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1892-1901

  • این و صد چندینی ای صادق ولیک ** شرح کن این را بیان کن نیک نیک
  • Thou art this and a hundred times as much, O veracious one; but expound this (mystery) and explain it very well,

  • آنچنانک فاضل و مرد فضول ** چون به گوش او رسد آرد قبول
  • In such fashion that (both) the virtuous (wise) and the man given to vanity (folly) may assent when it comes to their ears.

  • آنچنانش شرح کن اندر کلام ** که از آن هم بهره یابد عقل عام
  • Expound it in thy discourse in such a way that the understanding of the vulgar may profit thereby.”

  • ناطق کامل چو خوان‌پاشی بود ** خوانش بر هر گونه‌ی آشی بود 1895
  • The perfect speaker is like one who distributes trays of viands, and on whose table is every sort of food,

  • که نماند هیچ مهمان بی نوا ** هر کسی یابد غذای خود جدا
  • So that no guest remains without provisions, (but) each one gets his (proper) nourishment separately:

  • همچو قرآن که بمعنی هفت توست ** خاص را و عام را مطعم دروست
  • (Such a speaker is) like the Qur’án which is sevenfold in meaning, and in which there is food for the elect and for the vulgar.

  • گفت این باری یقین شد پیش عام ** که جهان در امر یزدانست رام
  • He (the dervish) said, “This at least is evident to the vulgar, that the world is subject to the command of God.

  • هیچ برگی در نیفتد از درخت ** بی قضا و حکم آن سلطان بخت
  • No leaf drops from a tree without the predestination and ordainment of that Ruler of Fortune.

  • از دهان لقمه نشد سوی گلو ** تا نگوید لقمه را حق که ادخلوا 1900
  • No morsel goes from the mouth towards the gullet till God says to that morsel, ‘Enter!’

  • میل و رغبت کان زمام آدمیست ** جنبش آن رام امر آن غنیست
  • The inclination and desire which is Man's nose-rein—its movement is subject to the command of that Self-sufficient One.