- 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
- On this wise did the Jew tell (his dream): there is many a Jew whose end was praiseworthy. 2450
- زین نسق میگفت آن شخص جهود ** بس جهودی که آخرش محمود بود
- Do not regard any infidel with contempt, for there may be hope of his dying a Moslem.
- هیچ کافر را به خواری منگرید ** که مسلمان مردنش باشد امید
- What knowledge have you of the close of his life that you should once (and for all) avert your face from him?
- چه خبر داری ز ختم عمر او ** تا بگردانی ازو یکباره رو
- Afterwards the Christian began to speak, saying, “The Messiah appeared to me in my dream.
- بعد از ان ترسا در آمد در کلام ** که مسیحم رو نمود اندر منام
- I went with him to the Fourth Heaven, (which is) the centre and abode of the sun of this world.
- من شدم با او به چارم آسمان ** مرکز و مثوای خورشید جهان
- Verily, the marvels of the citadels of Heaven have no relation (cannot be compared) to the wonders of the (lower) world. 2455
- خود عجبهای قلاع آسمان ** نسبتش نبود به آیات جهان
- Every one knows, O pride of the sons (of Adam), that the artifice of the celestial sphere exceeds (that of) the earth.”
- هر کسی دانند ای فخر البنین ** که فزون باشد فن چرخ از زمین
- Story of the camel and the ox and the ram who found a bunch of grass on the road, and each said, “I will eat it.”
- حکایت اشتر و گاو و قج که در راه بند گیاه یافتند هر یکی میگفت من خورم