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).
چون مرا دیدی خدا را دیدهای ** گرد کعبهی صدق بر گردیدهای
When thou hast seen me, thou hast seen God: thou hast circled round the Ka‘ba of Sincerity.
خدمت من طاعت و حمد خداست ** تا نپنداری که حق از من جداست
To serve me is to obey and glorify God: beware thou think not that God is separate from me.
چشم نیکو باز کن در من نگر ** تا ببینی نور حق اندر بشر
Open thine eyes well and look on me, that thou mayst behold the Light of God in man.”
بایزید آن نکتهها را هوش داشت ** همچو زرین حلقهاش در گوش داشت2250
Báyazíd gave heed to those mystic sayings, and put them in his ear as a golden ring.
آمد از وی بایزید اندر مزید ** منتهی در منتها آخر رسید
Through him (the old man), Báyazíd came into an increase (of spiritual endowment): the adept at last attained unto the end.
دانستن پیغامبر صلی الله علیه و آله که سبب رنجوری آن شخص گستاخی بوده است در دعا
How the Prophet-God bless and save him! –– perceived that the cause of that person’s sickness was irreverence in prayer.
چون پیمبر دید آن بیمار را ** خوش نوازش کرد یار غار را
When the Prophet saw the sick man, he dealt sweetly and tenderly with that familiar friend.
زنده شد او چون پیمبر را بدید ** گوییا آن دم مر او را آفرید
He became alive when he saw the Prophet: you might say, that moment created him.
گفت بیماری مرا این بخت داد ** کامد این سلطان بر من بامداد
He said, “Sickness has given me this good fortune, that this Sultan has come to my side at morn,
تا مرا صحت رسید و عاقبت ** از قدوم این شه بیحاشیت2255
So that health and well-being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King who is without retinue.
ای خجسته رنج و بیماری و تب ** ای مبارک درد و بیداری شب
O happy pain and sickness and fever! O blessed anguish and wakefulness in the night!
نک مرا در پیری از لطف و کرم ** حق چنین رنجوریی داد و سقم
Lo, in (my) old age God of His grace and bounty hath bestowed on me such a sickness and malady!
درد پشتم داد هم تا من ز خواب ** بر جهم هر نیم شب لا بد شتاب
He too hath given me pain in the back, so that every midnight I cannot help springing up quickly from sleep.
تا نخسبم جمله شب چون گاومیش ** دردها بخشید حق از لطف خویش
In order that I may not slumber all night like a buffalo, God of His grace hath given me pains.