این سر خر در میان قندزار ** ای بسا کس را که بنهادست خار
Oh, there is many a one in whom this donkey's head amidst the sugar plantation has fixed a thorn!
ظن ببرد از دور کان آنست و بس ** چون قج مغلوب وا می‌رفت پس
He, (seeing it) from afar, supposed that it (the sugar-plantation) is just that (donkey's head), nothing more; (so) he was retiring, like a ram vanquished in fight.
صورت حرف آن سر خر دان یقین ** در رز معنی و فردوس برین
Know for sure that the (literal) form (of speech) is (like) that donkey's head in the vineyard and highest Paradise of the spiritual reality.
ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین در آر ** این سر خر را در آن بطیخ‌زار
O Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq Husámu’ddín, bring this donkey's head into that melon-field,
تا سر خر چون بمرد از مسلخه ** نشو دیگر بخشدش آن مطبخه3825
In order that, when the donkey's head has died to (has passed beyond) the skinning-place, that kitchen may bestow on it another growth (a spiritual regeneration).
هین ز ما صورت‌گری و جان ز تو ** نه غلط هم این خود و هم آن ز تو
Hark, the shaping (of the poem) is from me, and the spirit (of it) from thee; nay, (I spoke) in error: truly both this and that are from thee.
بر فلک محمودی ای خورشید فاش ** بر زمین هم تا ابد محمود باش
Thou art glorified in Heaven, O conspicuous Sun: be thou also glorified on earth unto everlasting,
تا زمینی با سمایی بلند ** یک‌دل و یک‌قبله و یک‌خو شوند
That the inhabitant of the earth may become one in heart and one in aim and one in nature with the sublime celestial.
تفرقه برخیزد و شرک و دوی ** وحدتست اندر وجود معنوی
(Then) separation and polytheism and duality will disappear: in real existence there is (only) unity.
چون شناسد جان من جان ترا ** یاد آرند اتحاد ماجری3830
When my spirit (fully) recognises thy spirit, they (both) remember their being one in the past,
موسی و هارون شوند اندر زمین ** مختلط خوش هم‌چو شیر و انگبین
And on the earth become (as) Moses and Aaron, sweetly mingled like milk and honey.
چون شناسد اندک و منکر شود ** منکری‌اش پرده‌ی ساتر شود
When it (my spirit) recognises (thy spirit) a little and (then) denies (it), its denial becomes a veil covering (the truth).
پس شناسایی بگردانید رو ** خشم کرد آن مه ز ناشکری او
Many a one who recognised (part of the truth) averted his face: that Moon was angered by his ingratitude.
زین سبب جان نبی را جان بد ** ناشناسا گشت و پشت پای زد
Hence the evil spirit became unable to recognise the spirit of the Prophet and turned on its heel.
این همه خواندی فرو خوان لم یکن ** تا بدانی لج این گبر کهن3835
You have read all this: read (the Súra beginning with the words) Lam yakun, that you may know the obstinacy of that old infidel.
پیش از آنک نقش احمد فر نمود ** نعت او هر گبر را تعویذ بود
Ere the (bodily) form of Ahmad (Mohammed) displayed its glory, the description of him (in the Pentateuch and the Gospel) was a phylactery for every infidel.
کین چنین کس هست تا آید پدید ** از خیال روش دلشان می‌طپید
“There is some one like this” (they said): “(let us wait) till he shall appear”; and their hearts were throbbing at the imagination of (seeing) his face.
سجده می‌کردند کای رب بشر ** در عیان آریش هر چه زودتر
They were prostrating themselves (in prayer), crying, “O Lord of mankind, wilt Thou bring him before our eyes as quickly as may be?”
تا به نام احمد از یستفتحون ** یاغیانشان می‌شدندی سرنگون
(This they did) in order that, by asking (God) to grant them victory in the name of Ahmad, their enemies might be overthrown.
هر کجا حرب مهولی آمدی ** غوثشان کراری احمد بدی3840
Whenever a formidable war arose, Ahmad's pertinacity in onset was always their succour;
هر کجا بیماری مزمن بدی ** یاد اوشان داروی شافی شدی
Wherever there was a chronic sickness, mention (invocation) of him (Ahmad) was always their healing medicine.
نقش او می‌گشت اندر راهشان ** در دل و در گوش و در افواهشان
In (all) their way his form was coming into their hearts and into their ears and into their mouths.
نقش او را کی بیابد هر شعال ** بلک فرع نقش او یعنی خیال
How should every jackal perceive his (real) form? Nay, (they perceived only) the derivative of his form, that is to say, the imaginal idea (of it).
نقش او بر روی دیوار ار فتد ** از دل دیوار خون دل چکد
If his (real) form should fall on the face of a wall, heart's blood would trickle from the heart of the wall;
آنچنان فرخ بود نقشش برو ** که رهد در حال دیوار از دو رو3845
And his form would be so auspicious for it (would bestow such blessing on it) that the wall would at once be saved from having a double face.