He said, “No ‘Here am I’ is coming to me in response, hence I fear that I may be (a reprobate who is) driven away from the Door.”
گفت لبیکم نمی‌آید جواب ** زان همی‌ترسم که باشم رد باب
He (Khadir) said, “(God saith), That ‘Allah’ of thine is My ‘Here am I,’ and that supplication and grief and ardour of thine is My messenger (to thee).195
گفت آن الله تو لبیک ماست ** و آن نیاز و درد و سوزت پیک ماست
Thy shifts and attempts to find a means (of gaining access to Me) were (in reality) My drawing (thee towards Me), and released thy feet (from the bonds of worldliness).
حیله‌ها و چاره‌جوییهای تو ** جذب ما بود و گشاد این پای تو
Thy fear and love are the noose to catch My favour: beneath every ‘O Lord’ (of thine) is many a ‘Here am I’ (from Me).”
ترس و عشق تو کمند لطف ماست ** زیر هر یا رب تو لبیکهاست
Far from this prayer is the soul of the fool, because to him it is not permitted to cry “O Lord.”
جان جاهل زین دعا جز دور نیست ** زانک یا رب گفتنش دستور نیست
On his mouth and heart are lock and bolt, to the end that he may not moan unto God in the hour of bale.
بر دهان و بر دلش قفلست و بند ** تا ننالد با خدا وقت گزند
He (God) gave to Pharaoh hundredfold possessions and riches, so that he claimed (Divine) might and majesty.200
داد مر فرعون را صد ملک و مال ** تا بکرد او دعوی عز و جلال
In his whole life that man of evil nature felt no (spiritual) headache, lest he should moan unto God.
در همه عمرش ندید او درد سر ** تا ننالد سوی حق آن بدگهر
God gave him all the empire of this world, (but) He did not give him grief and pain and sorrows.
داد او را جمله ملک این جهان ** حق ندادش درد و رنج و اندهان
Grief is better than the empire of the world, so that you may call unto God in secret.
درد آمد بهتر از ملک جهان ** تا بخوانی مر خدا را در نهان