(And that) they had recognised (the difference of) their (bodily) shadows from their (real) selves, and were brisk and alert and happy and exulting;
این جهان خوابست اندر ظن مه‌ایست ** گر رود درخواب دستی باک نیست
(And that), if the mortar of the Sky (Fortune) should pound them small a hundred times in this miry place (the material world),
گر بخواب اندر سرت ببرید گاز ** هم سرت بر جاست و هم عمرت دراز
(Yet), since they had seen the origin of this (corporeal) composition, they were not afraid of the derivatives (which belong to the domain) of imagination.
گر ببینی خواب در خود را دو نیم ** تن‌درستی چون بخیزی نی سقیم
This world is a dream—do not rest in (false) opinion; if in dream a hand go (be lost), ’tis no harm.
حاصل اندر خواب نقصان بدن ** نیست باک و نه دوصد پاره شدن
If in dream a pruning-fork has cut off your head, not only is your head (still) in its place but your life is (still) prolonged.1730
این جهان را که بصورت قایمست ** گفت پیغامبر که حلم نایمست
If in dream you see yourself (cut) in two halves, you are sound in body when you rise, not sick.
از ره تقلید تو کردی قبول ** سالکان این دیده پیدا بی رسول
The sum (of the matter is this): in dreams it is no harm for the body to be maimed or to be torn into two hundred pieces.
روز در خوابی مگو کین خواب نیست ** سایه فرعست اصل جز مهتاب نیست
The Prophet said of this world, which is substantial in appearance, that it is the sleeper's dream.
خواب و بیداریت آن دان ای عضد ** که ببیند خفته کو در خواب شد
You have accepted this (statement) conventionally, (but) the travellers (on the mystic Way) have beheld this (truth) clairvoyantly, without (relation from) the Prophet.
او گمان برده که این دم خفته‌ام ** بی‌خبر زان کوست درخواب دوم
You are asleep in the daytime: do not say that this is not sleep. The shadow (reflexion) is derivative, the origin (of it) is naught but the moonlight.1735
هاون گردون اگر صد بارشان ** خرد کوبد اندرین گلزارشان