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  • (But he really hates him), because the evil disposition has waxed strong: the ant of (worldly) lust has through habit become as a snake.
  • ز انکه خوی بد بگشته ست استوار ** مور شهوت شد ز عادت همچو مار
  • Kill the snake of lust in tribulation; else, look you, your snake is become a dragon.
  • مار شهوت را بکش در ابتدا ** ور نه اینک گشت مارت اژدها
  • But every one deems his own snake an ant: do you (then) seek the explanation of yourself (your real state) from him that is lord of the heart.
  • لیک هر کس مور بیند مار خویش ** تو ز صاحب دل کن استفسار خویش‏
  • Until copper becomes gold, it does not know itself to be copper: until the heart becomes a king, it does not know itself to be an insolvent.
  • تا نشد زر مس نداند من مسم ** تا نشد شه دل نداند مفلسم‏
  • Do service to the elixir, like copper: endure oppression, O heart, from him that holds the heart in fee. 3475
  • خدمت اکسیر کن مس‏وار تو ** جور می‏کش ای دل از دل دار تو
  • Who is it that holds the heart in fee? Know well, it is the lords of the heart who, like day and night, are recoiling from the world.
  • کیست دل دار اهل دل نیکو بدان ** که چو روز و شب جهانند از جهان‏
  • Do not find fault with the Servant of God: do not suspect the King of being a thief.
  • عیب کم گو بنده‏ی الله را ** متهم کم کن به دزدی شاه را
  • The miracles of the dervish who was suspected of theft in a ship.
  • کرامات آن درویش که در کشتی متهمش کردند
  • A dervish was in a ship: he had made a bolster (for himself) from the goods of saintly fortitude.
  • بود درویشی درون کشتیی ** ساخته از رخت مردی پشتیی‏
  • A purse of gold was lost. He was asleep (at the time). They searched all (in the ship) and brought him also to view
  • یاوه شد همیان زر او خفته بود ** جمله را جستند و او را هم نمود
  • Saying, “Let us search this sleeping mendicant as well.” (So) the owner of the money, (excited) by grief, awakened him. 3480
  • کاین فقیر خفته را جوییم هم ** کرد بیدارش ز غم صاحب درم‏