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  • 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.

  • علت پنهان کنون شد آشکار  ** بعد از آنک بند گشتیم و شکار 
  • Now, after we have been made prisoners and a prey, the hidden malady has become apparent.”

  • سایه‌ی رهبر بهست از ذکر حق  ** یک قناعت به که صد لوت و طبق 
  • The shadow (protection) of the (spiritual) Guide is better than praising God (by one's self): a single (feeling of) contentment is better than a hundred viands and trays (of food).

  • چشم بینا بهتر از سیصد عصا  ** چشم بشناسد گهر را از حصا  3785
  • A seeing eye is better than three hundred (blind men's) staves: the eye knows (can distinguish) pearls from pebbles.

  • در تفحص آمدند از اندهان  ** صورت کی بود عجب این در جهان 
  • (Moved) by sorrows (pains of love) they began to make inquiry, saying, “Who in the world, we wonder, is she of whom this is the portrait?”

  • بعد بسیاری تفحص در مسیر  ** کشف کرد آن راز را شیخی بصیر 
  • After much inquiry in (the course of their) travel, a Shaykh endowed with insight disclosed the mystery,

  • نه از طریق گوش بل از وحی هوش  ** رازها بد پیش او بی روی‌پوش 
  • Not (verbally) by way of the ear, but (silently) by inspiration (derived) from Reason: to him (all) mysteries were unveiled.

  • گفت نقش رشک پروینست این  ** صورت شه‌زاده‌ی چینست این 
  • He said, “This is the portrait of (her who is) an object of envy to the Pleiades: this is the picture of the Princess of China.

  • هم‌چو جان و چون جنین پنهانست او  ** در مکتم پرده و ایوانست او  3790
  • She is hidden like the spirit and like the embryo: she is (kept) in a secret bower and palace.

  • سوی او نه مرد ره دارد نه زن  ** شاه پنهان کرد او را از فتن 
  • Neither man nor woman is admitted to her (presence): the King has concealed her on account of her fascinations.