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  • 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?

  • زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین  ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین 
  • By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.

  • مرد ایقان رست از وهم و خیال  ** موی ابرو را نمی‌گوید هلال 
  • The man of sure faith is delivered from imagination and phantasy: he does not call a hair of the eyebrow the new moon,

  • وآنک نور عمرش نبود سند  ** موی ابروی کژی راهش زند 
  • While he that has not the (spiritual) light of ‘Umar as his support is waylaid (deceived) by a crooked hair of the eyebrow.

  • صد هزاران کشتی با هول و سهم  ** تخته تخته گشته در دریای وهم 
  • A hundred thousand awful and terrible ships have been shattered to pieces in the sea of imagination.

  • کمترین فرعون چست فیلسوف  ** ماه او در برج وهمی در خسوف  2660
  • The least (of them is) the energetic and ingenious Pharaoh: his moon was eclipsed in the mansion of imagination.

  • کس نداند روسپی‌زن کیست آن  ** وانک داند نیستش بر خود گمان 
  • Nobody knows who is the cuckold, and he that knows has no doubt concerning himself.