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1951-1960

  • احمق ار حلوا نهد اندر لبم ** من از آن حلوای او اندر تبم
  • (But) if the fool put sweetmeat on my lip, I am in a fever from (tasting) his sweetmeat.”

  • این یقین دان گر لطیف و روشنی ** نیست بوسه‌ی کون خر را چاشنی
  • If you are goodly and enlightened, know this for sure, (that) kissing the arse of an ass hath no (delicious) savour.

  • سبلتت گنده کند بی‌فایده ** جامه از دیگش سیه بی‌مایده
  • He (the unsavoury fool) uselessly makes your moustache fetid; your dress is blackened by his kettle without (there being) a table (of food).

  • مایده عقلست نی نان و شوی ** نور عقلست ای پسر جان را غذی
  • Intelligence is the table, not bread and roast-meat: the light of intelligence, O son, is the nutriment for the soul.

  • نیست غیر نور آدم را خورش ** از جز آن جان نیابد پرورش 1955
  • Man hath no food but the light: the soul does not obtain nourishment from aught but that.

  • زین خورشها اندک اندک باز بر ** کین غذای خر بود نه آن حر
  • Little by little cut (yourself) off from the (material) foods –– for these are the nutriment of an ass, not that of a free (noble) man ––

  • تا غذای اصل را قابل شوی ** لقمه‌های نور را آکل شوی
  • So that you may become capable of (absorbing) the original nutriment and may eat habitually the dainty morsels of the light.

  • عکس آن نورست کین نان نان شدست ** فیض آن جانست کین جان جان شدست
  • ‘Tis (from) the reflexion of that light that this bread has become bread; ‘tis (from) the overflowing of that (rational) soul that this (animal) soul has become soul.

  • چون خوری یکبار از ماکول نور ** خاک ریزی بر سر نان و تنور
  • When you eat once of the light you will pour earth over the (material) bread and oven.

  • عقل دو عقلست اول مکسبی ** که در آموزی چو در مکتب صبی 1960
  • Intelligence consists of two intelligences; the former is the acquired one which you learn, like a boy at school,