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  • کان قندم نیستان شکرم ** هم ز من می‏روید و من می‏خورم‏
  • I am a mine of candy, I am a plantation of sugar-canes: it is growing from me, and at the same time I am eating (of it).

  • علم تقلیدی و تعلیمی است آن ** کز نفورش مستمع دارد فغان‏
  • Knowledge is conventional and acquired (not real), when he (its owner) laments because the hearer is averse to (hearing) it.

  • چون پی دانه نه بهر روشنی است ** همچو طالب علم دنیای دنی است‏ 2430
  • Since it is (learned) as a bait (for popularity), not for the sake of (spiritual) enlightenment, he (the seeker of religious knowledge) is just as (bad) as the seeker of vile worldly knowledge;

  • طالب علم است بهر عام و خاص ** نی که تا یابد از این عالم خلاص‏
  • (For) he is seeking knowledge on account of the vulgar and the noble, not in order that he may win release from this world.

  • همچو موشی هر طرف سوراخ کرد ** چون که نورش راند از در گشت سرد
  • Like a mouse, he has burrowed in every direction, since the light drove him (back) from the door (the entrance to the hole) and said, ‘Away!’

  • چون که سوی دشت و نورش ره نبود ** هم در آن ظلمات جهدی می‏نمود
  • Inasmuch as he had no way (of getting out) to the open country and the light, he continued to make (such) an exertion even in that darkness.

  • گر خدایش پر دهد پر خرد ** برهد از موشی و چون مرغان پرد
  • If God give him wings, the wings of Wisdom, he will escape from mousiness and will fly like the birds;

  • ور نجوید پر بماند زیر خاک ** ناامید از رفتن راه سماک‏ 2435
  • But if he seek not wings, he will remain underground with no hope of traversing the path to Simák.

  • علم گفتاری که آن بی‏جان بود ** عاشق روی خریداران بود
  • Dialectic knowledge, which is soulless, is in love with (eager for) the countenance of customers;

  • گر چه باشد وقت بحث علم زفت ** چون خریدارش نباشد مرد و رفت‏
  • (But) though it is robust at the time of disputation, it is dead and gone when it has no customer.

  • مشتری من خدای است او مرا ** می‏کشد بالا که الله اشتری‏
  • My purchaser is God: He is drawing me aloft, for God hath purchased.

  • خونبهای من جمال ذو الجلال ** خونبهای خود خورم کسب حلال‏
  • My bloodwit (the reward of my self-sacrifice) is the beauty of the Glorious One: I enjoy my bloodwit (as) lawful earnings.

  • این خریداران مفلس را بهل ** چه خریداری کند یک مشت گل‏ 2440
  • Abandon these insolvent customers: what purchase can be made by a handful of (worthless) clay?

  • گل مخور گل را مخر گل را مجو ** ز انکه گل خوار است دایم زرد رو
  • Do not eat clay, do not buy clay, do not seek clay, because the eater of clay is always pale-faced.

  • دل بخور تا دایما باشی جوان ** از تجلی چهره‏ات چون ارغوان‏
  • Eat your heart (in love of God), that you may be young always, (and that) your visage (may be rosy) with Divine illumination, like the arghawán.”

  • یا رب این بخشش نه حد کار ماست ** لطف تو لطف خفی را خود سزاست‏
  • O Lord, this gift is not (within) the compass of our work (achievement): verily, (the gift of) Thy grace is (not according to our work, but) according to Thy mysterious grace.

  • دست گیر از دست ما ما را بخر ** پرده را بردار و پرده‏ی ما مدر
  • Take our hands (help us); buy (redeem) us from our hands (self-existence); lift the veil (between Thee and us), and do not tear our veil (do not expose us to shame).

  • باز خر ما را از این نفس پلید ** کاردش تا استخوان ما رسید 2445
  • Redeem us from this filthy self (nafs): its knife has reached our bones.

  • از چو ما بی‏چارگان این بند سخت ** کی گشاید ای شه بی‏تاج و تخت‏
  • Who will loose these strong chains from helpless ones like us, O king uncrowned and unthroned?

  • این چنین قفل گران را ای ودود ** کی تواند جز که فضل تو گشود
  • Who except (Thee in) Thy bounty, O Loving One, can loose such a heavy lock?

  • ما ز خود سوی که گردانیم سر ** چون تویی از ما به ما نزدیکتر
  • Let us turn our heads from ourselves towards Thee, inasmuch as Thou art nigher unto us than we (unto ourselves).

  • این دعا هم بخشش و تعلیم تست ** گر نه در گلخن گلستان از چه رست‏
  • Even this prayer is Thy gift and lesson (to us); else, wherefore has a rose-bed grown in an ash-pit?

  • در میان خون و روده فهم و عقل ** جز ز اکرام تو نتوان کرد نقل‏ 2450
  • Save through Thy munificence, ’tis impossible to convey understanding and reason into the midst of blood and entrails.

  • از دو پاره‏ی پیه این نور روان ** موج نورش می‏زند بر آسمان‏
  • This flowing light (proceeds) from two pieces of fat (the two eyeballs): their waves of light reach up to the sky.

  • گوشت پاره که زبان آمد از او ** می‏رود سیلاب حکمت همچو جو
  • The piece of flesh which is the tongue—from it the flood of Wisdom is flowing, like a stream,