اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا

اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا 3635

Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past;

سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز

That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.

اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا

The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.

آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد

First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.

سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد

(Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);

وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد

And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,

جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران 3640

Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs—

هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان

Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;

هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید

(Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).

جزو عقل این از آن عقل کلست ** جنبش این سایه زان شاخ گلست

The particular intelligence of this (disciple) is derived from that Universal Intelligence: the motion of this shadow is derived from that Rose-bough.

سایه‌اش فانی شود آخر درو ** پس بداند سر میل و جست و جو

His (the disciple's) shadow disappears at last in him (the Master); then he knows the secret of his inclination and search and seeking.