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  • 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