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418-427

  • 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

  • The quiver of his life became empty: his life passed in running hotly in chase of the shadow.
  • ترکش عمرش تهی شد عمر رفت ** از دویدن در شکار سایه تفت‌‌

  • (But) when the shadow of God is his nurse, it delivers him from (every) phantom and shadow.
  • سایه‌‌ی یزدان چو باشد دایه‌‌اش ** وارهاند از خیال و سایه‌‌اش‌‌

  • The shadow of God is that servant of God who is dead to this world and living through God.
  • سایه‌‌ی یزدان بود بنده‌‌ی خدا ** مرده او زین عالم و زنده‌‌ی خدا

  • Lay hold of his skirt most quickly without misgiving, that you may be saved in the skirt (end) of the last days (of the world).
  • دامن او گیر زودتر بی‌‌گمان ** تا رهی در دامن آخر زمان‌‌

  • (The shadow mentioned in the words) How He (God) extended the shadow is the form of the saints, which guides to the light of the Divine Sun. 425
  • کيف مد الظل نقش اولیاست ** کاو دلیل نور خورشید خداست‌‌

  • Do not go in this valley without this guide; say, like Khalíl (Abraham), “I love not them that set.”
  • اندر این وادی مرو بی‌‌این دلیل ** لا أحب الآفلین گو چون خلیل‌‌

  • Go, from the shadow gain a sun: pluck the skirt of the (spiritual) king, Shams-i Tabrízí (the Sun of Tabríz)!
  • رو ز سایه آفتابی را بیاب ** دامن شه شمس تبریزی بتاب‌‌