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1841-1850

  • حلیه‌ی روح طبیعی هم فناست ** حلیه‌ی آن جان طلب کان بر سماست
  • The features of the natural (animal) spirit also are perishable: seek the features of that spirit which is above the sky.

  • جسم او هم‌چون چراغی بر زمین ** نور او بالای سقف هفتمین
  • Its body is on the earth, like a lamp, (but) its light is above the Seventh Roof (of heaven).

  • آن شعاع آفتاب اندر وثاق ** قرص او اندر چهارم چارطاق
  • Those rays of the sun are in the house, (but) their orb is in the Fourth Dome (of heaven).

  • نقش گل در زیربینی بهر لاغ ** بوی گل بر سقف و ایوان دماغ
  • The form of the rose is (placed) beneath the nose for idle pleasure's sake, (but) the scent of the rose is on the roof and palace of the brain.

  • مرد خفته در عدن دیده فرق ** عکس آن بر جسم افتاده عرق 1845
  • A man asleep sees terror (dreams of something which terrifies him) at Aden: the reflexion thereof appears as sweat on his body.

  • پیرهن در مصر رهن یک حریص ** پر شده کنعان ز بوی آن قمیص
  • The shirt (of Joseph) was in Egypt in the keeping of one exceedingly careful (of it): (the land of) Canaan was filled with the (sweet) scent of that shirt.

  • بر نبشتند آن زمان تاریخ را ** از کباب آراستند آن سیخ را
  • Thereupon they wrote down the (predicted) date: they adorned the spit with the meat for roasting.

  • چون رسید آن وقت و آن تاریخ راست ** زاده شد آن شاه و نرد ملک باخت
  • When the right time and date arrived, that (spiritual) king was born and played the dice of empire.

  • از پس آن سالها آمد پدید ** بوالحسن بعد وفات بایزید
  • After those years (had passed), Bu ’l-Hasan appeared (in the world) after the death of Báyazíd.

  • جمله‌ی خوهای او ز امساک وجود ** آن‌چنان آمد که آن شه گفته بود 1850
  • All his dispositions, (whether in the way) of withholding tenaciously or bestowing liberally, proved to be such as that (spiritual) king (Báyazíd) had foretold.