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  • In consequence of the sin which proceeded from that man of goodly qualities (Joseph), he was left in prison for several years by the (Divine) Judge,
  • زین گنه کامد از آن نیکوخصال  ** ماند در زندان ز داور چند سال 
  • Who said, “What failure was shown by the Sun of justice that thou shouldst fall, like a bat, into the blackness (of night)?
  • که چه تقصیر آمد از خورشید داد  ** تا تو چون خفاش افتی در سواد 
  • Hark, what failure was shown by the sea and the cloud that thou shouldst seek help from the sand and the mirage? 3410
  • هین چه تقصیر آمد از بحر و سحاب  ** تا تو یاری خواهی از ریگ و سراب 
  • If the vulgar are bats by nature and unreal (unspiritual), thou, at least, O Joseph, hast the eye of the falcon.
  • عام اگر خفاش طبعند و مجاز  ** یوسفا داری تو آخر چشم باز 
  • If a bat went into the blind and blue (the world of darkness and misery), (’tis no wonder, but) after all what ailed the falcon that had seen the Sultan?”
  • گر خفاشی رفت در کور و کبود  ** باز سلطان دیده را باری چه بود 
  • Therefore the (Divine) Master punished him for this sin, saying, “Do not make thy prop of rotten wood”;
  • پس ادب کردش بدین جرم اوستاد  ** که مساز از چوب پوسیده عماد 
  • But He caused Joseph to be engrossed with Him, to the end that his heart should not be pained by that imprisonment.
  • لیک یوسف را به خود مشغول کرد  ** تا نیاید در دلش زان حبس درد 
  • God gave him such intimate joy and rapture that neither the prison nor the mirk (of his dungeon) remained (visible) to him. 3415
  • آن‌چنانش انس و مستی داد حق  ** که نه زندان ماند پیشش نه غسق 
  • There is no prison more frightful than the womb—noisome and dark and full of blood and unhealthy;
  • نیست زندانی وحش‌تر از رحم  ** ناخوش و تاریک و پرخون و وخم 
  • (Yet), when God has opened for you a window in His direction, your body (hidden) in the womb grows more (and more) every moment,
  • چون گشادت حق دریچه سوی خویش  ** در رحم هر دم فزاید تنت بیش