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1955-1964

  • بعد ازو خود قرن بر قرن آمدند  ** جملگان بر سنت او پا زدند  1955
  • Truly, generation on generation came (into being) after him, and all set their feet on his way (followed his practice).

  • هر که بنهد سنت بد ای فتا  ** تا در افتد بعد او خلق از عمی 
  • Whosoever institutes an evil practice, O youth, in order that people may blindly fall in after him,

  • جمع گردد بر وی آن جمله بزه  ** کو سری بودست و ایشان دم‌غزه 
  • All their guilt is collected (and piled) on him, for he has been (as) a head (to them), while they are (like) the root of the tail.

  • لیک آدم چارق و آن پوستین  ** پیش می‌آورد که هستم ز طین 
  • But Adam brought forward (and kept in view) the rustic shoon and sheepskin jacket, saying, “I am of clay.”

  • چون ایاز آن چارقش مورود بود  ** لاجرم او عاقبت محمود بود 
  • By him, as by Ayáz, those shoon were (often) visited: consequently he was lauded in the end.

  • هست مطلق کارساز نیستیست  ** کارگاه هست‌کن جز نیست چیست  1960
  • The Absolute Being is a worker in non-existence: what but non-existence is the workshop (working material) of the Maker of existence?

  • بر نوشته هیچ بنویسد کسی  ** یا نهاله کارد اندر مغرسی 
  • Does one write anything on what is (already) written over, or plant a sapling in a place (already) planted?

  • کاغذی جوید که آن بنوشته نیست  ** تخم کارد موضعی که کشته نیست 
  • (No); he seeks a sheet of paper that has not been written on and sows the seed in a place that has not been sown.

  • تو برادر موضع ناکشته باش  ** کاغذ اسپید نابنوشته باش 
  • Be thou, O brother, a place unsown; be a white paper untouched by writing,

  • تا مشرف گردی از نون والقلم  ** تا بکارد در تو تخم آن ذوالکرم 
  • That thou mayst be ennobled by Nún wa ’l-Qalam, and that the Gracious One may sow seed within thee.