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751-775

  • چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر ** عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
  • When he reaches the spot, he sees wolves and lions, his life lost, the road far off, and the day late.

  • چون بود آن بانگ غول آخر بگو ** مال خواهم جاه خواهم و آبرو
  • Prithee say, what is the ghoul's cry like? (It is) “I desire riches, I desire position and renown.”

  • از درون خویش این آوازها ** منع کن تا کشف گردد رازها
  • Prevent these voices from (entering) your heart, so that (spiritual) mysteries may be revealed.

  • ذکر حق کن بانگ غولان را بسوز ** چشم نرگس را از این کرکس بدوز
  • Repeat (in prayer) the name of God, drown the cry of the ghouls, close your narcissus eye to this vulture.

  • صبح کاذب را ز صادق واشناس ** رنگ می را باز دان از رنگ کاس‏ 755
  • Know the difference between the false dawn and the true, distinguish the colour of the wine from the colour of the cup,

  • تا بود کز دیده‏گان هفت رنگ ** دیده‏ای پیدا کند صبر و درنگ‏
  • That, perchance, from the eyes which see the seven colours patience and waiting may produce a (spiritual) eye,

  • رنگها بینی بجز این رنگها ** گوهران بینی به جای سنگها
  • (With which) you may behold colours other than these, and may behold pearls instead of stones.

  • گوهر چه بلکه دریایی شوی ** آفتاب چرخ پیمایی شوی‏
  • What pearl? Nay, you will become an ocean, you will become a sun traversing the sky.

  • کار کن در کارگه باشد نهان ** تو برو در کارگه بینش عیان‏
  • The Worker is hidden in the workshop: go you and in the workshop see Him plain.

  • کار چون بر کار کن پرده تنید ** خارج آن کار نتوانیش دید 760
  • Inasmuch as the work has woven a veil over the Worker, you cannot see Him outside of that work.

  • کارگه چون جای باش عامل است ** آن که بیرون است از وی غافل است‏
  • Since the workshop is the dwelling-place of the Worker, he that is outside is unaware of Him.

  • پس در آ در کارگه یعنی عدم ** تا ببینی صنع و صانع را بهم‏
  • Come, then, into the workshop, that is to say, non-existence, that you may see the work and the Worker together.

  • کارگه چون جای روشن دیده‏گی است ** پس برون کارگه پوشیدگی است‏
  • As the workshop is the place of clairvoyance, then outside of the workshop there is (only) blindfold ness.

  • رو به هستی داشت فرعون عنود ** لاجرم از کارگاهش کور بود
  • The rebellious Pharaoh kept his face towards existence, consequently he was blind to His (God's) workshop.

  • لاجرم می‏خواست تبدیل قدر ** تا قضا را باز گرداند ز در 765
  • Consequently he was wishing to alter the (Divine) predestination, that he might turn back the (Divine) destiny from his door.

  • خود قضا بر سبلت آن حیله‏مند ** زیر لب می‏کرد هر دم ریش‏خند
  • Truly the (Divine) destiny every moment was laughing derisively under its lip at the moustache (arrogance) of that cunning plotter.

  • صد هزاران طفل کشت او بی‏گناه ** تا بگردد حکم و تقدیر اله‏
  • He killed hundreds of thousands of innocent babes, in order that the ordainment and predestination of God might be averted.

  • تا که موسای نبی ناید برون ** کرد در گردن هزاران ظلم و خون‏
  • In order that the prophet Moses might not come forth, he laid on his neck (made himself responsible for) thousands of iniquities and murders.

  • آن همه خون کرد و موسی زاده شد ** و ز برای قهر او آماده شد
  • He wrought all that bloodshed, and (yet) Moses was born and was made ready for his chastisement.

  • گر بدیدی کارگاه لا یزال ** دست و پایش خشک گشتی ز احتیال‏ 770
  • Had he seen the workshop of the Everlasting (God), he would have ceased to move hand or foot in plotting.

  • اندرون خانه‏اش موسی معاف ** و ز برون می‏کشت طفلان را گزاف‏
  • Moses (lay) safe within his (Pharaoh's) house, while outside he was killing the infants in vain,

  • همچو صاحب نفس کاو تن پرورد ** بر دگر کس ظن حقدی می‏برد
  • Even as the sensual man who pampers his body and suspects some one else of a bitter hatred (against him),

  • کاین عدو و آن حسود و دشمن است ** خود حسود و دشمن او آن تن است‏
  • Saying, “This one is a foe, and that one is envious and an enemy,” (though) in truth his envier and enemy is that body (of his).

  • او چو موسی و تنش فرعون او ** او به بیرون می‏دود که کو عدو
  • He is like Moses, and his body is his Pharaoh: he keeps running (to and fro) outside, asking, “Where is my enemy?”

  • نفسش اندر خانه‏ی تن نازنین ** بر دگر کس دست می‏خاید به کین‏ 775
  • His fleshly soul (is) luxuriating in the house, which is his body, (while) he gnaws his hand in rancour against some one else.

  • ملامت کردن مردم شخصی را که مادرش را کشت به تهمت
  • How men blamed a person who killed his mother because he suspected her (of adultery).