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  • خواب را بگذار امشب ای پدر  ** یک شبی بر کوی بی‌خوابان گذر 
  • Abandon sleep to-night, O father: for one night traverse the district of the sleepless.

  • بنگر اینها را که مجنون گشته‌اند  ** هم‌چو پروانه بوصلت کشته‌اند 
  • Look on these (lovers) who have become frenzied and been killed, like moths, by (their) union (with the Beloved).

  • بنگر این کشتی خلقان غرق عشق  ** اژدهایی گشت گویی حلق عشق 
  • Look on this ship of (God's) creatures (and see how it is) sunk in Love: you would say that Love's throat has become a dragon (to swallow it)—

  • اژدهایی ناپدید دلربا  ** عقل هم‌چون کوه را او کهربا 
  • An invisible heart-ravishing dragon: it is a magnet to draw (towards itself) the reason that is (firm) like a mountain.

  • عقل هر عطار کاگه شد ازو  ** طبله‌ها را ریخت اندر آب جو  625
  • Every druggist whose reason became acquainted with Him (Love) dropped the trays (containing drugs and perfumes) into the water of the river.

  • رو کزین جو برنیایی تا ابد  ** لم یکن حقا له کفوا احد 
  • Go, for you will not emerge from this river (of Love) unto everlasting: in truth there is none to be compared with Him.

  • ای مزور چشم بگشای و ببین  ** چند گویی می‌ندانم آن و این 
  • O false pretender, open your eye and see! How long will you say, “I know not that or this”?

  • از وبای زرق و محرومی بر آ  ** در جهان حی و قیومی در آ 
  • Ascend from the plague of hypocrisy and deprivation: enter the world of Life and Self-subsistence,

  • تا نمی‌بینم همی‌بینم شود  ** وین ندانمهات می‌دانم بود 
  • So that “I see not” may become “I see” and these “I know not's” of yours may be (turned into) “I know.”

  • بگذر از مستی و مستی‌بخش باش  ** زین تلون نقل کن در استواش  630
  • Pass beyond intoxication and be one who bestows intoxication (on others): move away from this mutability into His permanence.