این قبول ذکر تو از رحمت است ** چون نماز مستحاضه رخصت است
This acceptance (by God) of your praise is from (His) mercy: it is an indulgence (which He grants), like (the indulgence granted in the case of) the prayers of a woman suffering from menorrhagia.
با نماز او بیالوده ست خون ** ذکر تو آلودهی تشبیه و چون
Her prayers are stained with blood; your praise is stained with assimilation and qualification.
خون پلید است و به آبی میرود ** لیک باطن را نجاستها بود
Blood is foul, and (yet) it goes (is washed away) by a (little) water; but the inward part (the inner man) hath impurities
کان به غیر آب لطف کردگار ** کم نگردد از درون مرد کار1800
Which fail not (are not removed) from the interior (the heart) of the man of works except by the water of the grace of the Maker.
در سجودت کاش رو گردانیای ** معنی سبحان ربی دانیای
Would that in your bowing low in prayer you would turn your face (to attentive consideration) and apprehend the meaning of “Glory to my Lord!”
کای سجودم چون وجودم ناسزا ** مر بدی را تو نکویی ده جزا
Saying, “Oh, my prostration (in prayer), like my existence, is unworthy (of Thee): do Thou give good in return for evil!”
این زمین از حلم حق دارد اثر ** تا نجاست برد و گلها داد بر
This earth has the mark of God's clemency, in that it got filth and gave flowers as the produce;
تا بپوشد او پلیدیهای ما ** در عوض بر روید از وی غنچهها
In that it covers our pollutions, (and that) buds grow up from it in exchange.
پس چو کافر دید کاو در داد و جود ** کمتر و بیمایه تر از خاک بود1805
Therefore, when the infidel saw that in giving and lavishing he was meaner and unwealthier than the earth,
از وجود او گل و میوه نرست ** جز فساد جمله پاکیها نجست
(That) flowers and fruit did not grow from his being, (and that) he sought (and achieved) nothing but the corruption of all purities,
گفت واپس رفتهام من در ذهاب ** حسرتا یا لیتنی کنت تراب
He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!
کاش از خاکی سفر نگزیدمی ** همچو خاکی دانهای میچیدمی
Would that I had not chosen to travel away from earthiness, (and that) like a clod of earth I had gathered some grain!
چون سفر کردم مرا راه آزمود ** زین سفر کردن ره آوردم چه بود
When I travelled, the Way tried me: what was the present I brought (home) from this travelling?”
ز آن همه میلش سوی خاک است کاو ** در سفر سودی نبیند پیش رو1810
’Tis from all that propensity of his towards earth that he sees before him no profit in the journey.
روی واپس کردنش آن حرص و آز ** روی در ره کردنش صدق و نیاز
His turning his face back is that greed and cupidity (of his); his turning his face to the Way is sincerity and supplication.
هر گیا را کش بود میل علا ** در مزید است و حیات و در نما
Every herb that has a propensity for (moving) upwards is in (the state of) increase and life and growth;
چون که گردانید سر سوی زمین ** در کمی و خشکی و نقص و غبین
When it has turned its head towards the earth, (it is) in (the state of) decrease and dryness and failure and disappointment.
میل روحت چون سوی بالا بود ** در تزاید مرجعت آن جا بود
When the propensity of your spirit is upwards, (you are) in (the state of) increase, and that (lofty) place is the place to which you will return;
ور نگون ساری سرت سوی زمین ** آفلی حق لا یحب الآفلین1815
But if you are upside down, (with) your head towards the earth, (then) you are one that sinks: God loves not them that sink.
پرسیدن موسی علیه السلام از حق تعالی سر غلبهی ظالمان
How Moses, on whom be peace, asked the high God (to explain) the secret of the predominance of the unjust.
گفت موسی ای کریم کارساز ** ای که یک دم ذکر تو عمر دراز
Moses said, “O Bounteous Disposer, O Thou whom to commemorate for one moment is (worth) a long life,
نقش کژمژ دیدم اندر آب و گل ** چون ملایک اعتراضی کرد دل
I have seen the crooked, misshapen image in (the mould of) water and clay, and like the angels, my heart has raised an objection,
که چه مقصود است نقشی ساختن ** و اندر او تخم فساد انداختن
As to what is the purpose of making an image and casting therein the seed of corruption.
آتش ظلم و فساد افروختن ** مسجد و سجده کنان را سوختن
To kindle the fire of iniquity and corruption; to burn the mosque and those who bend low in prayer;
مایهی خونابه و زردآبه را ** جوش دادن از برای لابه را1820
To set boiling the source of bloody tears for the sake of (receiving) humble entreaties (from the suffering and oppressed)—
من یقین دانم که عین حکمت است ** لیک مقصودم عیان و رویت است
I know for certain that it is the essence of wisdom (on Thy part), but my aim is (to know this by) actual seeing and vision.