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  • یا بگوید صوفیی دیدی تو دوش ** در میان خواب سجاده به دوش‏
  • Or a Súfí may say, “Last night, while asleep, you saw some one with a prayer carpet on his shoulder.

  • من بدم آن و آن چه گفتم خواب در ** با تو اندر خواب در شرح نظر
  • That was I; and what I said to you in the dream, whilst you slumbered, in explanation of clairvoyance—

  • گوش کن چون حلقه اندر گوش کن ** آن سخن را پیشوای هوش کن‏
  • Give ear (to it), put it in your ear like an ear-ring: make those words (of mine) your mind's guide.”

  • چون ترا یاد آید آن خواب این سخن ** معجز نو باشد و زر کهن‏
  • When you recollect the dream, these words (of his) are (as real to you as) a new miracle or old gold.

  • گر چه دعوی می‏نماید این ولی ** جان صاحب واقعه گوید بلی‏ 3590
  • Although this seems to be (mere) assertion (on his part), yet the soul of the dreamer says, “Yes, (it is true).”

  • پس چو حکمت ضاله‏ی مومن بود ** آن ز هر که بشنود موقن بود
  • Therefore, since Wisdom is the faithful believer's stray camel, he knows it with certainty, from whomsoever he has heard it;

  • چون که خود را پیش او یابد فقط ** چون بود شک چون کند او را غلط
  • And when he finds himself absolutely in front of it, how should there be doubt? How should he mistake it?

  • تشنه‏ای را چون بگویی تو شتاب ** در قدح آب است بستان زود آب‏
  • When you say to a thirsty man, “Make haste! there is water in the cup: take the water at once,”

  • هیچ گوید تشنه کاین دعوی است رو ** از برم ای مدعی مهجور شو
  • Will the thirsty man say in any event?—“This is (mere) assertion: go from my side, O pretender! Get thee far away!

  • یا گواه و حجتی بنما که این ** جنس آب است و از آن ماء معین‏ 3595
  • Or (else) produce some testimony and proof that this is of aqueous kind and consists of the water that runs from a spring.

  • یا به طفل شیر مادر بانگ زد ** که بیا من مادرم هان ای ولد
  • Or (suppose that) a mother cries to her suckling babe, “Come, I am mother: hark, my child!”—

  • طفل گوید مادرا حجت بیار ** تا که با شیرت بگیرم من قرار
  • Will the babe say?—“O mother, bring the proof (of it), so that I may take comfort in thy milk.”

  • در دل هر امتی کز حق مزه ست ** روی و آواز پیمبر معجزه ست‏
  • When in the heart of any community there is savour (spiritual perception) from God, the face and voice of the prophet are (as) an evidentiary miracle.

  • چون پیمبر از برون بانگی زند ** جان امت در درون سجده کند
  • When the prophet utters a cry from without, the soul of the community falls to worship within,

  • ز انکه جنس بانگ او اندر جهان ** از کسی نشنیده باشد گوش جان‏ 3600
  • Because never in the world will the soul's ear have heard from any one a cry of the same kind as his.

  • آن غریب از ذوق آواز غریب ** از زبان حق شنود انی قریب‏
  • That stranger (the soul), by immediate perception of the strange (wondrous) voice, has heard from God's tongue (the words), “Verily I am near.”

  • سجده کردن یحیی علیه السلام در شکم مادر مسیح را علیه السلام
  • How Yahyá, on whom be peace, in his mother's womb bowed in worship to the Messiah (Jesus), on whom be peace.

  • مادر یحیی به مریم در نهفت ** پیشتر از وضع حمل خویش گفت‏
  • The mother of Yahyá, before disburdening herself (of him), said in secret to Mary,

  • که یقین دیدم درون تو شهی است ** کاو اولو العزم و رسول آگهی است‏
  • “I see (it) with certainty, within thee is a King who is possessed of firm purpose and is an Apostle endowed with knowledge (of God).

  • چون برابر اوفتادم با تو من ** کرد سجده حمل من اندر زمن‏
  • When I happened to meet thee, my burden (the unborn child) bowed in worship, O intelligent one.

  • این جنین مر آن جنین را سجده کرد ** کز سجودش در تنم افتاد درد 3605
  • This embryo bowed in worship to that embryo, so that pain arose in my body from its bowing.”

  • گفت مریم من درون خویش هم ** سجده‏ای دیدم از این طفل شکم‏
  • Mary said, “I also felt within me a bowing performed by this babe in the womb.”

  • اشکال آوردن بر این قصه‏
  • On raising a difficulty as to this story.

  • ابلهان گویند کاین افسانه را ** خط بکش زیرا دروغ است و خطا
  • The foolish say, “Cancel this tale, because it is false and erroneous.

  • ز انکه مریم وقت وضع حمل خویش ** بود از بیگانه دور و هم ز خویش‏
  • Because Mary at the time of her delivery was far away both from strangers and kinfolk.

  • از برون شهر آن شیرین فسون ** تا نشد فارغ نیامد خود درون‏
  • Until that woman of sweet address was delivered outside of the town, she indeed came not into it.

  • چون بزادش آن گهانش بر کنار ** بر گرفت و برد تا پیش تبار 3610
  • When she had given birth to him, she then took him up in her lap and carried him to her kinsfolk.