- The lover who has fallen passionately in love with an (earthly) object of affection has gone into the chest, though (in appearance) he is outside.
- عاشقی کو در غم معشوق رفت ** گر چه بیرونست در صندوق رفت
- He has spent (wasted) his life in the chest on account of (worldly) cares: he can see nothing of the world except a chest.
- عمر در صندوق برد از اندهان ** جز که صندوقی نبیند از جهان
- The head that is not (raised) above the sky—know that it is (confined) in that chest by its vain desires.
- آن سری که نیست فوق آسمان ** از هوس او را در آن صندوق دان
- When he (such an one) goes forth from the chest of the body, he will (only) go from one tomb to another tomb.
- چون ز صندوق بدن بیرون رود ** او ز گوری سوی گوری میشود
- This topic is endless. The cadi said to him, “O porter, O carrier of the chest, 4500
- این سخن پایان ندارد قاضیش ** گفت ای حمال و ای صندوقکش
- Give news of me to my deputy at the court of justice and acquaint him with all (the details of) this (affair) as quickly as possible,
- از من آگه کن درون محکمه ** نایبم را زودتر با این همه
- In order that he may buy this (chest) with gold from this witless fellow and take it fastened, just as it is, to my house.”
- تا خرد این را به زر زین بیخرد ** همچنین بسته به خانهی ما برد
- O Lord, appoint a spiritually endowed company to redeem us from the chest of the body!
- ای خدا بگمار قومی روحمند ** تا ز صندوق بدنمان وا خرند
- Who but the prophets and apostles can redeem the people from confinement in the chest of guile?
- خلق را از بند صندوق فسون ** کی خرد جز انبیا و مرسلون
- Among thousands there is (only) one person of comely aspect, who knows that he is inside the chest. 4505
- از هزاران یک کسی خوشمنظرست ** که بداند کو به صندوق اندرست
- He must formerly have beheld the (spiritual) world, so that by means of that contrary this contrary should be made evident to him.
- او جهان را دیده باشد پیش از آن ** تا بدان ضد این ضدش گردد عیان
- Because “knowledge is the true believer's lost camel,” he recognises his own lost camel and feels certain (that it is his).
- زین سبب که علم ضالهی مومنست ** عارف ضالهی خودست و موقنست
- (But) he that has never seen good fortune, how will he be perturbed in this calamity?
- آنک هرگز روز نیکو خود ندید ** او درین ادبار کی خواهد طپید
- Either he fell into captivity in childhood, or was born a slave at first from his mother's womb.
- یا به طفلی در اسیری اوفتاد ** یا خود از اول ز مادر بنده زاد
- His soul has never known the delight of (spiritual) freedom: the chest of (phenomenal) forms is his arena. 4510
- ذوق آزادی ندیده جان او ** هست صندوق صور میدان او
- His mind is for ever imprisoned in forms: he (only) passes from cage into cage.
- دایما محبوس عقلش در صور ** از قفس اندر قفس دارد گذر
- He has no means of passing beyond the cage (and going) aloft: he goes to and fro into (successive) cages.
- منفذش نه از قفس سوی علا ** در قفسها میرود از جا به جا
- In the Qur’án (is the text), “If ye have the power, pass beyond”: these words came from Him (God) to the Jinn and mankind.
- در نبی ان استطعتم فانفذوا ** این سخن با جن و انس آمد ز هو
- He said, “There is no way for you to pass beyond the sky save by (Divine) authority and by inspiration from Heaven.”
- گفت منفذ نیست از گردونتان ** جز به سلطان و به وحی آسمان
- If he (any one) go from chest to chest, he is not of Heaven, he is of the chest (the lower world). 4515
- گر ز صندوقی به صندوقی رود ** او سمایی نیست صندوقی بود
- The pleasure of changing his chest (only) stupefies him anew: he does not perceive that he is inside the chest.
- فرجه صندوق نو نو مسکرست ** در نیابد کو به صندوق اندرست
- If he is not deluded by (all) these chests, he seeks release and deliverance, like the cadi.
- گر نشد غره بدین صندوقها ** همچو قاضی جوید اطلاق و رها
- Know that the mark of one who apprehends this is his crying for help and being in terror.
- آنک داند این نشانش آن شناس ** کو نباشد بیفغان و بیهراس
- Like the cadi, he will be quaking (with fear): how should a breath of joy rise from his soul?
- همچو قاضی باشد او در ارتعاد ** کی برآید یک دمی از جانش شاد
- The arrival of the cadi's deputy in the bazaar and his purchase of the chest from Júhí, etc.
- آمدن نایب قاضی میان بازار و خریداری کردن صندوق را از جوحی الی آخره
- The deputy arrived and asked, “How much (do you want) for your chest?” “They are offering nine hundred pieces of gold and more,” said he, 4520
- نایب آمد گفت صندوقت به چند ** گفت نهصد بیشتر زر میدهند