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  • When the Caliph saw her he became distraught (with love), and then too his secret was exposed to all.
  • چون ندید او را خلیفه مست گشت  ** پس ز بام افتاد او را نیز طشت 

  • He saw (her to be) a hundred times as beautiful as he (the informer) had described her: how in sooth should seeing be like hearing? 3905
  • دید صد چندان که وصفش کرده بود  ** کی بود خود دیده مانند شنود 

  • Description is a picture (drawn) for the eye of intelligence: know that the (sensible) form belongs to the eye, not to the ear.
  • وصف تصویرست بهر چشم هوش  ** صورت آن چشم دان نه زان گوش 

  • A certain man asked an eloquent person, “What are truth and falsehood, O man of goodly discourse?”
  • کرد مردی از سخن‌دانی سال  ** حق و باطل چیست ای نیکو مقال 

  • He took hold of his ear and said, “This is false: the eye is true and possesses certainty.”
  • گوش را بگرفت و گفت این باطلست  ** چشم حقست و یقینش حاصلست 

  • The former is relatively false as compared with the latter: most sayings are relative, O trusty one.
  • آن به نسبت باطل آمد پیش این  ** نسبتست اغلب سخنها ای امین 

  • If the bat screens itself from the sun, (yet) it is not screened from the fancy (idea) of the sun. 3910
  • ز آفتاب ار کرد خفاش احتجاب  ** نیست محجوب از خیال آفتاب 

  • Even the fancy (idea) of it (the sun) puts fear into it (the bat): that fancy leads it towards the darkness.
  • خوف او را خود خیالش می‌دهد  ** آن خیالش سوی ظلمت می‌کشد 

  • That fancy (idea) of the light terrifies it and causes it to become attached to the night of gloom.
  • آن خیال نور می‌ترساندش  ** بر شب ظلمات می‌چفساندش 

  • ’Tis from the fancy (idea) and the picture (thou hast formed) of thy enemy that thou hast become attached to thy comrade and friend.
  • از خیال دشمن و تصویر اوست  ** که تو بر چفسیده‌ای بر یار و دوست 

  • O Moses, the revelation given to thee illumined the mountain, (but) the fancy conceiving (mountain) could not endure thy real experience (of the revelation).
  • موسیا کشفت لمع بر که فراشت  ** آن مخیل تاب تحقیقت نداشت 

  • Hark, be not deluded by (the belief) that thou art able to conceive the fancy (idea) thereof and by this means canst attain (to the reality). 3915
  • هین مشو غره بدانک قابلی  ** مر خیالش را و زین ره واصلی 

  • No one was ever terrified by the (mere) fancy (idea) of war: there is no bravery before (actual) war. Know this, and ’tis enough.
  • از خیال حرب نهراسید کس  ** لا شجاعه قبل حرب این دان و بس 

  • (Possessed) with the fancy (idea) of war, the poltroon makes, in his thoughts, a hundred heroic attacks (on the enemy).
  • بر خیال حرب خیز اندر فکر  ** می‌کند چون رستمان صد کر و فر 

  • The antagonist (conceived) in the mind of every raw (weakling) is the picture of Rustam that may be (found) in a bath-house.
  • نقش رستم که آن به حمامی بود  ** قرن حمله فکر هر خامی بود 

  • When this fancy (idea) derived from hearing becomes (actually) visible, what of the poltroon? (Even) a Rustam (hero) is compelled (to submit).
  • این خیال سمع چون مبصر شود  ** حیز چه بود رستمی مضطر شود 

  • Endeavour that it (the fancy) may pass from thine ear into thine eye, and that what has (hitherto) been unreal may become real. 3920
  • جهد کن کز گوش در چشمت رود  ** آنچ که آن باطل بدست آن حق شود 

  • After that, thine ear will become connatural with thine eye: the two ears, (gross) as wool, will become of pure substance (and subtle);
  • زان سپس گوشت شود هم طبع چشم  ** گوهری گردد دو گوش هم‌چو یشم 

  • Nay, thy whole body will become like a mirror: it will become all eye and pure spiritual substance.
  • بلک جمله تن چو آیینه شود  ** جمله چشم و گوهر سینه شود 

  • The ear rouses a fancy, and that fancy is the go-between (that leads) to union with that Beauty.
  • گوش انگیزد خیال و آن خیال  ** هست دلاله‌ی وصال آن جمال 

  • Endeavour that this fancy may increase, so that the go-between may become a guide for Majnún.
  • جهد کن تا این خیال افزون شود  ** تا دلاله رهبر مجنون شود 

  • That foolish Caliph, too, was mightily infatuated for awhile with that girl. 3925
  • آن خلیفه گول هم یک چند نیز  ** ریش گاوی کرد خوش با آن کنیز 

  • Suppose the (monarch's) empire is the empire of the West and the East: since it will not remain, deem it to be (as fleeting as) a lightning-flash.
  • ملک را تو ملک غرب و شرق گیر  ** چون نمی‌ماند تو آن را برق گیر 

  • O thou whose heart is slumbering (heedless), know that the kingdom that does not remain unto everlasting is (but) a dream.
  • مملکت کان می‌نماند جاودان  ** ای دلت خفته تو آن را خواب دان 

  • Consider what thou wilt do with (all) that vanity and vainglory; for (ultimately) it will grip thy throat like an executioner.
  • تا چه خواهی کرد آن باد و بروت  ** که بگیرد هم‌چو جلادی گلوت