از برای چاره‌‌ی این خوفها ** آمد اندر هر نمازی اهدنا
As a means of preventing these dangers, “Guide us” comes in every (ritual) prayer,
کاین نمازم را میامیز ای خدا ** با نماز ضالین و اهل ریا
That is to say, “O God, do not mingle my prayer with the prayer of the erring and the hypocrites.”
از قیاسی که بکرد آن کر گزین ** صحبت ده ساله باطل شد بدین
By the analogical reasoning which the deaf man adopted a ten years' friendship was made vain.
خاصه ای خواجه قیاس حس دون ** اندر آن وحیی که هست از حد فزون
Especially, O master, (you must avoid) the analogy drawn by the low senses in regard to the Revelation which is illimitable.
گوش حس تو به حرف ار در خور است ** دان که گوش غیب گیر تو کر است3395
If your sensuous ear is fit for (understanding) the letter (of the Revelation), know that your ear that receives the occult (meaning) is deaf.
اول کسی که در مقابله‌‌ی نص قیاس آورد ابلیس بود
The first to bring analogical reasoning to bear against the Revealed Text was Iblís.
اول آن کس کاین قیاسکها نمود ** پیش انوار خدا ابلیس بود
The first person who produced these paltry analogies in the presence of the Lights of God was Iblís.
گفت نار از خاک بی‌‌شک بهتر است ** من ز نار و او ز خاک اکدر است
He said, “Beyond doubt fire is superior to earth: I am of fire, and he (Adam) is of dingy earth.
پس قیاس فرع بر اصلش کنیم ** او ز ظلمت ما ز نور روشنیم
Let us, then, judge by comparing the secondary with its principal: he is of darkness, I of radiant light.”
گفت حق نی بل که لا انساب شد ** زهد و تقوی فضل را محراب شد
God said, “Nay, but on the contrary there shall be no relationships : asceticism and piety shall be the (sole) avenue to pre-eminence.”
این نه میراث جهان فانی است ** که به انسابش بیابی جانی است3400
This is not the heritage of the fleeting world, so that thou shouldst gain it by ties of relationship: ’tis a spiritual (heritage).
بلکه این میراثهای انبیاست ** وارث این جانهای اتقیاست
Nay, these things are the heritage of the prophets; the inheritors of these are the spirits of the devout.
پور آن بو جهل شد مومن عیان ** پور آن نوح نبی از گمرهان
The son of Bú Jahl became a true believer for all to see; the son of the prophet Noah became one of those who lost the way.
زاده‌‌ی خاکی منور شد چو ماه ** زاده‌‌ی آتش تویی رو رو سیاه
“The child of earth (Adam) became illumined like the moon; thou art the child of fire: get thee gone with thy face black (in disgrace)!”
این قیاسات و تحری روز ابر ** یا به شب مر قبله را کرده ست حبر
The wise man has made (use of) such reasonings and investigation on a cloudy day or at night for the sake of (finding) the qibla;
لیک با خورشید و کعبه پیش رو ** این قیاس و این تحری را مجو3405
But with the sun and with the Ka‘ba before your face, do not seek to reason and investigate in this manner.
کعبه نادیده مکن رو زو متاب ** از قیاس الله أعلم بالصواب
Do not pretend that you cannot see the Ka‘ba, do not avert your face from it because you have reasoned (that it is not to be seen). God knows best what is right.
چون صفیری بشنوی از مرغ حق ** ظاهرش را یاد گیری چون سبق
When you hear a pipe from the Bird of God, you commit its outward (meaning) to memory, like a lesson,
وانگهی از خود قیاساتی کنی ** مر خیال محض را ذاتی کنی
And then from yourself (out of your own head) you make some analogies: you make (what is) mere fancy into a (thing of) substance (reality).
اصطلاحاتی است مر ابدال را ** که نباشد ز آن خبر اقوال را
The Abdál have certain mystical expressions of which the doctrines (of external religion) are ignorant.
منطق الطیری به صوت آموختی ** صد قیاس و صد هوس افروختی3410
You have learned the birds' language by the sound (alone), you have kindled (invented) a hundred analogies and a hundred caprices.
همچو آن رنجور دلها از تو خست ** کر به پندار اصابت گشته مست
The hearts (of the saints) are wounded by you, as the invalid (was hurt by the deaf man), (while) the deaf man became intoxicated (overjoyed) with the vain notion of success.
کاتب آن وحی ز آن آواز مرغ ** برده ظنی کاو بود همباز مرغ
The writer of the Revelation, from (hearing) the Bird's voice, supposed that he was the Bird's equal:
مرغ پری زد مر او را کور کرد ** نک فرو بردش به قعر مرگ و درد
The Bird flapped a wing and blinded him: lo, it plunged him in the abyss of death and bale.
هین به عکسی یا به ظنی هم شما ** در میفتید از مقامات سما
“Beware! do not ye also, (beguiled) by a reflexion or an opinion, fall from the dignities of Heaven!
گر چه هاروتید و ماروت و فزون ** از همه بر بام نحن الصافون3415
Although ye are Hárút and Márút and superior to all (the angels) on the terrace of We are they that stand in ranks,