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2028-2037

  • ور که خود را دوست دارد ای بجان  ** دوستی خویش باشد بی‌گمان 
  • And if it love the sun with (all) its soul, ’tis undoubtedly love of itself.

  • خواه خود را دوست دارد لعل ناب  ** خواه تا او دوست دارد آفتاب 
  • Whether the pure ruby loves itself or whether it loves the sun,

  • اندرین دو دوستی خود فرق نیست  ** هر دو جانب جز ضیای شرق نیست  2030
  • There is really no difference in these two loves: both sides (aspects) are naught but the radiance of the sunrise.

  • تا نشد او لعل خود را دشمنست  ** زانک یک من نیست آنجا دو منست 
  • Until it (the stone) has become a ruby, it is an enemy to itself, because it is not a single “I”: two “I's” are there;

  • زانک ظلمانیست سنگ و روزکور  ** هست ظلمانی حقیقت ضد نور 
  • For the stone is dark and blind to the day (-light): the dark is essentially opposed to light.

  • خویشتن را دوست دارد کافرست  ** زانک او مناع شمس اکبرست 
  • (If) it love itself, it is an infidel, because it offers intense resistance to the supreme Sun.

  • پس نشاید که بگوید سنگ انا  ** او همه تاریکیست و در فنا 
  • Therefore ’tis not fitting that the stone should say “I,” (for) it is wholly darkness and in (the state of) death.

  • گفت فرعونی انا الحق گشت پست  ** گفت منصوری اناالحق و برست  2035
  • A Pharaoh said “I am God” and was laid low; a Mansúr (Halláj) said “I am God” and was saved.

  • آن انا را لعنة الله در عقب  ** وین انا را رحمةالله ای محب 
  • The former “I” is followed by God's curse and the latter “I” by God's mercy, O loving man;

  • زانک او سنگ سیه بد این عقیق  ** آن عدوی نور بود و این عشیق 
  • For that one (Pharaoh) was a black stone, this one (Halláj) a cornelian; that one was an enemy to the Light, and this one passionately enamoured (of it).