This discourse hath no end. The party (of travellers) took their way to seek that castle.
این سخن پایان ندارد آن فریق ** بر گرفتند از پی آن دز طریق
They approached the tree of the forbidden fruit, they went forth from the file of the sincere.3700
بر درخت گندم منهی زدند ** از طویله‌ی مخلصان بیرون شدند
Since they were made more ardent by their father's prohibition and veto, they raised their heads (rebelliously) towards that fortress.
چون شدند از منع و نهیش گرم‌تر ** سوی آن قلعه بر آوردند سر
In spite of the orders of the elect King (they advanced) to the fortress which is the destroyer of self-restraint and the robber of rationality.
بر ستیز قول شاه مجتبی ** تا به قلعه‌ی صبرسوز هش‌ربا
Turning their backs on the (bright) day, they came in the dark night in defiance of counsel-bestowing Reason
آمدند از رغم عقل پندتوز ** در شب تاریک بر گشته ز روز
Into the beautiful fortress adorned with pictures, (which had) five gates to the sea and five to the land—
اندر آن قلعه‌ی خوش ذات الصور ** پنج در در بحر و پنجی سوی بر
Five of those (gates), like the (external) senses, facing towards colour and perfume (the material world); five of them, like the interior senses, seeking the (world of) mystery.3705
پنج از آن چون حس به سوی رنگ و بو ** پنج از آن چون حس باطن رازجو
By those thousands of pictures and designs and decorations they (the princes) were made mightily restless (so that they wandered) to and fro (in amazement).
زان هزاران صورت و نقش و نگار ** می‌شدند از سو به سو خوش بی‌قرار
Do not be intoxicated with these cups, which are (phenomenal) forms, lest thou become a carver of idols and an idolater.
زین قدح‌های صور کم‌باش مست ** تا نگردی بت‌تراش و بت‌پرست
Abandon the cups, namely, the (phenomenal) forms: do not tarry! There is wine in the cup, but it is not (derived) from the cup.
از قدح‌های صور بگذر مه‌ایست ** باده در جامست لیک از جام نیست