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  • در نبی فرمود کین قرآن ز دل  ** هادی بعضی و بعضی را مضل 
  • He (God) hath said in the Qur’án, “This Qur’án with all its heart leads some aright and others astray.”
  • الله الله چونک عارف گفت می  ** پیش عارف کی بود معدوم شی 
  • God, God! When the gnostic speaks of “wine,” how in the gnostic's eyes should the (materially) non-existent be a (material) thing?
  • فهم تو چون باده‌ی شیطان بود  ** کی ترا وهم می رحمان بود 
  • Since your understanding is (only of) the Devil's wine, how should you have any conception of the wine of the Merciful (God)?
  • این دو انبازند مطرب با شراب  ** این بدان و آن بدین آرد شتاب 
  • These twain—the minstrel and the wine—are partners: this one quickly leads to that, and that one to this.
  • پر خماران از دم مطرب چرند  ** مطربانشان سوی میخانه برند  660
  • They that are full of crop-sickness feed on the song of the minstrel: the minstrels bring them to the tavern.
  • آن سر میدان و این پایان اوست  ** دل شده چون گوی در چوگان اوست 
  • That one (the minstrel) is the beginning of the (lover's) course, and this (tavern) is the end thereof: the witless (lover) is like a ball in (the sway of) his polo-bat.
  • در سر آنچ هست گوش آنجا رود  ** در سر ار صفراست آن سودا شود 
  • The ear goes (inclines) to that which is in the head: if there is yellow bile in the head, it becomes black bile.
  • بعد از آن این دو به بیهوشی روند  ** والد و مولود آن‌جا یک شوند 
  • Afterwards, these twain (the minstrel and the lover) pass into unconsciousness: there the begetter and the begotten become one.
  • چونک کردند آشتی شادی و درد  ** مطربان را ترک ما بیدار کرد 
  • When joy and sorrow made peace (with each other), our Turk awakened the minstrels.
  • مطرب آغازید بیتی خوابناک  ** که انلنی الکاس یا من لا اراک  665
  • The minstrel began (to sing) a slumberous verse—“Hand me the cup, O Thou whom I see not.