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  • 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?

  • غرق گشته عقلهای چون جبال  ** در بحار وهم و گرداب خیال 
  • Understandings (strong) as mountains have been submerged in the seas of imagination and the whirlpools of phantasy.

  • کوهها را هست زین طوفان فضوح  ** کو امانی جز که در کشتی نوح  2655
  • Mountains are put to shame by this Flood: where is any safety (to be found) but in the Ship (Ark) of Noah?

  • زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین  ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین 
  • By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.

  • مرد ایقان رست از وهم و خیال  ** موی ابرو را نمی‌گوید هلال 
  • The man of sure faith is delivered from imagination and phantasy: he does not call a hair of the eyebrow the new moon,