English    Türkçe    فارسی   

6
114-123

  • فکر کو آنجا همه نورست پاک  ** بهر تست این لفظ فکر ای فکرناک 
  • Where is thought (in relation to it)? There all is pure light: this word “thought” is (used only) for thy sake, O thinker.

  • هر ستاره خانه دارد در علا  ** هیچ خانه در نگنجد نجم ما  115
  • Every (material) star hath its house on high: our star is not contained in any house.

  • جای سوز اندر مکان کی در رود  ** نور نامحدود را حد کی بود 
  • How should that which burns (transcends) place (spatial relations) enter into space? How should there be a limit for the illimitable light?

  • لیک تمثیلی و تصویری کنند  ** تا که در یابد ضعیفی عشقمند 
  • But they (the mystics) use a comparison and illustration, in order that a loving feeble-minded man may apprehend (the truth).

  • مثل نبود لیک باشد آن مثال  ** تا کند عقل مجمد را گسیل 
  • ’Tis not a simile, but ’tis a parable for the purpose of releasing (melting) the frozen intellect.

  • عقل سر تیزست لیکن پای سست  ** زانک دل ویران شدست و تن درست 
  • The intellect is strong in the head but weak in the legs, because it is sick of heart (spiritually decayed) though sound of body (materially flourishing).

  • عقلشان در نقل دنیا پیچ پیچ  ** فکرشان در ترک شهوت هیچ هیچ  120
  • Their (the unspiritual men's) intellect is deeply involved in the dessert (pleasures) of this world: never, never do they think of abandoning sensuality.

  • صدرشان در وقت دعوی هم‌چو شرق  ** صبرشان در وقت تقوی هم‌چو برق 
  • In the hour of pretension their breasts are (glowing) like the orient sun, (but) in the hour of pious devotion their endurance is (brief) as the lightning.

  • عالمی اندر هنرها خودنما  ** هم‌چو عالم بی‌وفا وقت وفا 
  • A learned man who shows self-conceit in (displaying) his talents is faithless as the world at the time for keeping faith.

  • وقت خودبینی نگنجد در جهان  ** در گلو و معده گم گشته چو نان 
  • At the time when he regards himself (with pride) he is not contained in the world: he has become lost in the gullet and belly, like bread.