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651-660

  • کوزه‌ی آن تن پر از آب حیات  ** کوزه‌ی این تن پر از زهر ممات 
  • The pot of that body is filled with the Water of Life; the pot of this body is filled with the poison of death.

  • گر به مظروفش نظر داری شهی  ** ور به ظرفش بنگری تو گم‌رهی 
  • If you keep your eye fixed on its contents, you are a (spiritual) king; but if you regard its vessel, you are misguided.

  • لفظ را ماننده‌ی این جسم دان  ** معنیش را در درون مانند جان 
  • Know that words resemble this body and that their inward meaning resembles the soul.

  • دیده‌ی تن دایما تن‌بین بود  ** دیده‌ی جان جان پر فن بین بود 
  • The bodily eye is always seeing the body; the spiritual eye sees the artful (elusive) soul.

  • پس ز نقش لفظهای مثنوی  ** صورتی ضالست و هادی معنوی  655
  • Therefore the man of appearance is misled by the form of the expressions used in the Mathnawí, while they guide the man of reality (to the Truth).

  • در نبی فرمود کین قرآن ز دل  ** هادی بعضی و بعضی را مضل 
  • He (God) hath said in the Qur’án, “This Qur’án with all its heart leads some aright and others astray.”

  • الله الله چونک عارف گفت می  ** پیش عارف کی بود معدوم شی 
  • God, God! When the gnostic speaks of “wine,” how in the gnostic's eyes should the (materially) non-existent be a (material) thing?

  • فهم تو چون باده‌ی شیطان بود  ** کی ترا وهم می رحمان بود 
  • Since your understanding is (only of) the Devil's wine, how should you have any conception of the wine of the Merciful (God)?

  • این دو انبازند مطرب با شراب  ** این بدان و آن بدین آرد شتاب 
  • These twain—the minstrel and the wine—are partners: this one quickly leads to that, and that one to this.

  • پر خماران از دم مطرب چرند  ** مطربانشان سوی میخانه برند  660
  • They that are full of crop-sickness feed on the song of the minstrel: the minstrels bring them to the tavern.