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  • کی تراشد تیغ دسته‌‌ی خویش را ** رو به جراحی سپار این ریش را
  • How shall the sword fashion its own hilt? Go, entrust (the cure of) this wound to a surgeon.

  • بر سر هر ریش جمع آمد مگس ** تا نبیند قبح ریش خویش کس‌‌
  • Flies gather on every wound, so that no one sees the foulness of his wound.

  • آن مگس اندیشه‌‌ها و آن مال تو ** ریش تو آن ظلمت احوال تو
  • Those flies are your (evil) thoughts and your (love of) possessions: your wound is the darkness of your (spiritual) states;

  • ور نهد مرهم بر آن ریش تو پیر ** آن زمان ساکن شود درد و نفیر 3225
  • And if the Pír lays a plaster on your wound, at once the pain and lamentation are stilled,

  • تا که پندارد که صحت یافته ست ** پرتو مرهم بر آن جا تافته ست‌‌
  • So that he (the patient) fancies it (the wound) is healed, (whereas in reality) the (healing) ray of the plaster has shone upon the (wounded) spot.

  • هین ز مرهم سر مکش ای پشت ریش ** و آن ز پرتو دان مدان از اصل خویش‌‌
  • Beware! Do not (scornfully) turn your head away from the plaster, O you who are wounded in the back, but recognise that that (healing of the wound) proceeds from the ray: do not regard it as (proceeding) from your own constitution.

  • مرتد شدن کاتب وحی به سبب آن که پرتو وحی بر او زد آن آیت را پیش از پیغامبر صلی الله علیه و اله بخواند گفت پس من هم محل وحیم‌‌
  • How the writer of the (Qur’ánic) Revelation fell into apostasy because (when) the ray of the Revelation shot upon him, he recited the (revealed) verse before the Prophet, on whom be peace, (had dictated it to him); then he said, “So I too am one upon whom Revelation has descended.”

  • پیش از عثمان یکی نساخ بود ** کاو به نسخ وحی جدی می‌‌نمود
  • Before (the time of) ‘Uthmán there was a scribe who used to be diligent in writing down the Revelation.

  • چون نبی از وحی فرمودی سبق ** او همان را وانبشتی بر ورق‌‌
  • Whenever the Prophet dictated the Revelation, he would write out the same (portion) on the leaf.

  • پرتو آن وحی بر وی تافتی ** او درون خویش حکمت یافتی‌‌ 3230
  • The beams of that Revelation would shine upon him, and he would find Wisdom within him.

  • عین آن حکمت بفرمودی رسول ** زین قدر گمراه شد آن بو الفضول‌‌
  • The substance of that Wisdom was dictated by the Prophet: by this (small) amount (of reflected Wisdom) that meddling fool was led astray,

  • کانچه می‌‌گوید رسول مستنیر ** مر مرا هست آن حقیقت در ضمیر
  • Thinking, “I have in my conscience the Truth of that which the illumined Prophet is saying.”

  • پرتو اندیشه‌‌اش زد بر رسول ** قهر حق آورد بر جانش نزول‌‌
  • The ray of his thought struck the Prophet: the wrath of God descended on his (the scribe's) soul.

  • هم ز نساخی بر آمد هم ز دین ** شد عدوی مصطفی و دین به کین‌‌
  • He abandoned both his work as a scribe and the Religion (Islam): he became the malignant foe of Mustafá (Mohammed) and the Religion.

  • مصطفی فرمود کای گبر عنود ** چون سیه گشتی اگر نور از تو بود 3235
  • Mustafá said, “O obstinate miscreant, if the Light was from thee, how shouldst thou have become black (with sin)?

  • گر تو ینبوع الهی بودیی ** این چنین آب سیه نگشودیی‌‌
  • If thou hadst been the Divine fountain (whence the Revelation issued), thou wouldst not have let out such black water as this.”

  • تا که ناموسش به پیش این و آن ** نشکند بر بست این او را دهان‌‌
  • Lest his reputation should be ruined in the sight of all and sundry, this (pride) kept his mouth shut.

  • اندرون می‌‌سوختش هم زین سبب ** توبه کردن می‌‌نیارست این عجب‌‌
  • His (the scribe's) heart was burning, hence he was unable to repent: this is wonderful.

  • آه می‌‌کرد و نبودش آه سود ** چون در آمد تیغ و سر را در ربود
  • He (the scribe) was crying “Alas,” but “Alas” was of no use to him when the sword came on and took off his head.

  • کرده حق ناموس را صد من حدید ** ای بسا بسته به بند ناپدید 3240
  • God has made reputation (to be like) a hundred maunds' weight of iron: oh, many a one is bound in the unseen chain!

  • کبر و کفر آن سان ببست آن راه را ** که نیارد کرد ظاهر آه را
  • Pride and infidelity have barred that Way (of repentance) in such wise that he (the sinner) cannot utter a sigh.

  • گفت اغلالا فهم به مقمحون ** نیست آن اغلال بر ما از برون‌‌
  • He (God) said, “(We have put on their necks) shackles (chin-high), and thereby they are forced to lift up their heads”: those shackles are not (put) on us from outside.

  • خلفهم سدا فأغشیناهم ** می‌‌نبیند بند را پیش و پس او
  • “(And We have put) behind them a barrier, and We have made a covering (of darkness) over them”: he is not seeing the barrier in front (of him) and behind.

  • رنگ صحرا دارد آن سدی که خاست ** او نمی‌‌داند که آن سد قضاست‌‌
  • The barrier that arose has the appearance of open country: he does not know that it is the barrier of the Divine destiny.

  • شاهد تو سد روی شاهد است ** مرشد تو سد گفت مرشد است‌‌ 3245
  • Your (earthly) beloved is a barrier to the face of the (Divine) Beloved: your (worldly) guide is a barrier to the words of the (true spiritual) guide.

  • ای بسا کفار را سودای دین ** بندشان ناموس و کبر آن و این‌‌
  • Oh, many are the infidels that have a passionate longing for the Religion (Islam): their chain (stumbling-block) is reputation and pride in this and that (object of desire).