- If you see not the flow of the Water of Life, look at the stream and at this movement of the weeds (in it).
- گر نبینی رفتن آب حیات ** بنگر اندر جوی و این سیر نبات
- When the water begins to pass by in fuller volume, the husks, (which are) the ideas, pass along it more quickly. 3300
- آب چون انبهتر آید در گذر ** زو کند قشر صور زوتر گذر
- When this stream has become extremely rapid in its flow, no care lingers in the minds of the gnostics.
- چون به غایت تیز شد این جو روان ** غم نپاید در ضمیر عارفان
- Since it is (then) exceedingly full and swift, on that account there is no room in it for anything but the water.
- چون به غایت ممتلی بود و شتاب ** پس نگنجید اندر او الا که آب
- How a stranger reviled the Shaykh and how the Shaykh's disciple answered him.
- طعنه زدن بیگانه ای در شیخ و جواب گفتن مرید شیخ او را
- A certain man brought charges against a Shaykh, saying, “He is wicked and not on the path of righteousness;
- آن یکی یک شیخ را تهمت نهاد ** کاو بد است و نیست بر راه رشاد
- He is a wine-drinker and a hypocrite and a scoundrel: how should he be one to succour his disciples?”
- شارب خمر است و سالوس و خبیث ** مر مریدان را کجا باشد مغیث
- One (of the disciples) said to him, “Observe respect: ’tis no light matter to think so ill of the great. 3305
- آن یکی گفتش ادب را هوش دار ** خرد نبود این چنین ظن بر کبار
- Far is it from him and far from those (saintly) qualities of his that his clear (spirit) should be darkened by a flood (of sin).
- دور از او و دور از آن اوصاف او ** که ز سیلی تیره گردد صاف او
- Do not put such slander on the people of God! This is (mere) fancy on your part. Turn over (a new) leaf.
- این چنین بهتان منه بر اهل حق ** این خیال تست بر گردان ورق
- This (which you say) is not (true); and (even) if it should be, O land-fowl, what harm (comes) to the Red Sea from a carcase?
- این نباشد ور بود ای مرغ خاک ** بحر قلزم را ز مرداری چه باک