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  • گاه گفتی کین بلای بی‌دواست ** گاه گفتی نه حیات جان ماست
  • Sometimes he would say, “This is an irremediable affliction”; sometimes he would say, “No, it is the life of my spirit.”

  • گاه هستی زو بر آوردی سری ** گاه او از نیستی خوردی بری
  • Sometimes (self-) existence would lift up a head from him (appear in him); sometimes he would eat of the fruit of non-existence.

  • چونک بر وی سرد گشتی این نهاد ** جوش کردی گرم چشمه‌ی اتحاد 4760
  • When this (bodily) nature became cold (irksome and useless) to him, the fountain of union (with the beloved) would boil hotly.

  • چونک با بی‌برگی غربت بساخت ** برگ بی‌برگی به سوی او بتاخت
  • When he put up with (contented himself with) the unprovidedness of exile, the provision of unprovidedness hastened towards him.

  • خوشه‌های فکرتش بی‌کاه شد ** شب‌روان را رهنما چون ماه شد
  • The wheat-ears of his thought were purged of chaff: he became, like the moon, a guide to the night-travellers.

  • ای بسا طوطی گویای خمش ** ای بسا شیرین‌روان رو ترش
  • Oh, there is many a parrot that speaks though it is mute; oh, there is many a sweet-spirited one whose face is sour.

  • رو به گورستان دمی خامش نشین ** آن خموشان سخن‌گو را ببین
  • Go to the graveyard, sit awhile in silence, and behold those eloquent silent ones;

  • لیک اگر یکرنگ بینی خاکشان ** نیست یکسان حالت چالاکشان 4765
  • But, if you see that their dust is of one colour, (yet) their active (spiritual) state is not uniform.

  • شحم و لحم زندگان یکسان بود ** آن یکی غمگین دگر شادان بود
  • The fat and flesh of living persons is uniform, (yet) one is sad, another glad.

  • تو چه دانی تا ننوشی قالشان ** زانک پنهانست بر تو حالشان
  • Until you hear their words, what should you know (of their feelings), inasmuch as their (inward) state is hidden from you?

  • بشنوی از قال های و هوی را ** کی ببینی حالت صدتوی را
  • You may hear words—(cries of) háy, húy; (but) how will you perceive the (inward) state that hath a hundred folds?

  • نقش ما یکسان بضدها متصف ** خاک هم یکسان روانشان مختلف
  • Our (human) figure is uniform, (yet) endued with contrary qualities: likewise their dust is uniform, (yet) their spirits are diverse.

  • همچنین یکسان بود آوازها ** آن یکی پر درد و آن پر نازها 4770
  • Similarly, voices are uniform (as such), (but) one is sorrowful, and another full of charms.

  • بانگ اسپان بشنوی اندر مصاف ** بانگ مرغان بشنوی اندر طواف
  • On the battle-field you may hear the cry of horses; in strolling round (a garden) you may hear the cry of birds.

  • آن یکی از حقد و دیگر ز ارتباط ** آن یکی از رنج و دیگر از نشاط
  • One (voice proceeds) from hate, and another from harmony; one from pain, and another from joy.

  • هر که دور از حالت ایشان بود ** پیشش آن آوازها یکسان بود
  • Whoever is remote from (ignorant of) their (inward) state, to him the voices are uniform.

  • آن درختی جنبد از زخم تبر ** و آن درخت دیگر از باد سحر
  • One tree is moved by blows of the axe, another tree by the breeze of dawn.

  • بس غلط گشتم ز دیگ مردریگ ** زانک سرپوشیده می‌جوشید دیگ 4775
  • Much error befell me from (I was greatly deceived by) the worthless pot, because the pot was boiling (while) covered by the lid.

  • جوش و نوش هرکست گوید بیا ** جوش صدق و جوش تزویر و ریا
  • The fervour and savour of every one says to you, “Come”— the fervour of sincerity and the fervour of imposture and hypocrisy.

  • گر نداری بو ز جان روشناس ** رو دماغی دست آور بوشناس
  • If you have not the scent (discernment derived) from the soul that recognises the face (reality), go, get for yourself a (spiritual) brain (sense) that recognises the scent.

  • آن دماغی که بر آن گلشن تند ** چشم یعقوبان هم او روشن کند
  • The brain (sense) that haunts yon Rose-garden—’tis it that makes bright the eyes of (all) Jacobs.

  • هین بگو احوال آن خسته‌جگر ** کز بخاری دور ماندیم ای پسر
  • Come now, relate what happened to that heart-sick (youth), for we have left the man of Bukhárá far behind, O son.

  • یافتن عاشق معشوق را و بیان آنک جوینده یابنده بود کی و من یعمل مثقال ذرة خیرا یره
  • How the lover found his beloved; and a discourse showing that the seeker is a finder, for he who shall do as much good as the weight of an ant shall see it (in the end).

  • کان جوان در جست و جو بد هفت سال ** از خیال وصل گشته چون خیال 4780
  • (It happened) that for seven years that youth was (engaged) in search and seeking: from (cherishing) the phantasy of union he became like a phantom.

  • سایه‌ی حق بر سر بنده بود ** عاقبت جوینده یابنده بود
  • (If) the shadow (protection) of God be over the head of the servant (of God), the seeker at last will be a finder.

  • گفت پیغامبر که چون کوبی دری ** عاقبت زان در برون آید سری
  • The Prophet said that when you knock at a door, at last a head will come forth from that door.