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  • صد هزاران سال بودم در مطار  ** هم‌چو ذرات هوا بی‌اختیار  220
  • Hundreds of thousands of years I was flying (to and fro) involuntarily, like the motes in the air.

  • گر فراموشم شدست آن وقت و حال  ** یادگارم هست در خواب ارتحال 
  • If I have forgotten that time and state, (yet) the migration in sleep (to the spiritual world) recalls it to my memory.

  • می‌رهم زین چارمیخ چارشاخ  ** می‌جهم در مسرح جان زین مناخ 
  • (Every night) I escape from this four-branched cross and spring away from this (confined) halting-place into the (spacious) pasture of the spirit.

  • شیر آن ایام ماضیهای خود  ** می‌چشم از دایه‌ی خواب ای صمد 
  • From the nurse, Sleep, I suck the milk of those bygone days of mine, O Lord.

  • جمله عالم ز اختیار و هست خود  ** می‌گریزد در سر سرمست خود 
  • All the (people in the) world are fleeing from their free-will and (self-)existence to their drunken (unconscious) side.

  • تا دمی از هوشیاری وا رهند  ** ننگ خمر و زمر بر خود می‌نهند  225
  • In order that for awhile they may be delivered from sobriety (consciousness), they lay upon themselves the opprobrium of wine and minstrelsy.

  • جمله دانسته کای این هستی فخ است  ** فکر و ذکر اختیاری دوزخ است 
  • All know that this existence is a snare, that volitional thought and memory are a hell.

  • می‌گریزند از خودی در بیخودی  ** یا به مستی یا به شغل ای مهتدی 
  • They are fleeing from selfhood into selflessness either by means of intoxication or by means of (some engrossing) occupation, O well-conducted man.

  • نفس را زان نیستی وا می‌کشی  ** زانک بی‌فرمان شد اندر بیهشی 
  • Thou (O God) drawest the soul back from that state of not-being because it entered into unconsciousness without Thy command.

  • لیس للجن و لا للانس ان  ** ینفذوا من حبس اقطار الزمن 
  • Neither for the Jinn (genies) nor for mankind is it (possible) to pierce through the prison of the regions of the temporal world.

  • لا نفوذ الا بسلطان الهدی  ** من تجاویف السموات العلی  230
  • There is no piercing through the cavities of the highest heavens save by the power of Guidance.

  • لا هدی الا بسلطان یقی  ** من حراس الشهب روح المتقی 
  • There is no guidance save by a power that preserves the spirit of the devout from the keepers of the shooting stars.

  • هیچ کس را تا نگردد او فنا  ** نیست ره در بارگاه کبریا 
  • There is no way (admittance) for any one, till he become naughted, into the audience-chamber of (Divine) Majesty.

  • چیست معراج فلک این نیستی  ** عاشقان را مذهب و دین نیستی 
  • What is the means of ascension to Heaven? This not-being. Not-being is the creed and religion of the lovers (of God).

  • پوستین و چارق آمد از نیاز  ** در طریق عشق محراب ایاز 
  • From self-abasement in the way of Love the fur jacket and rustic shoon became the prayer-niche of Ayáz.

  • گرچه او خود شاه را محبوب بود  ** ظاهر و باطن لطیف و خوب بود  235
  • Even though he was beloved by the king (Mahmúd), and was charming and beauteous outwardly and inwardly—

  • گشته بی‌کبر و ریا و کینه‌ای  ** حسن سلطان را رخش آیینه‌ای 
  • (For) he had become devoid of any arrogance or ostentation or malice, and his face was a mirror for the beauty of the king—

  • چونک از هستی خود او دور شد  ** منتهای کار او محمود بد 
  • (Yet ’twas only) because he was far removed from his (self-) existence, (that) the end of his affair was praiseworthy.

  • زان قوی‌تر بود تمکین ایاز  ** که ز خوف کبر کردی احتراز 
  • The steadfastness of Ayáz was all the firmer forasmuch as he was taking (those) precautions in fear of arrogance.

  • او مهذب گشته بود و آمده  ** کبر را و نفس را گردن زده 
  • He had been purified, and he had come and smitten the neck of (had beheaded) arrogance and selfishness.

  • یا پی تعلیم می‌کرد آن حیل  ** یا برای حکمتی دور از وجل  240
  • He was practising these devices either for the purpose of instructing (others) or for the sake of some principle of wisdom far removed from fear;

  • یا که دید چارقش زان شد پسند  ** کز نسیم نیستی هستیست بند 
  • Or (perhaps) the sight of his rustic shoon pleased him because (self-)existence is a shutter against the breeze of not-being,

  • تا گشاید دخمه کان بر نیستیست  ** تا بیاید آن نسیم عیش و زیست 
  • (And he looked at them) in order that the charnel-house which is (built) on not-being might open, and that he might feel the breeze of vitality and life.

  • ملک و مال و اطلس این مرحله  ** هست بر جان سبک‌رو سلسله 
  • The wealth and riches and silks of this travellers' halt are a chain on the light-footed spirit.

  • سلسله‌ی زرین بدید و غره گشت  ** ماند در سوراخ چاهی جان ز دشت 
  • The spirit espied the golden chain and was beguiled: it remained in the hole of a dungeon (far) from the open country.