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1155-1179

  • شه کند توده به هر شیب و فراز ** صد هزاران خرمن از سرهای باز 1155
  • The King will heap up in every lowland and highland hundreds of thousands of stacks of falcons' heads.

  • پاسبان من عنایات وی است ** هر کجا که من روم شه در پی است‏
  • His favours keep watch over me; wherever I go, the King is (following) behind.

  • در دل سلطان خیال من مقیم ** بی‏خیال من دل سلطان سقیم‏
  • The phantasy of me is abiding in the King's heart: sick (would be) the King's heart without the phantasy of me.

  • چون بپراند مرا شه در روش ** می‏پرم بر اوج دل چون پرتوش‏
  • When the King bids me fly in His Way I fly up to the heart's zenith, like His beams.

  • همچو ماه و آفتابی می‏پرم ** پرده‏های آسمانها می‏درم‏
  • I fly as a moon and sun, I rend the curtains of the skies.

  • روشنی عقلها از فکرتم ** انفطار آسمان از فطرتم‏ 1160
  • The light of intellects is from my thought; the bursting forth of heaven (into existence) is from my original nature.

  • بازم و حیران شود در من هما ** جغد که بود تا بداند سر ما
  • I am a falcon, and (yet) the humá becomes lost in amazement at me: who is an owl, that it should know my secret?

  • شه برای من ز زندان یاد کرد ** صد هزاران بسته را آزاد کرد
  • For my sake the King bethought him of the prison (this world), and set free hundreds of thousands of those in bondage.

  • یک دمم با جغدها دمساز کرد ** از دم من جغدها را باز کرد
  • He made me familiar with the owls for a moment, and by means of my breath (words) he made the owls (to be) falcons.

  • ای خنک جغدی که در پرواز من ** فهم کرد از نیک بختی راز من‏
  • Oh, happy (is) the owl that in my (soaring) flight (towards God) had the good fortune to apprehend my mystery.

  • در من آویزید تا نازان شوید ** گر چه جغدانید شهبازان شوید 1165
  • Cling to me, that ye may become exultant (enjoying bliss), (and that) ye may become royal falcons, although ye are owls.

  • آن که باشد با چنان شاهی حبیب ** هر کجا افتد چرا باشد غریب‏
  • He that is dear to such a King—wheresoever he light, why should he be a stranger?

  • هر که باشد شاه دردش را دوا ** گر چو نی نالد نباشد بی‏نوا
  • Any one for whose pain the King is the remedy—though he wail like the reed (flute), he is not without plenty.

  • مالک ملکم نیم من طبل خوار ** طبل بازم می‏زند شه از کنار
  • I am the owner of the (spiritual) kingdom, I am not a lickspittle: the King is beating the falcon-drum for me from the shore.

  • طبل باز من ندای ارجعی ** حق گواه من به رغم مدعی‏
  • My falcon-drum is the call, ‘Return!’ God is my witness in despite of adversary.

  • من نیم جنس شهنشه دور از او ** لیک دارم در تجلی نور از او 1170
  • I am not a congener of the King of kings—far be it from Him!—but I have light from Him in (His) self-manifestation.

  • نیست جنسیت ز روی شکل و ذات ** آب جنس خاک آمد در نبات‏
  • Homogeneity is not in respect of form and essence: water becomes homogeneous with earth in the plant.

  • باد جنس آتش آمد در قوام ** طبع را جنس آمده ست آخر مدام‏
  • Wind (air) becomes homogeneous with fire in consistency; wine at last becomes homogeneous with the constitution (of the body).

  • جنس ما چون نیست جنس شاه ما ** مای ما شد بهر مای او فنا
  • Since my genus is not the genus of my King, my ego has passed away (faná) for the sake of His ego.

  • چون فنا شد مای ما او ماند فرد ** پیش پای اسب او گردم چو گرد
  • Inasmuch as my ego passed away, He remained alone: I roll at the feet of His horse, like dust.

  • خاک شد جان و نشانیهای او ** هست بر خاکش نشان پای او 1175
  • The (individual) soul (self) became dust, and the (only) signs of it are the mark of His feet on its dust.

  • خاک پایش شو برای این نشان ** تا شوی تاج سر گردن کشان‏
  • Become dust at His feet for the sake of this mark, in order that you may become the crown on the head of the lofty.

  • تا که نفریبد شما را شکل من ** نقل من نوشید پیش از نقل من‏
  • Let not my form beguile you: partake of my dessert before my departure.”

  • ای بسا کس را که صورت راه زد ** قصد صورت کرد و بر الله زد
  • Oh, (there is) many a one whom the form waylaid: he aimed at the form (of the holy man) and (in reality) struck at God.

  • آخر این جان با بدن پیوسته است ** هیچ این جان با بدن مانند هست‏
  • After all, this soul is joined to the body, (but) has this soul any likeness to the body?