Basatin al-uns 71.115

71.115

طبقهآ مسافران که در آن خانهآ مقیم روان بودند با آن که تجرید را شعار و دثار خود ساخته و بر سیرت صوفیان هرچه داشتند ترک کردند هم از سیلاب فنا امان نیافتند و غریق بحر رحمت و مغفرت می گشتند، و چون یونس اسیر تنگنای شکم ماهی شدند، من در آن حالت خود را در سلک قوم نوح منسلک دانستم و از مشاهدهٔ‌ احوال بحر محیط دست از جان عزیز خویش بشستم، نظم:

The company of passengers who were travelling in that floating house—notwithstanding that they had made detachment their inner and outer garment,
and after the manner of Sufis had abandoned all they possessed—found no refuge from the torrent of annihilation, and were drowned in the sea of mercy
and forgiveness, becoming, like Jonah, prisoners in the narrow belly of the fish. In that state, I counted myself
among the company of Noah's people, and from witnessing the perils of the encircling ocean, I washed my hands of my own sweet life. Verse:
I washed, poetry: