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2121-2130

  • باز او لاحول می‌کرد آتشین  ** که اعتراض من برو کفرست و کین 
  • Then again he was exclaiming fervidly, “God help me! My impugning him (the Shaykh) is infidelity and enmity.

  • من کی باشم با تصرفهای حق  ** که بر آرد نفس من اشکال و دق 
  • Who am I, in view of God's exercising (absolute) control (over everything he does), that my carnal soul should raise difficulties and objections?”

  • باز نفسش حمله می‌آورد زود  ** زین تعرف در دلش چون کاه دود 
  • But soon his carnal soul was returning to the attack—(for) in consequence of this acquaintance (there was) smoke in his straw-like heart—

  • که چه نسبت دیو را با جبرئیل  ** که بود با او به صحبت هم مقیل 
  • Saying, “What affinity has (this woman like) the Devil with (a saint like) Gabriel, that she should be his bedfellow in (connubial) intercourse?

  • چون تواند ساخت با آزر خلیل  ** چون تواند ساخت با ره‌زن دلیل  2125
  • How can Khalíl (Abraham) agree with Ázar? How can a guide agree with a brigand?”

  • یافتن مرید مراد را و ملاقات او با شیخ نزدیک آن بیشه 
  • How the disciple gained his wish and met the Shaykh near the forest.

  • اندرین بود او که شیخ نامدار  ** زود پیش افتاد بر شیری سوار 
  • He was (absorbed) in this (perplexity) when suddenly the renowned Shaykh appeared before him, riding on a lion.

  • شیر غران هیزمش را می‌کشید  ** بر سر هیزم نشسته آن سعید 
  • The roaring lion carried his faggots, while that blessed one sat on the top of them.

  • تازیانه‌ش مار نر بود از شرف  ** مار را بگرفته چون خرزن به کف 
  • Because of the honour (in which God held him) his whip was a fierce serpent: he had grasped the serpent in his hand, like an ass-goad.

  • تو یقین می‌دان که هر شیخی که هست  ** هم سواری می‌کند بر شیر مست 
  • Know for certain that likewise every Shaykh that exists is riding on a furious lion.

  • گرچه آن محسوس و این محسوس نیست  ** لیک آن بر چشم جان ملبوس نیست  2130
  • Although that (riding) and this (lion) are not perceived by the senses, yet ’tis not concealed from the spiritual eye.