There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”
صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).
گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,
چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him.685
که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ
Were there not a testing of every vicious person, every effeminate would be a Rustam in the fray.
گر نبودی امتحان هر بدی ** هر مخنث در وغا رستم بدی
Even suppose that the effeminate has put on a coat of mail: as soon as he feels the blow, he will become as a captive.
خود مخنث را زره پوشیده گیر ** چون ببیند زخم گردد چون اسیر
How will he that is intoxicated with God be restored to his senses by (the soft breath of) the west-wind? The God-intoxicated man will not come to himself till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
مست حق هشیار چون شد از دبور ** مست حق ناید به خود تا نفخ صور
The wine of God is true, not false: thou hast drunk buttermilk, thou hast drunk buttermilk, buttermilk, buttermilk!
بادهی حق راست باشد بی دروغ ** دوغ خوردی دوغ خوردی دوغ دوغ
Thou hast made thyself out to be a Junayd or a Báyazíd, (saying), “Begone, for I do not know a hatchet from a key.”690
ساختی خود را جنید و بایزید ** رو که نشناسم تبر را از کلید
How by means of hypocrisy, O contriver of fraud, wilt thou conceal depravity of nature and (spiritual) sloth and greed and concupiscence?
بدرگی و منبلی و حرص و آز ** چون کنی پنهان بشید ای مکرساز