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1286-1295

  • What was I fancying, and what was it (in truth)? My weak perception was showing (only) a weak image (of the reality).”
  • من چه می‌بستم خیال و آن چه بود  ** درک سستم سست نقشی می‌نمود 
  • Where is the thought of the (holy) men in relation to the child of the (mystic) Way? Where is his fancy in comparison with true realisation?
  • طفل راه را فکرت مردان کجاست  ** کو خیال او و کو تحقیق راست 
  • The thought of children is (of) the nurse or milk or raisins and walnuts or weeping and crying.
  • فکر طفلان دایه باشد یا که شیر  ** یا مویز و جوز یا گریه و نفیر 
  • The imitator is like a sick child, although he may have (at his disposal) subtle argumentation and (logical) proofs.
  • آن مقلد هست چون طفل علیل  ** گر چه دارد بحث باریک و دلیل 
  • That profundity in (dealing with) proofs and difficult problems is severing him from (spiritual) insight. 1290
  • آن تعمق در دلیل و در شکال  ** از بصیرت می‌کند او را گسیل 
  • It took away (from him) the stock (of insight), which is the collyrium of his inmost consciousness, and applied itself to the discussion of (formal) problems.
  • مایه‌ای کو سرمه‌ی سر ویست  ** برد و در اشکال گفتن کار بست 
  • O imitator, turn back from Bukhárá: go to self-abasement (ba-khwárí) that thou mayst become a (spiritual) hero,
  • ای مقلد از بخارا باز گرد  ** رو به خواری تا شوی تو شیرمرد 
  • And that thou mayst behold within (thee) another Bukhárá, in the assembly-place whereof the champions are unlearned.
  • تا بخارای دگر بینی درون  ** صفدران در محفلش لا یفقهون 
  • Although the courier is a swift runner on land, when he goes to sea his sinews are broken.
  • پیک اگر چه در زمین چابک‌تگیست  ** چون به دریا رفت بسکسته رگیست 
  • He is only (like those of whom God says in the Qur’án) We have borne them on the land; (but) that one who is borne on the sea—he is somebody. 1295
  • او حملناهم بود فی‌البر و بس  ** آنک محمولست در بحر اوست کس