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3615-3639

  • مست آن باشد که آن بیند که نیست ** زر نماید آنچ مس و آهنیست 3615
  • The drunken man is he who sees that which is not: (to him) what is (really) a piece of copper or iron appears to be gold.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد موسیا ** لب بجنبان تا برون روژد گیا
  • This discourse hath no end. (God said), “O Moses, move thy lips, that the herbage may spring forth.”

  • هم‌چنان کرد و هم اندر دم زمین ** سبز گشت از سنبل و حب ثمین
  • He (Moses) did so, and immediately the earth became green with hyacinths and costly grains.

  • اندر افتادند در لوت آن نفر ** قحط دیده مرده از جوع البقر
  • That folk fell to (eating) the food, since they had suffered famine and were (almost) dead from ravenous hunger.

  • چند روزی سیر خوردند از عطا ** آن دمی و آدمی و چارپا
  • For several days they ate their fill of the gift, (both) those who were inspired by that breath (of Moses) and the (other) human beings and the quadrupeds.

  • چون شکم پر گشت و بر نعمت زدند ** وآن ضرورت رفت پس طاغی شدند 3620
  • When their bellies were filled and they grasped the (Divine) bounty and the necessity was gone, then they waxed insolent (in disobedience).

  • نفس فرعونیست هان سیرش مکن ** تا نیارد یاد از آن کفر کهن
  • The carnal soul is a follower of Pharaoh: beware, do not satisfy it, lest it remember its ancient infidelity.

  • بی تف آتش نگردد نفس خوب ** تا نشد آهن چو اخگر هین مکوب
  • Without the glowing heat of the fire (of mortification) the carnal soul will never become goodly: hark, do not beat the iron till it has become like live coals.

  • بی‌مجاعت نیست تن جنبش‌کنان ** آهن سردیست می‌کوبی بدان
  • Without hunger the body makes no movement (towards God): ‘tis cold iron thou art beating. Know (this for sure)!

  • گر بگرید ور بنالد زار زار ** او نخواهد شد مسلمان هوش دار
  • Though it weep and wail most piteously, it will never become a true believer. Take heed!

  • او چو فرعونست در قحط آنچنان ** پیش موسی سر نهد لابه‌کنان 3625
  • It is like Pharaoh: in (the time of) famine it lays its head before Moses, as he (Pharaoh) did, making supplication;

  • چونک مستغنی شد او طاغی شود ** خر چو بار انداخت اسکیزه زند
  • (But) when it has been freed from want, it rebels (once more) when the donkey has cast off his load, he kicks.

  • پس فراموشش شود چون رفت پیش ** کار او زان آه و زاریهای خویش
  • So, when its business has gone forward (prosperously), it (the carnal soul) forgets its sighs and lamentations.

  • سالها مردی که در شهری بود ** یک زمان که چشم در خوابی رود
  • The man who lives in a city (many) years, as soon as his eye goes asleep,

  • شهر دیگر بیند او پر نیک و بد ** هیچ در یادش نیاید شهر خود
  • Beholds another city full of good and evil, and his own city comes not into his memory at all,

  • که من آنجا بوده‌ام این شهر نو ** نیست آن من درینجاام گرو 3630
  • So that (he should say), “I have lived there (so many years); this new city is not mine: here I am (only) in pawn.”

  • بل چنان داند که خود پیوسته او ** هم درین شهرش به دست ابداع و خو
  • Nay, he thinks that in sooth he has always lived in this very city and has been born and bred in it.

  • چه عجب گر روح موطنهای خویش ** که بدستش مسکن و میلاد پیش
  • What wonder (then) if the spirit does not remember its (ancient) abodes, which have been its dwelling-place and birthplace aforetime,

  • می‌نیارد یاد کین دنیا چو خواب ** می‌فرو پوشد چو اختر را سحاب
  • Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars? —

  • خاصه چندین شهرها را کوفته ** گردها از درک او ناروفته
  • Especially as it has trodden so many cities, and the dust has not (yet) been swept from its perceptive faculty,

  • اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا 3635
  • Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past;

  • سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز
  • That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.

  • اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا
  • The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.

  • آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد
  • First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.

  • سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد
  • (Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);

  • وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد
  • And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,