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5
1121-1130

  • The people (were) gathered round him (thick) as ants and locusts, crying, “What deceit and imposture and trap is (this)?
  • خلق بر وی جمع چون مور و ملخ  ** که چه مکرست و چه تزویر و چه فخ 
  • If he that comes from (the realm of) non-existence is a prophet, we all are prophets and grand (in spiritual eminence).
  • گر رسول آنست که آید از عدم  ** ما همه پیغامبریم و محتشم 
  • We (too) came hither as strangers from that place (realm): why shouldst thou be specially endowed (with prophecy), O accomplished one?”
  • ما از آنجا آمدیم اینجا غریب  ** تو چرا مخصوص باشی ای ادیب 
  • (He replied), “Did not ye come like a sleeping child? Ye were ignorant of the way and the destination.
  • نه شما چون طفل خفته آمدیت  ** بی‌خبر از راه وز منزل بدیت 
  • Ye passed through the (different) stages asleep and intoxicated, unconscious of the way and (its) ups and downs; 1125
  • از منازل خفته بگذشتید و مست  ** بی‌خبر از راه و از بالا و پست 
  • (But) we (prophets) set out in wakefulness and well (aware) from beyond the five (senses) and the six (directions) to (this world of) the five and six,
  • ما به بیداری روان گشتیم و خوش  ** از ورای پنج و شش تا پنج و شش 
  • Having perceived (all) the stages from the source and foundation, possessed of experience and knowing the way like (skilled) guides.”
  • دیده منزلها ز اصل و از اساس  ** چون قلاووز آن خبیر و ره‌شناس 
  • They said to the king, “Put him to the rack, that a person of his sort may never (again) speak such words.”
  • شاه را گفتند اشکنجه‌ش بکن  ** تا نگوید جنس او هیچ این سخن 
  • The king saw that he was very thin and infirm, so that such an emaciated man would die at a single blow.
  • شاه دیدش بس نزار و بس ضعیف  ** که به یک سیلی بمیرد آن نحیف 
  • (He thought to himself), “How is it possible to torture or beat him, since his body has become as (fragile as) a glass? 1130
  • کی توان او را فشردن یا زدن  ** که چو شیشه گشته است او را بدن