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2970-2979

  • علم الاسما بد آدم را امام ** لیک نه اندر لباس عین و لام 2970
  • He (God) taught (him) the names was an Imám (an infallible authority) for Adam; but (the teaching was) not in the garb of (letters such as) ‘ayn and lám.

  • چون نهاد از آب و گل بر سر کلاه ** گشت آن اسمای جانی روسیاه
  • When he put on his head the cap of water and clay, those spiritual names became black-faced,

  • که نقاب حرف و دم در خود کشید ** تا شود بر آب و گل معنی پدید
  • For they assumed the veil of letters and breath, (only) in order that the essential reality might (gradually) be made manifest to the water and clay.

  • گرچه از یک وجه منطق کاشف است ** لیک از ده وجه پرده و مکنف است
  • Although from one point of view speech is a revealer, yet from ten points of view it is a curtain and concealer.

  • گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا
  • How Khalíl (Abraham) answered Gabriel, on both of whom be peace, when he asked him, "Hast thou any need?"—"As regards need of thee, no!"

  • من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیل ** من نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل
  • “I am the Khalíl (Abraham) of the present time, and he is the Gabriel: I do not want him as a guide (to deliver me) in calamity.

  • او ادب ناموخت از جبریل راد ** که بپرسید از خیل حق مراد 2975
  • He did not learn respectfulness (as he might) from noble Gabriel, who asked the Friend of God (Abraham) what was his wish,

  • که مرادت هست تا یاری کنم ** ورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم
  • Saying, ‘Hast thou a wish?—that I may help (thee to obtain it); otherwise, I will flee and make a speedy departure.’

  • گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میان ** واسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان
  • Abraham said, ‘No; begone out of the way! After direct vision the intermediary is (only) an inconvenience.’

  • بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه ** مومنان را زانک هست او واسطه
  • On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).

  • هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
  • If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?