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  • Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.
  • زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته

  • Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others. 2680
  • هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم

  • Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,
  • از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد

  • And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.
  • مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون

  • God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.
  • جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد

  • He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.
  • خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش

  • God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds. 2685
  • خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند

  • He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.
  • کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی

  • He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.
  • صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او

  • For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.
  • هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را

  • For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.
  • هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را

  • Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction. 2690
  • خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش

  • Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.
  • هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو

  • Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;
  • این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها

  • For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.
  • زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در

  • O connoisseur of wine, beware, taste with precaution, that thou mayst find a wine free from adulteration.
  • می‌شناسا هین بچش با احتیاط ** تا میی یابی منزه ز اختلاط

  • Both (jars) will intoxicate thee, but this (blessed) intoxication, drawing (thee along), will lead thee to the Lord of the Judgement, 2695
  • هر دو مستی می‌دهندت لیک این ** مستی‌ات آرد کشان تا رب دین

  • So that thou wilt be delivered from thought and anxiety and expedients, (whilst) this intellect (moves) unshackled at the camel's ambling pace.
  • تا رهی از فکر و وسواس و حیل ** بی عقال این عقل در رقص‌الجمل

  • Since the prophets are homogeneous with spirit and angel, they drew angels from heaven.
  • انبیا چون جنس روحند و ملک ** مر ملک را جذب کردند از فلک

  • Wind (air) is the congener and friend of fire, for the tendency of both is upward.
  • باد جنس آتش است و یار او ** که بود آهنگ هر دو بر علو

  • When you stop the mouth of an empty pot and put it in a tank or river,
  • چون ببندی تو سر کوزه‌ی تهی ** در میان حوض یا جویی نهی

  • It will not sink till the Resurrection, for its heart (interior) is void and there is (nothing but) wind (air) in it. 2700
  • تا قیامت آن فرو ناید به پست ** که دلش خالیست و در وی باد هست

  • Since the desire of the wind (confined) in it is (to move) upward, it draws upward also the vessel containing it.
  • میل بادش چون سوی بالا بود ** ظرف خود را هم سوی بالا کشد

  • Again, the spirits that are homogeneous with the prophets are moving gradually, like shadows, towards them,
  • باز آن جانها که جنس انبیاست ** سوی‌ایشان کش کشان چون سایه‌هاست

  • Because its (such a spirit's) intelligence is predominant; and beyond doubt the intelligence is homogeneous in nature with the angel;
  • زانک عقلش غالبست و بی ز شک ** عقل جنس آمد به خلقت با ملک