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  • تا ابد هر چه بود او پیش پیش ** درس کرد از علم الاسماء خویش‌‌
  • Through his He (God) taught him (Adam) the Names (through his God-given knowledge) he at the very first gave instruction (to the angels) concerning everything that shall come to pass unto everlasting,

  • تا ملک بی‌‌خود شد از تدریس او ** قدس دیگر یافت از تقدیس او 2650
  • So that the angels became beside themselves (in amazement) at his teaching, and gained from his glorification (of God) a holiness other (than they possessed before).

  • آن گشادی‌‌شان کز آدم رو نمود ** در گشاد آسمانهاشان نبود
  • The revelation that appeared to them from Adam was not (contained) in the amplitude of their heavens.

  • در فراخی عرصه‌‌ی آن پاک جان ** تنگ آمد عرصه‌‌ی هفت آسمان‌‌
  • In comparison with the spaciousness of the range of that pure spirit (Adam), the expanse of the seven heavens became narrow.

  • گفت پیغمبر که حق فرموده است ** من نگنجم هیچ در بالا و پست‌‌
  • The Prophet said that God has said, ‘I am not contained at all in “high” and “low” (spatial dimensions);

  • در زمین و آسمان و عرش نیز ** من نگنجم این یقین دان ای عزیز
  • I am not contained in earth or heaven or even in the empyrean—know this for certain, O noble one;

  • در دل مومن بگنجم ای عجب ** گر مرا جویی در آن دلها طلب‌‌ 2655
  • (But) I am contained in the true believer's heart: oh, how wonderful! If thou seekest Me, search in those hearts.’

  • گفت ادخل فی عبادی تلتقی ** جنة من رؤیتی یا متقی‌‌
  • He (God) said (also), ‘Enter among My servants, thou wilt meet with a Paradise (consisting) of vision of Me, O God-fearing one.’

  • عرش با آن نور با پهنای خویش ** چون بدید آن را برفت از جای خویش‌‌
  • The empyrean, notwithstanding its wide (far-extending) light, when it beheld that (spirit of Adam), was confounded.

  • خود بزرگی عرش باشد بس مدید ** لیک صورت کیست چون معنی رسید
  • Truly, the magnitude of the empyrean is very great, but who (what) is form when reality has arrived?

  • هر ملک می‌‌گفت ما را پیش از این ** الفتی می‌‌بود بر گرد زمین‌‌
  • Every angel was saying (to Adam), ‘Before this (time) we had a friendship (with thee) on the face of the earth.

  • تخم خدمت بر زمین می‌‌کاشتیم ** ز آن تعلق ما عجب می‌‌داشتیم‌‌ 2660
  • On the earth we were sowing the seed of service (worship): we were marveling at that connexion,

  • کاین تعلق چیست با این خاکمان ** چون سرشت ما بده ست از آسمان‌‌
  • Marvelling what connexion we had with this dust, inasmuch as our nature is of heaven.

  • الف ما انوار با ظلمات چیست ** چون تواند نور با ظلمات زیست‌‌
  • (We said), Why (this) friendship in us, who are light, with darkness? How can light live with darkness?

  • آدما آن الف از بوی تو بود ** ز آن که جسمت را زمین بد تار و پود
  • O Adam, that friendship was owing to the scent of thee, because earth was the woof and warp of thy body.

  • جسم خاکت را از اینجا بافتند ** نور پاکت را در اینجا یافتند
  • From this place (the earth) thy earthly body was woven, in this place thy pure light was found.

  • این که جان ما ز روحت یافته ست ** پیش پیش از خاک آن می‌‌تافته ست‌‌ 2665
  • This (light) that our souls have obtained from thy spirit shone erstwhile from the dust.

  • در زمین بودیم و غافل از زمین ** غافل از گنجی که در وی بد دفین‌‌
  • We were in the earth, and heedless of the earth, heedless of the treasure that lay buried there.

  • چون سفر فرمود ما را ز آن مقام ** تلخ شد ما را از آن تحویل کام‌‌
  • When He (God) bade us journey from that place of abode our palates were soured (we were bitterly grieved) by the change,

  • تا که حجتها همی‌‌گفتیم ما ** که بجای ما کی آید ای خدا
  • So that we were arguing (and saying), ‘O God, who will come in our stead?

  • نور این تسبیح و این تهلیل را ** می‌‌فروشی بهر قال و قیل را
  • Wilt Thou sell the splendour of the praise with which we glorify and magnify Thee for babble and palaver?’

  • حکم حق گسترد بهر ما بساط ** که بگویید از طریق انبساط 2670
  • The decree of God spread for us the carpet (of indulgence), (and He said), ‘Speak ye, in the way of boldness

  • هر چه آید بر زبانتان بی‌‌حذر ** همچو طفلان یگانه با پدر
  • (And) without fear, whatever comes upon your tongues, like only children with their father;

  • ز آن که این دمها چه گر نالایق است ** رحمت من بر غضب هم سابق است‌‌
  • For what if these words (of yours) are unseemly? My mercy likewise is prior (superior) to My wrath.

  • از پی اظهار این سبق ای ملک ** در تو بنهم داعیه‌‌ی اشکال و شک‌‌
  • In order to manifest this priority, O angel, I will put in thee incitement to perplexity and doubt,