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  • He has proclaimed, ‘I have laid out the dishes, I am the Vicar of God, I am the son of the (spiritual) Khalífa:
  • او ندا کرده که خوان بنهاده‌‌ام ** نایب حقم خلیفه زاده‌‌ام‌‌

  • Welcome (to the feast), O simple-hearted ones, tormented (with hunger), that from my bounteous table ye may eat your fill’—of nothing.
  • الصلا ساده دلان پیچ پیچ ** تا خورید از خوان جودم سیر هیچ‌‌

  • Some persons, (relying) on the promise of ‘To-morrow,’ have wandered for years around that door, (but) ‘To-morrow’ never comes.
  • سالها بر وعده‌‌ی فردا کسان ** گرد آن در گشته فردا نارسان‌‌

  • It needs a long time for the inmost conscience of a man to become evident, more and less (both in great and small matters), 2280
  • دیر باید تا که سر آدمی ** آشکارا گردد از بیش و کمی‌‌

  • (So that we may know whether) beneath the wall of his body there is treasure, or whether there is the house of snake and ant and dragon.
  • زیر دیوار بدن گنج است یا ** خانه‌‌ی مار است و مور و اژدها

  • When it became clear that he was naught (worthless), (by that time) the life of the seeker (disciple) had passed: what use (was) the knowledge (to him)?
  • چون که پیدا گشت کاو چیزی نبود ** عمر طالب رفت آگاهی چه سود

  • Explaining how it may happen, (though) rarely, that a disciple sincerely puts his faith in a false impostor (and believes) that he is a (holy) personage, and by means of this faith attains unto a (spiritual) degree which his Shaykh has never (even) dreamed of, and (then) fire and water do him no hurt, though they hurt his Shaykh; but this occurs very seldom.
  • در بیان آن که نادر افتد که مریدی در مدعی مزور اعتقاد به صدق ببندد که او کسی است و بدین اعتقاد به مقامی برسد که شیخش در خواب ندیده باشد و آب و آتش او را گزند نکند و شیخش را گزند کند و لیکن به نادر نادر

  • But exceptionally comes (the case of) a disciple to whom, because of his (spiritual) illumination, that falsehood (of the impostor) is beneficial.
  • لیک نادر طالب آید کز فروغ ** در حق او نافع آید آن دروغ‌‌

  • He, by his goodly purpose, attains unto a (high) degree, although he fancied (the impostor to be) soul, and that (soul) proved to be (only) body.
  • او به قصد نیک خود جایی رسد ** گر چه جان پنداشت و آن آمد جسد

  • (It is) like trying to find the qibla in the heart (depth) of night: the qibla is not (found), but his (the seeker's) prayer is valid. 2285
  • چون تحری در دل شب قبله را ** قبله نی و آن نماز او روا

  • The impostor has a dearth of soul within, but we have a dearth of bread without.
  • مدعی را قحط جان اندر سر است ** لیک ما را قحط نان بر ظاهر است‌‌