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  • گفت نار از خاک بی‌‌شک بهتر است ** من ز نار و او ز خاک اکدر است‌‌
  • He said, “Beyond doubt fire is superior to earth: I am of fire, and he (Adam) is of dingy earth.

  • پس قیاس فرع بر اصلش کنیم ** او ز ظلمت ما ز نور روشنیم‌‌
  • Let us, then, judge by comparing the secondary with its principal: he is of darkness, I of radiant light.”

  • گفت حق نی بل که لا انساب شد ** زهد و تقوی فضل را محراب شد
  • God said, “Nay, but on the contrary there shall be no relationships : asceticism and piety shall be the (sole) avenue to pre-eminence.”

  • این نه میراث جهان فانی است ** که به انسابش بیابی جانی است‌‌ 3400
  • This is not the heritage of the fleeting world, so that thou shouldst gain it by ties of relationship: ’tis a spiritual (heritage).

  • بلکه این میراثهای انبیاست ** وارث این جانهای اتقیاست‌‌
  • Nay, these things are the heritage of the prophets; the inheritors of these are the spirits of the devout.

  • پور آن بو جهل شد مومن عیان ** پور آن نوح نبی از گمرهان‌‌
  • The son of Bú Jahl became a true believer for all to see; the son of the prophet Noah became one of those who lost the way.

  • زاده‌‌ی خاکی منور شد چو ماه ** زاده‌‌ی آتش تویی رو رو سیاه‌‌
  • “The child of earth (Adam) became illumined like the moon; thou art the child of fire: get thee gone with thy face black (in disgrace)!”

  • این قیاسات و تحری روز ابر ** یا به شب مر قبله را کرده ست حبر
  • The wise man has made (use of) such reasonings and investigation on a cloudy day or at night for the sake of (finding) the qibla;

  • لیک با خورشید و کعبه پیش رو ** این قیاس و این تحری را مجو 3405
  • But with the sun and with the Ka‘ba before your face, do not seek to reason and investigate in this manner.

  • کعبه نادیده مکن رو زو متاب ** از قیاس الله أعلم بالصواب‌‌
  • Do not pretend that you cannot see the Ka‘ba, do not avert your face from it because you have reasoned (that it is not to be seen). God knows best what is right.

  • چون صفیری بشنوی از مرغ حق ** ظاهرش را یاد گیری چون سبق‌‌
  • When you hear a pipe from the Bird of God, you commit its outward (meaning) to memory, like a lesson,

  • وانگهی از خود قیاساتی کنی ** مر خیال محض را ذاتی کنی‌‌
  • And then from yourself (out of your own head) you make some analogies: you make (what is) mere fancy into a (thing of) substance (reality).

  • اصطلاحاتی است مر ابدال را ** که نباشد ز آن خبر اقوال را
  • The Abdál have certain mystical expressions of which the doctrines (of external religion) are ignorant.

  • منطق الطیری به صوت آموختی ** صد قیاس و صد هوس افروختی‌‌ 3410
  • You have learned the birds' language by the sound (alone), you have kindled (invented) a hundred analogies and a hundred caprices.

  • همچو آن رنجور دلها از تو خست ** کر به پندار اصابت گشته مست‌‌
  • The hearts (of the saints) are wounded by you, as the invalid (was hurt by the deaf man), (while) the deaf man became intoxicated (overjoyed) with the vain notion of success.

  • کاتب آن وحی ز آن آواز مرغ ** برده ظنی کاو بود همباز مرغ‌‌
  • The writer of the Revelation, from (hearing) the Bird's voice, supposed that he was the Bird's equal:

  • مرغ پری زد مر او را کور کرد ** نک فرو بردش به قعر مرگ و درد
  • The Bird flapped a wing and blinded him: lo, it plunged him in the abyss of death and bale.

  • هین به عکسی یا به ظنی هم شما ** در میفتید از مقامات سما
  • “Beware! do not ye also, (beguiled) by a reflexion or an opinion, fall from the dignities of Heaven!

  • گر چه هاروتید و ماروت و فزون ** از همه بر بام نحن الصافون‌‌ 3415
  • Although ye are Hárút and Márút and superior to all (the angels) on the terrace of We are they that stand in ranks,

  • بر بدیهای بدان رحمت کنید ** بر منی و خویش بینی کم تنید
  • (Yet) take mercy on the wickednesses of the wicked: execrate egoism and the self-conceited (egoist).

  • هین مبادا غیرت آید از کمین ** سر نگون افتید در قعر زمین‌‌
  • Beware, lest (the Divine) jealousy come from ambush and ye fall headlong to the bottom of the earth.”

  • هر دو گفتند ای خدا فرمان تراست ** بی‌‌امان تو امانی خود کجاست‌‌
  • They both said, “O God, Thine is the command: without Thy security (protection) where indeed is any security?”

  • این همی‌‌گفتند و دلشان می‌‌طپید ** بد کجا آید ز ما نعم العبید
  • They were saying this, but their hearts were throbbing (with desire)—“How should evil come from us? Good servants (of God) are we!”

  • خار خار دو فرشته هم نهشت ** تا که تخم خویش بینی را نکشت‌‌ 3420
  • The prick of desire in the two angels did not leave (them) until it sowed the seed of self-conceit.

  • پس همی‌‌گفتند کای ارکانیان ** بی‌‌خبر از پاکی روحانیان‌‌
  • Then they were saying, “O ye that are composed of the (four) elements (and are) unacquainted with the purity of the spiritual beings,