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  • پس سلیمان گفت ای پشه کجا ** باش تا بر هر دو رانم من قضا 4655
  • Then Solomon said, “O gnat, where (art thou going)? Stop, that I may pass judgement on (you) both.”

  • گفت ای شه مرگ من از بود اوست ** خود سیاه این روز من از دود اوست
  • It (the gnat) answered, “O King, my death is from his being: verily, this day of mine is black from his smoke.

  • او چو آمد من کجا یابم قرار ** کو بر آرد از نهاد من دمار
  • Since he has come, where shall I find rest? for he wrings the (vital) breath out of my body.”

  • همچنین جویای درگاه خدا ** چون خدا آمد شود جوینده لا
  • Even such is the seeker of the Court of God: when God comes, the seeker is naughted.

  • گرچه آن وصلت بقا اندر بقاست ** لیک ز اول آن بقا اندر فناست
  • Although that union (with God) is immortality on immortality, yet at first that immortality (baqá) consists in dying to self (faná).

  • سایه‌هایی که بود جویای نور ** نیست گردد چون کند نورش ظهور 4660
  • The reflexions that are seeking the Light are naughted when His Light appears.

  • عقل کی ماند چو باشد سرده او ** کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
  • How should the reason remain when He bids it go?Everything is perishing except His Face.

  • هالک آید پیش وجهش هست و نیست ** هستی اندر نیستی خود طرفه‌ایست
  • Before His Face the existent and the non-existent perish: existence in nonexistence is in sooth a marvellous thing!

  • اندرین محضر خردها شد ز دست ** چون قلم اینجا رسیده شد شکست
  • In this place of presence (all) minds are lost beyond control; when the pen reaches this point, it breaks.

  • نواختن معشوق عاشق بیهوش را تا به هوش باز آید
  • How the Beloved caressed the senseless lover, that he might return to his senses.

  • می‌کشید از بیهشی‌اش در بیان ** اندک اندک از کرم صدر جهان
  • The Sadr-i Jahán, from kindness, was drawing him little by little from senselessness into (the capacity for) clear expression.