گر بخواب اندر سرت ببرید گاز ** هم سرت بر جاست و هم عمرت دراز
(And that), if the mortar of the Sky (Fortune) should pound them small a hundred times in this miry place (the material world),
گر ببینی خواب در خود را دو نیم ** تن‌درستی چون بخیزی نی سقیم
(Yet), since they had seen the origin of this (corporeal) composition, they were not afraid of the derivatives (which belong to the domain) of imagination.
حاصل اندر خواب نقصان بدن ** نیست باک و نه دوصد پاره شدن
This world is a dream—do not rest in (false) opinion; if in dream a hand go (be lost), ’tis no harm.
این جهان را که بصورت قایمست ** گفت پیغامبر که حلم نایمست1730
If in dream a pruning-fork has cut off your head, not only is your head (still) in its place but your life is (still) prolonged.
از ره تقلید تو کردی قبول ** سالکان این دیده پیدا بی رسول
If in dream you see yourself (cut) in two halves, you are sound in body when you rise, not sick.
روز در خوابی مگو کین خواب نیست ** سایه فرعست اصل جز مهتاب نیست
The sum (of the matter is this): in dreams it is no harm for the body to be maimed or to be torn into two hundred pieces.
خواب و بیداریت آن دان ای عضد ** که ببیند خفته کو در خواب شد
The Prophet said of this world, which is substantial in appearance, that it is the sleeper's dream.
او گمان برده که این دم خفته‌ام ** بی‌خبر زان کوست درخواب دوم
You have accepted this (statement) conventionally, (but) the travellers (on the mystic Way) have beheld this (truth) clairvoyantly, without (relation from) the Prophet.
هاون گردون اگر صد بارشان ** خرد کوبد اندرین گلزارشان1735
You are asleep in the daytime: do not say that this is not sleep. The shadow (reflexion) is derivative, the origin (of it) is naught but the moonlight.
اصل این ترکیب را چون دیده‌اند ** از فروع وهم کم ترسیده‌اند
Know, O comrade, that your sleep and waking (your life in this world) is as though a sleeper should dream that he has gone to sleep.