All day long, from the buffets of phantasy and from (thoughts of) loss and gain and from fear of decline,
جان همه روز از لگدکوب خیال ** وز زیان و سود وز خوف زوال
There remains to it (the soul) neither joy nor grace and glory nor way of journeying to Heaven.
نی صفا می‌‌ماندش نی لطف و فر ** نی به سوی آسمان راه سفر
The one asleep (to spiritual things) is he who hath hope of every vain fancy and holds parley with it.
خفته آن باشد که او از هر خیال ** دارد اومید و کند با او مقال
Diabolum per somnum videt tanquam virginem caelestem, deinde propter libidinem effundit cum diabolo aquam (seminis). [During sleep, he sees (in a dream) a demon resembling a heavenly maiden (houri); then he pours forth (seminal) fluid out of lust (in imagined intercourse) with the demon.]
دیو را چون حور بیند او به خواب ** پس ز شهوت ریزد او با دیو آب
Postquam semen generationis in terram salsuginosam infudit, ipse ad se rediit, fugit ab eo illa imago. [After he had scattered the seed of generation on salty (infertile) ground, he came to himself (and) the phantom fled from him.]415
چون که تخم نسل را در شوره ریختا ** و به خویش آمد خیال از وی گریخت
Hinc percepit languorem capitis et (videt) corpus pollutum. Proh dolor ob illud simulacrum visum (sed revera) non visum! [Because of that, he sees (himself as) faint of head and polluted of body. Alas, because of that visible (but) invisible form!]
ضعف سر بیند از آن و تن پلید ** آه از آن نقش پدید ناپدید
The bird is flying on high, and below, its shadow is speeding on the earth, flying like a bird:
مرغ بر بالا و زیر آن سایه‌‌اش ** می‌‌دود بر خاک پران مرغ‌‌وش
Some fool begins to chase the shadow, running (after it) so far that he becomes powerless (exhausted),
ابلهی صیاد آن سایه شود ** می‌‌دود چندان که بی‌‌مایه شود
Not knowing that it is the reflexion of that bird in the air, not knowing where is the origin of the shadow.
بی‌‌خبر کان عکس آن مرغ هواست ** بی‌‌خبر که اصل آن سایه کجاست
He shoots arrows at the shadow; his quiver is emptied in seeking (to shoot it):420
تیر اندازد به سوی سایه او ** ترکشش خالی شود از جستجو