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 گل2440
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 رسید2445
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 نقل2450
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,
سوی سوراخی که نامش گوشهاست ** تا بباغ جان که میوهاش هوشهاست
Towards a cavity, whereof the name is “ears,” up to the orchard of the (rational) soul, whereof the fruit is intellections.
شاه راه باغ جانها شرع اوست ** باغ و بستانهای عالم فرع اوست
Its main course is the highway of the orchard of souls; the orchards and gardens of the world are its branches.
اصل و سرچشمهی خوشی آن است آن ** زود تجری تحتها الأنهار خوان2455
That, that, is the source and fountainhead of joy: quick, recite (the text), (gardens) beneath which flow the rivers.
تتمهای نصیحت رسول صلی الله علیه و آله بیمار را
Conclusion of the admonishment given by the Prophet, God bless and save him, to the sick man.
گفت پیغمبر مر آن بیمار را ** چون عیادت کرد یار زار را
The Prophet said to the sick man, when he visited (his) suffering friend,
که مگر نوعی دعایی کردهای ** از جهالت زهربایی خوردهای
“Maybe you have made a prayer of some (peculiar) sort, and from ignorance have (as it were) eaten some poisoned food.
یاد آور چه دعا میگفتهای ** چون ز مکر نفس میآشفتهای
Bring to mind what (sort of) a prayer you said when you were being vexed by the guile of the fleshly soul.”
گفت یادم نیست الا همتی ** دار با من یادم آید ساعتی
He answered, “I do not remember; but direct a (spiritual) influence towards me, and it (the prayer) will come to my memory in a moment.”
از حضور نور بخش مصطفا ** پیش خاطر آمد او را آن دعا2460
Through the light-giving presence of Mustafá (Mohammed), that prayer came into his mind;
همت پیغمبر روشنکده ** پیش خاطر آمدش آن گم شده
(From) the aspiration of the Prophet who dwells in light there came into his mind that which had been lost;