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  • من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیل ** من نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل
  • “I am the Khalíl (Abraham) of the present time, and he is the Gabriel: I do not want him as a guide (to deliver me) in calamity.

  • او ادب ناموخت از جبریل راد ** که بپرسید از خیل حق مراد 2975
  • He did not learn respectfulness (as he might) from noble Gabriel, who asked the Friend of God (Abraham) what was his wish,

  • که مرادت هست تا یاری کنم ** ورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم
  • Saying, ‘Hast thou a wish?—that I may help (thee to obtain it); otherwise, I will flee and make a speedy departure.’

  • گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میان ** واسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان
  • Abraham said, ‘No; begone out of the way! After direct vision the intermediary is (only) an inconvenience.’

  • بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه ** مومنان را زانک هست او واسطه
  • On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).

  • هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
  • If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?

  • گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست ** لیک کار من از آن نازکترست 2980
  • Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that.

  • کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی شاهست لیک ** پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک
  • His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”

  • آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
  • That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).

  • بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
  • Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;

  • کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
  • For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.

  • بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف 2985
  • Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words;

  • لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
  • But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.

  • هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
  • This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.

  • هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر ** جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر
  • The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,

  • زانک داند کین جهان کاشتن ** هست بهر محشر و برداشتن
  • Because he knows that this world of sowing is for the sake of the (Last) Congregation and (for the sake of) gathering in (the harvest).

  • هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبود ** بلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود 2990
  • No contract (of sale) was (ever made) for the sake of itself; nay, but for the sake of (being in) the position of (making) gain and profit.

  • هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگری ** منکری‌اش بهر عین منکری
  • There is no disbeliever, if you look (carefully), whose disbelief is for the sake of the disbelief itself;

  • بل برای قهر خصم اندر حسد ** یا فزونی جستن و اظهار خود
  • Nay, but (it is) for the purpose of subduing his adversary in envy (of him), or seeking superiority and self-display.

  • وآن فزونی هم پی طمع دگر ** بی‌معانی چاشنی ندهد صور
  • And that superiority too is for the sake of some other desire: the forms give no relish without the essential meanings.

  • زان همی‌پرسی چرا این می‌کنی ** که صور زیتست و معنی روشنی
  • You ask “Why art thou doing this?” because the forms are (as) the oil, and the essential meaning is (as) the light.

  • ورنه این گفتن چرا از بهر چیست ** چونک صورت بهر عین صورتیست 2995
  • Otherwise, wherefore is this saying “why”?—since (hypothetically) the form is for the sake of the form itself.

  • این چرا گفتن سال از فایده‌ست ** جز برای این چرا گفتن بدست
  • This saying “why” is a question concerning the use (reason): it is bad to say “why” for any cause but this.

  • از چه رو فایده‌ی جویی ای امین ** چون بود فایده این خود همین
  • Wherefore, O trusty one, should you desire (to know) the use (reason)?—since (hypothetically) the use of this (form) is only this (form itself).

  • پس نقوش آسمان و اهل زمین ** نیست حکمت کان بود بهر همین
  • Hence it is not (in accordance with) wisdom that the forms of heaven and (those of) the people of the earth should be (created) for this only.