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
Know, O comrade, that your sleep and waking (your life in this world) is as though a sleeper should dream that he has gone to sleep.
اصل این ترکیب را چون دیده‌اند ** از فروع وهم کم ترسیده‌اند
He thinks, “Now I am asleep,” (and is) unaware that he is (really) in the second sleep.
سایه‌ی خود را ز خود دانسته‌اند ** چابک و چست و گش و بر جسته‌اند
If the potter break a pot, he himself will restore it (to a perfect state) when he wishes.
کوزه‌گر گر کوزه‌ای را بشکند ** چون بخواهد باز خود قایم کند
The blind man at every step is afraid of (falling into) the pit: he walks on the road with a thousand fears;
کور را هر گام باشد ترس چاه ** با هزاران ترس می‌آید براه
(But) the seeing man has seen the width of the road, so he knows (all about) the hole and the pit;1740
مرد بینا دید عرض راه را ** پس بداند او مغاک و چاه را
His legs and knees do not tremble at any time: how should he look sour because of any affliction?
پا و زانواش نلرزد هر دمی ** رو ترش کی دارد او از هر غمی