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  • هین بیا بینی ببین این خوب را ** نیست در خور بینی این مطلوب را
  • (And if thou say), “Hey, nose, come and see this beauteous one,” the nose is not fit for this purpose.

  • گر بود مشک و گلابی بو برم ** فن من اینست و علم و مخبرم
  • “If there be any musk or rose-water, I will smell it: this is my art and science and knowledge.

  • کی ببینم من رخ آن سیم‌ساق ** هین مکن تکلیف ما لیس یطاق
  • How should I see the face of that silver-shanked one? Take heed, do not lay (on me) as a task that which cannot be done.”

  • باز حس کژ نبیند غیر کژ ** خواه کژ غژ پیش او یا راست غژ
  • Again, the crooked (perverted) sense hath naught but crooked (perverse) perception, (so) go crookedly into His presence or go straight, as thou wilt (it matters not).

  • چشم احول از یکی دیدن یقین ** دانک معزولست ای خواجه معین 2395
  • Know for sure that the eye of him who sees double is remote from seeing the Unity, O Khwája who aidest (the true Religion).

  • تو که فرعونی همه مکری و زرق ** مر مرا از خود نمی‌دانی تو فرق
  • Thou who art a Pharaoh art wholly deceit and hypocrisy: (hence) thou knowest no difference between me and thyself.

  • منگر از خود در من ای کژباز تو ** تا یکی تو را نبینی تو دوتو
  • Do not regard (judge of) me from thyself, O false-playing man, that thou mayst not see the single as double.

  • بنگر اندر من ز من یک ساعتی ** تا ورای کون بینی ساحتی
  • Regard (judge of) me from me (with my eyes) for one moment, that thou mayst behold a spacious region beyond (phenomenal) existence,

  • وا رهی از تنگی و از ننگ و نام ** عشق اندر عشق بینی والسلام
  • And mayst be delivered from straitness and dishonour and renown (good and evil repute) and behold love within love, and peace (be with thee)!

  • پس بدانی چونک رستی از بدن ** گوش و بینی چشم می‌داند شدن 2400
  • Then, when thou hast been delivered from the body, thou wilt know that ear and nose can become eye.

  • راست گفتست آن شه شیرین‌زبان ** چشم گرد مو به موی عارفان
  • That sweet-tongued (spiritual) king has said with truth that every hair of gnostics becomes an eye.

  • چشم را چشمی نبود اول یقین ** در رحم بود او جنین گوشتین
  • Certainly the eye had no eye (vision) at first: it was an embryo of flesh in the womb.

  • علت دیدن مدان پیه ای پسر ** ورنه خواب اندر ندیدی کس صور
  • Deem not the fat (the white of the eye) to be the cause of sight, O son; otherwise none would see (visible) forms in dream.

  • آن پری و دیو می‌بیند شبیه ** نیست اندر دیدگاه هر دو پیه
  • The genie and the demon see the like, and there is no fat in the sight-organ of either.

  • نور را با پیه خود نسبت نبود ** نسبتش بخشید خلاق ودود 2405
  • In fact there was (originally) no relationship between light and the fat (of the eye): the loving Creator gave them relationship.

  • آدمست از خاک کی ماند به خاک ** جنیست از نار بی‌هیچ اشتراک
  • Adam is of earth, (but) how does he resemble earth? The genie is of fire without any participation (of the other elements);

  • نیست مانندای آتش آن پری ** گر چه اصلش اوست چون می‌بنگری
  • (But) the genie is not similar (in form) to fire, though when thou considerest (thou wilt acknowledge that) it is his origin.

  • مرغ از بادست و کی ماند به باد ** نامناسب را خدا نسبت به داد
  • The bird is (originally) of wind (air), (but) how does it resemble wind? God gave relationship to the unrelated.

  • نسبت این فرعها با اصلها ** هست بی‌چون ار چه دادش وصلها
  • The relation of these derivatives to the originals is ineffable, although He connected them.

  • آدمی چون زاده‌ی خاک هباست ** این پسر را با پدر نسبت کجاست 2410
  • Since man is born of dust, where is the relation between this son and his father?

  • نسبتی گر هست مخفی از خرد ** هست بی‌چون و خرد کی پی برد
  • If there is a relation hidden from the understanding, it is ineffable, and how should the understanding follow its track?

  • باد را بی چشم اگر بینش نداد ** فرق چون می‌کرد اندر قوم عاد
  • If He did not give the wind vision without eye, how was it making a distinction among the people of ‘Ád?

  • چون همی دانست مومن از عدو ** چون همی دانست می را از کدو
  • How was it knowing the true believer from the enemy? How was it knowing the wine from the gourd-shaped goblet?

  • آتش نمرود را گر چشم نیست ** با خلیلش چون تجشم کردنیست
  • If the fire of Nimrod hath no eye, how is a taking pains (to show respect) towards Abraham (explicable)?

  • گر نبودی نیل را آن نور و دید ** از چه قبطی را ز سبطی می‌گزید 2415
  • If the Nile had not possessed that light and sight, wherefore should it have picked out the Egyptians from the Israelites?