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  • The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because they have no weight (ballast) of (intellectual) faculties. 4310
  • مر سفیهان را رباید هر هوا ** زانک نبودشان گرانی قوی

  • The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he finds no precaution (means of defence) against the perverse (contrary) wind.
  • کشتی بی‌لنگر آمد مرد شر ** که ز باد کژ نیابد او حذر

  • To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.
  • لنگر عقلست عاقل را امان ** لنگری در یوزه کن از عاقلان

  • Since he (the Sage) has borne away the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl-treasury of that Sea of Bounty,
  • او مددهای خرد چون در ربود ** از خزینه در آن دریای جود

  • By such succours (replenishments) the heart is filled with knowledge: it (that knowledge) shoots from the heart, and the eye too becomes illuminated,
  • زین چنین امداد دل پر فن شود ** بجهد از دل چشم هم روشن شود

  • Because the light from the heart has settled upon this eye so that your eye, having become the heart, is (physically) inactive. 4315
  • زانک نور از دل برین دیده نشست ** تا چو دل شد دیده‌ی تو عاطلست

  • When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.
  • دل چو بر انوار عقلی نیز زد ** زان نصیبی هم بدو دیده دهد

  • Know, then, that the blessed Water from Heaven is the inspiration of (men's) hearts and the true explanation (of every mystery).
  • پس بدان کاب مبارک ز آسمان ** وحی دلها باشد و صدق بیان

  • Let us also, like that foal, drink the water of the stream; let us pay no regard to the evil suggestions of the railer.
  • ما چو آن کره هم آب جو خوریم ** سوی آن وسواس طاعن ننگریم

  • (If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.
  • پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر

  • When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs? 4320
  • آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند

  • The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.
  • بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش

  • Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.
  • باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد

  • He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?
  • خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو

  • Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.
  • خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی

  • At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”
  • نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید

  • Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal. 4325
  • پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت

  • Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”
  • تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک

  • When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,
  • تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد

  • “Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.
  • که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی

  • You will become destitute, you will be cut off from friends, you will be despised, you will feel sorry.”
  • بی‌نوا گردی ز یاران وابری ** خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری

  • From fear of the outcry of that accursed Devil you flee away from certain truth into error,
  • تو ز بیم بانگ آن دیو لعین ** وا گریزی در ضلالت از یقین

  • Saying, “Ho, to-morrow is mine and after to-morrow: I will run in the Way of religion, I have (plenty of) time.” 4330
  • که هلا فردا و پس فردا مراست ** راه دین پویم که مهلت پیش ماست

  • Then again you see Death killing your neighbours on left and right, so that the cry (of lamentation) is raised.
  • مرگ بینی باز کو از چپ و راست ** می‌کشد همسایه را تا بانگ خاست

  • Now, in fear of (your) life, you resolve to be religious: for a while, you make yourself a (true) man;
  • باز عزم دین کنی از بیم جان ** مرد سازی خویشتن را یک زمان

  • So you put on the armour of knowledge and wisdom, saying, “I will not shrink from any danger.”
  • پس سلح بر بندی از علم و حکم ** که من از خوفی نیارم پای کم

  • Again he (the Devil) deceitfully cries out at you—“Be afraid and turn away from the sword of poverty!”
  • باز بانگی بر زند بر تو ز مکر ** که بترس و باز گرد از تیغ فقر