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  • لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
  • Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,

  • که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
  • Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).

  • باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد 680
  • Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation.

  • این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
  • In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.

  • صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
  • There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”

  • گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
  • If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).

  • چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
  • When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,

  • که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ 685
  • Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him.

  • گر نبودی امتحان هر بدی ** هر مخنث در وغا رستم بدی
  • Were there not a testing of every vicious person, every effeminate would be a Rustam in the fray.

  • خود مخنث را زره پوشیده گیر ** چون ببیند زخم گردد چون اسیر
  • Even suppose that the effeminate has put on a coat of mail: as soon as he feels the blow, he will become as a captive.