English    Türkçe    فارسی   

3
3349-3358

  • این ریاضتهای درویشان چراست ** کان بلا بر تن بقای جانهاست
  • These austerities of dervishes—what are they for? (The reason is) that that tribulation (imposed) on the body is (in effect) the everlasting life of spirits.

  • تا بقای خود نیابد سالکی ** چون کند تن را سقیم و هالکی 3350
  • Unless a (mystic) traveller gains the everlasting life of his (spiritual) self, how should he make his body a sick and perishing (thing)?

  • دست کی جنبد به ایثار و عمل ** تا نبیند داده را جانش بدل
  • How should he move his hand to (acts of) altruism and (devotional) work unless he sees (the salvation of) his soul in exchange for what is given (by him)?

  • آنک بدهد بی امید سودها ** آن خدایست آن خدایست آن خدا
  • That one who gives without expectation of (any) gains—that one is God, is God, is God,

  • یا ولی حق که خوی حق گرفت ** نور گشت و تابش مطلق گرفت
  • Or the friend of God (the saint), who has assumed the nature of God and has become luminous and has received the Absolute Radiance;

  • کو غنی است و جز او جمله فقیر ** کی فقیری بی عوض گوید که گیر
  • For He is rich, while all except Him are poor: how should a poor man say “Take” without compensation?

  • تا نبیند کودکی که سیب هست ** او پیاز گنده را ندهد ز دست 3355
  • Till a child sees that the apple is there, it will not give up from its hand the stinking onion.

  • این همه بازار بهر این غرض ** بر دکانها شسته بر بوی عوض
  • All these market-folk, for the sake of this (worldly) object, are seated on the benches (in the shops) in the hope of (receiving) compensation:

  • صد متاع خوب عرضه می‌کنند ** واندرون دل عوضها می‌تنند
  • They offer a hundred fine articles of merchandise, and within their hearts they are intent on compensations.

  • یک سلامی نشنوی ای مرد دین ** که نگیرد آخرت آن آستین
  • O man of the (true) Religion, you will not hear a single salaam (blessing) whereof the end will not pluck your sleeve (and demand something of you).