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1577-1586

  • چون بنالد زار بی‌‌شکر و گله ** افتد اندر هفت گردون غلغله‌‌
  • When he moans bitterly, without thanksgiving or complaint, a noise of tumult falls on (arises in) the Seven Spheres (of Heaven).

  • هر دمش صد نامه صد پیک از خدا ** یا ربی زو شصت لبیک از خدا
  • At every moment (there come) to him from God a hundred missives, a hundred couriers: from him one (cry of) “O my Lord!” and from God a hundred (cries of) “Labbayka” (“Here am I”).

  • زلت او به ز طاعت نزد حق ** پیش کفرش جمله ایمانها خلق‌‌
  • In the sight of God his backsliding is better than obedience; beside his infidelity all faiths are tattered (worthless).

  • هر دمی او را یکی معراج خاص ** بر سر تاجش نهد صد تاج خاص‌‌ 1580
  • Every moment he hath an ascension (to God) peculiar to himself: He (God) lays upon his crown a hundred peculiar crowns.

  • صورتش بر خاک و جان بر لامکان ** لامکانی فوق وهم سالکان‌‌
  • His form is on earth and his spirit in “no-place,” a “no-place” beyond the imagination of travellers (on the mystic Way):

  • لامکانی نه که در فهم آیدت ** هر دمی در وی خیالی زایدت‌‌
  • Not such a “no-place” that it should come into thy understanding (or that) a fancy about it should be born in thee every moment;

  • بل مکان و لامکان در حکم او ** همچو در حکم بهشتی چارجو
  • Nay, place and “no-place” are in his control, just as the four (Paradisal) rivers are in the control of one who dwells in Paradise.

  • شرح این کوته کن و رخ زین بتاب ** دم مزن و الله اعلم بالصواب‌‌
  • Cut short the explanation of this and avert thy face from it: do not breathe a word (more)—and God knows best what is right.

  • باز می‌‌گردیم ما ای دوستان ** سوی مرغ و تاجر و هندوستان‌‌ 1585
  • We return, O friends, to the bird and the merchant and India.

  • مرد بازرگان پذیرفت این پیام ** کاو رساند سوی جنس از وی سلام‌‌
  • The merchant accepted this message (and promised) that he would convey the greeting from her (the parrot) to her congeners.

  • دیدن خواجه طوطیان هندوستان را در دشت و پیغام رسانیدن از آن طوطی‌‌
  • How the merchant saw the parrots of India in the plain and delivered the parrot's message.