نہ پنداری کہ من بے بادہ مستم
مثال شاعراں افسانہ بستم
نہ بینی خیز ازاں مرد فرو دست
کہ بر من تہمت شعر و سخن بست
او حدیث دلبری خواہد ز من
رنگ و آب شاعری خواہد ز من
کم نظر بے تابئ جانم ندید
آشکارم دید و پنہانم ندید
نغمہ کجا و من کجا، ساز سخن بہانہ ایست
سوئے قطار می کشم ناقۂ بے زمام را
Don't you think that I feel intoxicated without drinking wine and that I have fabricated a story like poet۔ You can never expect any good from that inferior man who caluminates me as a mere versifier. He wants me to speak sweet words of love and expects the style and radiance of poetry from me
The short-sighted fellow did not see the restlessness of my soul; he simply saw my outwardness and not my inwardness. There is a vast difference between me and the melody; the instrument of poetry is only a pretext. I do lead the bride-less dromedary to the string of camels. He hates, and dissociates himself from, all philosophy that is the outcome of a distorted and incomplete vision or intuition of Reality on the ground that it is divorced from the love of God.
