“Father,” said she, “how should I guard myself? Man and wife, beyond doubt, are (as) fire and cotton.
گفت بابا چون کنم پرهیز من ** آتش و پنبه‌ست بی‌شک مرد و زن
What means has the cotton of guarding itself from the fire, or when is there (any) carefulness and caution in the fire?”3730
پنبه را پرهیز از آتش کجاست ** یا در آتش کی حفاظست و تقاست
He replied, “I said, ‘noli te viro admovere, noli semen ejus recipere. [He replied, “I said, ‘don’t go to him (for sexual pleasure), don’t accept his sperm.]
گفت من گفتم که سوی او مرو ** تو پذیرای منی او مشو
Tempore summae voluptatis et emissionis et deliciarum te corpus ab eo retrahere oportet.’” [At the moment of ecstasy, (seminal) emission, and pleasure you must draw yourself away from him.’”]
در زمان حال و انزال و خوشی ** خویشتن باید که از وی در کشی
She said, “Quando sit ejus emissio quomodo intelligam? hoc enim occultum et valde difficile est.” [She said, “How may I know when his emission is? It is hidden and is very remote (difficult to predict).”]
گفت کی دانم که انزالش کیست ** این نهانست و بغایت دوردست
He replied, “Cum res eo redierit ut oculi ejus volvantur, intellige id esse tempus emissionis.” [He replied, “When his eyes start to roll (and show whiteness), know that it is the moment of his emission.”]
گفت چشمش چون کلاپیسه شود ** فهم کن که آن وقت انزالش بود
She said, “Eo usque donec oculi ejus volvantur, hi mei oculi caeci occaecati sunt.” [She said, “Up to (when) his eyes start to roll, these two blind eyes of mine have been blinded (by passion).” ]3735
گفت تا چشمش کلاپیسه شدن ** کور گشتست این دو چشم کور من
Not every despicable understanding remains steadfast in the hour of desire and anger and combat.
نیست هر عقلی حقیری پایدار ** وقت حرص و وقت خشم و کارزار
Description of the pusillanimity and weakness of the Súfí who has been brought up in ease and has never struggled with himself or experienced the pain and searing anguish of (Divine) love, and has been deluded by the homage and hand-kissing of the vulgar and their gazing on him with veneration and pointing at him with their fingers and saying, “He is the (most famous) Súfí in the world to-day”; and has been made sick by vain imagination, like the teacher who was told by the children that he was ill. In the conceit of being a (spiritual) warrior and regarded as a hero in this (spiritual) Way, he goes on campaign with the soldiers engaged in the war against the infidels. “I will show my valour outwardly too,” says he; “I am unparalleled in the Greater Warfare: what difficulty, forsooth, should the Lesser Warfare present to me?” He has beheld the phantasm of a lion and performed (imaginary) feats of bravery and become intoxicated with this bravery and has set out for the jungle to seek the lion. (But) the lion says with mute eloquence, “Nay, ye will see! and again, nay, ye will see!”
وصف ضعیف دلی و سستی صوفی سایه پرورد مجاهده ناکرده درد و داغ عشق ناچشیده به سجده و دست‌بوس عام و به حرمت نظر کردن و بانگشت نمودن ایشان کی امروز در زمانه صوفی اوست غره شده و بوهم بیمار شده هم‌چون آن معلم کی کودکان گفتند کی رنجوری و با این وهم کی من مجاهدم مرا درین ره پهلوان می‌دانند با غازیان به غزا رفته کی به ظاهر نیز هنر بنمایم در جهاد اکبر مستثناام جهاد اصغر خود پیش من چه محل دارد خیال شیر دیده و دلیریها کرده و مست این دلیری شده و روی به بیشه نهاده به قصد شیر و شیر به زبان حال گفته کی کلا سوف تعلمون ثم کلا سوف تعلمون
A Súfí went with the army to fight the infidels: suddenly came the clangours and din of war.
رفت یک صوفی به لشکر در غزا ** ناگهان آمد قطاریق و وغا
The Súfí stayed behind with the baggage-train and tents and invalids, (while) the horsemen rode into the line of battle.
ماند صوفی با بنه و خیمه و ضعاف ** فارسان راندند تا صف مصاف