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1771-1795

  • بر بهارش چشمه و نخل و گیاه ** وآن گلستان و نگارستان گواه
  • Fountains and palms and herbs and rose-beds and plots of bright-coloured flowers bear witness to its springtide.

  • شاهد شاهد هزاران هر طرف ** در گواهی هم‌چو گوهر بر صدف
  • Everywhere thousands of witnesses to the Beloved are (engaged) in bearing testimony, as the pearl (bears testimony) to the oyster-shell.

  • بوی سر بد بیاید از دمت ** وز سر و رو تابد ای لافی غمت
  • (But) from your breath (words) comes the smell of a bad conscience, and your (inward) pain is reflected from your head and face, O braggart!

  • بوشناسانند حاذق در مصاف ** تو به جلدی های هو کم کن گزاف
  • In the battle-field (of this world) there are sagacious ones who know (distinguish) the smell: do not in (your) presumption idly utter (imitate) the ecstatic cries (of the true enthusiasts).

  • تو ملاف از مشک کان بوی پیاز ** از دم تو می‌کند مکشوف راز 1775
  • Do not brag of musk, for that smell of onions is revealing the secret (true nature) of your breath (words and professions).

  • گل‌شکر خوردم همی‌گویی و بوی ** می‌زند از سیر که یافه مگوی
  • You are saying, “I have eaten rose-sugar,” while the smell of garlic is striking (your hearers) and saying (in effect), “Don't talk nonsense.”

  • هست دل ماننده‌ی خانه‌ی کلان ** خانه‌ی دل را نهان همسایگان
  • The heart is like unto a great house: the house of the heart hath neighbours concealed (from view):

  • از شکاف روزن و دیوارها ** مطلع گردند بر اسرار ما
  • Through the window-slit and (crevices in) the walls they observe the hidden thoughts—

  • از شکافی که ندارد هیچ وهم ** صاحب خانه و ندارد هیچ سهم
  • Through a slit whereof the owner of the house hath no conception and in which he hath no share.

  • از نبی بر خوان که دیو و قوم او ** می‌برند از حال انسی خفیه بو 1780
  • Recite from the Qur’án (the verse which declares) that the Devil and his tribe secretly get scent of (become acquainted with) the (inward) state of humankind,

  • از رهی که انس از آن آگاه نیست ** زانک زین محسوس و زین اشباه نیست
  • By a way of which humankind are ignorant, because it is not of this sensible (world) or one of these semblances (phenomenal objects).

  • در میان ناقدان زرقی متن ** با محک ای قلب دون لافی مزن
  • Do not devise any fraud amongst the assayers: do not address any idle boast to the touchstone, O base spurious coin.

  • مر محک را ره بود در نقد و قلب ** که خدایش کرد امیر جسم و قلب
  • The (spiritual) touchstone hath a way to (know) the genuine and the spurious coin, for God made him the commander of (both) body and heart.

  • چون شیاطین با غلیظیهای خویش ** واقف‌اند از سر ما و فکر و کیش
  • Since the devils, notwithstanding their grossnesses, are acquainted with our inmost soul and thought and belief,

  • مسلکی دارند دزدیده درون ** ما ز دزدیهای ایشان سرنگون 1785
  • (And) have a passage (means of penetrating) stealthily within, (so that) we are overthrown by their thievish practices,

  • دم به دم خبط و زیانی می‌کنند ** صاحب نقب و شکاف روزنند
  • (And since) they continually inflict a (great) derangement and damage (upon us), for they are masters of the (interior) tunnel and window-slit—

  • پس چرا جان‌های روشن در جهان ** بی‌خبر باشند از حال نهان
  • Why, then, should the illuminated spirits in the world be unaware of our hidden state?

  • در سرایت کمتر از دیوان شدند ** روحها که خیمه بر گردون زدند
  • Have the spirits that pitched their tent on Heaven become inferior to the devils in respect of permeation (the power of insinuating themselves into our hearts)?

  • دیو دزدانه سوی گردون رود ** از شهاب محرق او مطعون شود
  • The devil goes like a thief towards Heaven, and he is pierced with a burning meteor:

  • سرنگون از چرخ زیر افتد چنان ** که شقی در جنگ از زخم سنان 1790
  • He falls down headlong from the sky as the wretched (infidel falls when smitten) in battle by the blow of the spear-point.

  • آن ز رشک روحهای دل‌پسند ** از فلکشان سرنگون می‌افکنند
  • That is caused by the jealousy (indignation) of the delectable spirits (the prophets and saints): (hence) they (the angels) cast them (the devils) headlong from Heaven.

  • تو اگر شلی و لنگ و کور و کر ** این گمان بر روحهای مه مبر
  • If you are palsied and lame and blind and deaf, (yet) do not hold this (bad) opinion of the great spirits.

  • شرم دار و لاف کم زن جان مکن ** که بسی جاسوس هست آن سوی تن
  • Be ashamed and do not utter idle words, do not torment yourself (in vain), for there are many spies (observing you) beyond the (ken of the) body.

  • دریافتن طبیبان الهی امراض دین و دل را در سیمای مرید و بیگانه و لحن گفتار او و رنگ چشم او و بی این همه نیز از راه دل کی انهم جواسیس القلوب فجالسوهم بالصدق
  • How the divine physicians detect diseases, religious and spiritual, in the countenance of friend or stranger and in the tones of his speech and the colour of his eyes, and even without all these (indications), by the way of the heart; for "verily, they are spies on the hearts (of men); therefore behave with sincerity when ye sit with them."

  • این طبیبان بدن دانش‌ورند ** بر سقام تو ز تو واقف‌ترند
  • These physicians of the body have knowledge (of medicine): they are more acquainted with your malady than you are,

  • تا ز قاروره همی‌بینند حال ** که ندانی تو از آن رو اعتلال 1795
  • So that they perceive the state (of your health) from the urine-bottle, though you cannot know your ailment by that means,