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1291-1300

  • 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 
  • The King (God) hath great bounty: run (to receive it), O thou who hast become in pawn to an imagination and fancy.
  • بخشش بسیار دارد شه بدو  ** ای شده در وهم و تصویری گرو 
  • From conformity that simple disciple, too, was weeping in concert with the venerable (Shaykh);
  • آن مرید ساده از تقلید نیز  ** گریه‌ای می‌کرد وفق آن عزیز 
  • (For), like the deaf man, he regarded the (Shaykh's) weeping in the manner of a conformist and was unaware of the cause.
  • او مقلدوار هم‌چون مرد کر  ** گریه می‌دید و ز موجب بی‌خبر 
  • When he had wept a long while, he paid his respects and departed: the (Shaykh's) favourite disciple came quickly after him,
  • چون بسی بگریست خدمت کرد و رفت  ** از پیش آمد مرید خاص تفت 
  • And said, “O thou who art weeping like a witless cloud in concert with the weeping of the Shaykh (possessed) of insight, 1300
  • گفت ای گریان چو ابر بی‌خبر  ** بر وفاق گریه‌ی شیخ نظر