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701-725

  • عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنه‏ی او در جهان‏
  • His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.

  • این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی‏
  • Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.

  • آن چه معشوق است صورت نیست آن ** خواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان‏
  • That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.

  • آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشته‏ای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشته‏ای‏
  • That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?

  • صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست‏ 705
  • Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is.

  • آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست‏
  • If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).

  • چون وفا آن عشق افزون می‏کند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون می‏کند
  • Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?

  • پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت‏
  • The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.

  • بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم‏
  • Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.

  • ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش‏ 710
  • You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form,

  • پرتو عقل است آن بر حس تو ** عاریت میدان ذهب بر مس تو
  • That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.

  • چون زر اندود است خوبی در بشر ** ور نه چون شد شاهد تو پیر خر
  • Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?

  • چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد ** کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد
  • She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.

  • اندک اندک می‏ستانند آن جمال ** اندک اندک خشک می‏گردد نهال‏
  • Little by little they take away that beauty: little by little the sapling withers.

  • رو نعمره ننکسه بخوان ** دل طلب کن دل منه بر استخوان‏ 715
  • Go, recite (the text) to whom so We grant length of days, him We cause to decline. Seek the heart (spirit), set not thy heart on bones;

  • کان جمال دل جمال باقی است ** دولتش از آب حیوان ساقی است‏
  • For that beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its fortune gives to drink of the Water of Life.

  • خود هم او آب است و هم ساقی و مست ** هر سه یک شد چون طلسم تو شکست‏
  • Truly it is both the water and the giver of drink and the drunken: all three become one when your talisman is shattered.

  • آن یکی را تو ندانی از قیاس ** بندگی کن ژاژ کم خا ناشناس‏
  • That oneness you cannot know by reasoning. Do service (to God) and refrain from foolish gabble, O undiscerning man!

  • معنی تو صورت است و عاریت ** بر مناسب شادی و بر قافیت‏
  • Your reality is the form and that which is borrowed: you rejoice in what is relative and (secondary like) rhyme.

  • معنی آن باشد که بستاند ترا ** بی‏نیاز از نقش گرداند ترا 720
  • Reality is that which seizes (enraptures) you and makes you independent of form.

  • معنی آن نبود که کور و کر کند ** مرد را بر نقش عاشق‏تر کند
  • Reality is not that which makes blind and deaf and causes a man to be more in love with form.

  • کور را قسمت خیال غم فزاست ** بهره‏ی چشم این خیالات فناست‏
  • The portion of the blind is the fancy that increases pain; the share of the (spiritual) eye is these fancies (ideas) of dying to self (faná).

  • حرف قرآن را ضریران معدن‏اند ** خر نبینند و به پالان بر زنند
  • The blind are a mine (full) of the letter of the Qur’án: they do not see the ass, and (only) cling to the pack-saddle.

  • چون تو بینایی پی خر رو که جست ** چند پالان دوزی ای پالان پرست‏
  • Since you have sight, go after the ass which has jumped (away from you): how long (will you persist in) stitching the saddle, O saddle-worshipper?

  • خر چو هست آید یقین پالان ترا ** کم نگردد نان چو باشد جان ترا 725
  • When the ass is there, the saddle will certainly be yours: bread does not fail when you have the (vital) spirit.