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  • (He replied), “Did not ye come like a sleeping child? Ye were ignorant of the way and the destination.
  • نه شما چون طفل خفته آمدیت  ** بی‌خبر از راه وز منزل بدیت 
  • Ye passed through the (different) stages asleep and intoxicated, unconscious of the way and (its) ups and downs; 1125
  • از منازل خفته بگذشتید و مست  ** بی‌خبر از راه و از بالا و پست 
  • (But) we (prophets) set out in wakefulness and well (aware) from beyond the five (senses) and the six (directions) to (this world of) the five and six,
  • ما به بیداری روان گشتیم و خوش  ** از ورای پنج و شش تا پنج و شش 
  • Having perceived (all) the stages from the source and foundation, possessed of experience and knowing the way like (skilled) guides.”
  • دیده منزلها ز اصل و از اساس  ** چون قلاووز آن خبیر و ره‌شناس 
  • They said to the king, “Put him to the rack, that a person of his sort may never (again) speak such words.”
  • شاه را گفتند اشکنجه‌ش بکن  ** تا نگوید جنس او هیچ این سخن 
  • The king saw that he was very thin and infirm, so that such an emaciated man would die at a single blow.
  • شاه دیدش بس نزار و بس ضعیف  ** که به یک سیلی بمیرد آن نحیف 
  • (He thought to himself), “How is it possible to torture or beat him, since his body has become as (fragile as) a glass? 1130
  • کی توان او را فشردن یا زدن  ** که چو شیشه گشته است او را بدن 
  • But I will speak to him kindly and say, ‘Why dost thou boast of (this) high estate?’
  • لیک با او گویم از راه خوشی  ** که چرا داری تو لاف سر کشی 
  • For here harshness is of no use: ’tis by gentleness that the snake puts forth its head (is induced to come forth) from the hole.”
  • که درشتی ناید اینجا هیچ کار  ** هم به نرمی سر کند از غار مار 
  • He caused the people to withdraw from around him (the claimant): the king was a gracious man, and gentleness was his way.
  • مردمان را دور کرد از گرد وی  ** شه لطیفی بود و نرمی ورد وی