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1348-1357

  • عاجزی بی‌قادری اندر جهان ** کس ندیدست و نباشد این بدان
  • No one has seen impotence in the world without power, nor will it (ever) be (so). Know this (for sure).

  • همچنین هر آرزو که می‌بری ** تو ز عیب آن حجابی اندری
  • Similarly, (with) every desire that thou cherishest, thou art debarred from (perceiving) its faultiness;

  • ور نمودی علت آن آرزو ** خود رمیدی جان تو زان جست و جو 1350
  • And if the viciousness of that desire had been shown, thy soul of its own accord would have recoiled from seeking (to gratify it).

  • گر نمودی عیب آن کار او ترا ** کس نبردی کش کشان آن سو ترا
  • If He (God) had shown unto thee the faultiness of that work, no one, dragging (thee) along (by force), would have taken thee in that direction;

  • وان دگر کار کز آن هستی نفور ** زان بود که عیبش آمد در ظهور
  • And (as regards) that other work from which thou art exceedingly averse, the reason is that its faultiness has come into clear view.

  • ای خدای رازدان خوش‌سخن ** عیب کار بد ز ما پنهان مکن
  • O God who knowest the secret and who art gracious in speech, do not hide from us the faultiness of the evil work;

  • عیب کار نیک را منما به ما ** تا نگردیم از روش سرد و هبا
  • (And) do not show unto us the faultiness of the good work, lest we become cold (disgusted) and distracted from journeying (in the Way).

  • هم بر آن عادت سلیمان سنی ** رفت در مسجد میان روشنی 1355
  • According to that (aforesaid) habit, the exalted Solomon went into the Mosque in the brightness (of dawn).

  • قاعده‌ی هر روز را می‌جست شاه ** که ببیند مسجد اندر نو گیاه
  • The king was seeking (to observe) the daily rule of seeing the new plants in the Mosque.

  • دل ببیند سر بدان چشم صفی ** آن حشایش که شد از عامه خفی
  • The heart with that pure eye (which it possesses) sees occultly the (spiritual) herbs that are invisible to the vulgar.

  • قصه‌ی صوفی کی در میان گلستان سر به زانو مراقب بود یارانش گفتند سر برآور تفرج کن بر گلستان و ریاحین و مرغان و آثار رحمةالله تعالی
  • Story of the Súfí who, head on knee, was engaged in (spiritual) meditation in the garden: his friends said to him, "Lift up thy head and enjoy the garden and the sweet herbs and the birds and the marks of the mercy of God most High."