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  • بس کسا عزمی به جایی می‌کند ** از مقامی کان غرض در وی بود
  • Oh, many a one sets out to some place from the spot where the object of his quest is (to be found).

  • دید و لاف خفته می‌ناید به کار ** جز خیالی نیست دست از وی بدار 3235
  • The (far) sight and boasting of the sleeper is of no avail; it is naught but a phantasy: hold aloof from it.

  • خوابناکی لیک هم بر راه خسپ ** الله الله بر ره الله خسپ
  • Thou art sleepy, but anyhow sleep on the Way: for God's sake, for God's sake, sleep on the Way of God,

  • تا بود که سالکی بر تو زند ** از خیالات نعاست بر کند
  • That perchance a Traveller (on the Way) may attach himself to thee and tear thee from the phantasies of slumber.

  • خفته را گر فکر گردد هم‌چو موی ** او از آن دقت نیابد راه کوی
  • (Even) if the sleeper's thought become (subtle) as a hair, he will not find the way to the Abode by that subtlety.

  • فکر خفته گر دوتا و گر سه‌تاست ** هم خطا اندر خطا اندر خطاست
  • Whether the sleeper's thought is twofold or threefold, still it is error on error on error.

  • موج بر وی می‌زند بی‌احتراز ** خفته پویان در بیابان دراز 3240
  • The waves are beating upon him without restraint, (whilst) he asleep is running in the long wilderness.

  • خفته می‌بیند عطشهای شدید ** آب اقرب منه من حبل الورید
  • The sleeper dreams of the sore pangs of thirst, (whilst) the water is nearer unto him than the neck-vein.

  • حکایت آن زاهد کی در سال قحط شاد و خندان بود با مفلسی و بسیاری عیان و خلق می‌مردند از گرسنگی گفتندش چه هنگام شادیست کی هنگام صد تعزیت است گفت مرا باری نیست
  • Story of the ascetic who, notwithstanding his destitution and numerous family, was rejoicing and laughing in a year of drought whilst the people were dying of hunger. They said to him, "What is the occasion for joy? It is an occasion for a hundred mournings." "For me at any rate ’tis not (so)," he replied.

  • هم‌چنان کن زاهد اندر سال قحط ** بود او خندان و گریان جمله رهط
  • Even as (for example) that ascetic was laughing in a year of drought, while all (his) folk were weeping.

  • پس بگفتندش چه جای خنده است ** قحط بیخ مومنان بر کنده است
  • So they said to him, “What is the occasion for laughter, (when) the drought has uprooted (destroyed) the true believers?