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  • سبز گردم چون که گوید کشت باش ** زرد گردم چون که گوید زشت باش‌‌
  • When He bids me be a cornfield, I become green; when He bids me be ugly, I become yellow.

  • لحظه‌‌ای ماهم کند یک دم سیاه ** خود چه باشد غیر این کار اله‌‌ 2465
  • At one moment He makes me a moon, at another black.” How, indeed, is the action of God other than this?

  • پیش چوگانهای حکم کن فکان ** می‌‌دویم اندر مکان و لامکان‌‌
  • Before the (blows of the) bat of His decree, “Be, and it was,” we are running (like balls) in Space and beyond.

  • چون که بی‌‌رنگی اسیر رنگ شد ** موسیی با موسیی در جنگ شد
  • Since colourlessness (pure Unity) became the captive of colour (manifestation in the phenomenal world), a Moses came into conflict with a Moses.

  • چون به بی‌‌رنگی رسی کان داشتی ** موسی و فرعون دارند آشتی‌‌
  • When you attain unto the colourlessness which you (originally) possessed, Moses and Pharaoh are at peace (with each other).

  • گر ترا آید بر این نکته سؤال ** رنگ کی خالی بود از قیل و قال‌‌
  • If it occurs to you to ask questions about this mystery, (I reply), how should (the world of) colour be devoid of contradiction?

  • این عجب کاین رنگ از بی‌‌رنگ خاست ** رنگ با بی‌‌رنگ چون در جنگ خاست‌‌ 2470
  • The marvel is that this colour arose from that which is colourless: how did colour arise to war with the colourless?

  • چون که روغن را ز آب اسرشته‌‌اند ** آب با روغن چرا ضد گشته‌‌اند
  • The original source of oil (the oil producing tree) is made to grow by means of water: how (then) does it (oil) finally become opposed to water?

  • چون گل از خار است و خار از گل چرا ** هر دو در جنگند و اندر ماجرا
  • Since the rose springs from the thorn, and the thorn from the rose, why are both of them at war and (engaged) in recrimination?

  • یا نه جنگ است این برای حکمت است ** همچو جنگ خر فروشان صنعت است‌‌
  • Or is this not (really) war? Is it for (the Divine) purpose, (and is it) an artifice, like the bickering of those who sell asses?