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شیخ فعال است بیآلت چو حق ** با مریدان داده بیگفتی سبق
- The Shaykh (Saláhu’ddín) is one who, like God, acts without instrument, giving lessons to his disciples without anything said.]
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دل به دست او چو موم نرم رام ** مهر او گه ننگ سازد گاه نام
- In his hand the heart is submissive like soft wax: his seal makes (the impression) now (of) shame, now (of) fame.
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مهر مومش حاکی انگشتری است ** باز آن نقش نگین حاکی کیست 1325
- The seal impressed on his wax is telling of the seal-ring; of whom, again, does the device tell, (which is) graven on the stone of the ring?
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حاکی اندیشهی آن زرگر است ** سلسلهی هر حلقه اندر دیگر است
- It tells of the thought of the Goldsmith—(all this) is a chain, every link (inserted) in another.
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این صدا در کوه دلها بانگ کی ست ** گه پرست از بانگ این که گه تهی است
- Whose voice is this echo in the mountains of (our) hearts? Sometimes this mountain is full of the voice, sometimes it is empty.
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هر کجا هست او حکیم است اوستاد ** بانگ او زین کوه دل خالی مباد
- Wheresoever he is, he is the Sage, the Master—may his voice not forsake this mountain!
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هست که کاوا مثنا میکند ** هست که کآواز صد تا میکند
- There is a mountain that (only) doubles the voice; there is a mountain that makes it hundredfold.
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میزهاند کوه از آن آواز و قال ** صد هزاران چشمهی آب زلال 1330
- At that voice and speech the mountain lets gush forth hundreds of thousands of springs of clear water.
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چون ز کوه آن لطف بیرون میشود ** آبها در چشمهها خون میشود
- Inasmuch as that grace emanates (even) from the mountain, the waters in the springs become blood.
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ز آن شهنشاه همایون نعل بود ** که سراسر طور سینا لعل بود
- ’Twas on account of that monarch of auspicious gait that Mount Sinai was (turned to) rubies from end to end.