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  • Drowned, not in such wise that there should be for him any deliverance, or that any one should know him except the (Divine) Ocean.
  • غرقه‌‌ای نه که خلاصی باشدش ** یا بجز دریا کسی بشناسدش‌‌
  • Partial reason would not be telling of (the mysteries of) the Universal (Reason), if there were not demand after demand (perpetual Divine impulses necessitating the manifestation of these mysteries).
  • عقل جزو از کل گویا نیستی ** گر تقاضا بر تقاضا نیستی‌‌
  • Since demand after demand is arriving, the waves of that Sea (Universal Reason) reach this place (the world of partial reason). 2215
  • چون تقاضا بر تقاضا می‌‌رسد ** موج آن دریا بدین جا می‌‌رسد
  • Now that the story of the old man's (spiritual) experiences has come to this point, the old man and his experiences have withdrawn behind the veil.
  • چون که قصه‌‌ی حال پیر اینجا رسید ** پیر و حالش روی در پرده کشید
  • The old man has shaken his skirt free from talk and speech: half of the tale has remained in our mouth (has not been told).
  • پیر دامن را ز گفت‌‌وگو فشاند ** نیم گفته در دهان ما بماند
  • It behoves (us), for the sake of procuring (such) delight and enjoyment, to gamble away (sacrifice) hundreds of thousands of souls (lives).
  • از پی این عیش و عشرت ساختن ** صد هزاران جان بشاید باختن‌‌
  • In chase of the spiritual forest be (as) a falcon, be one who gambles his soul (life) away, like the sun of this world.
  • در شکار بیشه‌‌ی جان باز باش ** همچو خورشید جهان جان‌‌باز باش‌‌
  • The lofty sun is life-diffusing: every moment it becomes empty and is filled. 2220
  • جان فشان افتاد خورشید بلند ** هر دمی تی می‌‌شود پر می‌‌کنند
  • O Sun of Reality, diffuse spiritual life, show forth newness to this old world!
  • جان فشان ای آفتاب معنوی ** مر جهان کهنه را بنما نوی‌‌
  • Soul and spirit are coming from the Unseen into human existence, like running water.
  • در وجود آدمی جان و روان ** می‌‌رسد از غیب چون آب روان‌‌
  • Commentary on the prayer of the two angels who daily make proclamation in every market, saying, “O God, bestow on every prodigal some boon in exchange! O God, bestow on every niggard some bane (in return)”; and an explanation that the prodigal is he that strives earnestly in the Way of God, not he that squanders his wealth in the way of sensuality.
  • تفسیر دعای آن دو فرشته که هر روز بر سر هر بازاری منادی می‌‌کنند که اللهم أعط کل منفق خلفا اللهم أعط کل ممسک تلفا و بیان کردن که آن منفق مجاهد راه حق است نه مسرف راه هوا