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  • از هزاران یک کسی خوش‌منظرست  ** که بداند کو به صندوق اندرست  4505
  • Among thousands there is (only) one person of comely aspect, who knows that he is inside the chest.
  • او جهان را دیده باشد پیش از آن  ** تا بدان ضد این ضدش گردد عیان 
  • He must formerly have beheld the (spiritual) world, so that by means of that contrary this contrary should be made evident to him.
  • زین سبب که علم ضاله‌ی مومنست  ** عارف ضاله‌ی خودست و موقنست 
  • Because “knowledge is the true believer's lost camel,” he recognises his own lost camel and feels certain (that it is his).
  • آنک هرگز روز نیکو خود ندید  ** او درین ادبار کی خواهد طپید 
  • (But) he that has never seen good fortune, how will he be perturbed in this calamity?
  • یا به طفلی در اسیری اوفتاد  ** یا خود از اول ز مادر بنده زاد 
  • Either he fell into captivity in childhood, or was born a slave at first from his mother's womb.
  • ذوق آزادی ندیده جان او  ** هست صندوق صور میدان او  4510
  • His soul has never known the delight of (spiritual) freedom: the chest of (phenomenal) forms is his arena.
  • دایما محبوس عقلش در صور  ** از قفس اندر قفس دارد گذر 
  • His mind is for ever imprisoned in forms: he (only) passes from cage into cage.
  • منفذش نه از قفس سوی علا  ** در قفس‌ها می‌رود از جا به جا 
  • He has no means of passing beyond the cage (and going) aloft: he goes to and fro into (successive) cages.
  • در نبی ان استطعتم فانفذوا  ** این سخن با جن و انس آمد ز هو 
  • 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.
  • گفت منفذ نیست از گردونتان  ** جز به سلطان و به وحی آسمان 
  • He said, “There is no way for you to pass beyond the sky save by (Divine) authority and by inspiration from Heaven.”
  • گر ز صندوقی به صندوقی رود  ** او سمایی نیست صندوقی بود  4515
  • If he (any one) go from chest to chest, he is not of Heaven, he is of the chest (the lower world).
  • فرجه صندوق نو نو مسکرست  ** در نیابد کو به صندوق اندرست 
  • The pleasure of changing his chest (only) stupefies him anew: he does not perceive that he is inside the chest.
  • گر نشد غره بدین صندوق‌ها  ** هم‌چو قاضی جوید اطلاق و رها 
  • If he is not deluded by (all) these chests, he seeks release and deliverance, like the cadi.
  • آنک داند این نشانش آن شناس  ** کو نباشد بی‌فغان و بی‌هراس 
  • Know that the mark of one who apprehends this is his crying for help and being in terror.
  • هم‌چو قاضی باشد او در ارتعاد  ** کی برآید یک دمی از جانش شاد 
  • Like the cadi, he will be quaking (with fear): how should a breath of joy rise from his soul?
  • آمدن نایب قاضی میان بازار و خریداری کردن صندوق را از جوحی الی آخره 
  • The arrival of the cadi's deputy in the bazaar and his purchase of the chest from Júhí, etc.
  • نایب آمد گفت صندوقت به چند  ** گفت نهصد بیشتر زر می‌دهند  4520
  • 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,
  • من نمی‌آیم فروتر از هزار  ** گر خریداری گشا کیسه بیار 
  • “(But) I will not come lower than a thousand: if you intend to buy, open your purse and produce (the money).”
  • گفت شرمی دار ای کوته‌نمد  ** قیمت صندوق خود پیدا بود 
  • He replied, “Have some shame, you in the short felt frock! The value of the chest is self-evident.”
  • گفت بی‌ریت شری خود فاسدیست  ** بیع ما زیر گلیم این راست نیست 
  • He (Júhí) said, “To buy without seeing is an iniquity: our bargain is (being made) in the dark: this is not right.
  • بر گشایم گر نمی‌ارزد مخر  ** تا نباشد بر تو حیفی ای پدر 
  • I will open (it): if it is not worth (the money), don't buy, lest you be defrauded, O father!”
  • گفت ای ستار بر مگشای راز  ** سرببسته می‌خرم با من بساز  4525
  • He (the deputy) said (addressing God), “O Veiler (of faults), do not reveal the secret!” (Then he said to Júhí), “I will buy it with the lid on: come to terms with me.
  • ستر کن تا بر تو ستاری کنند  ** تا نبینی آمنی بر کس مخند 
  • Veil (the faults of others) in order that (the like) veiling may be vouchsafed to you: do not deride any one till you see (yourself in) security.
  • بس درین صندوق چون تو مانده‌اند  ** خوش را اندر بلا بنشانده‌اند 
  • Many like you have been left in this chest and have landed themselves in tribulation.
  • آنچ بر تو خواه آن باشد پسند  ** بر دگر کس آن کن از رنج و گزند 
  • Inflict upon another (only) the pain and injury that you would wish and approve for yourself,
  • زانک بر مرصاد حق واندر کمین  ** می‌دهد پاداش پیش از یوم دین 
  • For God is lying in wait and in ambush, ready to give retribution before the Day of Judgement.