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  • جهد کن کز گوش در چشمت رود  ** آنچ که آن باطل بدست آن حق شود  3920
  • Endeavour that it (the fancy) may pass from thine ear into thine eye, and that what has (hitherto) been unreal may become real.

  • زان سپس گوشت شود هم طبع چشم  ** گوهری گردد دو گوش هم‌چو یشم 
  • After that, thine ear will become connatural with thine eye: the two ears, (gross) as wool, will become of pure substance (and subtle);

  • بلک جمله تن چو آیینه شود  ** جمله چشم و گوهر سینه شود 
  • Nay, thy whole body will become like a mirror: it will become all eye and pure spiritual substance.

  • گوش انگیزد خیال و آن خیال  ** هست دلاله‌ی وصال آن جمال 
  • The ear rouses a fancy, and that fancy is the go-between (that leads) to union with that Beauty.

  • جهد کن تا این خیال افزون شود  ** تا دلاله رهبر مجنون شود 
  • Endeavour that this fancy may increase, so that the go-between may become a guide for Majnún.

  • آن خلیفه گول هم یک چند نیز  ** ریش گاوی کرد خوش با آن کنیز  3925
  • That foolish Caliph, too, was mightily infatuated for awhile with that girl.

  • ملک را تو ملک غرب و شرق گیر  ** چون نمی‌ماند تو آن را برق گیر 
  • Suppose the (monarch's) empire is the empire of the West and the East: since it will not remain, deem it to be (as fleeting as) a lightning-flash.

  • مملکت کان می‌نماند جاودان  ** ای دلت خفته تو آن را خواب دان 
  • O thou whose heart is slumbering (heedless), know that the kingdom that does not remain unto everlasting is (but) a dream.

  • تا چه خواهی کرد آن باد و بروت  ** که بگیرد هم‌چو جلادی گلوت 
  • Consider what thou wilt do with (all) that vanity and vainglory; for (ultimately) it will grip thy throat like an executioner.

  • هم درین عالم بدان که مامنیست  ** از منافق کم شنو کو گفت نیست 
  • Know that even in this world there is a safe refuge: do not listen to the hypocrite who says there is none.

  • حجت منکران آخرت و بیان ضعف آن حجت زیرا حجت ایشان به دین باز می‌گردد کی غیر این نمی‌بینیم 
  • The argument of those who disbelieve in the after-life, and a demonstration of the weakness of that argument, since their argument amounts to “We do not see any other (world) than this.”