بخش 186 - در آمدن آن عاشق لاابالی در بخارا وتحذیر کردن دوستان او را از پیداشدن

Joyously he entered Bukhárá near his beloved and (him who was) the abode of (his) security,

Like the man intoxicated (with love) who (in imagination) flies to heaven: the Moon embraces him and says, “Embrace (me)!”

Every one that saw him in Bukhárá said (to him), “Arise (and go) before showing thyself! Do not sit (still)! Flee!

For that Prince is seeking thee in anger, that he may wreak a ten years' vengeance on thy life.

By God, by God, do not plunge in thine own blood, do not rely on thy artful words and wiles.

Thou wert the Sadr-i Jahán's constable and a noble; thou wert the trusted (agent) and master- engineer (in his affairs).

(Then) thou didst act treacherously and flee from punishment: thou hadst escaped: how hast thou let thyself be caught again?

With a hundred devices thou didst flee from tribulation: has folly brought thee hither or (thy) fate?

O thou whose intellect jeers at Mercury (the celestial Scribe), Destiny makes a fool of intellect and the intelligent.

Luckless is the hare that seeks (to encounter) the lion: where is thy cleverness and intelligence and quick-wittedness?

The wiles of Destiny are a hundred times as many (as thine): he (the Prophet) has said, ‘When Destiny comes, the wide field is straitened.’

There are a hundred ways and places of refuge on left and right, (but) they are barred by Destiny, for it is a dragon.”