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گریهی پر جهل و پر تقلید و ظن ** نیست همچون گریهی آن متمن
- A weeping full of ignorance and conformity and (mere) opinion is not like the weeping of that trusted one.
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تو قیاس گریه بر گریه مساز ** هست زین گریه بدان راه دراز
- Do not judge (one) weeping by the analogy of (another) weeping: ’tis a long way from this weeping to that (weeping).
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هست آن از بعد سیساله جهاد ** عقل آنجا هیچ نتواند فتاد 1305
- That (weeping) is after a thirty years' (spiritual) warfare: the intellect can never get there.
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هست زان سوی خرد صد مرحله ** عقل را واقف مدان زان قافله
- Beyond reason there are a hundred stages: deem not the intellect to be acquainted with that caravan.
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گریهی او نه از غمست و نه از فرح ** روح داند گریهی عین الملح
- His weeping is neither from sorrow nor from joy: (only) the spirit knows the weeping of (him who is) the fountain of beauties.
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گریهی او خندهی او آن سریست ** زانچ وهم عقل باشد آن بریست
- His weeping, his laughter—(both) are of Yonder (World) and transcend all that the intellect may conceive.
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آب دیدهی او چو دیدهی او بود ** دیدهی نادیده دیده کی شود
- His tears are like his eye: how should the sightless eye become a (seeing) eye?
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آنچ او بیند نتان کردن مساس ** نه از قیاس عقل و نه از راه حواس 1310
- That which he sees cannot be touched (apprehended) either by the analogical judgement of the intellect or by way of the senses.
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شب گریزد چونک نور آید ز دور ** پس چه داند ظلمت شب حال نور
- Night flees when Light comes from afar: what, then, should the darkness of Night know concerning Light?
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پشه بگریزد ز باد با دها ** پس چه داند پشه ذوق بادها
- The gnat flees from the keen wind: what, then, should the gnat know of the (delicious) savour of the winds?
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چون قدیم آید حدث گردد عبث ** پس کجا داند قدیمی را حدث
- When the Eternal comes, the temporal is made vain: what, then, should the temporal know of Eternity?
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بر حدث چون زد قدم دنگش کند ** چونک کردش نیست همرنگش کند
- When Eternity comes in contact with the temporal, it strikes it dumb; when it has naughted it, it makes it homogeneous (with itself).
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گر بخواهی تو بیایی صد نظیر ** لیک من پروا ندارم ای فقیر 1315
- You can find a hundred parallels (of this sort) if you wish, but I do not care (to supply them), O dervish.
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این الم و حم این حروف ** چون عصای موسی آمد در وقوف
- This Alif-Lám-Mím and Há-Mím—these Letters become, on (real) comprehension (of their meaning), like the rod of Moses.
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حرفها ماند بدین حرف از برون ** لیک باشد در صفات این زبون
- The (other) letters resemble these Letters outwardly but are subject (to them) in respect of the (sublime) attributes of the latter.
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هر که گیرد او عصایی ز امتحان ** کی بود چون آن عصا وقت بیان
- A staff that any one takes on trial—how should it be described as being like that staff (Moses' rod)?
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عیسویست این دم نه هر باد و دمی ** که برآید از فرح یا از غمی
- This Breath is (like the breath) of Jesus (in its effects); it is not (like) any wind and breath that arises from joy or sorrow.
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این الم است و حم ای پدر ** آمدست از حضرت مولی البشر 1320
- This Alif-Lám-Mím and Há-Mím, O father, have come from the presence of the Lord of Mankind.
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هر الف لامی چه میماند بدین ** گر تو جان داری بدین چشمش مبین
- What resemblance has any (other) alif-lám to these? Do not regard them with this (external) eye, if you have a (rational) soul.
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گر چه ترکیبش حروفست ای همام ** میبماند هم به ترکیب عوام
- Although they are composed of letters, O sire, and resemble the composition of (words used by) the common folk, (yet they are not the same).
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هست ترکیب محمد لحم و پوست ** گرچه در ترکیب هر تن جنس اوست
- Mohammed is composed of flesh and skin; (but he is unique) although every body is homogeneous with him in its composition.
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گوشت دارد پوست دارد استخوان ** هیچ این ترکیب را باشد همان
- It hath flesh, it hath skin and bone; (yet) has this (ordinary) constitution the same (qualities as his)?
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که اندر آن ترکیب آمد معجزات ** که همه ترکیبها گشتند مات 1325
- (No); for in that constitution (of Mohammed) there appeared miracles by which all (other) constitutions were vanquished.
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همچنان ترکیب حم کتاب ** هست بس بالا و دیگرها نشیب
- Likewise, the composition of the (Letters) Há-Mím in the (Holy) Book is exceedingly lofty, while the others are low (in comparison),
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زانک زین ترکیب آید زندگی ** همچو نفخ صور در درماندگی
- Because from this composition comes life, like the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection), (to those) in helplessness.