- And if, hypothetically, that purpose (of mine) had been evil, (still) friends pardon such a fault.”
- ور بدی بد آن سگالش قدرا ** عفو فرمایند یاران زان خطا
- The world of imagination and the phantom of hope and fear is a great obstacle to the traveller (on the mystic Way).
- عالم وهم و خیال طمع و بیم ** هست ره‌رو را یکی سدی عظیم
- The pictures (illusions) of this picture-making phantasy were harmful (even) to one like Khalíl (Abraham), who was (firm as) a mountain.
- نقشهای این خیال نقش‌بند ** چون خلیلی را که که بد شد گزند
- The noble Abraham said, “This is my Lord,” when he fell into the world (fell under the sway) of imagination. 2650
- گفت هذا ربی ابراهیم راد ** چونک اندر عالم وهم اوفتاد
- That person who bored the pearl of interpretation, interpreted the mention of the star thus—
- ذکر کوکب را چنین تاویل گفت ** آن کسی که گوهر تاویل سفت
- (That) the world of imagination and blinding phantasy uprooted such a mountain (of wisdom) from its foundation,
- عالم وهم و خیال چشم‌بند ** آنچنان که را ز جای خویش کند
- So that the words, “This is my Lord,” were uttered by him: what, (then), must be the case with a goose or an ass?
- تا که هذا ربی آمد قال او ** خربط و خر را چه باشد حال او
- Understandings (strong) as mountains have been submerged in the seas of imagination and the whirlpools of phantasy.
- غرق گشته عقلهای چون جبال ** در بحار وهم و گرداب خیال
- Mountains are put to shame by this Flood: where is any safety (to be found) but in the Ship (Ark) of Noah? 2655
- کوهها را هست زین طوفان فضوح ** کو امانی جز که در کشتی نوح
- By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.
- زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین