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1337-1346

  • بو که بر اجزای او تابد مهی ** بو که در وی تاب مه یابد رهی‏
  • (In the hope that) maybe a Moon will shine upon its particles, (that) maybe the radiance of the Moon will find a way into it.
  • چون قیامت کوهها را بر کند ** پس قیامت این کرم کی می‏کند
  • Inasmuch as the (temporal) Resurrection shall dig up the mountains, how shall it cast the shadow (of protection) over us?
  • این قیامت ز آن قیامت کی کم است ** آن قیامت زخم و این چون مرهم است‏
  • How is this (spiritual) Resurrection inferior to that (temporal) Resurrection? That (temporal) Resurrection is the wound, and this (spiritual) Resurrection is as the plaster.
  • هر که دید این مرهم از زخم ایمن است ** هر بدی کاین حسن دید او محسن است‏ 1340
  • Every one that has seen (experienced) this plaster is safe from the wound: every evil one that has seen this good is a well-doer.
  • ای خنک زشتی که خویش شد حریف ** و ای گل رویی که جفتش شد خریف‏
  • Oh, happy is the ugly one to whom the beauteous one has become a companion; alas for one of rosy countenance with whom autumn has consorted!
  • نان مرده چون حریف جان شود ** زنده گردد نان و عین آن شود
  • When lifeless bread is companioned with life, the bread becomes living and is turned into the substance of that (life).
  • هیزم تیره حریف نار شد ** تیرگی رفت و همه انوار شد
  • Dark faggots become the companions of fire: the darkness departed, and all was turned into light.
  • در نمک‏لان چون خر مرده فتاد ** آن خری و مردگی یک سو نهاد
  • When the dead ass fell into the salt-mine, it put aside asininity and mortality.
  • صبغة الله هست خم رنگ هو ** پیسها یک رنگ گردد اندر او 1345
  • The baptism of Allah is the dyeing-vat of Hú (the Absolute God): therein (all) piebald things become of one colour.
  • چون در آن خم افتد و گوییش قم ** از طرب گوید منم خم لا تلم‏
  • When he (the mystic) falls into the vat, and you say to him, “Arise,” he says in rapture, “I am the vat: do not blame (me).”