When thou hast broken and destroyed thine own form, thou hast learned to break the form of everything.
صورت خود چون شکستی سوختی ** صورت کل را شکست آموختی
After that, thou wilt break every form: like Haydar (‘Alí), thou wilt uproot the gate of Khaybar.580
بعد از آن هر صورتی را بشکنی ** همچو حیدر باب خیبر بر کنی
That simple Khwája was duped by form, for he was going to the country on (the strength of) infirm words (vain promises).
سغبهی صورت شد آن خواجهی سلیم ** که به ده میشد بگفتاری سقیم
(He was going) joyously towards the snare of that flattery, as a bird towards the bait of tribulation.
سوی دام آن تملق شادمان ** همچو مرغی سوی دانهی امتحان
The bird deemed the bait a mark of kindness (on the part of the fowler), (although) that gift is (really) the extreme of cupidity and is not munificence;
از کرم دانست مرغ آن دانه را ** غایت حرص است نه جود آن عطا
(So) in desire for the bait the little birds are merrily flying and running towards that imposture.
مرغکان در طمع دانه شادمان ** سوی آن تزویر پران و دوان
If I acquaint thee (fully) with the joy of the Khwája, I fear, O wayfarer, lest I make thee late.585
گر ز شادی خواجه آگاهت کنم ** ترسم ای رهرو که بیگاهت کنم
I will abridge. When the village came in sight, it was not in sooth that village (which he was seeking), (so) he chose another road.
مختصر کردم چو آمد ده پدید ** خود نبود آن ده ره دیگر گزید
For about a month they were hurrying from village to village, because they did not well know the way to the (countryman's) village.
قرب ماهی ده بده میتاختند ** زانک راه ده نکو نشناختند
If anybody goes on the way without a leader, every two days' journey becomes one of a hundred years.
هر که در ره بی قلاوزی رود ** هر دو روزه راه صدساله شود