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3917-3941

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • حجتش اینست گوید هر دمی  ** گر بدی چیزی دگر هم دیدمی  3930
  • This is his (the hypocrite's) argument: he says at every moment, “If there were anything else, I should have seen it.”

  • گر نبیند کودکی احوال عقل  ** عاقلی هرگز کند از عقل نقل 
  • If a child does not see the various aspects of reason, will a rational person ever abandon reason?

  • ور نبیند عاقلی احوال عشق  ** کم نگردد ماه نیکوفال عشق 
  • And if a rational person does not see the various aspects of Love, (yet) the auspicious moon of Love does not wane.

  • حسن یوسف دیده‌ی اخوان ندید  ** از دل یعقوب کی شد ناپدید 
  • Joseph's beauty was not seen by the eyes of his brethren, (but) when did it (ever) disappear from the heart of Jacob?

  • مر عصا را چشم موسی چوب دید  ** چشم غیبی افعی و آشوب دید 
  • The (physical) eye of Moses regarded the staff (rod) as wood; the eye of the Invisible beheld (in it) a serpent and (cause of) panic.

  • چشم سر با چشم سر در جنگ بود  ** غالب آمد چشم سر حجت نمود  3935
  • The eye of the head was in conflict with the eye of the heart: the eye of the heart prevailed (over the other) and displayed the proof.

  • چشم موسی دست خود را دست دید  ** پیش چشم غیب نوری بد پدید 
  • The (physical) eye of Moses regarded his hand as a hand, (but) to the eye of the Invisible it was a manifest light.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد در کمال  ** پیش هر محروم باشد چون خیال 
  • This matter hath no limit in perfection, (yet) it seems like a fancy to every one that is deprived (of the reality).

  • چون حقیقت پیش او فرج و گلوست  ** کم بیان کن پیش او اسرار دوست 
  • Since to him the reality is the pudendum and the gullet, do not expound the mysteries of the Beloved to him.

  • پیش ما فرج و گلو باشد خیال  ** لاجرم هر دم نماید جان جمال 
  • To us the pudendum and the gullet are a (mere) fancy; consequently the (Beloved) Soul displays His beauty (to us) at every moment. [To us the private parts and the gullet are a (mere) fancy; consequently the (Beloved) Soul displays His beauty (to us) at every moment.]

  • هر که را فرج و گلو آیین و خوست  ** آن لکم دین ولی دین بهر اوست  3940
  • Any one whose custom and habit is (addiction to) the pudendum and the gullet, for him (the fit answer) is “Unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion.”

  • با چنان انکار کوته کن سخن  ** احمدا کم گوی با گبر کهن 
  • Cut short thy talk with such (incarnate) scepticism: do not converse, O Ahmad, with the ancient infidel.

  • آمدن خلیفه نزد آن خوب‌روی برای جماع 
  • Venit Khalífa ad puellam formosam concubitus causa. [How the Caliph came next to that one of beautiful face for the sake of (sexual) intercourse.]