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706-715

  • آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست‏
  • If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).

  • چون وفا آن عشق افزون می‏کند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون می‏کند
  • Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?

  • پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت‏
  • The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.

  • بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم‏
  • Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.

  • ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش‏ 710
  • You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form,

  • پرتو عقل است آن بر حس تو ** عاریت میدان ذهب بر مس تو
  • That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.

  • چون زر اندود است خوبی در بشر ** ور نه چون شد شاهد تو پیر خر
  • Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?

  • چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد ** کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد
  • She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.

  • اندک اندک می‏ستانند آن جمال ** اندک اندک خشک می‏گردد نهال‏
  • Little by little they take away that beauty: little by little the sapling withers.

  • رو نعمره ننکسه بخوان ** دل طلب کن دل منه بر استخوان‏ 715
  • Go, recite (the text) to whom so We grant length of days, him We cause to decline. Seek the heart (spirit), set not thy heart on bones;