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  • (Even) if the sleeper's thought become (subtle) as a hair, he will not find the way to the Abode by that subtlety.
  • خفته را گر فکر گردد هم‌چو موی ** او از آن دقت نیابد راه کوی
  • Whether the sleeper's thought is twofold or threefold, still it is error on error on error.
  • فکر خفته گر دوتا و گر سه‌تاست ** هم خطا اندر خطا اندر خطاست
  • The waves are beating upon him without restraint, (whilst) he asleep is running in the long wilderness. 3240
  • موج بر وی می‌زند بی‌احتراز ** خفته پویان در بیابان دراز
  • The sleeper dreams of the sore pangs of thirst, (whilst) the water is nearer unto him than the neck-vein.
  • خفته می‌بیند عطشهای شدید ** آب اقرب منه من حبل الورید
  • Story of the ascetic who, notwithstanding his destitution and numerous family, was rejoicing and laughing in a year of drought whilst the people were dying of hunger. They said to him, "What is the occasion for joy? It is an occasion for a hundred mournings." "For me at any rate ’tis not (so)," he replied.
  • حکایت آن زاهد کی در سال قحط شاد و خندان بود با مفلسی و بسیاری عیان و خلق می‌مردند از گرسنگی گفتندش چه هنگام شادیست کی هنگام صد تعزیت است گفت مرا باری نیست
  • Even as (for example) that ascetic was laughing in a year of drought, while all (his) folk were weeping.
  • هم‌چنان کن زاهد اندر سال قحط ** بود او خندان و گریان جمله رهط
  • So they said to him, “What is the occasion for laughter, (when) the drought has uprooted (destroyed) the true believers?
  • پس بگفتندش چه جای خنده است ** قحط بیخ مومنان بر کنده است
  • The (Divine) mercy hath closed its eyes to us: the plain is burnt by the fierce sun.
  • رحمت از ما چشم خود بر دوختست ** ز آفتاب تیز صحرا سوختست
  • Crops and vineyards and vines are standing black: there is no moisture in the earth, neither up nor down. 3245
  • کشت و باغ و رز سیه استاده است ** در زمین نم نیست نه بالا نه پست
  • The people are dying from this drought and torment by tens and hundreds like fish far from the water.
  • خل می‌میرند زین قحط و عذاب ** ده ده و صد صد چو ماهی دور از آب
  • Thou art taking no pity on the Moslems; (yet) the true believers are kinsmen and one body (of) fat and flesh.
  • بر مسلمانان نمی‌آری تو رحم ** مومنان خویشند و یک تن شحم و لحم