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1980-1989

  • سیر جان بی چون بود در دور و دیر ** جسم ما از جان بیاموزید سیر 1980
  • The journey of the spirit is unconditioned in respect of Time and Space: our body learned from the spirit how to journey.

  • سیر جسمانه رها کرد او کنون ** می‌رود بی‌چون نهان در شکل چون
  • Now it has relinquished the bodily manner of journeying: it moves unconditioned, (though) masked in the form of conditionedness.

  • گفت روزی می‌شدم مشتاق‌وار ** تا ببینم در بشر انوار یار
  • He (Daqúqí) said, “One day I was going along like him that yearns, that I might behold in man the radiance of the Beloved,

  • تا ببینم قلزمی در قطره‌ای ** آفتابی درج اندر ذره‌ای
  • That I might behold an ocean in a drop of water, a sun enclosed in a mote.

  • چون رسیدم سوی یک ساحل بگام ** بود بیگه گشته روز و وقت شام
  • When I came on foot to a certain shore, the day had turned late, and ’twas eventide.

  • نمودن مثال هفت شمع سوی ساحل
  • The apparition of what seemed like seven candles in the direction of the shore.

  • هفت شمع از دور دیدم ناگهان ** اندر آن ساحل شتابیدم بدان 1985
  • Of a sudden I beheld from afar seven candles and hastened along the shore towards them.

  • نور شعله‌ی هر یکی شمعی از آن ** بر شده خوش تا عنان آسمان
  • The light of the flame of each candle thereof ascended beauteously to the loft of the sky.

  • خیره گشتم خیرگی هم خیره گشت ** موج حیرت عقل را از سر گذشت
  • I became amazed, (so that) even amazement (itself) became amazed: the waves of bewilderment passed over the head of my understanding.

  • این چگونه شمعها افروختست ** کین دو دیده‌ی خلق ازینها دوختست
  • (I thought), ‘What kind of candles are these (that) He hath lighted, so that the eyes of His creatures are screened from them?’

  • خلق جویان چراغی گشته بود ** پیش آن شمعی که بر مه می‌فزود
  • The people had gone to seek a lamp in the presence of that (sevenfold) candle which was surpassing the moon (in splendour).