(But) he that keeps his heart awake—though the eye of his head may sleep, it (his heart) will open a hundred eyes.
آنک دل بیدار دارد چشم سر ** گر بخسپد بر گشاید صد بصر
If you are not one of (illumined) heart, be awake (keep vigil), be a seeker of the (illumined) heart, and be (always) in strife (with your fleshly soul);
گر تو اهل دل نهای بیدار باش ** طالب دل باش و در پیکار باش
But if your heart hath been awakened, sleep sound: thy (spiritual) eye is not absent from the seven (heavens) and the six (directions).1225
ور دلت بیدار شد میخسپ خوش ** نیست غایب ناظرت از هفت و شش
The Prophet said, “Mine eye slumbers, but when doth my heart slumber in drowsiness?”
گفت پیغامبر که خسپد چشم من ** لیک کی خسپد دلم اندر وسن
The King is awake: suppose the guardsman is asleep, (what does it matter?). May (my) soul be sacrificed to the sleepers whose hearts are seeing!
شاه بیدارست حارس خفته گیر ** جان فدای خفتگان دلبصیر
The description of the heart's wakefulness, O spiritual man, would not be contained in thousands of rhymed couplets.
وصف بیداری دل ای معنوی ** در نگنجد در هزاران مثنوی
When they (the magicians) saw that he was sleeping outstretched, they made preparations for stealing the rod.
چون بدیدندش که خفتست او دراز ** بهر دزدی عصا کردند ساز
The magicians quickly approached the rod, saying, “We must go behind him and then snatch it (from him).”1230
ساحران قصد عصا کردند زود ** کز پسش باید شدن وانگه ربود
When they prepared (to approach) a little nearer, the rod began to shake.
اندکی چون پیشتر کردند ساز ** اندر آمد آن عصا در اهتزاز
The rod quivered upon itself in such wise (that) both (magicians) on the spot became petrified by the shock (of terror).
آنچنان بر خود بلرزید آن عصا ** کان دو بر جا خشک گشتند از وجا