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2194-2203

  • وای کز آواز این بیست و چهار ** کاروان بگذشت و بی‌‌گه شد نهار
  • Alas that from (my preoccupation with) the sound of these four-and-twenty (melodies) the caravan passed and the day grew late.”

  • ای خدا فریاد زین فریادخواه ** داد خواهم نه ز کس زین داد خواه‌‌ 2195
  • O God, help (me) against this (self of mine) that is seeking help (from Thee): I seek justice (redress) from no one (else, but only) from this justice-seeking (self).

  • داد خود از کس نیابم جز مگر ** ز آن که او از من به من نزدیکتر
  • I shall not get justice for myself from any one except, surely, from Him who is nearer to me than I;

  • کاین منی از وی رسد دم دم مرا ** پس و را بینم چو این شد کم مرا
  • For this “I-hood” comes to me from Him moment by moment: therefore when this has failed me, I see (only) Him,

  • همچو آن کاو با تو باشد زر شمر ** سوی او داری نه سوی خود نظر
  • As (when you are with) one who is counting out gold to you, you keep your gaze (directed) towards him, not towards yourself.

  • گردانیدن عمر نظر او را از مقام گریه که هستی است به مقام استغراق که نیستی است‌‌
  • How ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, bade him (the harper) turn his gaze from the stage of weeping, which is (self-) existence, to the stage of absorption (in God).

  • پس عمر گفتش که این زاری تو ** هست هم آثار هشیاری تو
  • Then ‘Umar said to him, “This wailing of thine is also (one of) the marks of thy sobriety (self-consciousness).

  • راه فانی گشته راهی دیگر است ** ز آن که هشیاری گناهی دیگر است‌‌ 2200
  • The way of him that has passed away (from self-consciousness) is another way, because sobriety is another sin.

  • هست هشیاری ز یاد ما مضی ** ماضی و مستقبلت پرده‌‌ی خدا
  • Sobriety exists (arises) from recollection of what is past: past and future are to thee a curtain (separating thee) from God.

  • آتش اندر زن به هر دو تا به کی ** پر گره باشی از این هر دو چو نی‌‌
  • Cast fire on them both: how long, because of these twain, wilt thou be full of knots (joints) like a reed?

  • تا گره با نی بود هم راز نیست ** همنشین آن لب و آواز نیست‌‌
  • Whilst the reed is knotted, it is not a sharer of secrets: it is not the companion of the (flute-player's) lip and voice.