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542-551

  • چند گویی من بگیرم عالمی ** این جهان را پر کنم از خود همی‌‌
  • How long will you say, “I will conquer a whole world, I will make this world full of myself”?

  • گر جهان پر برف گردد سربه‌‌سر ** تاب خور بگدازدش با یک نظر
  • If the world should be filled with snow from end to end, the glow of the sun would melt it with a single look.

  • وزر او و صد وزیر و صد هزار ** نیست گرداند خدا از یک شرار
  • God by a single spark (of His mercy) maketh naught his (the vizier's) burden (of sin) and (the burden) of a hundred viziers and a hundred thousand.

  • عین آن تخییل را حکمت کند ** عین آن زهر آب را شربت کند 545
  • He maketh the essence of that (false) imagination to be wisdom; He maketh the essence of that poisoned water to be a (wholesome) drink.

  • آن گمان انگیز را سازد یقین ** مهرها رویاند از اسباب کین‌‌
  • That which raises doubt He turneth into certainty; He maketh loving kindnesses grow from the causes of hatred.

  • پرورد در آتش ابراهیم را ** ایمنی روح سازد بیم را
  • He cherisheth Abraham in the fire; He turneth fear into security of spirit.

  • از سبب سوزیش من سودایی‌‌ام ** در خیالاتش چو سوفسطایی‌‌ام‌‌
  • By His burning (destroying) of secondary causes I am distraught; in (my) fancies of Him I am like a sophist (sceptic or agnostic).

  • مکر دیگر انگیختن وزیر در اضلال قوم
  • How the vizier started another plan to mislead the (Christian) folk.

  • مکر دیگر آن وزیر از خود ببست ** وعظ را بگذاشت و در خلوت نشست‌‌
  • The vizier formed in his mind another plan: he abandoned preaching and sat alone in seclusion.

  • در مریدان در فکند از شوق سوز ** بود در خلوت چهل پنجاه روز 550
  • He inspired ardour in his disciples from (their) longing (to see him); he remained in seclusion forty or fifty days.

  • خلق دیوانه شدند از شوق او ** از فراق حال و قال و ذوق او
  • The people became mad from longing for him and on account of being separated from his (spiritual) feeling and discourse and intuition.