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  • All this is your imagination, O simpleton, for I bear no malice and rancour against you.
  • این همه وهم توست ای ساده‌دل  ** ورنه بر تو نه غشی دارم نه غل 

  • Do not regard me from (the standpoint of) your evil fancy: wherefore do you cherish ill thoughts against your lovers?
  • از خیال زشت خود منگر به من  ** بر محبان از چه داری س ظن 

  • Think well of the sincere, even though unkindness come from them in appearance.
  • ظن نیکو بر بر اخوان صفا  ** گرچه آید ظاهرا زیشان جفا 

  • When this evil fancy and imagination is manifested, it severs a hundred thousand friends from one another.
  • این خیال و وهم بد چون شد پدید  ** صد هزاران یار را از هم برید 

  • If an affectionate (friend) has behaved unjustly and made a trial (of one's loyalty), understanding is needed to prevent one from thinking ill (of him). 2645
  • مشفقی گر کرد جور و امتحان  ** عقل باید که نباشد بدگمان 

  • In particular, I, who have a bad name, was not evil-natured (in regard to you): what you saw was nothing evil, it was (only) a magic spell;
  • خصاه من بدرگ نبودم زشت‌اسم  ** آنک دیدی بد نبد بود آن طلسم 

  • And if, hypothetically, that purpose (of mine) had been evil, (still) friends pardon such a fault.”
  • ور بدی بد آن سگالش قدرا  ** عفو فرمایند یاران زان خطا 

  • The world of imagination and the phantom of hope and fear is a great obstacle to the traveller (on the mystic Way).
  • عالم وهم و خیال طمع و بیم  ** هست ره‌رو را یکی سدی عظیم 

  • The pictures (illusions) of this picture-making phantasy were harmful (even) to one like Khalíl (Abraham), who was (firm as) a mountain.
  • نقشهای این خیال نقش‌بند  ** چون خلیلی را که که بد شد گزند 

  • The noble Abraham said, “This is my Lord,” when he fell into the world (fell under the sway) of imagination. 2650
  • گفت هذا ربی ابراهیم راد  ** چونک اندر عالم وهم اوفتاد 

  • That person who bored the pearl of interpretation, interpreted the mention of the star thus—
  • ذکر کوکب را چنین تاویل گفت  ** آن کسی که گوهر تاویل سفت 

  • (That) the world of imagination and blinding phantasy uprooted such a mountain (of wisdom) from its foundation,
  • عالم وهم و خیال چشم‌بند  ** آنچنان که را ز جای خویش کند 

  • So that the words, “This is my Lord,” were uttered by him: what, (then), must be the case with a goose or an ass?
  • تا که هذا ربی آمد قال او  ** خربط و خر را چه باشد حال او 

  • Understandings (strong) as mountains have been submerged in the seas of imagination and the whirlpools of phantasy.
  • غرق گشته عقلهای چون جبال  ** در بحار وهم و گرداب خیال 

  • Mountains are put to shame by this Flood: where is any safety (to be found) but in the Ship (Ark) of Noah? 2655
  • کوهها را هست زین طوفان فضوح  ** کو امانی جز که در کشتی نوح 

  • By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.
  • زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین  ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین 

  • The man of sure faith is delivered from imagination and phantasy: he does not call a hair of the eyebrow the new moon,
  • مرد ایقان رست از وهم و خیال  ** موی ابرو را نمی‌گوید هلال 

  • While he that has not the (spiritual) light of ‘Umar as his support is waylaid (deceived) by a crooked hair of the eyebrow.
  • وآنک نور عمرش نبود سند  ** موی ابروی کژی راهش زند 

  • A hundred thousand awful and terrible ships have been shattered to pieces in the sea of imagination.
  • صد هزاران کشتی با هول و سهم  ** تخته تخته گشته در دریای وهم 

  • The least (of them is) the energetic and ingenious Pharaoh: his moon was eclipsed in the mansion of imagination. 2660
  • کمترین فرعون چست فیلسوف  ** ماه او در برج وهمی در خسوف 

  • Nobody knows who is the cuckold, and he that knows has no doubt concerning himself.
  • کس نداند روسپی‌زن کیست آن  ** وانک داند نیستش بر خود گمان 

  • Since thine own imagination keeps thee giddy-headed, wherefore shouldst thou revolve round the imagination of another?
  • چون ترا وهم تو دارد خیره‌سر  ** از چه گردی گرد وهم آن دگر 

  • I am helpless against my own egoism: why hast thou, full of egoism, sat down beside me?
  • عاجزم من از منی خویشتن  ** چه نشستی پر منی تو پیش من 

  • I am seeking with (all) my soul one who is free from egoism, that I may become the ball of that goodly bat.
  • بی‌من و مایی همی‌جویم به جان  ** تا شوم من گوی آن خوش صولجان 

  • In sooth any one who has become without ego is all egos: when he is not loved by himself he becomes loved by (them) all. 2665
  • هر که بی‌من شد همه من‌ها خود اوست  ** دوست جمله شد چو خود را نیست دوست