The sleeper's garment drinks water from the river, (while) the sleeper is seeking the mirage in his dream.3305
جامهی خفته خورد از جوی آب ** خفته اندر خواب جویای سراب
He keeps running (to and fro), saying, “Yonder there is hope of water”: by this (false) thought he has barred the way against himself.
میرود که آنجای بوی آب هست ** زین تفکر راه را بر خویش بست
Because he said “yonder” he became far from here (from the place where the water is): (through resting) in a vain imagination he was banished from a reality.
زانک آنجا گفت زینجا دور شد ** بر خیالی از حقی مهجور شد
They (the worldly) are far-seeing (for their selfish ends) and very fast asleep spiritually: take some mercy upon them, O travellers on the Way!
دوربینانند و بس خفتهروان ** رحمتی آریدشان ای رهروان
I never saw thirst (eager desire) induce sleep: (only) the thirst of the unintelligent induces sleep.
من ندیدم تشنگی خواب آورد ** خواب آرد تشنگی بیخرد
The (true) intelligence, indeed, is that which was fed by God, not the intelligence that was bestowed by (the planet) Mercury.3310
خود خرد آنست کو از حق چرید ** نه خرد کان را عطارد آورید
Explaining that the particular (discursive) intellect does not see beyond the grave and, as regards all the rest, is subject to the authority of the saints and prophets.
بیان آنک عقل جزوی تا بگور بیش نبیند در باقی مقلد اولیا و انبیاست
The foresight of this intellect extends (only) to the grave, while that of the spiritual man is till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
پیشبینی این خرد تا گور بود ** وآن صاحب دل به نفخ صور بود
This intellect does not pass beyond a grave and sepulchre, and this (intellectual) foot does not tread the arena of marvels.
این خرد از گور و خاکی نگذرد ** وین قدم عرصهی عجایب نسپرد
Go, become quit of this foot and this intellect: seek the eye appertaining to the invisible (the inward eye) and enjoy (contemplation).
زین قدم وین عقل رو بیزار شو ** چشم غیبی جوی و برخوردار شو
How should one subservient to a preceptor and in pupilage to a book find, like Moses, light from (his own) bosom?
همچو موسی نور کی یابد ز جیب ** سخرهی استاد و شاگردان کتاب