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2067-2076

  • دانه‌ی پرمغز با خاک دژم ** خلوتی و صحبتی کرد از کرم
  • A kernelly seed graciously consorted in solitary intercourse with the dark earth;

  • خویشتن در خاک کلی محو کرد ** تا نماندش رنگ و بو و سرخ و زرد
  • It effaced itself entirely in the earth, so that no colour or scent or red or yellow (hue) remained to it.

  • از پس آن محو قبض او نماند ** پرگشاد و بسط شد مرکب براند
  • After that effacement its constriction ceased: it opened its wings and expanded and sped on its way.

  • پیش اصل خویش چون بی‌خویش شد ** رفت صورت جلوه‌ی معنیش شد 2070
  • Inasmuch as it became selfless in the presence of its origin, the form departed (from it) and its real essence was displayed.’

  • سر چنین کردند هین فرمان تراست ** تف دل از سر چنین کردن بخاست
  • They nodded so (as though saying), ‘Hark, ’tis for thee to command,’ and from their nodding so a flame arose in my heart.

  • ساعتی با آن گروه مجتبی ** چون مراقب گشتم و از خود جدا
  • When for a while I had taken part with that elect company in contemplation (of God) and had been separated from myself,

  • هم در آن ساعت ز ساعت رست جان ** زانک ساعت پیر گرداند جوان
  • At that very hour my spirit was freed from hours (of Time); (I say ‘freed’) because hours make the young old.”

  • جمله تلوینها ز ساعت خاستست ** رست از تلوین که از ساعت برست
  • All changes have arisen from the hours: he that is freed from the hours is freed from change.

  • چون ز ساعت ساعتی بیرون شوی ** چون نماند محرم بی‌چون شوی 2075
  • When for an hour you escape from the hours, relation abides not: you become familiar with that which is without relation.

  • ساعت از بی‌ساعتی آگاه نیست ** زانکش آن سو جز تحیر راه نیست
  • The hours are not acquainted with hourlessness (timelessness), because for him (who is conscious of time) there is no way thither except bewilderment.