قصد گنجی کن که این سود و زیان ** در تبع آید تو آن را فرع دان
Go in quest of a treasure, for (worldly) profit and loss come second: regard them as the branch (not as the root).
هر که کارد قصد گندم باشدش ** کاه خود اندر تبع میآیدش
Whoever sows is in quest of wheat; the chaff comes to him indeed, (but only) secondarily.
که بکاری بر نیاید گندمی ** مردمی جو مردمی جو مردمی
If you sow chaff, no wheat will come up: seek a man, seek a man, a man!
قصد کعبه کن چو وقت حج بود ** چون که رفتی مکه هم دیده شود2225
When it is the season of pilgrimage, go in quest of the Ka‘ba; when you have gone (with that purpose), Mecca also will be seen.
قصد در معراج دید دوست بود ** در تبع عرش و ملایک هم نمود
In the Mi‘ráj (Ascension of the Prophet) the quest was (for) vision of the Beloved; ’twas but secondarily that the empyrean and the angels were also shown.
حکایت
Story.
خانهی نو ساخت روزی نو مرید ** پیر آمد خانهی او را بدید
A novice one day built a new house; the Pír came (and) saw his house.
گفت شیخ آن نو مرید خویش را ** امتحان کرد آن نکو اندیش را
The Shaykh said to his new disciple—he put to the test him that had good thoughts—
روزن از بهر چه کردی ای رفیق ** گفت تا نور اندر آید زین طریق
“Wherefore hast thou made a window, O comrade?” Said he, “In order that light may come in by this way.”
گفت آن فرع است این باید نیاز ** تا از این ره بشنوی بانگ نماز2230
He (the Shaykh) said, “That is (only) the branch (secondary object); (thy) want (desire) must be this, (namely) that through this channel thou mayst hear the call to prayer.”
بایزید اندر سفر جستی بسی ** تا بیابد خضر وقت خود کسی
Báyazíd, on his journey (to the Ka‘ba), sought much to find some one that was the Khizr of his time.
دید پیری با قدی همچون هلال ** دید در وی فر و گفتار رجال
He espied an old man with a stature (bent) like the new moon; he saw in him the majesty and (lofty) speech of (holy) men;
دیده نابینا و دل چون آفتاب ** همچو پیلی دیده هندستان به خواب
His eyes sightless, and his heart (illumined) as the sun: like an elephant dreaming of Hindustán.
چشم بسته خفته بیند صد طرب ** چون گشاید آن نبیند ای عجب
With closed eyes, asleep, he beholds a hundred delights; when he opens (his eyes), he sees not those (delights)—oh, (’tis) wonderful!
Many a wonder is made manifest in sleep: in sleep the heart becomes a window.
آن که بیدار است و بیند خواب خوش ** عارف است او خاک او در دیده کش
One that is awake and dreams fair dreams, he is the knower (of God): smear your eyes with his dust.
پیش او بنشست و میپرسید حال ** یافتش درویش و هم صاحب عیال
He (Báyazíd) sat down before him and asked about his condition; he found him to be a dervish and also a family man.
گفت عزم تو کجا ای بایزید ** رخت غربت را کجا خواهی کشید
He (the old man) said, “Whither art thou bound, O Báyazíd? To what place wouldst thou take the baggage of travel in a strange land?”
گفت قصد کعبه دارم از پگه ** گفت هین با خود چه داری زاد ره
Báyazíd answered, “I start for the Ka‘ba at daybreak.” “Eh,” cried the other, “what hast thou as provisions for the road?”
گفت دارم از درم نقره دویست ** نک ببسته سخت در گوشهی ردی است2240
“I have two hundred silver dirhems,” said he; “look, (they are) tied fast in the corner of my cloak.”
گفت طوفی کن به گردم هفت بار ** وین نکوتر از طواف حج شمار
He said, “Make a circuit round me seven times, and reckon this (to be) better than the circumambulation (of the Ka‘ba) in the pilgrimage;
و آن درمها پیش من نهای جواد ** دان که حج کردی و حاصل شد مراد
And lay those dirhems before me, O generous one. Know that thou hast made the greater pilgrimage and that thy desire has been achieved;
عمره کردی عمر باقی یافتی ** صاف گشتی بر صفا بشتافتی
(That) thou hast (also) performed the lesser pilgrimage and gained the life everlasting; (that) thou hast become pure (sáf) and sped up (the Hill of) Purity (Safá).
حق آن حقی که جانت دیده است ** که مرا بر بیت خود بگزیده است
By the truth of the Truth (God) whom thy soul hath seen, (I swear) that He hath chosen me above His House.
کعبه هر چندی که خانهی بر اوست ** خلقت من نیز خانهی سر اوست2245
Albeit the Ka‘ba is the House of His religious service, my form too, in which I was created, is the House of His inmost consciousness.
تا بکرد آن کعبه را در وی نرفت ** و اندر این خانه بجز آن حی نرفت
Never since God made the Ka‘ba hath He gone into it, and none but the Living (God) hath ever gone into this House (of mine).