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بر سر خاکستر انده نشست ** از بهانه شاخ تا شاخی نجست
- He seated himself on the ashes of contrition: he did not jump from one branch of idle pleading to another
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ربنا انا ظلمنا گفت و بس ** چونک جانداران بدید از پیش و پس
- He said only, ‘O Lord, verily we have done wrong,’ when he saw the (angelic) life-guards in front and behind.
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دید جانداران پنهان همچو جان ** دورباش هر یکی تا آسمان
- He saw the life-guards who are invisible, as the spirit is—each one’s mace (reaching) to the sky—-
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که هلا پیش سلیمان مور باش ** تا بنشکافد ترا این دورباش
- Saying, ‘Hola! be (as) the ant before Solomon, lest this mace cleave thee asunder.
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جز مقام راستی یک دم مهایست ** هیچ لالا مرد را چون چشم نیست 330
- Do not for one moment stand (anywhere) but in the place of truth: a man hath no guardian like the (seeing) eye.
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کور اگر از پند پالوده شود ** هر دمی او باز آلوده شود
- (Even) if the blind man be purified by admonition, he continually becomes polluted again.
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آدما تو نیستی کور از نظر ** لیک اذا جاء القضا عمی البصر
- O Adam, thou art not blind of vision, but when the Divine destiny comes, the sight becomes blind.’”
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عمرها باید به نادر گاهگاه ** تا که بینا از قضا افتد به چاه
- Lifetimes are needed—(so) rarely and occasionally (does it happen)—for the seeing man to fall by destiny into the pit.
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کور را خود این قضا همراه اوست ** که مرورا اوفتادن طبع و خوست
- As regards the blind man, this destiny in sooth is his companion on the way; for ‘tis his nature and disposition to fall.
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در حدث افتد نداند بوی چیست ** از منست این بوی یا ز آلودگیست 335
- He falls into the filth and does not know what the smell is; (he asks himself), “Is this smell from me or from (my) being polluted?”
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ور کسی بر وی کند مشکی نثار ** هم ز خود داند نه از احسان یار
- And likewise, if any one sprinkle some musk over him, he thinks it (comes) from himself and not from the kindness of his friend.
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پس دو چشم روشن ای صاحبنظر ** مر ترا صد مادرست و صد پدر
- Therefore to you, O man of vision, two clear eyes are (as) a hundred mothers and a hundred fathers;
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خاصه چشم دل آن هفتاد توست ** وین دو چشم حس خوشهچین اوست
- Especially the eye of the heart (the spiritual eye), which is seventy-fold and of which these two sensible eyes are (only) the gleaners.
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ای دریغا رهزنان بنشستهاند ** صد گره زیر زبانم بستهاند
- Oh, alas, the highwaymen are seated (and lying in wait for me): they have tied a hundred knots beneath my tongue.
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پایبسته چون رود خوش راهوار ** بس گران بندیست این معذور دار 340
- How should the smooth-paced horse move well, when his leg is tied? This is a very heavy chain: hold me excused!
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این سخن اشکسته میآید دلا ** کین سخن درست غیرت آسیا
- These words (of mine) are coming (forth) brokenly, O heart; for these words are pearls, and (the Divine) jealousy is the mill (which breaks them);
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در اگر چه خرد و اشکسته شود ** توتیای دیدهی خسته شود
- (But), though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become tutty (collyrium) for the sore eye (of the spirit).
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ای در از اشکست خود بر سر مزن ** کز شکستن روشنی خواهی شدن
- O pearl, do not beat thy head (in grief) at thy being broken, for through being broken thou wilt become (radiant) light.
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همچنین اشکسته بسته گفتنیست ** حق کند آخر درستش کو غنیست
- It (the word) has to be uttered thus brokenly and in bandages: God, who is Self-sufficient, will make it whole at last.
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گندم ار بشکست و از هم در سکست ** بر دکان آمد که نک نان درست 345
- If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!”
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تو هم ای عاشق چو جرمت گشت فاش ** آب و روغن ترک کن اشکسته باش
- “Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).
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آنک فرزندان خاص آدماند ** نفحهی انا ظلمنا میدمند
- Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’
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حاجت خود عرضه کن حجت مگو ** همچو ابلیس لعین سخترو
- Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.
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سخترویی گر ورا شد عیبپوش ** در ستیز و سخترویی رو بکوش
- If impudence concealed his fault, go, exert thyself in (showing) obstinacy and impudence!
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آن ابوجهل از پیمبر معجزی ** خواست همچون کینهور ترکی غزی 350
- Abu Jahl, like a vindictive Ghuzz Turcoman, demanded a miracle from the Prophet;