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1983-1992

  • ای بسا دانش که اندر سر دود ** تا شود سرور بدان خود سر رود
  • Oh, many is the knowledge (talent) that runs in the head (and urges) that he (the owner) should become eminent—in truth, through that (knowledge) his head goes (he loses his life).

  • سر نخواهی که رود تو پای باش ** در پناه قطب صاحب رای باش‏
  • If you wish not your head to be lost, be (lowly as) a foot: be under the protection of the Qutb who is possessed of discernment.

  • گر چه شاهی خویش فوق او مبین ** گر چه شهدی جز نبات او مچین‏ 1985
  • Though you be a king, deem not yourself above him: though you be honey, gather naught but his sugar-cane.

  • فکر تو نقش است و فکر اوست جان ** نقد تو قلب است و نقد اوست کان‏
  • Your thought is the outward form, and his thought is the soul: your coin is false, and his coin is (pure as) the mine.

  • او تویی خود را بجو در اوی او ** کو و کو گو فاخته شو سوی او
  • You are (really) he: seek yourself in his “he” (personality). Say coo, coo: become a dove (flying) towards him.

  • ور نخواهی خدمت ابنای جنس ** در دهان اژدهایی همچو خرس‏
  • And if you are unwilling to serve the (holy) men of (human) kind, you are in the dragon's mouth, like the bear.

  • بو که استادی رهاند مر ترا ** و ز خطر بیرون کشاند مر ترا
  • It may be that a Master will deliver you and pull you out of danger.

  • زاریی می‏کن چو زورت نیست هین ** چون که کوری سر مکش از راه بین‏ 1990
  • As you have no strength, keep making a lamentation; since you are blind, take care, do not turn your head away from him that sees the road.

  • تو کم از خرسی نمی‏نالی ز درد ** خرس رست از درد چون فریاد کرد
  • You are less (worse) than the bear, (for) you are not wailing at the pain. The bear was freed from pain when it made an outcry.

  • ای خدا این سنگ دل را موم کن ** ناله‏ی ما را خوش و مرحوم کن‏
  • O God, make this stony heart (soft as) wax; make our wailing sweet (to Thee) and an object of (Thy) mercy!

  • گفتن نابینای سائل که دو کوری دارم‏
  • How a sightless beggar said, “I have two blindnesses.”