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1373-1382

  • Since your hope is (in) non-existence, why (this) avoidance of it? Why (this) strife with what is congenial to your desire?
  • چون امیدت لاست زو پرهیز چیست  ** با انیس طمع خود استیز چیست 
  • Since that non-existence is congenial to your desire, why this avoidance of nonentity and non-existence?
  • چون انیس طمع تو آن نیستیست  ** از فنا و نیست این پرهیز چیست 
  • O (dear) soul, if you are not inwardly congenial to non-existence, why are you waiting in ambush for non-existence? 1375
  • گر انیس لا نه‌ای ای جان به سر  ** در کمین لا چرایی منتظر 
  • You have torn your heart away from all that you own, you have cast the net of your heart into the sea of non-existence.
  • زانک داری جمله دل برکنده‌ای  ** شست دل در بحر لا افکنده‌ای 
  • Wherefore, then, (this) flight from this sea of (heart's) desire that has put hundreds of thousands of prey into your net?
  • پس گریز از چیست زین بحر مراد  ** که بشستت صد هزاران صید داد 
  • Wherefore have you given the name “death” to (what is really) provision (for the spirit)? Observe the sorcery that has caused the provision (barg) to seem to you death (marg).
  • از چه نام برگ را کردی تو مرگ  ** جادوی بین که نمودت مرگ برگ 
  • The magic of His (God's) doing has bound both your eyes, so that desire for the (worldly) pit has come over your soul.
  • هر دو چشمت بست سحر صنعتش  ** تا که جان را در چه آمد رغبتش 
  • Through the contrivance of the Creator, in its (your soul's) fancy all the expanse above the pit is (full of) poison and snakes; 1380
  • در خیال او ز مکر کردگار  ** جمله صحرا فوق چه زهرست و مار 
  • Consequently it has made the pit a refuge (for itself), so that (fear of) death has cast it into the pit.
  • لاجرم چه را پناهی ساختست  ** تا که مرگ او را به چاه انداختست 
  • (Having heard) what I have said concerning your misapprehensions, O dear friend, hear also the utterance of ‘Attár on this same (subject).
  • اینچ گفتم از غلطهات ای عزیز  ** هم برین بشنو دم عطار نیز 
  • Story of Sultan Mahmúd and the Hindú boy.
  • قصه‌ی سلطان محمود و غلام هندو