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2213-2237

  • (For example), a drunken boor strikes a blind man with his fist: the blind man thinks it is a kicking camel,
  • مشت بر اعمی زند یک جلف مست  ** کور پندارد لگدزن اشترست 

  • Because at that moment he heard a camel's cry: the ear, not the eye, is the mirror for the blind.
  • زانک آن دم بانگ اشتر می‌شنید  ** کور را گوشست آیینه نه دید 

  • (But) then again the blind man says, “No, it was a stone (which some one threw at me), or perhaps it was (a brick) from an echoing dome.” 2215
  • باز گوید کور نه این سنگ بود  ** یا مگر از قبه‌ی پر طنگ بود 

  • It was neither this nor that nor that: He who created fear produced these (phantasies).
  • این نبود و او نبود و آن نبود  ** آنک او ترس آفرید اینها نمود 

  • Certainly fear and trembling are (produced) by another: nobody is frightened by himself, O sorrowful man.
  • ترس و لرزه باشد از غیری یقین  ** هیچ کس از خود نترسد ای حزین 

  • The miserable philosopher calls fear “imagination” (wahm): he has wrongly understood this lesson.
  • آن حکیمک وهم خواند ترس را  ** فهم کژ کردست او این درس را 

  • How should there be any imagination without reality? How should any false coin pass (into circulation) without a genuine one?
  • هیچ وهمی بی‌حقیقت کی بود  ** هیچ قلبی بی‌صحیحی کی رود 

  • How should a lie fetch a price (have value) without truth? Every lie in both worlds has arisen from truth. 2220
  • کی دروغی قیمت آرد بی ز راست  ** در دو عالم هر دروغ از راست خاست 

  • He (the liar) saw the currency and prestige enjoyed by truth: he set going (circulated) the lie in hope of (its enjoying) the same.
  • راست را دید او رواجی و فروغ  ** بر امید آن روان کرد او دروغ 

  • O (incarnate) lie, whose fortune is (derived) from veracity, give thanks for the bounty and do not deny the truth!
  • ای دروغی که ز صدقت این نواست  ** شکر نعمت گو مکن انکار راست 

  • Shall I speak of the philosopher and his mad fancy, or of His (God's) ships (arks) and seas (floods)?
  • از مفلسف گویم و سودای او  ** یا ز کشتیها و دریاهای او 

  • Nay, (I will speak) of His arks, which are the spiritual counsel (given by the saints); I will speak of the whole: the part is included in the whole.
  • بل ز کشتیهاش کان پند دلست  ** گویم از کل جزو در کل داخلست 

  • Know every saint to be a Noah and captain of the Ark; know companionship with these (worldly) people to be the Flood. 2225
  • هر ولی را نوح و کشتیبان شناس  ** صحبت این خلق را طوفان شناس 

  • Do not flee from lions and fierce dragons, (but) beware of friends and kinsmen.
  • کم گریز از شیر و اژدرهای نر  ** ز آشنایان و ز خویشان کن حذر 

  • They waste your time (when you are) face to face (with them), and your recollections of them devour (the time of) your absence (from them).
  • در تلاقی روزگارت می‌برند  ** یادهاشان غایبی‌ات می‌چرند 

  • Like a thirsty ass, the image of each one (in your phantasy) is licking up the sherbet of (spiritual) thought from the flagon of the body.
  • چون خر تشنه خیال هر یکی  ** از قف تن فکر را شربت‌مکی 

  • The (mental) image of those talebearers has sucked out of you the dew that you have (derived) from the Sea of Life.
  • نشف کرد از تو خیال آن وشات  ** شبنمی که داری از بحر الحیات 

  • The sign, then, of the absorption (drying up) of the water (sap) in the boughs is that they are not moved to sway (to and fro). 2230
  • پس نشان نشف آب اندر غصون  ** آن بود کان می‌نجنبد در رکون 

  • The limb of him who is free (detached from the world) is (like) a moist fresh bough: (if) you pull it in any direction, it is (easily) pulled.
  • عضو حر شاخ تر و تازه بود  ** می‌کشی هر سو کشیده می‌شود 

  • If you want a basket, you can make it (a basket); you can also make its neck a hoop;
  • گر سبد خواهی توانی کردنش  ** هم توانی کرد چنبر گردنش 

  • (But) when it has been sucked dry by the draining of (the sap from) its root, it does not come (readily) in the direction to which (your) command is pulling it.
  • چون شد آن ناشف ز نشف بیخ خود  ** ناید آن سویی که امرش می‌کشد 

  • Recite, then, from the Qur’án (the words) they stand up languidly, when the bough gets no medicinal (curative) treatment from its root.
  • پس بخوان قاموا کسالی از نبی  ** چون نیابد شاخ از بیخش طبی 

  • This symbol (allegory) is fiery, (but) I will cut it short and resume (the story of) the fakir and the treasure and the circumstances connected with it. 2235
  • آتشین است این نشان کوته کنم  ** بر فقیر و گنج و احوالش زنم 

  • You have seen the fire that burns every (dry) sapling; (now) see the fire of the Spirit by which phantasy is burnt.
  • آتشی دیدی که سوزد هر نهال  ** آتش جان بین کزو سوزد خیال 

  • Neither for phantasy nor for reality is there any protection against a fire like this which flamed forth from the Spirit.
  • نه خیال و نه حقیقت را امان  ** زین چنین آتش که شعله زد ز جان