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1032-1041

  • نفی را اثبات می‌پنداشتیم  ** دیده‌ی معدوم‌بینی داشتیم 
  • We deemed negation to be affirmation: we had an eye that saw (only) the nonexistent.

  • دیده‌ای که اندر نعاسی شد پدید  ** کی تواند جز خیال و نیست دید 
  • The eye that appeared (came into being) in a state of slumber, how should it be able to see aught but phantasy and non-existence?

  • لاجرم سرگشته گشتیم از ضلال  ** چون حقیقت شد نهان پیدا خیال 
  • Necessarily we were bewildered by error, since Reality was hidden and Phantasy visible,

  • این عدم را چون نشاند اندر نظر  ** چون نهان کرد آن حقیقت از بصر  1035
  • (Wondering) why He (God) set up this non-existence in (full) view and why He caused that Reality to be hidden from sight.

  • آفرین ای اوستاد سحرباف  ** که نمودی معرضان را درد صاف 
  • Praise (to Thee), O Master-weaver of magic who hast made the dregs to seem pure (wine) to them that turn away (from the Truth).

  • ساحران مهتاب پیمایند زود  ** پیش بازرگان و زر گیرند سود 
  • Magicians quickly measure moonbeams in the presence of the merchant and receive gold as profit.

  • سیم بربایند زین گون پیچ پیچ  ** سیم از کف رفته و کرباس هیچ 
  • (When) by artful tricks of this sort they take money, the money is gone from his (the purchaser's) hand, (but) there is no linen (to be seen).

  • این جهان جادوست ما آن تاجریم  ** که ازو مهتاب پیموده خریم 
  • This world is a sorcerer, and we are the merchants who buy from it the measured moonbeams.

  • گز کند کرباس پانصد گز شتاب  ** ساحرانه او ز نور ماهتاب  1040
  • Magician-like, it hastily measures out by the ell five hundred ells of linen from the light of the moonbeams,

  • چون ستد او سیم عمرت ای رهی  ** سیم شد کرباس نی کیسه تهی 
  • (Yet), when it takes the money, (which is) thy life, O slave, the money is gone, there is no linen, and thy purse is empty.