ساحران را نه که فرعون لعین ** کرد تهدید سیاست بر زمین
Is it not (the fact) that the accursed Pharaoh threatened (the magicians with) punishment on the earth,
که ببرم دست و پاتان از خلاف ** پس در آویزم ندارمتان معاف
Saying, “I will cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides, then I will hang you up: I will not hold you exempt (from punishment)”?
او همی‌پنداشت کایشان در همان ** وهم و تخویفند و وسواس و گمان
He thought that they were (still) in the same imagination and terror and distraction and doubt,
که بودشان لرزه و تخویف و ترس ** از توهمها و تهدیدات نفس
So that they would be trembling and terrified and affrighted by the vain imaginings and threats of the carnal soul.
او نمی‌داست کایشان رسته‌اند ** بر دریچه‌ی نور دل بنشسته‌اند1725
He did not know that they had been delivered and were seated at the window of the light of the heart;
این جهان خوابست اندر ظن مه‌ایست ** گر رود درخواب دستی باک نیست
(And that) they had recognised (the difference of) their (bodily) shadows from their (real) selves, and were brisk and alert and happy and exulting;
گر بخواب اندر سرت ببرید گاز ** هم سرت بر جاست و هم عمرت دراز
(And that), if the mortar of the Sky (Fortune) should pound them small a hundred times in this miry place (the material world),
گر ببینی خواب در خود را دو نیم ** تن‌درستی چون بخیزی نی سقیم
(Yet), since they had seen the origin of this (corporeal) composition, they were not afraid of the derivatives (which belong to the domain) of imagination.
حاصل اندر خواب نقصان بدن ** نیست باک و نه دوصد پاره شدن
This world is a dream—do not rest in (false) opinion; if in dream a hand go (be lost), ’tis no harm.
این جهان را که بصورت قایمست ** گفت پیغامبر که حلم نایمست1730
If in dream a pruning-fork has cut off your head, not only is your head (still) in its place but your life is (still) prolonged.