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3500-3509

  • هم ز اول تو دهی میل دعا ** تو دهی آخر دعاها را جزا 3500
  • Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers.

  • اول و آخر توی ما در میان ** هیچ هیچی که نیاید در بیان
  • Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.”

  • این چنین می‌گفت تا افتاد طشت ** از سر بام و دلش بیهوش گشت
  • He was speaking in this wise, till he fell into ecstasy and his heart became senseless.

  • باز آمد او به هوش اندر دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی
  • (Whilst engaged) in prayer, he came back to his senses (and witnessed the effect of his prayer): Man shall have nothing but what he hath wrought.

  • در دعا بود او که ناگه نعره‌ای ** از دل قبطی بجست و غره‌ای
  • He was (still) praying when suddenly a loud cry and roar burst from the heart of the Egyptian,

  • که هلا بشتاب و ایمان عرضه کن ** تا ببرم زود زنار کهن 3505
  • (Who exclaimed), “Come, make haste and submit (the profession of) the Faith (for my acceptance), that I may quickly cut the old girdle (of unbelief).

  • آتشی در جان من انداختند ** مر بلیسی را به جان بنواختند
  • They have cast a fire into my heart, they have shown affection with (all) their soul for an Iblís (like me).

  • دوستی تو و از تو ناشکفت ** حمدلله عاقبت دستم گرفت
  • Praise be to God! Thy friendship and (my) not being able to do without thee have succoured me at last.

  • کیمیایی بود صحبتهای تو ** کم مباد از خانه‌ی دل پای تو
  • My consortings with thee were (as) an elixir: may thy foot never disappear from the house of my heart!

  • تو یکی شاخی بدی از نخل خلد ** چون گرفتم او مرا تا خلد برد
  • Thou wert a bough of the palm-tree of Paradise: when I grasped it, it bore me to Paradise.