با مریدان آن فقیر محتشم ** بایزید آمد که نک یزدان منم

That venerable dervish, Báyazíd, came to his disciples, saying, “Lo, I am God.”

گفت مستانه عیان آن ذوفنون ** لا اله الا انا ها فاعبدون

That master of the (mystic) sciences said plainly in drunken fashion, “Hark, there is no god but I, so worship me.”

چون گذشت آن حال گفتندش صباح ** تو چنین گفتی و این نبود صلاح

When that ecstasy had passed, they said to him at dawn, “Thou saidest such and such, and this is impiety.”

گفت این بار ار کنم من مشغله ** کاردها بر من زنید آن دم هله 2105

He said, “This time, if I make a scandal, come on at once and dash knives into me.

حق منزه از تن و من با تنم ** چون چنین گویم بباید کشتنم

God transcends the body, and I am with the body: ye must kill me when I say a thing like this.”

چون وصیت کرد آن آزادمرد ** هر مریدی کاردی آماده کرد

When that (spiritual) freeman gave the injunction, each disciple made ready a knife.

مست گشت او باز از آن سغراق زفت ** آن وصیتهاش از خاطر برفت

Again he (Báyazíd) became intoxicated by that potent flagon: those injunctions vanished from his mind.

نقل آمد عقل او آواره شد ** صبح آمد شمع او بیچاره شد

The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.

عقل چون شحنه‌ست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنه‌ی بیچاره در کنجی خزید 2110

Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner.

عقل سایه‌ی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب

Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?