته اندر آب و گل ** چون رهند از آب و گلها شاد دل
- Begin to dance in the air of Divine Love and become flawless like the full moon's orb,
- در هوای عشق حق رقصان شوند ** همچو قرص بدر بینقصان شوند
- Their bodies dancing, and their souls—nay, do not ask (how their souls fare); and of that which surrounds the soul—nay, do not ask of those things!
- جسمشان در رقص و جانها خود مپرس ** و آن که گرد جان از آنها خود مپرس
- The hare lodged the lion in prison. Shame on a lion who was discomfited by a hare!
- شیر را خرگوش در زندان نشاند ** ننگ شیری کاو ز خرگوشی بماند
- He is in such a disgrace, and still—this is a wonder—he would fain be addressed by the title of Fakhr-i Dín. 1350
- در چنان ننگی و آن گه این عجب ** فخر دین خواهد که گویندش لقب
- O thou lion that liest alone at the bottom of this well, thy fleshly soul, like the hare, has shed and drunk thy blood;
- ای تو شیری در تک این چاه فرد ** نفس چون خرگوش خونت ریخت و خورد
- Thy hare-soul is feeding in the desert, (whilst) thou art (lying) at the bottom of this well of “How?” and “Why?”
- نفس خرگوشت به صحرا در چرا ** تو به قعر این چه چون و چرا
- That lion-catcher (the hare) ran towards the beasts, crying, “Rejoice, O my people, since the announcer of joy is come.
- سوی نخجیران دوید آن شیر گیر ** کابشروا یا قوم إذ جاء البشیر
- Glad news! Glad news, O company of merry-makers! That hell-hound has gone back to Hell.
- مژده مژده ای گروه عیشساز ** کان سگ دوزخ به دوزخ رفت باز
- Glad news! Glad news! The enemy of your lives—his teeth have been torn out by the vengeance of his Creator. 1355
- مژده مژده کان عدوی جانها ** کند قهر خالقش دندانها
- He who smote many heads with his claws—him too the broom of Death has swept away like rubbish.”
- آن که از پنجه بسی سرها بکوفت ** همچو خس جاروب مرگش هم بروفت
- How the beasts gathered round the hare and spoke in praise of him.
- جمع شدن نخجیران گرد خرگوش و ثنا گفتن او را
- Then all the wild beasts assembled, joyous and laughing gleefully in rapture and excitement.
- جمع گشتند آن زمان جمله وحوش ** شاد و خندان از طرب در ذوق و جوش
- They formed a ring, he (the hare) in the midst like a candle: they bowed (in homage) and said to him, "Hark!"
- حلقه کردند او چو شمعی در میان ** سجده آوردند و گفتندش که هان
- “Art thou a heavenly angel or a peri? No, thou art the Azrael of fierce lions.
- تو فرشتهی آسمانی یا پری ** نی تو عزراییل شیران نری
- Whatever thou art, our souls are offered in sacrifice to thee. Thou hast prevailed. Health to thy hand and arm! 1360
- هر چه هستی جان ما قربان تست ** دست بردی دست و بازویت درست
- God turned this water into thy stream. Blessing on thy hand and arm!
- راند حق این آب را در جوی تو ** آفرین بر دست و بر بازوی تو