ما به گفتار خوشت خو کرده‌‌ایم ** ما ز شیر حکمت تو خورده‌‌ایم‌‌

ما به گفتار خوشت خو کرده‌‌ایم ** ما ز شیر حکمت تو خورده‌‌ایم‌‌ 560

We have become accustomed to thy sweet discourse, we have drunk of the milk of thy wisdom.

الله الله این جفا با ما مکن ** خیر کن امروز را فردا مکن‌‌

Allah! Allah! do not thou (O vizier) treat us with such cruelty: show kindness to-day, do not (put off till) to-morrow.

می‌‌دهد دل مر ترا کاین بی‌‌دلان ** بی‌‌تو گردند آخر از بی‌‌حاصلان‌‌

Does thy heart give to thee (consent) that these who have lost their hearts (to thee) should at last, being without thee, become (numbered) amongst them that have nothing left?

جمله در خشکی چو ماهی می‌‌تپند ** آب را بگشا ز جو بر دار بند

They all are writhing like fishes on dry land: let loose the water, remove the dam from the stream.

ای که چون تو در زمانه نیست کس ** الله الله خلق را فریاد رس‌‌

O thou like whom there is none in the world, for God's sake, for God's sake, come to the aid of thy people!”

دفع گفتن وزیر مریدان را

How the vizier refused the request of the disciples.

گفت هان ای سخرگان گفت‌‌وگو ** وعظ و گفتار زبان و گوش جو 565

He said: “Beware, O ye enslaved by words and talk, ye who seek admonition and discourse (conveyed) by the tongue and (through the) ear.

پنبه اندر گوش حس دون کنید ** بند حس از چشم خود بیرون کنید

Put cotton-wool in the ear of the low (physical) sense, take off the bandage of (that) sense from your eyes!

پنبه‌‌ی آن گوش سر گوش سر است ** تا نگردد این کر آن باطن کر است‌‌

The ear of the head is the cotton-wool of the ear of the conscience: until the former becomes deaf, that inward (ear) is deaf.

بی‌‌حس و بی‌‌گوش و بی‌‌فکرت شوید ** تا خطاب ارجعی را بشنوید

Become without sense and without ear and without thought, that ye may hear the call (of God to the soul), ‘Return!’”

تا به گفت‌‌وگوی بیداری دری ** تو ز گفت خواب بویی کی بری‌‌

So long as thou art (engaged) in the conversation of wakefulness, how wilt thou catch any scent of the conversation of sleep?