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561-570

  • Allah! Allah! do not thou (O vizier) treat us with such cruelty: show kindness to-day, do not (put off till) to-morrow.
  • الله الله این جفا با ما مکن ** خیر کن امروز را فردا مکن‌‌

  • Does thy heart give to thee (consent) that these who have lost their hearts (to thee) should at last, being without thee, become (numbered) amongst them that have nothing left?
  • می‌‌دهد دل مر ترا کاین بی‌‌دلان ** بی‌‌تو گردند آخر از بی‌‌حاصلان‌‌

  • They all are writhing like fishes on dry land: let loose the water, remove the dam from the stream.
  • جمله در خشکی چو ماهی می‌‌تپند ** آب را بگشا ز جو بر دار بند

  • O thou like whom there is none in the world, for God's sake, for God's sake, come to the aid of thy people!”
  • ای که چون تو در زمانه نیست کس ** الله الله خلق را فریاد رس‌‌

  • How the vizier refused the request of the disciples.
  • دفع گفتن وزیر مریدان را

  • He said: “Beware, O ye enslaved by words and talk, ye who seek admonition and discourse (conveyed) by the tongue and (through the) ear. 565
  • گفت هان ای سخرگان گفت‌‌وگو ** وعظ و گفتار زبان و گوش جو

  • Put cotton-wool in the ear of the low (physical) sense, take off the bandage of (that) sense from your eyes!
  • پنبه اندر گوش حس دون کنید ** بند حس از چشم خود بیرون کنید

  • The ear of the head is the cotton-wool of the ear of the conscience: until the former becomes deaf, that inward (ear) is deaf.
  • پنبه‌‌ی آن گوش سر گوش سر است ** تا نگردد این کر آن باطن کر است‌‌

  • Become without sense and without ear and without thought, that ye may hear the call (of God to the soul), ‘Return!’”
  • بی‌‌حس و بی‌‌گوش و بی‌‌فکرت شوید ** تا خطاب ارجعی را بشنوید

  • So long as thou art (engaged) in the conversation of wakefulness, how wilt thou catch any scent of the conversation of sleep?
  • تا به گفت‌‌وگوی بیداری دری ** تو ز گفت خواب بویی کی بری‌‌

  • Our speech and action is the exterior journey: the interior journey is above the sky. 570
  • سیر بیرونی است قول و فعل ما ** سیر باطن هست بالای سما