می‌شود مبدل بسوز مریمی ** شاخ لب خشکی به نخلی خرمی 1290
A dry-lipped bough is changed into a flourishing palm-tree by the burning (anguish) of a Mary.
ای عجوزه چند کوشی با قضا ** نقد جو اکنون رها کن ما مضی
O (you who are like the) old woman, how long will you strive with the (Divine) destiny? Seek the cash now: let bygones be.
چون رخت را نیست در خوبی امید ** خواه گلگونه نه و خواهی مداد
Since your face hath no hope of (acquiring) beauty, you may either put rouge (on it) or, if you wish, ink.
حکایت آن رنجور کی طبیب درو اومید صحت ندید
Story of the sick man of whose recovery the physician despaired.
آن یکی رنجور شد سوی طبیب ** گفت نبضم را فرو بین ای لبیب
A certain sick man went to a physician and said, “Feel my pulse, O sagacious one,
که ز نبض آگه شوی بر حال دل ** که رگ دستست با دل متصل
That by (feeling) the pulse you may diagnose the state of my heart, for the hand-vein is connected with the heart.”
چونک دل غیبست خواهی زو مثال ** زو بجو که با دلستش اتصال 1295
Since the heart is invisible, if you want a symbol of it, seek (it) from him who hath connexion with the heart.
باد پنهانست از چشم ای امین ** در غبار و جنبش برگش ببین
The wind is hidden from the eye, O trusty (friend), (but) see it in the dust and in the movement of the leaves,
کز یمینست او وزان یا از شمال ** جنبش برگت بگوید وصف حال
(And observe) whether it is blowing from the right or from the left: the movement of the leaves will describe its condition to you.
مستی دل را نمی‌دانی که کو ** وصف او از نرگس مخمور جو
(If) you know not intoxication of the heart (and ask) where (it is), seek the description of it from the inebriated (languid) eye.
چون ز ذات حق بعیدی وصف ذات ** باز دانی از رسول و معجزات
Since you are far from (knowing) the Essence of God, you may recognise the description of the Essence in the Prophet and (his) evidentiary miracles.
معجزاتی و کراماتی خفی ** بر زند بر دل ز پیران صفی 1300
Certain secret miracles and graces (proceeding) from the elect (Súfí) Elders impress the heart (of the disciple);
که درونشان صد قیامت نقد هست ** کمترین آنک شود همسایه مست
For within them (those Elders) there are a hundred immediate (spiritual) resurrections, (of which) the least is this, that their neighbour becomes intoxicated;
پس جلیس الله گشت آن نیک‌بخت ** کو به پهلوی سعیدی برد رخت
Hence that fortunate (disciple) who has devoted himself to a blessed (saint) has become the companion of God.
معجزه کان بر جمادی زد اثر ** یا عصا با بحر یا شق‌القمر
The evidentiary miracle that produced an effect upon something inanimate (is) either (like) the rod (of Moses) or (the passage of) the sea (by the Israelites) or the splitting of the moon.
گر ترا بر جان زند بی‌واسطه ** متصل گردد به پنهان رابطه
If it (the evidentiary miracle) produces an immediate effect upon the soul, (the reason is that) it (the soul) is brought into connexion (with the producer of the effect) by means of a hidden link.
بر جمادات آن اثرها عاریه‌ست ** از پی روح خوش متواریه‌ست 1305
The effects produced upon inanimate objects are (only) accessory: they are (really) for the sake of the fair invisible spirit,
تا از آن جامد اثر گیرد ضمیر ** حبذا نان بی‌هیولای خمیر
In order that the inmost heart may be affected by means of that inanimate object. (But) how (much more) excellent is bread (produced) without the substance (of bread), (namely), dough!
How excellent is the Messiah's table of food without stint! How excellent is Mary's fruit (that was produced) without an orchard!
بر زند از جان کامل معجزات ** بر ضمیر جان طالب چون حیات
Miracles (proceeding) from the spirit of the perfect (saint) affect the soul of the seeker as life (bestowed on the dead).
معجزه بحرست و ناقص مرغ خاک ** مرغ آبی در وی آمن از هلاک
The miracle is (like) the sea, and the deficient (heedless) man is (like) the land-bird (which perishes in the sea); (but) the water-bird is safe from destruction there.
عجزبخش جان هر نامحرمی ** لیک قدرت‌بخش جان هم‌دمی 1310
It (the miracle) bestows infirmity on any one that is uninitiated, but it bestows power on the spirit of an intimate.
چون نیابی این سعادت در ضمیر ** پس ز ظاهر هر دم استدلال گیر
Since you do not feel this bliss in your inmost heart, then continually seek the clue to it from outside,
که اثرها بر مشاعر ظاهرست ** وین اثرها از مثر مخبرست
For effects are apparent to the senses, and these effects give information concerning their producer.
هست پنهان معنی هر داروی ** هم‌چو سحر و صنعت هر جادوی
The virtue of every drug is hidden like magic and the art of any sorcerer;
چون نظر در فعل و آثارش کنی ** گرچه پنهانست اظهارش کنی
(But) when you regard its action and effects, you bring it to light (even) though it is hidden.