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  • با سلیمان پای در دریا بنه ** تا چو داود آب سازد صد زره‏
  • With Solomon set thy foot in the Sea, that the water, David-like, may make a hundred rings of mail (ripples).
  • آن سلیمان پیش جمله حاضر است ** لیک غیرت چشم بند و ساحر است‏
  • That Solomon is present to all, but (His) jealousy binds (our) eyes (with spells) and enchants (us),
  • تا ز جهل و خوابناکی و فضول ** او به پیش ما و ما از وی ملول‏
  • So that from folly and drowsiness (forgetfulness) and vanity— He is beside us, and (yet) we are sick of Him.
  • تشنه را درد سر آرد بانگ رعد ** چون نداند کاو کشاند ابر سعد
  • The noise of thunder gives the thirsty man headache, when he does not know that it (the thunder) brings on the rain-clouds of felicity.
  • چشم او مانده است در جوی روان ** بی‏خبر از ذوق آب آسمان‏ 3785
  • His eye remains (fixed) upon the running stream, unaware of the delicious taste of the Water of Heaven.
  • مرکب همت سوی اسباب راند ** از مسبب لاجرم محجوب ماند
  • He has urged the steed of (his) attention towards (secondary) causes: consequently he remains debarred from the Causer.
  • آن که بیند او مسبب را عیان ** کی نهد دل بر سببهای جهان‏
  • (But) one that sees the Causer plainly—how should he set his mind upon the (secondary) causes in the world?
  • حیران شدن حاجیان در کرامات آن زاهد که در بادیه تنهاش یافتند
  • How the pilgrims were amazed at the miracles of the ascetic whom they found (living) alone in the desert.
  • زاهدی بد در میان بادیه ** در عبادت غرق چون عبادیه‏
  • Amidst the desert lived an ascetic, absorbed in devotion like the people of ‘Abbádán.
  • حاجیان آن جا رسیدند از بلاد ** دیده‏شان بر زاهد خشک اوفتاد
  • The pilgrims from (different) countries arrived there: their eyes fell upon the parched ascetic.
  • جای زاهد خشک بود او تر مزاج ** از سموم بادیه بودش علاج‏ 3790
  • The dwelling-place of the ascetic was dry, (but) he was moist in temperament: in the simoom of the desert he had a remedy (for his moistness).