The people's prostrating themselves—women, children, and men—smote the heart of Pharaoh and made him ill.1555
سجده‌ی خلق از زن و از طفل و مرد ** زد دل فرعون را رنجور کرد
Every one's calling him lord and king made him so tattered (infamous) from a vain imagination,
گفتن هریک خداوند و ملک ** آنچنان کردش ز وهمی منهتک
That he dared to pretend to divinity: he became a dragon and would never be sated.
که به دعوی الهی شد دلیر ** اژدها گشت و نمی‌شد هیچ سیر
Imagination and opinion are the bane of the particular (discursive) reason, because its dwelling-place is in the darkness.
عقل جزوی آفتش وهمست و ظن ** زانک در ظلمات شد او را وطن
If there be a path half an ell wide on the ground, a man will walk safely without imagining;
بر زمین گر نیم گز راهی بود ** آدمی بی وهم آمن می‌رود
(But) if you walk on the top of a high wall, you will stagger even if its width be two ells;1560
بر سر دیوار عالی گر روی ** گر دو گز عرضش بود کژ می‌شوی
Nay, through (the force of) imagination and from trembling of heart, you will be (on the point of) falling. Consider well and understand the fear that is due to imagination.
بلک می‌افتی ز لرزه‌ی دل به وهم ** ترس وهمی را نکو بنگر بفهم
How the teacher was made ill by imagination.
رنجور شدن اوستاد به وهم
The master became unnerved by imagination and dread; he sprang up and began to drag his cloak along,
گشت استا سست از وهم و ز بیم ** بر جهید و می‌کشانید او گلیم
Angry with his wife and saying, “Her love is weak: I am in this state (of health), and she did not ask and inquire.
خشمگین با زن که مهر اوست سست ** من بدین حالم نپرسید و نجست
She did not even inform me about my colour: she intends to be freed from my disgrace.
خود مرا آگه نکرد از رنگ من ** قصد دارد تا رهد از ننگ من