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  • داد سوگندش کای خورشیدرو  ** با خلیفه زینچ شد رمزی مگو 
  • And adjured her, saying, “O thou whose face is like the sun, do not give the Caliph any hint of what has passed.”

  • چون ندید او را خلیفه مست گشت  ** پس ز بام افتاد او را نیز طشت 
  • When the Caliph saw her he became distraught (with love), and then too his secret was exposed to all.

  • دید صد چندان که وصفش کرده بود  ** کی بود خود دیده مانند شنود  3905
  • He saw (her to be) a hundred times as beautiful as he (the informer) had described her: how in sooth should seeing be like hearing?

  • وصف تصویرست بهر چشم هوش  ** صورت آن چشم دان نه زان گوش 
  • Description is a picture (drawn) for the eye of intelligence: know that the (sensible) form belongs to the eye, not to the ear.

  • کرد مردی از سخن‌دانی سال  ** حق و باطل چیست ای نیکو مقال 
  • A certain man asked an eloquent person, “What are truth and falsehood, O man of goodly discourse?”

  • گوش را بگرفت و گفت این باطلست  ** چشم حقست و یقینش حاصلست 
  • He took hold of his ear and said, “This is false: the eye is true and possesses certainty.”

  • آن به نسبت باطل آمد پیش این  ** نسبتست اغلب سخنها ای امین 
  • The former is relatively false as compared with the latter: most sayings are relative, O trusty one.

  • ز آفتاب ار کرد خفاش احتجاب  ** نیست محجوب از خیال آفتاب  3910
  • If the bat screens itself from the sun, (yet) it is not screened from the fancy (idea) of the sun.

  • خوف او را خود خیالش می‌دهد  ** آن خیالش سوی ظلمت می‌کشد 
  • Even the fancy (idea) of it (the sun) puts fear into it (the bat): that fancy leads it towards the darkness.

  • آن خیال نور می‌ترساندش  ** بر شب ظلمات می‌چفساندش 
  • That fancy (idea) of the light terrifies it and causes it to become attached to the night of gloom.

  • از خیال دشمن و تصویر اوست  ** که تو بر چفسیده‌ای بر یار و دوست 
  • ’Tis from the fancy (idea) and the picture (thou hast formed) of thy enemy that thou hast become attached to thy comrade and friend.

  • موسیا کشفت لمع بر که فراشت  ** آن مخیل تاب تحقیقت نداشت 
  • O Moses, the revelation given to thee illumined the mountain, (but) the fancy conceiving (mountain) could not endure thy real experience (of the revelation).

  • هین مشو غره بدانک قابلی  ** مر خیالش را و زین ره واصلی  3915
  • Hark, be not deluded by (the belief) that thou art able to conceive the fancy (idea) thereof and by this means canst attain (to the reality).

  • از خیال حرب نهراسید کس  ** لا شجاعه قبل حرب این دان و بس 
  • No one was ever terrified by the (mere) fancy (idea) of war: there is no bravery before (actual) war. Know this, and ’tis enough.

  • بر خیال حرب خیز اندر فکر  ** می‌کند چون رستمان صد کر و فر 
  • (Possessed) with the fancy (idea) of war, the poltroon makes, in his thoughts, a hundred heroic attacks (on the enemy).

  • نقش رستم که آن به حمامی بود  ** قرن حمله فکر هر خامی بود 
  • The antagonist (conceived) in the mind of every raw (weakling) is the picture of Rustam that may be (found) in a bath-house.

  • این خیال سمع چون مبصر شود  ** حیز چه بود رستمی مضطر شود 
  • When this fancy (idea) derived from hearing becomes (actually) visible, what of the poltroon? (Even) a Rustam (hero) is compelled (to submit).

  • 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.