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.
سایه‌ی خود را ز خود دانسته‌اند ** چابک و چست و گش و بر جسته‌اند
He thinks, “Now I am asleep,” (and is) unaware that he is (really) in the second sleep.
کوزه‌گر گر کوزه‌ای را بشکند ** چون بخواهد باز خود قایم کند
If the potter break a pot, he himself will restore it (to a perfect state) when he wishes.
کور را هر گام باشد ترس چاه ** با هزاران ترس می‌آید براه
The blind man at every step is afraid of (falling into) the pit: he walks on the road with a thousand fears;
مرد بینا دید عرض راه را ** پس بداند او مغاک و چاه را1740
(But) the seeing man has seen the width of the road, so he knows (all about) the hole and the pit;
پا و زانواش نلرزد هر دمی ** رو ترش کی دارد او از هر غمی
His legs and knees do not tremble at any time: how should he look sour because of any affliction?
خیز فرعونا که ما آن نیستیم ** که بهر بانگی و غولی بیستیم
“Arise, O Pharaoh (and do thy worst)! for we are not such (so deluded) as to stop at every cry and (every) ghoul.