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643-652

  • اعجمی ترکی سحر آگاه شد  ** وز خمار خمر مطرب‌خواه شد 
  • A barbarian Turk came to his senses at dawn and, (suffering) from crop-sickness caused by wine, desired the minstrel (to divert him).
  • مطرب جان مونس مستان بود  ** نقل و قوت و قوت مست آن بود 
  • The spiritual minstrel is the bosom-friend of those intoxicated (with God): he is the dessert and food and strength of the drunken.
  • مطرب ایشان را سوی مستی کشید  ** باز مستی از دم مطرب چشید  645
  • The minstrel led them on to intoxication; then again, he (the intoxicated one) quaffed intoxication from the song of the minstrel.
  • آن شراب حق بدان مطرب برد  ** وین شراب تن ازین مطرب چرد 
  • That one (the mystic) fetches God's wine (to drink) because of that (spiritual) minstrel, while this one (the sensualist) imbibes the bodily wine from this (sensual) minstrel.
  • هر دو گر یک نام دارد در سخن  ** لیک شتان این حسن تا آن حسن 
  • Though both (minstrels) have one name in discourse, yet there is a vast difference between this Hasan and that Hasan.
  • اشتباهی هست لفظی در بیان  ** لیک خود کو آسمان تا ریسمان 
  • There is a verbal resemblance in enunciation, but what (real) relation has heaven (ásmán) to a rope (rísmán)?
  • اشتراک لفظ دایم ره‌زنست  ** اشتراک گبر و مؤمن در تنست 
  • The participation of a word (in several meanings) is always obstructive (to the understanding): the participation of the infidel with the true believer is in the body (alone).
  • جسمها چون کوزه‌های بسته‌سر  ** تا که در هر کوزه چه بود آن نگر  650
  • Bodies are like pots with the lids on: look and see what is in each pot.
  • کوزه‌ی آن تن پر از آب حیات  ** کوزه‌ی این تن پر از زهر ممات 
  • The pot of that body is filled with the Water of Life; the pot of this body is filled with the poison of death.
  • گر به مظروفش نظر داری شهی  ** ور به ظرفش بنگری تو گم‌رهی 
  • If you keep your eye fixed on its contents, you are a (spiritual) king; but if you regard its vessel, you are misguided.