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  • We have lightly esteemed the King's word and those incomparable favours.
  • سهل دانستیم قول شاه را  ** وان عنایت‌های بی اشباه را 

  • Lo, we all are fallen into the moat, killed and wounded by affliction without combat. 3780
  • نک در افتادیم در خندق همه  ** کشته و خسته‌ی بلا بی ملحمه 

  • We relied on our own intelligence and wisdom, so that this tribulation has come to pass.
  • تکیه بر عقل خود و فرهنگ خویش  ** بودمان تا این بلا آمد به پیش 

  • We regarded ourselves as being without disease and emancipated (from fear of death), just as one suffering from phthisis regards himself.
  • بی‌مرض دیدیم خویش و بی ز رق  ** آنچنان که خویش را بیمار دق 

  • Now, after we have been made prisoners and a prey, the hidden malady has become apparent.”
  • علت پنهان کنون شد آشکار  ** بعد از آنک بند گشتیم و شکار 

  • The shadow (protection) of the (spiritual) Guide is better than praising God (by one's self): a single (feeling of) contentment is better than a hundred viands and trays (of food).
  • سایه‌ی رهبر بهست از ذکر حق  ** یک قناعت به که صد لوت و طبق 

  • A seeing eye is better than three hundred (blind men's) staves: the eye knows (can distinguish) pearls from pebbles. 3785
  • چشم بینا بهتر از سیصد عصا  ** چشم بشناسد گهر را از حصا 

  • (Moved) by sorrows (pains of love) they began to make inquiry, saying, “Who in the world, we wonder, is she of whom this is the portrait?”
  • در تفحص آمدند از اندهان  ** صورت کی بود عجب این در جهان 

  • After much inquiry in (the course of their) travel, a Shaykh endowed with insight disclosed the mystery,
  • بعد بسیاری تفحص در مسیر  ** کشف کرد آن راز را شیخی بصیر 

  • Not (verbally) by way of the ear, but (silently) by inspiration (derived) from Reason: to him (all) mysteries were unveiled.
  • نه از طریق گوش بل از وحی هوش  ** رازها بد پیش او بی روی‌پوش