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 کریم2020
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,
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 سحاب2030
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!”
گفت چه بر سر فگندی از ازار ** گفت کردم آن ردای تو خمار
The Prophet said, “What wrap hast thou thrown over thy head?” Said she, “I made that ridá (plaid) of thine (serve as) a head-covering.”
گفت بهر آن نمود ای پاک جیب ** چشم پاکت را خدا باران غیب
He said, “O pure-bosomed one, that is why God revealed to thy pure eye the rain of the Unseen.
نیست آن باران از این ابر شما ** هست ابری دیگر و دیگر سما
That rain is not from your clouds: there are other clouds and another sky.”
تفسیر بیت حکیم: "آسمانهاست در ولایت جان کارفرمای آسمان جهان در ره روح پست و بالاهاست کوههای بلند و دریاهاست"
Commentary on the verse of Hakím (Saná’í): “In the realm of the soul are skies lording over the sky of this world. In the Way of the spirit there are lowlands and highlands, there are lofty mountains and seas.”
غیب را ابری و آبی دیگر است ** آسمان و آفتابی دیگر است2035
The Unseen World has other clouds and water (than ours), it has another sky and sun.
ناید آن الا که بر خاصان پدید ** باقیان فی لبس من خلق جدید
That is not discerned save by the elect; the rest are in doubt as to a new creation.
هست باران از پی پروردگی ** هست باران از پی پژمردگی
There is rain for the sake of nurture; there is (also) rain for the sake of decay.
نفع باران بهاران بو العجب ** باغ را باران پاییزی چو تب
Marvellous is the benefit of the rain of springtime, (but) to the garden the autumnal rain is like a (consuming) fever.
آن بهاری ناز پروردش کند ** وین خزانی ناخوش و زردش کند
That vernal (rain) makes it tenderly nurtured (flourishing), while this autumnal (rain) makes it sickly and wan.
همچنین سرما و باد و آفتاب ** بر تفاوت دان و سر رشته بیاب2040
Similarly know that cold and wind and sun are at variance (produce various effects); and find the clue.
همچنین در غیب انواع است این ** در زیان و سود و در ربح و غبین
Even so in the Unseen World there are these different sorts, (consisting) in loss and gain and in profit and defraudment (damage).