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  • خصاه من بدرگ نبودم زشت‌اسم  ** آنک دیدی بد نبد بود آن طلسم 
  • In particular, I, who have a bad name, was not evil-natured (in regard to you): what you saw was nothing evil, it was (only) a magic spell;

  • ور بدی بد آن سگالش قدرا  ** عفو فرمایند یاران زان خطا 
  • And if, hypothetically, that purpose (of mine) had been evil, (still) friends pardon such a fault.”

  • عالم وهم و خیال طمع و بیم  ** هست ره‌رو را یکی سدی عظیم 
  • The world of imagination and the phantom of hope and fear is a great obstacle to the traveller (on the mystic Way).

  • نقشهای این خیال نقش‌بند  ** چون خلیلی را که که بد شد گزند 
  • The pictures (illusions) of this picture-making phantasy were harmful (even) to one like Khalíl (Abraham), who was (firm as) a mountain.

  • گفت هذا ربی ابراهیم راد  ** چونک اندر عالم وهم اوفتاد  2650
  • The noble Abraham said, “This is my Lord,” when he fell into the world (fell under the sway) of imagination.

  • ذکر کوکب را چنین تاویل گفت  ** آن کسی که گوهر تاویل سفت 
  • That person who bored the pearl of interpretation, interpreted the mention of the star thus—

  • عالم وهم و خیال چشم‌بند  ** آنچنان که را ز جای خویش کند 
  • (That) the world of imagination and blinding phantasy uprooted such a mountain (of wisdom) from its foundation,

  • تا که هذا ربی آمد قال او  ** خربط و خر را چه باشد حال او 
  • So that the words, “This is my Lord,” were uttered by him: what, (then), must be the case with a goose or an ass?

  • غرق گشته عقلهای چون جبال  ** در بحار وهم و گرداب خیال 
  • Understandings (strong) as mountains have been submerged in the seas of imagination and the whirlpools of phantasy.

  • کوهها را هست زین طوفان فضوح  ** کو امانی جز که در کشتی نوح  2655
  • Mountains are put to shame by this Flood: where is any safety (to be found) but in the Ship (Ark) of Noah?