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  • 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.
  • ذکر کوکب را چنین تاویل گفت  ** آن کسی که گوهر تاویل سفت 
  • That person who bored the pearl of interpretation, interpreted the mention of the star thus—
  • عالم وهم و خیال چشم‌بند  ** آنچنان که را ز جای خویش کند 
  • (That) the world of imagination and blinding phantasy uprooted such a mountain (of wisdom) from its foundation,
  • تا که هذا ربی آمد قال او  ** خربط و خر را چه باشد حال او 
  • So that the words, “This is my Lord,” were uttered by him: what, (then), must be the case with a goose or an ass?