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  • گر تو خود را پیش و پس داری گمان ** بسته‌‌ی جسمی و محرومی ز جان‌‌
  • If thou fancy thou hast a “before” and “behind,” thou art tied to body and deprived of spirit.

  • زیر و بالا پیش و پس وصف تن است ** بی‌‌جهت آن ذات جان روشن است‌‌
  • “Below” and “above,” “before” and “behind” are attributes of the body: the essence of the bright spirit is without relations (not limited by relations of place).

  • بر گشا از نور پاک شه نظر ** تا نپنداری تو چون کوته نظر
  • Open thy (inward) vision with the pure light of the King. Beware of fancying, like one who is short-sighted,

  • که همینی در غم و شادی و بس ** ای عدم کو مر عدم را پیش و پس‌‌ 2010
  • That thou art only this very (body living) in grief and joy. O (thou who art really) non-existence, where (are) “before” and “behind” (appertaining) to non-existence?

  • روز باران است می‌‌رو تا به شب ** نی از این باران از آن باران رب‌‌
  • ’Tis a day of rain: journey on till night—not (sped) by this (earthly) rain but by the rain of the Lord.

  • قصه‌‌ی سؤال کردن عایشه از مصطفی علیه السلام که امروز باران بارید چون تو سوی گورستان رفتی جامه‌‌های تو چون تر نیست‌‌
  • The story of ‘Á’isha, may God be well-pleased with her, how she asked Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, saying, “It rained to-day: since thou wentest to the graveyard, how is it that thy clothes are not wet?”

  • مصطفی روزی به گورستان برفت ** با جنازه‌‌ی مردی از یاران برفت‌‌
  • One day Mustafá went to the graveyard: he went with the bier of a man (who was one) of his friends.

  • خاک را در گور او آگنده کرد ** زیر خاک آن دانه‌‌اش را زنده کرد
  • He made the earth so that it filled his grave: he quickened his seed under the earth.

  • این درختانند همچون خاکیان ** دستها بر کرده‌‌اند از خاکدان‌‌
  • These trees are like the interred ones: they have lifted up their hands from the earth.

  • سوی خلقان صد اشارت می‌‌کنند ** و آن که گوش استش عبارت می‌‌کنند 2015
  • They are making a hundred signs to the people and speaking plainly to him that hath ears (to hear).

  • با زبان سبز و با دست دراز ** از ضمیر خاک می‌‌گویند راز
  • With green tongue and with long hand (fingers) they are telling secrets from the earth's conscience (inmost heart).

  • همچو بطان سر فرو برده به آب ** گشته طاوسان و بوده چون غراب‌‌
  • (Sunk in earth) like ducks that have plunged their heads in water, they have become (gay as) peacocks, though (in winter) they were (dark and bare) as crows.

  • در زمستانشان اگر محبوس کرد ** آن غرابان را خدا طاوس کرد
  • If during the winter He imprisoned them (in ice and snow), God made those “crows” “peacocks” (in spring).

  • در زمستانشان اگر چه داد مرگ ** زنده‌‌شان کرد از بهار و داد برگ‌‌
  • Although He put them to death in winter, He revived them by means of spring and gave (them) leaves.

  • منکران گویند خود هست این قدیم ** این چرا بندیم بر رب کریم‌‌ 2020
  • The sceptics say, “This (creation), surely, is eternal: why should we fix it on a beneficent Lord?”

  • کوری ایشان درون دوستان ** حق برویانید باغ و بوستان‌‌
  • God, in despite of them, caused (spiritual) gardens and plots of sweet flowers to grow in the hearts of His friends.

  • هر گلی کاندر درون بویا بود ** آن گل از اسرار کل گویا بود
  • Every rose that is sweet-scented within, that rose is telling of the secrets of the rose.

  • بوی ایشان رغم انف منکران ** گرد عالم می‌‌رود پرده دران‌‌
  • Their scent, to the confusion of the sceptics, is going round the world, rending the veil (of doubt and disbelief).

  • منکران همچون جعل ز آن بوی گل ** یا چو نازک مغز در بانگ دهل‌‌
  • The sceptics, (shrinking) from the scent of the rose like a beetle, or like a delicate (sensitive) brain at the noise of the drum,

  • خویشتن مشغول می‌‌سازند و غرق ** چشم می‌‌دزدند زین لمعان برق‌‌ 2025
  • Feign themselves to be occupied and absorbed, and withdraw their eyes from the flash of the lightning.

  • چشم می‌‌دزدند و آن جا چشم نی ** چشم آن باشد که بیند مأمنی‌‌
  • They withdraw their eyes, but no eye is there: the eye is that which sees a place of safety.

  • چون ز گورستان پیمبر باز گشت ** سوی صدیقه شد و هم راز گشت‌‌
  • When the Prophet returned from the graveyard, he went to the Siddíqa and confided (in her).

  • چشم صدیقه چو بر رویش فتاد ** پیش آمد دست بر وی می‌‌نهاد
  • As soon as the eye of the Siddíqa fell upon his countenance, she advanced and began to lay her hand on him,

  • بر عمامه و روی او و موی او ** بر گریبان و بر و بازوی او
  • On his turban and his face and his hair, on his collar and chest and arm.

  • گفت پیغمبر چه می‌‌جویی شتاب ** گفت باران آمد امروز از سحاب‌‌ 2030
  • Said the Prophet, “What art thou seeking so hastily?” She replied, “To-day rain fell from the clouds:

  • جامه‌‌هایت می‌‌بجویم از طلب ** تر نمی‌‌بینم ز باران ای عجب‌‌
  • I am searching thy garments in quest (of moisture), I do not feel them wet with the rain. Oh, how wonderful!”