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2017-2026

  • همچو بطان سر فرو برده به آب ** گشته طاوسان و بوده چون غراب‌‌
  • (Sunk in earth) like ducks that have plunged their heads in water, they have become (gay as) peacocks, though (in winter) they were (dark and bare) as crows.

  • در زمستانشان اگر محبوس کرد ** آن غرابان را خدا طاوس کرد
  • If during the winter He imprisoned them (in ice and snow), God made those “crows” “peacocks” (in spring).

  • در زمستانشان اگر چه داد مرگ ** زنده‌‌شان کرد از بهار و داد برگ‌‌
  • Although He put them to death in winter, He revived them by means of spring and gave (them) leaves.

  • منکران گویند خود هست این قدیم ** این چرا بندیم بر رب کریم‌‌ 2020
  • The sceptics say, “This (creation), surely, is eternal: why should we fix it on a beneficent Lord?”

  • کوری ایشان درون دوستان ** حق برویانید باغ و بوستان‌‌
  • God, in despite of them, caused (spiritual) gardens and plots of sweet flowers to grow in the hearts of His friends.

  • هر گلی کاندر درون بویا بود ** آن گل از اسرار کل گویا بود
  • Every rose that is sweet-scented within, that rose is telling of the secrets of the rose.

  • بوی ایشان رغم انف منکران ** گرد عالم می‌‌رود پرده دران‌‌
  • Their scent, to the confusion of the sceptics, is going round the world, rending the veil (of doubt and disbelief).

  • منکران همچون جعل ز آن بوی گل ** یا چو نازک مغز در بانگ دهل‌‌
  • The sceptics, (shrinking) from the scent of the rose like a beetle, or like a delicate (sensitive) brain at the noise of the drum,

  • خویشتن مشغول می‌‌سازند و غرق ** چشم می‌‌دزدند زین لمعان برق‌‌ 2025
  • Feign themselves to be occupied and absorbed, and withdraw their eyes from the flash of the lightning.

  • چشم می‌‌دزدند و آن جا چشم نی ** چشم آن باشد که بیند مأمنی‌‌
  • They withdraw their eyes, but no eye is there: the eye is that which sees a place of safety.