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  • آن ز سر می‌یابد آن داد این ز دم  ** قوم دیگر پا و سر کردند گم 
  • That one obtains the bounty from the Head, this one from the tail; another company (of mystics) have lost (both) foot and head.

  • چونک گم شد جمله جمله یافتند  ** از کم آمد سوی کل بشتافتند 
  • Since all has been lost, they have gained all: through dwindling away (to naught) they have sped towards the Whole.

  • دیدن ایشان در قصر این قلعه‌ی ذات الصور نقش روی دختر شاه چین را و بیهوش شدن هر سه و در فتنه افتادن و تفحص کردن کی این صورت کیست 
  • How in the pavilion of the fortress adorned with pictures they (the princes) saw a portrait of the daughter of the King of China and how all three lost their senses and fell into distraction and made inquiries, asking, “Whose portrait is this?”

  • این سخن پایان ندارد آن گروه  ** صورتی دیدند با حسن و شکوه  3760
  • This topic is endless. The company (of three) espied a beauteous and majestic portrait.

  • خوب‌تر زان دیده بودند آن فریق  ** لیک زین رفتند در بحر عمیق 
  • The (travelling) party had seen (pictures) more beautiful than that, but at (the sight of) this one they were plunged in the deep sea,

  • زانک افیونشان درین کاسه رسید  ** کاسه‌ها محسوس و افیون ناپدید 
  • Because opium came to them in this cup: the cups are visible, but the opium is unseen.

  • کرد فعل خویش قلعه‌ی هش‌ربا  ** هر سه را انداخت در چاه بلا 
  • The fortress, (named) the destroyer of reason, wrought its work: it cast them, all three, into the pit of tribulation.

  • تیر غمزه دوخت دل را بی‌کمان  ** الامان و الامان ای بی‌امان 
  • Without a bow the arrow-like glances (of Love) pierce the heart—mercy, mercy, O merciless one!

  • قرنها را صورت سنگین بسوخت  ** آتشی در دین و دلشان بر فروخت  3765
  • (Adoration of) a stone image consumed the (past) generations and kindled a fire (of love for it) in their religion and their hearts.

  • چونک روحانی بود خود چون بود  ** فتنه‌اش هر لحظه دیگرگون بود 
  • When it (the image) is spiritual, how (ravishing) must it be! Its fascination changes at every moment.

  • عشق صورت در دل شه‌زادگان  ** چون خلش می‌کرد مانند سنان 
  • Since love of the pictured form was stabbing the hearts of the princes like a spear-point,

  • اشک می‌بارید هر یک هم‌چو میغ  ** دست می‌خایید و می‌گفت ای دریغ 
  • Each (of them) was shedding tears, like a cloud, and gnawing his hands and crying, “Oh, alas!

  • ما کنون دیدیم شه ز آغاز دید  ** چندمان سوگند داد آن بی‌ندید 
  • Now we see (what) the King saw at the beginning. How often did that peerless one adjure us!”

  • انبیا را حق بسیارست از آن  ** که خبر کردند از پایانمان  3770
  • The prophets have conferred a great obligation (on us) because they have made us aware of the end,

  • کاینچ می‌کاری نروید جز که خار  ** وین طرف پری نیابی زو مطار 
  • Saying, “That which thou art sowing will produce naught but thorns; and (if) thou fly in this (worldly) direction thou wilt find there no room to fly (beyond).

  • تخم از من بر که تا ریعی دهد  ** با پر من پر که تیر آن سو جهد 
  • Get the seed from me, that it may yield a (good) crop; fly with my wings, that the arrow may speed Yonder.

  • تو ندانی واجبی آن و هست  ** هم تو گویی آخر آن واجب بدست 
  • (If) thou dost not recognise the necessity and (real) existence of that (flight to God), yet in the end thou wilt confess that it was necessary.”

  • او توست اما نه این تو آن توست  ** که در آخر واقف بیرون‌شوست 
  • He (the prophet) is thou, but not this (unreal) “thou”: (he is) that “thou” which in the end is conscious of escape (from the world of illusion).

  • توی آخر سوی توی اولت  ** آمدست از بهر تنبیه و صلت  3775
  • Thy last (unreal) “thou” has come to thy first (real) “thou” to receive admonition and gifts.

  • توی تو در دیگری آمد دفین  ** من غلام مرد خودبینی چنین 
  • Thy (real) “thou” is buried in another (unreal “thou”): I am the (devoted) slave of a man who thus (truly) sees himself.

  • آنچ در آیینه می‌بیند جوان  ** پیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن 
  • That which the youth sees in the mirror the Elder sees beforehand in the (crude iron) brick.

  • ز امر شاه خویش بیرون آمدیم  ** با عنایات پدر یاغی شدیم 
  • (The princes said), “We have transgressed the command of our King, we have rebelled against the favours of our father.

  • سهل دانستیم قول شاه را  ** وان عنایت‌های بی اشباه را 
  • We have lightly esteemed the King's word and those incomparable favours.

  • نک در افتادیم در خندق همه  ** کشته و خسته‌ی بلا بی ملحمه  3780
  • Lo, we all are fallen into the moat, killed and wounded by affliction without combat.

  • تکیه بر عقل خود و فرهنگ خویش  ** بودمان تا این بلا آمد به پیش 
  • We relied on our own intelligence and wisdom, so that this tribulation has come to pass.

  • بی‌مرض دیدیم خویش و بی ز رق  ** آنچنان که خویش را بیمار دق 
  • We regarded ourselves as being without disease and emancipated (from fear of death), just as one suffering from phthisis regards himself.