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1731-1755

  • گر نبندی زین سخن تو حلق را ** آتشی آید بسوزد خلق را
  • If you do not stop your throat from (uttering) these words, a fire will come and burn up the people.

  • آتشی گر نامده ست این دود چیست ** جان سیه گشته روان مردود چیست‏
  • If a fire has not come, (then) what is this smoke? Why has your soul become black and your spirit rejected (by God)?

  • گر همی‏دانی که یزدان داور است ** ژاژ و گستاخی ترا چون باور است‏
  • If you know that God is the Judge, how is it right for you (to indulge in) this doting talk and familiarity?

  • دوستی بی‏خرد خود دشمنی است ** حق تعالی زین چنین خدمت غنی است‏
  • Truly, the friendship of a witless man is enmity: the high God is not in want of suchlike service.

  • با که می‏گویی تو این با عم و خال ** جسم و حاجت در صفات ذو الجلال‏ 1735
  • To whom are you saying this? To your paternal and maternal uncles? Are the body and (its) needs among the attributes of the Lord of glory?

  • شیر او نوشد که در نشو و نماست ** چارق او پوشد که او محتاج پاست‏
  • (Only) he that is waxing and growing drinks milk: (only) he that has need of feet puts on shoes.

  • ور برای بنده‏ش است این گفت‏وگو ** آن که حق گفت او من است و من خود او
  • And if these words of yours are (meant) for His servant, of whom God said, ‘He is I and I myself am he’;

  • آن که گفت انی مرضت لم تعد ** من شدم رنجور او تنها نشد
  • (For him) of whom He (God) said, ‘Verily, I was sick and thou didst not visit Me,’ (that is), ‘I became ill, not he (the sick man) alone’;

  • آن که بی‏یسمع و بی‏یبصر شده ست ** در حق آن بنده این هم بی‏هده ست‏
  • (For him) who has become seeing by Me and hearing by Me— this (talk of yours) is foolish nonsense even in regard to that servant.

  • بی‏ادب گفتن سخن با خاص حق ** دل بمیراند سیه دارد ورق‏ 1740
  • To speak irreverently to one chosen of God causes the heart (spirit) to perish and keeps the page (record) black.

  • گر تو مردی را بخوانی فاطمه ** گر چه یک جنسند مرد و زن همه‏
  • If you should call a man ‘Fátima’—though men and women are all of one kind—

  • قصد خون تو کند تا ممکن است ** گر چه خوش خو و حلیم و ساکن است‏
  • He will seek to murder you, so far as it is possible (for him), albeit he is good-natured and forbearing and quiet.

  • فاطمه مدح است در حق زنان ** مرد را گویی بود زخم سنان‏
  • (The name) Fátima is (a term of) praise in regard to women, (but) if you address it to a man, ’tis (like) the blow of a spearhead.

  • دست و پا در حق ما استایش است ** در حق پاکی حق آلایش است‏
  • Hand and foot are (terms of) praise in relation to us; in relation to the holiness of God they are pollution.

  • لم یلد لم یولد او را لایق است ** والد و مولود را او خالق است‏ 1745
  • (The words) He begat not, He was not begotten are appropriate to Him: He is the Creator of begetter and begotten.

  • هر چه جسم آمد ولادت وصف اوست ** هر چه مولود است او زین سوی جوست‏
  • Birth is the attribute of everything that is (a) body: whatever is born is on this side of the river,

  • ز انکه از کون و فساد است و مهین ** حادث است و محدثی خواهد یقین‏
  • Because it is of (the world of) becoming and decay and (is) contemptible: it is originated and certainly requires an Originator.”

  • گفت ای موسی دهانم دوختی ** و ز پشیمانی تو جانم سوختی‏
  • He (the shepherd) said, “O Moses, thou hast closed my mouth and thou hast burned my soul with repentance.”

  • جامه را بدرید و آهی کرد تفت ** سر نهاد اندر بیابانی و رفت‏
  • He rent his garment and heaved a sigh, and hastily turned his head towards a desert and went (his way).

  • عتاب کردن حق تعالی با موسی علیه السلام از بهر آن شبان‏
  • How the high God rebuked Moses, on whom be peace, on account of the shepherd.

  • وحی آمد سوی موسی از خدا ** بنده‏ی ما را ز ما کردی جدا 1750
  • A revelation came to Moses from God—“Thou hast parted My servant from Me.

  • تو برای وصل کردن آمدی ** نی برای فصل کردن آمدی‏
  • Didst thou come (as a prophet) to unite, or didst thou come to sever?

  • تا توانی پا منه اندر فراق ** أبغض الأشیاء عندی الطلاق‏
  • So far as thou canst, do not set foot in separation: of (all) things the most hateful to Me is divorce.

  • هر کسی را سیرتی بنهاده‏ام ** هر کسی را اصطلاحی داده‏ام‏
  • I have bestowed on every one a (special) way of acting: I have given to every one a (peculiar) form of expression.

  • در حق او مدح و در حق تو ذم ** در حق او شهد و در حق تو سم‏
  • In regard to him it is (worthy of) praise, and in regard to thee it is (worthy of) blame: in regard to him honey, and in regard to thee poison.

  • ما بری از پاک و ناپاکی همه ** از گران جانی و چالاکی همه‏ 1755
  • I am independent of all purity and impurity, of all slothfulness and alacrity (in worshipping Me).