جام می هستی شیخ است ای فلیو ** کاندر او اندر نگنجد بول دیو
The wine-cup, O fool, is the being of the Shaykh, in qua (essentia) urina Diaboli non continetur.” [The wine cup, O fool, is the being of the Shaykh, in which the Devil’s urine is not contained.]
پر و مالامال از نور حق است ** جام تن بشکست نور مطلق است3410
He is full and brimming with the Light of God: he has shattered the bodily cup, he is the Absolute Light.
نور خورشید ار بیفتد بر حدث ** او همان نور است نپذیرد خبث
If sunlight fall upon filth, it is the same light (still): it suffers no defilement.
شیخ گفت این خود نه جام است و نه می ** هین به زیر آن منکرا بنگر به وی
The Shaykh said, “Indeed this is not a cup, nor (is this) wine. Hey, unbeliever, come down and look at it!”
آمد و دید انگبین خاص بود ** کور شد آن دشمن کور و کبود
He came, and saw it was fine honey. That miserable enemy (of God) became blind (with shame and confusion).
گفت پیر آن دم مرید خویش را ** رو برای من بجو می ای کیا
Thereupon the Pír said to his disciple, “Go, seek wine for me, O noble sir;
که مرا رنجی است مضطر گشتهام ** من ز رنج از مخمصه بگذشتهام3415
For I have a pain; I am reduced to necessity: because of the pain, I have passed beyond starvation.
در ضرورت هست هر مردار پاک ** بر سر منکر ز لعنت باد خاک
In sore need any carcase is clean (lawful to eat)––may curses fall like dust on the head of him that denies it!”
گرد خمخانه بر آمد آن مرید ** بهر شیخ از هر خمی او میچشید
The disciple went round the wine-cellar, tasting of every jar on the Shaykh’s behalf.
در همه خمخانهها او می ندید ** گشته بد پر از عسل خم نبید
In all the wine-cellars (that he visited) he found no wine the jars of wine had become full of honey.