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2176-2185

  • یاد آمد در زمان زن را که من  ** چون فرستادم ورا سوی وطن 
  • Then the wife recollected (and said to herself), “Why did I send her (back) to the house?
  • پنبه در آتش نهادم من به خویش  ** اندر افکندم قج نر را به میش 
  • I have set the cotton on fire with my own hand, I have put the lusty ram to the ewe.”
  • گل فرو شست از سر و بی‌جان دوید  ** در پی او رفت و چادر می‌کشید 
  • She washed off the clay (soap) from her head and ran, beside herself (with anxiety): she went in pursuit of her (the maid), drawing the chádar (over her head as she ran).
  • آن ز عشق جان دوید و این ز بیم  ** عشق کو و بیم کو فرقی عظیم 
  • The former (the maid) ran because of the love in her soul, and the latter (the wife) because of fear. What is fear in comparison with love? (There is) a great difference.
  • سیر عارف هر دمی تا تخت شاه  ** سیر زاهد هر مهی یک روزه راه  2180
  • The mystic's progress is (an ascension) at every moment to the throne of the (Divine) King; the ascetic's progress is one day's journey every month.
  • گرچه زاهد را بود روزی شگرف  ** کی بود یک روز او خمسین الف 
  • Although, for the ascetic, one day is of great value, (yet) how should his one day be (equal to) fifty thousand (years)?
  • قدر هر روزی ز عمر مرد کار  ** باشد از سال جهان پنجه هزار 
  • The length of every day in the life of the adept is fifty thousand of the years of the world.
  • عقلها زین سر بود بیرون در  ** زهره‌ی وهم ار بدرد گو بدر 
  • Intellects are excluded from this mystery: if the heart of Imagination burst, let it burst!
  • ترس مویی نیست اندر پیش عشق  ** جمله قربانند اندر کیش عشق 
  • In the sight of Love, fear is not (so much as) a single hair: in the law of Love, all things (else) are (offered) as a sacrifice.
  • عشق وصف ایزدست اما که خوف  ** وصف بنده‌ی مبتلای فرج و جوف  2185
  • Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by lust and gluttony. [Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by vulva and belly.]