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1851-1860

  • خفض و رفع این مزاج ممترج  ** گاه صحت گاه رنجوری مضج 
  • The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).

  • هم‌چنین دان جمله احوال جهان  ** قحط و جدب و صلح و جنگ از افتتان 
  • Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.

  • این جهان با این دو پر اندر هواست  ** زین دو جانها موطن خوف و رجاست 
  • By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,

  • تا جهان لرزان بود مانند برگ  ** در شمال و در سموم بعث و مرگ 
  • To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,

  • تا خم یک‌رنگی عیسی ما  ** بشکند نرخ خم صدرنگ را  1855
  • (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes;

  • کان جهان هم‌چون نمکسار آمدست  ** هر چه آنجا رفت بی‌تلوین شدست 
  • For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).

  • خاک را بین خلق رنگارنگ را  ** می‌کند یک رنگ اندر گورها 
  • Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.

  • این نمکسار جسوم ظاهرست  ** خود نمکسار معانی دیگرست 
  • This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.

  • آن نمکسار معانی معنویست  ** از ازل آن تا ابد اندر نویست 
  • The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.

  • این نوی را کهنگی ضدش بود  ** آن نوی بی ضد و بی ند و عدد  1860
  • This (earthly) newness has oldness as its opposite, but that newness (belonging to the world of Reality) is without opposite or like or number.