The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.
نقل آمد عقل او آواره شد ** صبح آمد شمع او بیچاره شد
Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner.2110
عقل چون شحنهست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنهی بیچاره در کنجی خزید
Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?
عقل سایهی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب
When a genie prevails over (gains possession of) a man, the attributes of humanity disappear from the man.
چون پری غالب شود بر آدمی ** گم شود از مرد وصف مردمی
Whatsoever he says, that genie will (really) have said it: the one who belongs to this side will have spoken from (the control of) the one who belongs to yonder side.
هر چه گوید آن پری گفته بود ** زین سری زان آن سری گفته بود
Since a genie hath this influence and rule, how (much more powerful) indeed must be the Creator of that genie!
چون پری را این دم و قانون بود ** کردگار آن پری خود چون بود
His (the possessed man's) “he” (personality) is gone: he has in sooth become the genie: the Turk, without (receiving) Divine inspiration, has become a speaker of Arabic.2115
اوی او رفته پری خود او شده ** ترک بیالهام تازیگو شده
When he comes to himself, he does not know a word (of Arabic). Inasmuch as a genie hath this essence and quality,
چون به خود آید نداند یک لغت ** چون پری را هست این ذات و صفت
Then how, pray, should the Lord of genie and man have inferiority to the genie?
پس خداوند پری و آدمی ** از پری کی باشدش آخر کمی
If a pot-valiant fellow has drunk the blood of a fierce lion, you will say that the wine did it, not he;
شیرگیر ار خون نره شیر خورد ** تو بگویی او نکرد آن باده کرد