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  • That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?
  • آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشته‏ای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشته‏ای‏

  • Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is. 705
  • صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست‏

  • If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).
  • آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست‏

  • Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?
  • چون وفا آن عشق افزون می‏کند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون می‏کند

  • The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.
  • پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت‏

  • Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.
  • بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم‏

  • You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form, 710
  • ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش‏

  • That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.
  • پرتو عقل است آن بر حس تو ** عاریت میدان ذهب بر مس تو

  • Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?
  • چون زر اندود است خوبی در بشر ** ور نه چون شد شاهد تو پیر خر

  • She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.
  • چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد ** کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد

  • Little by little they take away that beauty: little by little the sapling withers.
  • اندک اندک می‏ستانند آن جمال ** اندک اندک خشک می‏گردد نهال‏

  • Go, recite (the text) to whom so We grant length of days, him We cause to decline. Seek the heart (spirit), set not thy heart on bones; 715
  • رو نعمره ننکسه بخوان ** دل طلب کن دل منه بر استخوان‏

  • For that beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its fortune gives to drink of the Water of Life.
  • کان جمال دل جمال باقی است ** دولتش از آب حیوان ساقی است‏

  • Truly it is both the water and the giver of drink and the drunken: all three become one when your talisman is shattered.
  • خود هم او آب است و هم ساقی و مست ** هر سه یک شد چون طلسم تو شکست‏

  • That oneness you cannot know by reasoning. Do service (to God) and refrain from foolish gabble, O undiscerning man!
  • آن یکی را تو ندانی از قیاس ** بندگی کن ژاژ کم خا ناشناس‏

  • Your reality is the form and that which is borrowed: you rejoice in what is relative and (secondary like) rhyme.
  • معنی تو صورت است و عاریت ** بر مناسب شادی و بر قافیت‏

  • Reality is that which seizes (enraptures) you and makes you independent of form. 720
  • معنی آن باشد که بستاند ترا ** بی‏نیاز از نقش گرداند ترا

  • Reality is not that which makes blind and deaf and causes a man to be more in love with form.
  • معنی آن نبود که کور و کر کند ** مرد را بر نقش عاشق‏تر کند

  • The portion of the blind is the fancy that increases pain; the share of the (spiritual) eye is these fancies (ideas) of dying to self (faná).
  • کور را قسمت خیال غم فزاست ** بهره‏ی چشم این خیالات فناست‏

  • The blind are a mine (full) of the letter of the Qur’án: they do not see the ass, and (only) cling to the pack-saddle.
  • حرف قرآن را ضریران معدن‏اند ** خر نبینند و به پالان بر زنند

  • Since you have sight, go after the ass which has jumped (away from you): how long (will you persist in) stitching the saddle, O saddle-worshipper?
  • چون تو بینایی پی خر رو که جست ** چند پالان دوزی ای پالان پرست‏

  • When the ass is there, the saddle will certainly be yours: bread does not fail when you have the (vital) spirit. 725
  • خر چو هست آید یقین پالان ترا ** کم نگردد نان چو باشد جان ترا

  • (On) the back of the ass is shop and wealth and gain; the pearl of your heart is the stock (which provides wealth) for a hundred bodies.
  • پشت خر دکان و مال و مکسب است ** در قلبت مایه‏ی صد قالب است‏

  • Mount the ass bare-backed, O busybody: did not the Prophet ride the ass bare-backed?
  • خر برهنه بر نشین ای بو الفضول ** خر برهنه نه که راکب شد رسول‏

  • The Prophet rode (his beast) bare-backed; and the Prophet, it is said, journeyed on foot.
  • النبی قد رکب معروریا ** و النبی قیل سافر ماشیا