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  • می‌‌رسید از دور مانند هلال ** نیست بود و هست بر شکل خیال‌‌
  • Coming from afar, like the new moon (in slenderness and radiance): he was nonexistent, though existent in the form of phantasy.

  • نیست وش باشد خیال اندر روان ** تو جهانی بر خیالی بین روان‌‌ 70
  • In the spirit phantasy is as naught, (yet) behold a world (turning) on a phantasy!

  • بر خیالی صلح‌‌شان و جنگشان ** وز خیالی فخرشان و ننگشان‌‌
  • Their peace and their war (turn) on a phantasy, and their pride and their shame spring from a phantasy;

  • آن خیالاتی که دام اولیاست ** عکس مه رویان بستان خداست‌‌
  • (But) those phantasies which ensnare the saints are the reflexion of the fair ones of the garden of God.

  • آن خیالی که شه اندر خواب دید ** در رخ مهمان همی‌‌آمد پدید
  • In the countenance of the stranger-guest was appearing that phantasy which the king beheld in his dream.

  • شه به جای حاجبان واپیش رفت ** پیش آن مهمان غیب خویش رفت
  • The king himself, instead of the chamberlains, went forward to meet his guest from the Invisible.

  • هر دو بحری آشنا آموخته ** هر دو جان بی‌‌دوختن بر دوخته‌‌ 75
  • Both were seamen who had learned to swim, the souls of both were knit together without sewing.

  • گفت معشوقم تو بوده ستی نه آن ** لیک کار از کار خیزد در جهان‌‌
  • The king said, “Thou wert my Beloved (in reality), not she; but in this world deed issues from deed.

  • ای مرا تو مصطفی من چون عمر ** از برای خدمتت بندم کمر
  • O thou who art to me (as) Mustafá (Mohammed), while I am like unto ‘Umar—I will gird my loins to do thee service.”

  • از خداوند ولی التوفیق در خواستن توفیق رعایت ادب در همه حالها و بیان کردن وخامت ضررهای بی‌‌ادبی‌‌
  • Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper, to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline.

  • از خدا جوییم توفیق ادب ** بی‌‌ادب محروم گشت از لطف رب‌‌
  • Let us implore God to help us to self-control: one who lacks self-control is deprived of the grace of the Lord.