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1557-1566

  • جان ابراهیم باید تا به نور ** بیند اندر نار فردوس و قصور
  • One must needs have the spirit of Abraham to see in the fire Paradise and its palaces by the light (of mystic knowledge);

  • پایه پایه بر رود بر ماه و خور ** تا نماند همچو حلقه بند در
  • And mount step by step above the moon and the sun, lest he remain like the door-ring fastened on the door;

  • چون خلیل از آسمان هفتمین ** بگذرد که لا أحب الآفلین‏
  • And, like the Friend, pass beyond the Seventh Heaven, saying, “I love not them that set.”

  • این جهان تن غلط انداز شد ** جز مر آن را کاو ز شهوت باز شد 1560
  • This bodily world is deceptive, save to him that has escaped from lust.

  • تتمه‏ی حسد آن حشم بر آن غلام خاص‏
  • Conclusion of (the story) how the (other) retainers envied the favourite slave.

  • قصه‏ی شاه و امیران و حسد ** بر غلام خاص و سلطان خرد
  • The story of the King and the amirs and their envy of the favourite slave and lord of wisdom

  • دور ماند از جر جرار کلام ** باز باید گشت و کرد آن را تمام‏
  • Has been left far (behind) on account of the powerful attraction of the discourse.(Now) we must turn back and conclude it.

  • باغبان ملک با اقبال و بخت ** چون درختی را نداند از درخت‏
  • The happy and fortunate gardener of the (Divine) kingdom — how should not he know one tree from another?

  • آن درختی را که تلخ و رد بود ** و آن درختی که یکش هفصد بود
  • The tree that is bitter and reprobate, and the tree whose one is (as) seven hundred (of the other)—

  • کی برابر دارد اندر تربیت ** چون ببیندشان به چشم عاقبت‏ 1565
  • How, in rearing (them), should he deem (them) equal, when he beholds them with the eye (that is conscious) of the end,

  • کان درختان را نهایت چیست بر ** گر چه یکسانند این دم در نظر
  • (And knows) what (different) fruit those trees will ultimately bear, though at this moment they are alike in appearance'?