- His luminous spirit is supreme: ’tis enough for the rest of them to tend (cherish) him. 2425
- فوق آمد جان پر انوار او ** باقیان را بس بود تیمار او
- Since those endowed with (perfect) reason endure for ever, in reality this world is enduring for ever.
- عاقلان را چون بقا آمد ابد ** پس به معنی این جهان باقی بود
- Then the Jew related his dream (and told them) whither his spirit had wandered during the night.
- پس جهود آورد آنچ دیده بود ** تا کجا شب روح او گردیده بود
- He said, “Moses met me on the way, (according to the adage) ‘the cat sees a fat sheep's tail in her dreams.’
- گفت در ره موسی‌ام آمد به پیش ** گربه بیند دنبه اندر خواب خویش
- I followed Moses to Mt Sinai: in the Light (of the Divine Epiphany) all three of us vanished.
- در پی موسی شدم تا کوه طور ** هر سه‌مان گشتیم ناپیدا ز نور
- All (our) three shadows disappeared in the Sun; after that, there came from the Light an opening of the door (revelation). 2430
- هر سه سایه محو شد زان آفتاب ** بعد از آن زان نور شد یک فتح باب
- From the heart of that Light another Light sprang up, and then the second (Light) quickly sought to transcend it.
- نور دیگر از دل آن نور رست ** پس ترقی جست آن ثانیش چست
- Both I and Moses and also Mt Sinai, we were lost, all three, in that effulgence of the (second) Light.
- هم من و هم موسی و هم کوه طور ** هر سه گم گشتیم زان اشراق نور
- After that, I saw the mountain break into three pieces when the Light of God surged upon it.
- بعد از آن دیدم که که سه شاخ شد ** چونک نور حق درو نفاخ شد
- When the Attribute of Majesty was revealed to it, it burst asunder in every direction.
- وصف هیبت چون تجلی زد برو ** می‌سکست از هم همی‌شد سو به سو
- One piece of the mountain fell towards the sea, and the water bitter as poison was made sweet. 2435
- آن یکی شاخ که آمد سوی یم ** گشت شیرین آب تلخ هم‌چو سم
- One piece thereof sank into the earth, and a medicinal spring of running water gushed forth,
- آن یکی شاخش فرو شد در زمین ** چشمه‌ی دارو برون آمد معین
- So that its water became a cure for all the sick by the blessedness of the goodly revelation.
- که شفای جمله رنجوران شد آب ** از همایونی وحی مستطاب
- The other (third) piece flew at once to the neighbourhood of the Ka‘ba where ‘Arafát was (situated).
- آن یکی شاخ دگر پرید زود ** تا جوار کعبه که عرفات بود
- When I came back to myself out of that swoon, Sinai was in its place, neither greater nor less (than before);
- باز از آن صعقه چو با خود آمدم ** طور بر جا بد نه افزون و نه کم
- But under the foot of Moses it was (inwardly) melting like ice: no spur or peak of it remained. 2440
- لیک زیر پای موسی هم‌چو یخ ** می‌گدازید او نماندش شاخ و شخ
- The mountain was levelled to the earth by terror: it was turned upside down by that awful Majesty.
- با زمین هموار شد که از نهیب ** گشت بالایش از آن هیبت نشیب
- After that scattering (of my senses) I came to myself again and saw that Sinai and Moses were unchanged,
- باز با خود آمدم زان انتشار ** باز دیدم طور و موسی برقرار
- And that the desert skirting the mountain was filled from end to end with people resembling Moses in (the illumination of) their faces.
- وآن بیابان سر به سر در ذیل کوه ** پر خلایق شکل موسی در وجوه
- Their (staves and) mantles were like his staff and mantle: all (of them) were speeding joyously towards Sinai.
- چون عصا و خرقه‌ی او خرقه‌شان ** جمله سوی طور خوش دامن کشان
- All had lifted their hands in prayer and struck up together the tune of let me see (Thee). 2445
- جمله کفها در دعا افراخته ** نغمه‌ی ارنی به هم در ساخته
- Again, as soon as the trance departed from me, the form of each one seemed to me to be diverse.
- باز آن غشیان چو از من رفت زود ** صورت هر یک دگرگونم نمود
- They were the prophets endowed with love (of God): (thus) the (spiritual) unity of the prophets was (clearly) apprehended by me.
- انبیا بودند ایشان اهل ود ** اتحاد انبیاام فهم شد
- Again, I beheld some mighty angels: their outward form was (composed) of bodies of snow;
- باز املاکی همی دیدم شگرف ** صورت ایشان بد از اجرام برف
- And (I saw) another circle of angels asking help (of God): their outward form was wholly of fire.”
- حلقه‌ی دیگر ملایک مستعین ** صورت ایشان به جمله آتشین