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  • آنچنان که عور اندر آب جست ** تا در آب از زخم زنبوران برست 435
  • ’Tis just as the naked man jumped into the water, that in the water he might escape from the sting of the hornets:

  • می‌کند زنبور بر بالا طواف ** چون بر آرد سر ندارندش معاف
  • The hornets circle above (him), and when he puts out his head they do not spare him.

  • آب ذکر حق و زنبور این زمان ** هست یاد آن فلانه وان فلان
  • The water is recollection (dhikr) of God, and the hornet is the remembrance, during this time, of such-and-such a woman or such-and-such a man.

  • دم بخور در آب ذکر و صبر کن ** تا رهی از فکر و وسواس کهن
  • Swallow (hold) your breath in the water of recollection and show fortitude, that you may be freed from the old thought and temptation.

  • بعد از آن تو طبع آن آب صفا ** خود بگیری جملگی سر تا به پا
  • After that, you yourself will assume the nature of that pure water entirely from head to foot.

  • آنچنان که از آب آن زنبور شر ** می‌گریزد از تو هم گیرد حذر 440
  • As the noxious hornet flees from the water, so will it be afraid of (approaching) you.

  • بعد از آن خواهی تو دور از آب باش ** که بسر هم‌طبع آبی خواجه‌تاش
  • After that, be far from the water, if you wish; for in your inmost soul you are of the same nature as the water, O fellow-servant.

  • بس کسانی کز جهان بگذشته‌اند ** لا نیند و در صفات آغشته‌اند
  • Those persons, then, who have passed from the world are not naught (nonexistent), but they are steeped in the (Divine) Attributes.

  • در صفات حق صفات جمله‌شان ** هم‌چو اختر پیش آن خور بی‌نشان
  • All their attributes are (absorbed) in the Attributes of God, even as the star is (left) without trace in the presence of the sun.

  • گر ز قرآن نقل خواهی ای حرون ** خوان جمیع هم لدینا محضرون
  • If you demand a citation from the Qur’án, O recalcitrant, recite all of them shall be brought into Our presence.

  • محضرون معدوم نبود نیک بین ** تا بقای روحها دانی یقین 445
  • (The person denoted by the word) muhdarún (brought into the presence) is not non-existent (ma‘dúm). Consider (this) well, that you may gain certain knowledge of the everlasting life (baqá) of the spirits.

  • روح محجوب از بقا بس در عذاب ** روح واصل در بقا پاک از حجاب
  • The spirit debarred from everlasting life is exceedingly tormented; the spirit united (with God) in everlasting life is free from (every) barrier.

  • زین چراغ حس حیوان المراد ** گفتمت هان تا نجویی اتحاد
  • I have told you the purpose of this lamp of animal sense-perception. Beware of seeking to become one (with it in spirit).

  • روح خود را متصل کن ای فلان ** زود با ارواح قدس سالکان
  • Make your spirit, O such-and-such, to be united speedily with the holy spirits of the Travellers (on the mystic Way).

  • صد چراغت ار مرند ار بیستند ** پس جدا اند و یگانه نیستند
  • Your hundred lamps, then, whether they die (are extinguished) or whether they stand (and burn), are separate (from each other) and are not single.

  • زان همه جنگند این اصحاب ما ** جنگ کس نشنید اندر انبیا 450
  • On that account these companions of ours are all at war, (but) no one (ever) heard of war amongst the prophets,

  • زانک نور انبیا خورشید بود ** نور حس ما چراغ و شمع و دود
  • Because the light of the prophets was the Sun, (while) the light of our senses is lamp and candle and smoke.

  • یک بمیرد یک بماند تا به روز ** یک بود پژمرده دیگر با فروز
  • One (of these lamps) dies, one lasts till daybreak; one is dim, another bright.

  • جان حیوانی بود حی از غذا ** هم بمیرد او بهر نیک و بذی
  • The animal soul is (kept) alive by nutriment; however good or bad its state may be, it dies all the same.

  • گر بمیرد این چراغ و طی شود ** خانه‌ی همسایه مظلم کی شود
  • If this lamp dies and is extinguished, (yet) how should the neighbour's house become dark?

  • نور آن خانه چو بی این هم به پاست ** پس چراغ حس هر خانه جداست 455
  • Inasmuch as without this (lamp) the light in that house is still maintained, hence (it follows that) the lamp of sense-perception is different in every house.

  • این مثال جان حیوانی بود ** نه مثال جان ربانی بود
  • This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.

  • باز از هندوی شب چون ماه زاد ** در سر هر روزنی نوری فتاد
  • Again, when the moon is born from the Hindú, Night, a light falls upon every window.

  • نور آن صد خانه را تو یک شمر ** که نماند نور این بی آن دگر
  • Count the light of those hundred houses as one, for the light of this (house) does not remain (in existence) without (the light of) the other.

  • تا بود خورشید تابان بر افق ** هست در هر خانه نور او قنق
  • So long as the sun is shining on the horizon, its light is a guest in every house;