آنچنانک آب در گل سر کشد ** که منم آب و چرا جویم مدد
That is as though the water in the earth should scornfully refuse, saying, “I am the water, and why should I seek aid?”
دل تو این آلوده را پنداشتی ** لاجرم دل ز اهل دل برداشتی
You fancied this polluted (heart) was the (pure) heart; consequently you averted your heart from those possessed of (purified) hearts.
خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین
Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?
لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست2265
The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.
پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایه‌ی دل چون بود دل را غرض
Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?
آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه
Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),
یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** می‌پرستدشان برای گفت و گو
Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?
دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور
The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?
نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام2270
The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which?
ریزه‌ی دل را بهل دل را بجو ** تا شود آن ریزه چون کوهی ازو
Leave (what is only) a fragment of the heart and seek the (perfect) heart, in order that by means of it that fragment may become as a mountain.
دل محیطست اندرین خطه‌ی وجود ** زر همی‌افشاند از احسان و جود
The (perfect) heart is encompassing (the whole of) this realm of existence and scattering gold in beneficence and bounty.
از سلام حق سلامیها نثار ** می‌کند بر اهل عالم اختیار
It chooses to lavish blessings derived from the Blessedness of God upon the people of the world.
هر که را دامن درستست و معد ** آن نثار دل بر آنکس می‌رسد
Whosoever's skirt is right and ready, the largesse of the heart comes to that person.
دامن تو آن نیازست و حضور ** هین منه در دامن آن سنگ فجور2275
Your skirt (to catch that largesse) is supplication and presence (with God): beware, do not put in your skirt the stone of iniquity,
تا ندرد دامنت زان سنگها ** تا بدانی نقد را از رنگها
In order that your skirt may not be torn by those stones and that you may distinguish the sterling coin (of truth) from the colours (of falsehood).
سنگ پر کردی تو دامن از جهان ** هم ز سنگ سیم و زر چون کودکان
You have filled your skirt with stones (of iniquity) from this world, and also with stones of silver and gold, as children (do).
از خیال سیم و زر چون زر نبود ** دامن صدقت درید و غم فزود
Inasmuch as from that fancy of silver and gold there was no (real) gold, the skirt of your sincerity was rent and your sorrow increased.
کی نماید کودکان را سنگ سنگ ** تا نگیرد عقل دامنشان به چنگ
How should the (coloured) stone appear to the children as stone, till Reason lays hold of their skirts?
پیر عقل آمد نه آن موی سپید ** مو نمی‌گنجد درین بخت و امید2280
The Elder (Pír) is Reason, not that white hair (of eld): hair is not contained in (has nothing to do with) this fortune and hope (which is bestowed by Reason).
انکار کردن آن جماعت بر دعا و شفاعت دقوقی و پریدن ایشان و ناپیدا شدن در پرده‌ی غیب و حیران شدن دقوقی کی در هوا رفتند یا در زمین
How the company (of the Seven) took offence at Daqúqí's invocation and intercession, and flew away and disappeared in the Veil of the Unseen World; and how Daqúqí was bewildered (and did not know) whether they had gone into the air or on the earth.
چون رهید آن کشتی و آمد بکام ** شد نماز آن جماعت هم تمام
“When the ship was saved and (the voyagers) attained to their desire, simultaneously the (ritual) prayer of that company was finished.
فجفجی افتادشان با همدگر ** کین فضولی کیست از ما ای پدر
They began to murmur to one another, saying, ‘O father, which of us is this (interfering) busybody?’
هر یکی با آن دگر گفتند سر ** از پس پشت دقوقی مستتر
Each one spoke in secret to the other, (whilst they were) concealed (from view) behind Daqúqí's back,
گفت هر یک من نکردستم کنون ** این دعا نه از برون نه از درون
And each one said, ‘I did not make this invocation just now, either externally or internally.’
گفت مانا این امام ما ز درد ** بوالفضولانه مناجاتی بکرد2285
He (one of the company) said, ‘It would seem that this Imám of ours, (moved) by grief, has meddlesomely offered an orison.’
گفت آن دیگر که ای یار یقین ** مر مرا هم می‌نماید این چنین
Said the other, ‘O thou who art familiar with (intuitive) certainty, so it appears to me too.