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  • Seek (that knowledge) from the man of heart; do not seek it from the inanimate, for (all other) people are inanimate beside (in comparison with) him.
  • ز اهل دل جو از جماد آن را مجو ** که جماد آمد خلایق پیش او

  • The seeker of counsel approached him (the saint who was feigning madness), saying, “O father who hast become (as) a child, tell (me) a secret.”
  • مشورت جوینده آمد نزد او ** کای اب کودک شده رازی بگو

  • He answered, “Begone from this door-ring, for this door is not open. Turn back: to-day is not the day for secrets. 2385
  • گفت رو زین حلقه کاین در باز نیست ** باز گرد امروز روز راز نیست‏

  • If the spatial had (any) access to the non-spatial, I should be (seated) on the bench, (giving instruction) like the Shaykhs (spiritual directors).”
  • گر مکان را ره بدی در لامکان ** همچو شیخان بودمی من بر دکان‏

  • How the Police Inspector summoned the man who had fallen dead-drunk (on the ground) to (go to) prison.
  • خواندن محتسب مست خراب افتاده را به زندان‏

  • The Inspector came at midnight to a certain place: he saw a drunken man lying at the bottom of a wall.
  • محتسب در نیم شب جایی رسید ** در بن دیوار مستی خفته دید

  • He cried, “Hey, you are drunk: tell (me), what have you been drinking?” Said the man, “I have drunk of this which is in the jar.”
  • گفت هی مستی چه خورده ستی بگو ** گفت از این خوردم که هست اندر سبو

  • “Pray,” said he, “explain what is in the jar.” He replied, “Some of what I have drunk.” “(But),” said the Inspector, “this is hidden (from sight).”
  • گفت آخر در سبو واگو که چیست ** گفت از آن که خورده‏ام گفت این خفی است‏

  • He asked (again), “What is it that you have drunk?” He rejoined, “That which is hidden in the jar.” 2390
  • گفت آن چه خورده‏ای آن چیست آن ** گفت آن که در سبو مخفی است آن‏

  • These questions and answers were becoming a (vicious) circle. The Inspector was left (stuck) in the mud, like an ass.
  • دور می‏شد این سؤال و این جواب ** ماند چون خر محتسب اندر خلاب‏

  • The Inspector said to him, “Come now, say ‘Ah’”; (but) the drunken man, at the moment of utterance, said “Hú, Hú.”
  • گفت او را محتسب هین آه کن ** مست هو هو کرد هنگام سخن‏