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  • Saying, “What is the member (you are pricking in) now on this third spot?” He replied, “This is the lion's belly, my dear sir.”
  • کاین سوم جانب چه اندام است نیز ** گفت این است اشکم شیر ای عزیز
  • “Let the lion have no belly,” said he: “the pain has become too great: do not strike (further) blows.”
  • گفت تا اشکم نباشد شیر را ** چه شکم باید نگار سیر را
  • The barber became distraught and then remained in bewilderment: he stood for a long time with his fingers in his teeth;
  • خیره شد دلاک و بس حیران بماند ** تا به دیر انگشت در دندان بماند
  • The master angrily flung the needle to the ground and said, “Has this happened to any one in the world? 3000
  • بر زمین زد سوزن از خشم اوستاد ** گفت در عالم کسی را این فتاد
  • Who (ever) saw a lion without tail and head and belly? God himself did not create a lion like this.”
  • شیر بی‌‌دم و سر و اشکم که دید ** این چنین شیری خدا خود نافرید
  • O brother, endure the pain of the lancet, that you may escape from the poison of your miscreant self (nafs),
  • ای برادر صبر کن بر درد نیش ** تا رهی از نیش نفس گبر خویش‌‌
  • For sky and sun and moon bow in worship to the people who have escaped from self existence.
  • کان گروهی که رهیدند از وجود ** چرخ و مهر و ماهشان آرد سجود
  • Any one in whose body the miscreant self has died, sun and cloud obey his command.
  • هر که مرد اندر تن او نفس گبر ** مر و را فرمان برد خورشید و ابر
  • Since his heart has learned to light the candle (of spiritual knowledge and love), the sun cannot burn him. 3005
  • چون دلش آموخت شمع افروختن ** آفتاب او را نیارد سوختن‌‌
  • God hath made mention of the rising sun as turning aside— like that—from their cave.
  • گفت حق در آفتاب منتجم ** ذکر تزاور کذا عن کهفهم‌‌