Vain imagination concerning the dismemberment of head and foot has gone from thee: there has come to thee, for a defence against imagination, a shield exceeding strong.”1720
وهم تفریق سر و پا از تو رفت ** دفع وهم اسپر رسیدت نیک زفت
The reason why the magicians of Pharaoh had courage to suffer the amputation of their hands and feet.
سبب جرات ساحران فرعون بر قطع دست و پا
Is it not (the fact) that the accursed Pharaoh threatened (the magicians with) punishment on the earth,
ساحران را نه که فرعون لعین ** کرد تهدید سیاست بر زمین
Saying, “I will cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides, then I will hang you up: I will not hold you exempt (from punishment)”?
که ببرم دست و پاتان از خلاف ** پس در آویزم ندارمتان معاف
He thought that they were (still) in the same imagination and terror and distraction and doubt,
او همیپنداشت کایشان در همان ** وهم و تخویفند و وسواس و گمان
So that they would be trembling and terrified and affrighted by the vain imaginings and threats of the carnal soul.
که بودشان لرزه و تخویف و ترس ** از توهمها و تهدیدات نفس
He did not know that they had been delivered and were seated at the window of the light of the heart;1725
او نمیداست کایشان رستهاند ** بر دریچهی نور دل بنشستهاند
(And that) they had recognised (the difference of) their (bodily) shadows from their (real) selves, and were brisk and alert and happy and exulting;
این جهان خوابست اندر ظن مهایست ** گر رود درخواب دستی باک نیست
(And that), if the mortar of the Sky (Fortune) should pound them small a hundred times in this miry place (the material world),
گر بخواب اندر سرت ببرید گاز ** هم سرت بر جاست و هم عمرت دراز
(Yet), since they had seen the origin of this (corporeal) composition, they were not afraid of the derivatives (which belong to the domain) of imagination.
گر ببینی خواب در خود را دو نیم ** تندرستی چون بخیزی نی سقیم
This world is a dream—do not rest in (false) opinion; if in dream a hand go (be lost), ’tis no harm.
حاصل اندر خواب نقصان بدن ** نیست باک و نه دوصد پاره شدن