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
Open thy mouth wide to the Giver of the wine: when the wine comes, the cup will not be lacking.
سوی باده‌بخش بگشا پهن فم ** چون رسد باده نیاید جام کم
(God said), “O Adam, seek My heart-enthralling Reality: take leave of the husk and (outward) form of the (forbidden) wheat.”3710
آدما معنی دلبندم بجوی ** ترک قشر و صورت گندم بگوی
Since sand was turned into flour for the Friend (Abraham), know that the wheat is deposed from its office, O noble one.
چونک ریگی آرد شد بهر خلیل ** دانک معزولست گندم ای نبیل
Form is brought into existence by the Formless, just as smoke is produced by a fire.
صورت از بی‌صورت آید در وجود ** هم‌چنانک از آتشی زادست دود