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1977-1986

  • از ره و منزل ز کوتاه و دراز ** دل چه داند کوست مست دل‌نواز
  • (And) the heart that is intoxicated with the Sweetheart, what should it know of road and stage or of short (distance) and long?

  • آن دراز و کوته اوصاف تنست ** رفتن ارواح دیگر رفتنست
  • That “long” and “short” are attributes of the body: the faring of spirits is another (kind of) faring.

  • تو سفرکردی ز نطفه تا بعقل ** نه بگامی بود نه منزل نه نقل
  • You have journeyed from the seed to rationality: ’twas not by (taking) a step or (travelling from stage to) stage or moving from one place to another.

  • سیر جان بی چون بود در دور و دیر ** جسم ما از جان بیاموزید سیر 1980
  • The journey of the spirit is unconditioned in respect of Time and Space: our body learned from the spirit how to journey.

  • سیر جسمانه رها کرد او کنون ** می‌رود بی‌چون نهان در شکل چون
  • Now it has relinquished the bodily manner of journeying: it moves unconditioned, (though) masked in the form of conditionedness.

  • گفت روزی می‌شدم مشتاق‌وار ** تا ببینم در بشر انوار یار
  • He (Daqúqí) said, “One day I was going along like him that yearns, that I might behold in man the radiance of the Beloved,

  • تا ببینم قلزمی در قطره‌ای ** آفتابی درج اندر ذره‌ای
  • That I might behold an ocean in a drop of water, a sun enclosed in a mote.

  • چون رسیدم سوی یک ساحل بگام ** بود بیگه گشته روز و وقت شام
  • When I came on foot to a certain shore, the day had turned late, and ’twas eventide.

  • نمودن مثال هفت شمع سوی ساحل
  • The apparition of what seemed like seven candles in the direction of the shore.

  • هفت شمع از دور دیدم ناگهان ** اندر آن ساحل شتابیدم بدان 1985
  • Of a sudden I beheld from afar seven candles and hastened along the shore towards them.

  • نور شعله‌ی هر یکی شمعی از آن ** بر شده خوش تا عنان آسمان
  • The light of the flame of each candle thereof ascended beauteously to the loft of the sky.