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  • با مریدان آن فقیر محتشم ** بایزید آمد که نک یزدان منم
  • That venerable dervish, Báyazíd, came to his disciples, saying, “Lo, I am God.”
  • گفت مستانه عیان آن ذوفنون ** لا اله الا انا ها فاعبدون
  • That master of the (mystic) sciences said plainly in drunken fashion, “Hark, there is no god but I, so worship me.”
  • چون گذشت آن حال گفتندش صباح ** تو چنین گفتی و این نبود صلاح
  • When that ecstasy had passed, they said to him at dawn, “Thou saidest such and such, and this is impiety.”
  • گفت این بار ار کنم من مشغله ** کاردها بر من زنید آن دم هله 2105
  • He said, “This time, if I make a scandal, come on at once and dash knives into me.
  • حق منزه از تن و من با تنم ** چون چنین گویم بباید کشتنم
  • God transcends the body, and I am with the body: ye must kill me when I say a thing like this.”
  • چون وصیت کرد آن آزادمرد ** هر مریدی کاردی آماده کرد
  • When that (spiritual) freeman gave the injunction, each disciple made ready a knife.
  • مست گشت او باز از آن سغراق زفت ** آن وصیتهاش از خاطر برفت
  • Again he (Báyazíd) became intoxicated by that potent flagon: those injunctions vanished from his mind.
  • نقل آمد عقل او آواره شد ** صبح آمد شمع او بیچاره شد
  • The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.
  • عقل چون شحنه‌ست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنه‌ی بیچاره در کنجی خزید 2110
  • Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner.
  • عقل سایه‌ی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب
  • Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?