این همه وهم توست ای ساده‌دل ** ورنه بر تو نه غشی دارم نه غل
All this is your imagination, O simpleton, for I bear no malice and rancour against you.
از خیال زشت خود منگر به من ** بر محبان از چه داری س ظن
Do not regard me from (the standpoint of) your evil fancy: wherefore do you cherish ill thoughts against your lovers?
ظن نیکو بر بر اخوان صفا ** گرچه آید ظاهرا زیشان جفا
Think well of the sincere, even though unkindness come from them in appearance.
این خیال و وهم بد چون شد پدید ** صد هزاران یار را از هم برید
When this evil fancy and imagination is manifested, it severs a hundred thousand friends from one another.
مشفقی گر کرد جور و امتحان ** عقل باید که نباشد بدگمان 2645
If an affectionate (friend) has behaved unjustly and made a trial (of one's loyalty), understanding is needed to prevent one from thinking ill (of him).
خصاه من بدرگ نبودم زشت‌اسم ** آنک دیدی بد نبد بود آن طلسم
In particular, I, who have a bad name, was not evil-natured (in regard to you): what you saw was nothing evil, it was (only) a magic spell;
ور بدی بد آن سگالش قدرا ** عفو فرمایند یاران زان خطا
And if, hypothetically, that purpose (of mine) had been evil, (still) friends pardon such a fault.”
عالم وهم و خیال طمع و بیم ** هست ره‌رو را یکی سدی عظیم
The world of imagination and the phantom of hope and fear is a great obstacle to the traveller (on the mystic Way).
نقشهای این خیال نقش‌بند ** چون خلیلی را که که بد شد گزند
The pictures (illusions) of this picture-making phantasy were harmful (even) to one like Khalíl (Abraham), who was (firm as) a mountain.
گفت هذا ربی ابراهیم راد ** چونک اندر عالم وهم اوفتاد 2650
The noble Abraham said, “This is my Lord,” when he fell into the world (fell under the sway) of imagination.