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  • روح خواهی جبه بشکاف ای پسر  ** تا از آن صفوت برآری زود سر 
  • (If) thou desirest (spiritual) peace, rend thy jubba, O son, that immediately thou mayst emerge pure.

  • هست صوفی آنک شد صفوت‌طلب  ** نه از لباس صوف و خیاطی و دب 
  • The (true) Súfí is he who has become a seeker of purity: (it is) not from (wearing) the garment of wool and patching (it) and (committing) sodomy.

  • صوفیی گشته به پیش این لام  ** الخیاطه واللواطه والسلام 
  • With these base scoundrels Súfism has become patching and sodomy, and that is all.

  • بر خیال آن صفا و نام نیک  ** رنگ پوشیدن نکو باشد ولیک  365
  • To wear colours (coloured garments) with the fancy of (attaining to) that purity and good name is good (commendable), but

  • بر خیالش گر روی تا اصل او  ** نی چو عباد خیال تو به تو 
  • (Only) if, with the fancy thereof, you go on (till you attain) to its (essential) principle; not like those who worship (worldly) fancies manifold.

  • دور باش غیرتت آمد خیال  ** گرد بر گرد سراپرده‌ی جمال 
  • Your fancy is the baton of (Divine) jealousy (which prevents you from prowling) round about the curtained pavilion of (Divine) Beauty;

  • بسته هر جوینده را که راه نیست  ** هر خیالش پیش می‌آید بیست 
  • It (fancy) bars every seeker, saying, “There is no way (admission)”: every fancy confronts him (the seeker) and says “Stop!”—

  • جز مگر آن تیزکوش تیزهوش  ** کش بود از جیش نصرتهاش جوش 
  • Except, indeed, that person of sharp hearing and keen intelligence who possesses enthusiasm (derived) from the host of His (God's) helps (to victory).

  • نجهد از تخییلها نی شه شود  ** تیر شه بنماید آنگه ره شود  370
  • He does not recoil from the fancies (which bar the way) nor is he checked: he shows the King's arrow (token); then way is made (for him to enter).

  • این دل سرگشته را تدبیر بخش  ** وین کمانهای دوتو را تیر بخش 
  • (O God), bestow forethought on this bewildered heart, and bestow the arrow (of resolution) on these bows bent double.