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322-346

  • And another (goes) into a church to perform religious exercises, while another (betakes himself) to sowing in his greed (for gain).
  • وآن دگر بهر ترهب در کنشت  ** وآن یکی اندر حریصی سوی کشت 

  • Through phantasy that one becomes the waylayer (destroyer) of him who has escaped (unhurt); and through phantasy this (other) becomes the salve (deliverer) of him who has been (sorely) wounded.
  • از خیال آن ره‌زن رسته شده  ** وز خیال این مرهم خسته شده 

  • One loses his soul in the invocation of demons, while another sets his foot upon the stars.
  • در پری‌خوانی یکی دل کرده گم  ** بر نجوم آن دیگری بنهاده سم 

  • He (the observer) sees that these modes of action in the external world are diverse (since they arise) from the various phantasies within. 325
  • این روشها مختلف بیند برون  ** زان خیالات ملون ز اندرون 

  • This man (engaged in some occupation) is amazed at that man (occupied with something else) and says, “What is he about?” Every taster denies the other (whose taste is different).
  • این در آن حیران شده کان بر چیست  ** هر چشنده آن دگر را نافیست 

  • Unless those phantasies were incongruous, how did the modes of action become diverse externally?
  • آن خیالات ار نبد نامتلف  ** چون ز بیرون شد روشها مختلف 

  • Since the qibla (the true object) of the soul has been hidden, every one has turned his face to a (different) quarter.
  • قبله‌ی جان را چو پنهان کرده‌اند  ** هر کسی رو جانبی آورده‌اند 

  • Comparison of the different practices and the various aspirations (of mankind) to the disagreement of those who at prayer-time endeavour to find the qibla (direction of Mecca) when it is dark, and to the search of divers (for pearls) at the bottom of the sea.
  • تمثیل روشهای مختلف و همتهای گوناگون به اختلاف تحری متحریان در وقت نماز قبله را در وقت تاریکی و تحری غواصان در قعر بحر 

  • (They are) like folk trying to find (the direction of the Ka‘ba) and (each) turning in a certain direction which they fancy is the qibla:
  • هم‌چو قومی که تحری می‌کنند  ** بر خیال قبله سویی می‌تنند 

  • When at dawn the Ka‘ba appears, it is discovered who has lost the (right) way; 330
  • چونک کعبه رو نماید صبحگاه  ** کشف گردد که کی گم کردست راه 

  • Or like divers under the depth of the (sea)-water, every one (of whom) picks up something in haste:
  • یا چو غواصان به زیر قعر آب  ** هر کسی چیزی همی‌چیند شتاب 

  • In hope of (getting) precious jewels and pearls, they fill their bags with that and this;
  • بر امید گوهر و در ثمین  ** توبره پر می‌کنند از آن و این 

  • When they come up from the floor of the deep sea, the possessor of the great pearls is discovered,
  • چون بر آیند از تگ دریای ژرف  ** کشف گردد صاحب در شگرف 

  • And (also) the other who got the small pearls, and the other who got (only) pebbles and worthless shells.
  • وآن دگر که برد مروارید خرد  ** وآن دگر که سنگ‌ریزه و شبه برد 

  • Even thus in the Sáhira (place of Judgement) a shameful overwhelming tribulation will afflict them (the followers of phantasy). 335
  • هکذی یبلوهم بالساهره  ** فتنة ذات افتضاح قاهره 

  • Similarly, every class of people in the world are fluttering like moths round a candle.
  • هم‌چنین هر قوم چون پروانگان  ** گرد شمعی پرزنان اندر جهان 

  • They attach themselves to a fire and circle round their own candle
  • خویشتن بر آتشی برمی‌زنند  ** گرد شمع خود طوافی می‌کنند 

  • In the hope of (gaining) the blessed fire of Moses, by the flame whereof the tree is made more green (flourishing).
  • بر امید آتش موسی بخت  ** کز لهیبش سبزتر گردد درخت 

  • Every troop (of them) has heard of the excellence of that fire, and all imagine that any spark is that (same fire).
  • فضل آن آتش شنیده هر رمه  ** هر شرر را آن گمان برده همه 

  • When the Light of Everlastingness rises at dawn, each (candle) reveals what (manner of) candle it was. 340
  • چون برآید صبحدم نور خلود  ** وا نماید هر یکی چه شمع بود 

  • Whosoever's wings were burnt by the candle of victory, that goodly candle bestows on him eighty wings;
  • هر کرا پر سوخت زان شمع ظفر  ** بدهدش آن شمع خوش هشتاد پر 

  • (But) beneath the bad candle many a moth, whose eyes were sealed, is left (lying) with burnt wings,
  • جوق پروانه‌ی دو دیده دوخته  ** مانده زیر شمع بد پر سوخته 

  • Quivering in sorrow and anguish, lamenting the vain desire that seals the eyes.
  • می‌طپد اندر پشیمانی و سوز  ** می‌کند آه از هوای چشم‌دوز 

  • Its candle says (to it), “Since I am burnt, how should I deliver thee from burning (grief) and oppression?”
  • شمع او گوید که چون من سوختم  ** کی ترا برهانم از سوز و ستم 

  • Its candle weeps, saying, “My head is consumed: how should I make another resplendent?” 345
  • شمع او گریان که من سرسوخته  ** چون کنم مر غیر را افروخته 

  • [Explanation of “Alas for the servants (of God)!”]
  • تفسیر یا حسرة علی العباد 

  • It (the moth) says, “I was deceived by thy (outward) features and (too) late did I regard thy (inward) condition.”
  • او همی گوید که از اشکال تو  ** غره گشتم دیر دیدم حال تو