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  • O Moses, the revelation given to thee illumined the mountain, (but) the fancy conceiving (mountain) could not endure thy real experience (of the revelation).
  • موسیا کشفت لمع بر که فراشت  ** آن مخیل تاب تحقیقت نداشت 
  • Hark, be not deluded by (the belief) that thou art able to conceive the fancy (idea) thereof and by this means canst attain (to the reality). 3915
  • هین مشو غره بدانک قابلی  ** مر خیالش را و زین ره واصلی 
  • No one was ever terrified by the (mere) fancy (idea) of war: there is no bravery before (actual) war. Know this, and ’tis enough.
  • از خیال حرب نهراسید کس  ** لا شجاعه قبل حرب این دان و بس 
  • (Possessed) with the fancy (idea) of war, the poltroon makes, in his thoughts, a hundred heroic attacks (on the enemy).
  • بر خیال حرب خیز اندر فکر  ** می‌کند چون رستمان صد کر و فر 
  • The antagonist (conceived) in the mind of every raw (weakling) is the picture of Rustam that may be (found) in a bath-house.
  • نقش رستم که آن به حمامی بود  ** قرن حمله فکر هر خامی بود 
  • When this fancy (idea) derived from hearing becomes (actually) visible, what of the poltroon? (Even) a Rustam (hero) is compelled (to submit).
  • این خیال سمع چون مبصر شود  ** حیز چه بود رستمی مضطر شود 
  • Endeavour that it (the fancy) may pass from thine ear into thine eye, and that what has (hitherto) been unreal may become real. 3920
  • جهد کن کز گوش در چشمت رود  ** آنچ که آن باطل بدست آن حق شود 
  • After that, thine ear will become connatural with thine eye: the two ears, (gross) as wool, will become of pure substance (and subtle);
  • زان سپس گوشت شود هم طبع چشم  ** گوهری گردد دو گوش هم‌چو یشم 
  • Nay, thy whole body will become like a mirror: it will become all eye and pure spiritual substance.
  • بلک جمله تن چو آیینه شود  ** جمله چشم و گوهر سینه شود 
  • The ear rouses a fancy, and that fancy is the go-between (that leads) to union with that Beauty.
  • گوش انگیزد خیال و آن خیال  ** هست دلاله‌ی وصال آن جمال