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1567-1616

  • شیخ کاو ینظر بنور الله شد ** از نهایت وز نخست آگاه شد
  • The Shaykh who has become seeing by the light of God has become acquainted with the end and the beginning.

  • چشم آخر بین ببست از بهر حق ** چشم آخر بین گشاد اندر سبق‏
  • He has shut for God's sake the eye that sees the stable the world); he has opened, in priority, the eye that sees the en .

  • آن حسودان بد درختان بوده‏اند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بوده‏اند
  • Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.

  • از حسد جوشان و کف می‏ریختند ** در نهانی مکر می‏انگیختند 1570
  • They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret,

  • تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند
  • That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;

  • چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود
  • (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?

  • شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده‏
  • The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.

  • در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** می‏زدی خنبک بر آن کوزه‏گران‏
  • In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).

  • مکر می‏سازند قومی حیله‏مند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند 1575
  • Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug;

  • پادشاهی بس عظیمی بی‏کران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران‏
  • (But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?

  • از برای شاه دامی دوختند ** آخر این تدبیر از او آموختند
  • They knitted a net for the King; (yet) after all, they (had) learnt this contrivance from Him.

  • نحس شاگردی که با استاد خویش ** همسری آغازد و آید به پیش‏
  • Ill-starred is the pupil that begins rivalry with his master and comes forward (to contend with him).

  • با کدام استاد استاد جهان ** پیش او یکسان و هویدا و نهان‏
  • With what master? The master of the world, to whom the manifest and the occult are alike;

  • چشم او ینظر بنور الله شده ** پرده‏های جهل را خارق بده‏ 1580
  • Whose eyes have become seeing by the light of God and have rent the veils of ignorance.

  • از دل سوراخ چون کهنه گلیم ** پرده‏ای بندد به پیش آن حکیم‏
  • (Making) a veil of (his) heart, (which is as) full of holes as an old blanket, he (the disciple) puts it on in the presence of that Sage.

  • پرده می‏خندد بر او با صد دهان ** هر دهانی گشته اشکافی بر آن‏
  • The veil laughs at him with a hundred mouths, every mouth having become a slit (open) to that (master). [The veil laughs at him with a hundred mouths, every mouth having become (like) a slit (vulva) in the thighs (of a woman).]

  • گوید آن استاد مر شاگرد را ** ای کم از سگ نیستت با من وفا
  • The master says to the disciple, "O you who are less than a dog, have you no faithfulness to me?

  • خود مرا استا مگیر آهن گسل ** همچو خود شاگرد گیر و کوردل‏
  • Even suppose I am not a master and an iron-breaker, suppose I am a disciple like yourself and blind of heart,

  • نه از منت یاری است در جان و روان ** بی‏منت آبی نمی‏گردد روان‏ 1585
  • Have not you help in spirit and mind from me? Without me no water is set flowing for you.

  • پس دل من کارگاه بخت تست ** چه شکنی این کارگاه ای نادرست‏
  • Therefore my heart is the factory of your fortune: why would you break this factory, O unrighteous one?"

  • گویی‏اش پنهان زنم آتش زنه ** نه به قلب از قلب باشد روزنه‏
  • You may say that you kindle the flame (of rivalry) against him in secret (not openly); but is there not a window between heart and heart?

  • آخر از روزن ببیند فکر تو ** دل گواهی می‏دهد زین ذکر تو
  • After all, he sees your thought through the window: your heart gives testimony as to what you are meditating.

  • گیر در رویت نمالد از کرم ** هر چه گویی خندد و گوید نعم‏
  • Suppose that, from kindness, he does not rebuke you to your face, (and that) whatever you say, he smiles and says "Yes"

  • او نمی‏خندد ز ذوق مالشت ** او همی‏خندد بر آن اسگالشت‏ 1590
  • He does not smile from pleasure at your stroking (flattering him); he smiles at that (concealed) thought of yours.

  • پس خداعی را خداعی شد جزا ** کاسه زن کوزه بخور اینک سزا
  • So a deceit is paid with a deceit: strike with a cup, (and you) get struck with a jug—serve you right!

  • گر بدی با تو و را خنده‏ی رضا ** صد هزاران گل شکفتی مر ترا
  • Were his smile at you one of approval, hundreds of thousands of flowers would blossom for you.

  • چون دل او در رضا آرد عمل ** آفتابی دان که آید در حمل‏
  • When his heart works (for you) in approval, deem it (to be) a sun entering Aries,

  • زو بخندد هم نهار و هم بهار ** در هم آمیزد شکوفه و سبزه‏زار
  • Because of whom both the day and the spring smile, and blossoms and green fields are mingled together,

  • صد هزاران بلبل و قمری نوا ** افکنند اندر جهان بی‏نوا 1595
  • And myriads of nightingales and ringdoves pour their song into the unplenished world.

  • چون که برگ روح خود زرد و سیاه ** می‏ببینی چون ندانی خشم شاه‏
  • When you see the leaves of your spirit yellow and black; how know you not the anger of the King?

  • آفتاب شاه در برج عتاب ** می‏کند روها سیه همچون کباب‏
  • The King's sun, in the (zodiacal) sign of reproach, makes faces black as a piece of roasted meat.

  • آن عطارد را ورقها جان ماست ** آن سپیدی و آن سیه میزان ماست‏
  • Our souls are leaves for that Mercury (to write on): that white and black (writing) is our standard (criterion).

  • باز منشوری نویسد سرخ و سبز ** تا رهند ارواح از سودا و عجز
  • Again, he writes a patent in red and green, that (our) spirits may be delivered from melancholy and despair.

  • سرخ و سبز افتاد نسخ نو بهار ** چون خط قوس و قزح در اعتبار 1600
  • Red and green are Spring's cancellation (of winter); in regard (to their significance they are) like the (coloured) lines of the rainbow.

  • عکس تعظیم پیغام سلیمان علیه السلام در دل بلقیس از صورت حقیر هدهد
  • How reverence for the message of Solomon, on whom be peace, was reflected in the heart of Bilqís from the despicable form of the hoopoe.

  • رحمت صد تو بر آن بلقیس باد ** که خدایش عقل صد مرده بداد
  • Hundredfold mercy be on that Bilqís to whom God gave the intellect of a hundred men!

  • هدهدی نامه بیاورد و نشان ** از سلیمان چند حرفی با بیان‏
  • A hoopoe brought the letter with the (royal) sign-manual from Solomon—a few eloquent words.

  • خواند او آن نکتهای با شمول ** با حقارت ننگرید اندر رسول‏
  • (When) she read those pregnant sayings, she did not look with contempt on the messenger.

  • جسم هدهد دید و جان عنقاش دید ** حس چو کفی دید و دل دریاش دید
  • Her body saw him as a hoopoe, (but) her spirit saw him as the ‘Anqá; her senses saw him as a fleck of foam, (but) her heart saw him as the sea.

  • عقل با حس زین طلسمات دو رنگ ** چون محمد با ابو جهلان به جنگ‏ 1605
  • Because of these two-coloured (diverse) talismans (appearance and reality) the intellect is at war with the senses, as Mohammed with the likes of Abú Jahl.

  • کافران دیدند احمد را بشر ** چون ندیدند از وی انشق القمر
  • The infidels regarded Ahmad (Mohammed) as (only) a man, since they did not see in him (the Prophetic nature which was manifested by the miracle) the moon was cleft asunder.

  • خاک زن در دیده‏ی حس بین خویش ** دیده‏ی حس دشمن عقل است و کیش‏
  • Throw dust on your sense-perceiving eye: the sensuous eye is the enemy of intellect and religion.

  • دیده‏ی حس را خدا اعماش خواند ** بت پرستش گفت و ضد ماش خواند
  • God has called the sensuous eye blind; He has said that it is an idolater and our foe,

  • ز انکه او کف دید و دریا را ندید ** ز انکه حالی دید و فردا را ندید
  • Because it saw the foam and not the sea, because it saw the present and not to-morrow.

  • خواجه‏ی فردا و حالی پیش او ** او نمی‏بیند ز گنجی جز تسو 1610
  • The master of to-morrow and of the present (is) before it; (yet) of a (whole) treasure it sees only a groat.

  • ذره‏ای ز آن آفتاب آرد پیام ** آفتاب آن ذره را گردد غلام‏
  • (If) a mote bring a message from yonder Sun, the sun would become a slave to that mote.

  • قطره‏ای کز بحر وحدت شد سفیر ** هفت بحر آن قطره را باشد اسیر
  • The drop that has become an envoy from the Sea of Unity— the seven seas would be captive to that drop.

  • گر کف خاکی شود چالاک او ** پیش خاکش سر نهد افلاک او
  • If a handful of earth become His courier, His heavens will lay their heads (in homage) before His earth.

  • خاک آدم چون که شد چالاک حق ** پیش خاکش سر نهند املاک حق‏
  • Since the earth of Adam became God's courier, God's angels lay their heads (in worship) before His earth.

  • السماء انشقت آخر از چه بود ** از یکی چشمی که خاکی بر گشود 1615
  • Wherefore (was it), pray, that heaven was rent asunder? Because of one (spiritual) eye that an earthly creature opened.

  • خاک از دردی نشیند زیر آب ** خاک بین کز عرش بگذشت از شتاب‏
  • Earth, from its grossness, settles beneath water; (but) see how earth has sped beyond the empyrean!