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
And if he fashion words of old (pure) gold, you will say that the wine has spoken those words.
ور سخن پردازد از زر کهن ** تو بگویی باده گفتست آن سخن
A wine hath this (power to excite) disturbance and commotion: hath not the Light of God that virtue and potency2120
باده‌ای را می‌بود این شر و شور ** نور حق را نیست آن فرهنگ و زور
To make you entirely empty of self, (so that) you should be laid low and He should make the Word lofty (within you)?
که ترا از تو به کل خالی کند ** تو شوی پست او سخن عالی کند
Though the Qur’án is (dictated) from the lips of the Prophet —if any one says God did not speak it, he is an infidel.
گر چه قرآن از لب پیغامبرست ** هر که گوید حق نگفت او کافرست
When the humá of selflessness took wing (and soared), Báyazíd began (to repeat) those words.
چون همای بی‌خودی پرواز کرد ** آن سخن را بایزید آغاز کرد
The flood of bewilderment swept away his reason: he spoke more strongly than he had spoken at first,
عقل را سیل تحیر در ربود ** زان قوی‌تر گفت که اول گفته بود