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1694-1703

  • بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانه‏وار
  • You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”

  • گویی‏اش من صاحبی گم کرده‏ام ** رو به جستجوی او آورده‏ام‏ 1695
  • You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him.

  • دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار
  • May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”

  • چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر
  • When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—

  • ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت‏
  • Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.

  • تو شدی بی‏هوش و افتادی به طاق ** بی‏خبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق‏
  • You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”

  • او چه می‏بیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست‏ 1700
  • How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union.

  • این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید
  • This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?

  • هر زمان کز وی نشانی می‏رسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی می‏رسید
  • Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.

  • ماهی بی‏چاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب‏
  • Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.