You have filled your skirt with stones (of iniquity) from this world, and also with stones of silver and gold, as children (do).
سنگ پر کردی تو دامن از جهان ** هم ز سنگ سیم و زر چون کودکان
Inasmuch as from that fancy of silver and gold there was no (real) gold, the skirt of your sincerity was rent and your sorrow increased.
از خیال سیم و زر چون زر نبود ** دامن صدقت درید و غم فزود
How should the (coloured) stone appear to the children as stone, till Reason lays hold of their skirts?
کی نماید کودکان را سنگ سنگ ** تا نگیرد عقل دامنشان به چنگ
The Elder (Pír) is Reason, not that white hair (of eld): hair is not contained in (has nothing to do with) this fortune and hope (which is bestowed by Reason).2280
پیر عقل آمد نه آن موی سپید ** مو نمی‌گنجد درین بخت و امید
How the company (of the Seven) took offence at Daqúqí's invocation and intercession, and flew away and disappeared in the Veil of the Unseen World; and how Daqúqí was bewildered (and did not know) whether they had gone into the air or on the earth.
انکار کردن آن جماعت بر دعا و شفاعت دقوقی و پریدن ایشان و ناپیدا شدن در پرده‌ی غیب و حیران شدن دقوقی کی در هوا رفتند یا در زمین
“When the ship was saved and (the voyagers) attained to their desire, simultaneously the (ritual) prayer of that company was finished.
چون رهید آن کشتی و آمد بکام ** شد نماز آن جماعت هم تمام
They began to murmur to one another, saying, ‘O father, which of us is this (interfering) busybody?’
فجفجی افتادشان با همدگر ** کین فضولی کیست از ما ای پدر
Each one spoke in secret to the other, (whilst they were) concealed (from view) behind Daqúqí's back,
هر یکی با آن دگر گفتند سر ** از پس پشت دقوقی مستتر
And each one said, ‘I did not make this invocation just now, either externally or internally.’
گفت هر یک من نکردستم کنون ** این دعا نه از برون نه از درون
He (one of the company) said, ‘It would seem that this Imám of ours, (moved) by grief, has meddlesomely offered an orison.’2285
گفت مانا این امام ما ز درد ** بوالفضولانه مناجاتی بکرد
Said the other, ‘O thou who art familiar with (intuitive) certainty, so it appears to me too.
گفت آن دیگر که ای یار یقین ** مر مرا هم می‌نماید این چنین
He has been meddlesome: (prompted) by distress he has interfered with Him who chooseth (as He pleaseth), the Absolute One.’
او فضولی بوده است از انقباض ** کرد بر مختار مطلق اعتراض
When I looked behind (me) to see what those noble ones were saying,
چون نگه کردم سپس تا بنگرم ** که چه می‌گویند آن اهل کرم
I did not see one of them in their place: they had all gone from their place.
یک ازیشان را ندیدم در مقام ** رفته بودند از مقام خود تمام
(They were) neither on the left nor on the right nor above nor below: my keen eye was unable to find the company (anywhere).2290
نه به چپ نه راست نه بالا نه زیر ** چشم تیز من نشد بر قوم چیر
You might say that they were pearls (which) had become water: there was neither footprint nor any dust (to show where they had gone) in the desert.
درها بودند گویی آب گشت ** نه نشان پا و نه گردی بدشت
At that moment they all (had) entered into the tents of God: into what garden had the troop (of them) gone?
در قباب حق شدند آن دم همه ** در کدامین روضه رفتند آن رمه
I remained in amazement as to how God caused this company to be concealed from mine eye.”
درتحیر ماندم کین قوم را ** چون بپوشانید حق بر چشم ما
In such wise did they vanish from his eye, like the plunge of fishes into the water of a stream.
آنچنان پنهان شدند از چشم او ** مثل غوطه‌ی ماهیان در آب جو
During (many) years he continued to grieve for (the loss of) them; during (many) lifetimes he shed tears in longing for them.2295