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1237-1261

  • خار بن در قوت و برخاستن ** خار کن در پیری و در کاستن‏
  • The thorn bush (is) in (process of gaining) strength and (in) ascent; its digger (is) in (process of) aging and decline.

  • خار بن هر روز و هر دم سبز و تر ** خار کن هر روز زار و خشکتر
  • The thorn bush every day and every moment is green and fresh; its digger is every day more sickly and withered.

  • او جوانتر می‏شود تو پیرتر ** زود باش و روزگار خود مبر
  • It is growing younger, you older: be quick and do not waste your time!

  • خار بن دان هر یکی خوی بدت ** بارها در پای خار آخر زدت‏ 1240
  • Know that every single bad habit of yours is a thorn bush: many a time, after all, have its thorns pierced your foot.

  • بارها از خوی خود خسته شدی ** حس نداری سخت بی‏حس آمدی‏
  • Many a time have you been wounded by your own (evil) habits—you have no sense, you are very senseless.

  • گر ز خسته گشتن دیگر کسان ** که ز خلق زشت تو هست آن رسان‏
  • If to the wounding of other persons, which comes to pass from your evil nature,

  • غافلی باری ز زخم خود نه‏ای ** تو عذاب خویش و هر بیگانه‏ای‏
  • You are indifferent, at any rate you are not (indifferent) to your own wounds: you are the torment of yourself and of every stranger.

  • یا تبر برگیر و مردانه بزن ** تو علی‏وار این در خیبر بکن‏
  • Either take up the axe and strike like a man—like ‘Alí, destroy this gate of Khaybar—

  • یا به گلبن وصل کن این خار را ** وصل کن با نار نور یار را 1245
  • Or unite these thorns with the rosebush: unite the light of the friend (of God) with the (sensual) fire,

  • تا که نور او کشد نار تو را ** وصل او گلشن کند خار تو را
  • In order that his light may extinguish your fire, (and that) union with him may make your thorns roses.

  • تو مثال دوزخی او مومن است ** کشتن آتش به مومن ممکن است‏
  • You are like Hell, he is a true believer: the extinction of the fire (of Hell) by means of a true believer is possible.

  • مصطفی فرمود از گفت جحیم ** کاو به مومن لابه گر گردد ز بیم‏
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said concerning the speech of Hell, that on account of fear it begins humbly to entreat the true believer,

  • گویدش بگذر ز من ای شاه زود ** هین که نورت سوز نارم را ربود
  • And says to him, “Pass quickly away from me, O king: hark, for thy light has taken away the burning of my fire.”

  • پس هلاک نار نور مومن است ** ز انکه بی‏ضد دفع ضد لا یمکن است‏ 1250
  • Therefore the true believer's light is the death of the fire, because without an opposite the removal of the (other) opposite is impossible.

  • نار ضد نور باشد روز عدل ** کان ز قهر انگیخته شد این ز فضل‏
  • On the Day of Justice (Judgement) the fire will be the opponent of the light, since the former was aroused by (God's) wrath, the latter by (His) grace.

  • گر همی‏خواهی تو دفع شر نار ** آب رحمت بر دل آتش گمار
  • If you are wishing to remove the evil of the fire, direct the water of (Divine) mercy against the heart of the fire.

  • چشمه‏ی آن آب رحمت مومن است ** آب حیوان روح پاک محسن است‏
  • The true believer is the fountain of that water of mercy: the pure spirit of the well-doer is the Water of Life.

  • بس گریزان است نفس تو از او ** ز انکه تو از آتشی او آب جو
  • Hence your fleshly soul is fleeing mightily from him, because you are of fire, (while) he (is) the water of the stream.

  • ز آب آتش ز آن گریزان می‏شود ** کاتشش از آب ویران می‏شود 1255
  • Fire becomes fleeing from water for the reason that its fire (flame and heat) is ruined by water.

  • حس و فکر تو همه از آتش است ** حس شیخ و فکر او نور خوش است‏
  • Your sense and thought are wholly of the fire; the sense of the Shaykh (spiritual guide) and his thought are the beauteous Light.

  • آب نور او چو برآتش چکد ** چک چک از آتش بر آید بر جهد
  • When the water of his light trickles on the fire, chak chak (a gnashing sound) rises from the fire, and it leaps up (in fury).

  • چون کند چک چک تو گویش مرگ و درد ** تا شود این دوزخ نفس تو سرد
  • When it makes (the sound) chak chak, say you to it, “Death and woe (to thee),” in order that this hell, (which is) your fleshly soul, may become cold (quenched),

  • تا نسوزد او گلستان تو را ** تا نسوزد عدل و احسان تو را
  • So that it may not burn your rose-garden, so that it may not burn your justice and well doing.

  • بعد از آن چیزی که کاری بردهد ** لاله و نسرین و سیسنبردهد 1260
  • After that, anything that you sow will yield fruit (or flowers); it will yield anemones and wild roses and thyme.

  • باز پهنا می‏رویم از راه راست ** باز گرد ای خواجه راه ما کجاست‏
  • Once more we are going wide of the straight way: turn back, O master—where is our way?