در وجود تو شوم من منعدم ** چون محبم حب یعمی و یصم2645
I will become non-existent in thy existence, because I am thy lover: love makes blind and deaf.”
گفت زن آهنگ برم میکنی ** یا به حیلت کشف سرم میکنی
The wife said, “Dost thou intend to treat me with kindness, or art thou (bent on) discovering my secret by trickery?”
گفت و الله عالم السر الخفی ** کافرید از خاک آدم را صفی
He said, “(No), by God who knows the thought most deeply hid, who out of dust created Adam pure (chosen above all),
در سه گز قالب که دادش وا نمود ** هر چه در الواح و در ارواح بود
Who, in the body three cubits long which He gave him, displayed everything that was contained in the tablets (of destiny) and the (world of) spirits.
تا ابد هر چه بود او پیش پیش ** درس کرد از علم الاسماء خویش
Through his He (God) taught him (Adam) the Names (through his God-given knowledge) he at the very first gave instruction (to the angels) concerning everything that shall come to pass unto everlasting,
تا ملک بیخود شد از تدریس او ** قدس دیگر یافت از تقدیس او2650
So that the angels became beside themselves (in amazement) at his teaching, and gained from his glorification (of God) a holiness other (than they possessed before).
آن گشادیشان کز آدم رو نمود ** در گشاد آسمانهاشان نبود
The revelation that appeared to them from Adam was not (contained) in the amplitude of their heavens.
در فراخی عرصهی آن پاک جان ** تنگ آمد عرصهی هفت آسمان
In comparison with the spaciousness of the range of that pure spirit (Adam), the expanse of the seven heavens became narrow.
گفت پیغمبر که حق فرموده است ** من نگنجم هیچ در بالا و پست
The Prophet said that God has said, ‘I am not contained at all in “high” and “low” (spatial dimensions);
در زمین و آسمان و عرش نیز ** من نگنجم این یقین دان ای عزیز
I am not contained in earth or heaven or even in the empyrean—know this for certain, O noble one;