Your kinsfolk are catching onagers in the mountains: you are catching blind men in the streets.”
قوم تو در کوه می‌گیرند گور ** در میان کوی می‌گیری تو کور
O recalcitrant Shaykh, abandon this imposture: thou art (like) briny water, having gathered some blind men (around thee),
ترک این تزویر گو شیخ نفور ** آب شوری جمع کرده چند کور
(As though implicitly thou wert) saying, “These are my disciples, and I am (like) briny water: they drink of me and become blind.”1050
کین مریدان من و من آب شور ** می‌خورند از من همی گردند کور
Sweeten thy water with the esoteric Sea: do not make the foul water a snare for these blind ones.
آب خود شیرین کن از بحر لدن ** آب بد را دام این کوران مکن
Arise, behold the lions of God who catch the onager: how art thou, like a dog, catching the blind with a (display of) hypocrisy?
خیز شیران خدا بین گورگیر ** تو چو سگ چونی بزرقی کورگیر
What onager (do they catch)? They are far from hunting aught but the Beloved. They all are lions and lion-catchers and intoxicated with the Light (of God).
گور چه از صید غیر دوست دور ** جمله شیر و شیرگیر و مست نور
In contemplation of the chase and hunting of the King, they have abandoned the chase and have become dead in bewilderment.
در نظاره صید و صیادی شه ** کرده ترک صید و مرده در وله
The Friend has taken them, like a dead bird, that (by means of them) He may hunt down their congeners.1055
هم‌چو مرغ مرده‌شان بگرفته یار ** تا کند او جنس ایشان را شکار
The dead bird is compelled (deprived of volition) in respect of being united or separated: you have read (the Hadíth), “The heart is between two fingers (of the Merciful God).”
مرغ مرده مضطر اندر وصل و بین ** خوانده‌ای القلب بین اصبعین
Every one that has fallen a prey to His dead bird (will perceive), when he sees (the truth), (that) he has fallen a prey to the King.
مرغ مرده‌ش را هر آنک شد شکار ** چون ببیند شد شکار شهریار