She was about to bow down before the idol (when) the child cried, “Verily, I am not dead.785
خواست تا او سجده آرد پیش بت ** بانگ زد آن طفل إنی لم أمت
Come in, O mother: I am happy here, although in appearance I am amidst the fire.
اندر آ ای مادر اینجا من خوشم ** گر چه در صورت میان آتشم
The fire is a spell that binds the eye for the sake of screening (the truth); this is (in reality) a Divine mercy which has raised its head from the collar (has been manifested from the Unseen).
چشم بند است آتش از بهر حجاب ** رحمت است این سر بر آورده ز جیب
Come in, mother, and see the evidence of God, that thou mayst behold the delight of God's elect.
اندر آ مادر ببین برهان حق ** تا ببینی عشرت خاصان حق
Come in, and see water that has the semblance of fire; (come away) from a world which is (really) fire and (only) has the semblance of water.
اندر آ و آب بین آتش مثال ** از جهانی کاتش است آبش مثال
Come in, and see the mysteries of Abraham, who in the fire found cypress and jessamine.790
اندر آ اسرار ابراهیم بین ** کاو در آتش یافت سرو و یاسمین
I was seeing death at the time of birth from thee: sore was my dread of falling from thee;
مرگ میدیدم گه زادن ز تو ** سخت خوفم بود افتادن ز تو
(But) when I was born, I escaped from the narrow prison (of the womb) into a world of pleasant air and beautiful colour.
چون بزادم رستم از زندان تنگ ** در جهان خوش هوای خوب رنگ
Now I deem the (earthly) world to be like the womb, since in this fire I have seen such rest:
من جهان را چون رحم دیدم کنون ** چون در این آتش بدیدم این سکون
In this fire I have seen a world wherein every atom possesses the (life-giving) breath of Jesus.
اندر این آتش بدیدم عالمی ** ذره ذره اندر او عیسی دمی
Lo, (it is) a world apparently non-existent (but) essentially existent, while that (other) world is apparently existent (but) has no permanence.795
نک جهان نیست شکل هست ذات ** و آن جهان هست شکل بیثبات
Come in, mother, (I beseech thee) by the right of motherhood: see this fire, how it hath no fieriness.
اندر آ مادر به حق مادری ** بین که این آذر ندارد آذری
Come in, mother, for felicity is come; come in, mother, do not let fortune slip from thy hand.
اندر آ مادر که اقبال آمده ست ** اندر آ مادر مده دولت ز دست
Thou hast seen the power of that (Jewish) cur: come in, that thou mayst see the power and the grace of God.
قدرت آن سگ بدیدی اندر آ ** تا ببینی قدرت و لطف خدا
’Tis (only) out of pity that I am drawing thy feet (hither), for indeed such is my rapture that I have no care for thee.
من ز رحمت میکشانم پای تو ** کز طرب خود نیستم پروای تو
Come in and call the others also, for the King has spread a (festal) table within the fire.800
اندر آ و دیگران را هم بخوان ** کاندر آتش شاه بنهاده ست خوان
O true believers, come in, all of you: except the sweetness (‘adhbí) of (the true) religion all is torment (‘adháb).
اندر آیید ای مسلمانان همه ** غیر عذب دین عذاب است آن همه
Oh, come in, all of you, like moths; (come) into this fortune which hath a hundred springtimes.”
اندر آیید ای همه پروانهوار ** اندر این بهره که دارد صد بهار
(Thus) he was crying amidst that multitude: the souls of the people were filled with awe.
بانگ میزد در میان آن گروه ** پر همیشد جان خلقان از شکوه
After that, the folk, men and women (alike), cast themselves unwittingly into the fire—
خلق خود را بعد از آن بیخویشتن ** میفگندند اندر آتش مرد و زن
Without custodian, without being dragged, for love of the Friend, because from Him is the sweetening of every bitterness—805
بیموکل بیکشش از عشق دوست ** ز آن که شیرین کردن هر تلخ از اوست
Until it came to pass that the (king's) myrmidons were holding back the people, saying, “Do not enter the fire!”
تا چنان شد کان عوانان خلق را ** منع میکردند کاتش در میا
The Jew became black-faced (covered with shame) and dismayed; he became sorry and sick at heart,
آن یهودی شد سیه رو و خجل ** شد پشیمان زین سبب بیمار دل
Because the people grew more loving (ardent) in their Faith and more firm in mortification (faná) of the body.
کاندر ایمان خلق عاشقتر شدند ** در فنای جسم صادقتر شدند
Thanks (be to God), the Devil's plot caught him in its toils; thanks (be to God), the Devil saw himself disgraced.
مکر شیطان هم در او پیچید شکر ** دیو هم خود را سیه رو دید شکر