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  • 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?

  • سیر بیرونی است قول و فعل ما ** سیر باطن هست بالای سما 570
  • Our speech and action is the exterior journey: the interior journey is above the sky.