حامل‌‌اند و خود ز جهل افراشته ** راکب و محمول ره پنداشته
They are (really) carrying (their hobby-horses), but in their folly they have raised themselves on high: they have fancied themselves to be riders and carried along the road.
باش تا روزی که محمولان حق ** اسب تازان بگذرند از نه طبق
Wait till the day when those who are borne aloft by God shall pass, galloping, beyond the nine tiers (of Heaven)!
تعرج الروح إلیه و الملک ** من عروج الروح یهتز الفلک3440
“The spirit and the angels shall ascend to Him”: at the ascension of the spirit Heaven shall tremble.
Like children, ye all are riding on your skirts: ye have taken hold of the corner of your skirt (to serve) as a horse.
از حق إن الظن لا يغنی رسید ** مرکب ظن بر فلک‌‌ها کی دوید
From God came (the text), “Verily, opinion doth not enable (you) to dispense (with the Truth)”: when did the steed of opinion run (mount) to the Heavens?
اغلب الظنین فی ترجیح ذا ** لا تماری الشمس فی توضیحها
While preferring (in case of doubt) the stronger of the two (alternative) opinions, do not doubt whether you see the sun when it is shining!
آن گهی بینید مرکبهای خویش ** مرکبی سازیده‌‌اید از پای خویش
At that time (when the spirit returns to God) behold your steeds! Ye have made a steed of your own foot.
وهم و فکر و حس و ادراک شما ** همچو نی دان مرکب کودک هلا3445
Come, recognise that your imagination and reflection and sense-perception and apprehension are like the reed-cane on which children ride.
علمهای اهل دل حمالشان ** علمهای اهل تن احمالشان
The sciences of the mystics bear them (aloft); the sciences of sensual men are burdens to them.
علم چون بر دل زند یاری شود ** علم چون بر تن زند باری شود
When knowledge strikes on the heart (is acquired through mystical experience), it becomes a helper (yárí); when knowledge strikes on the body (is acquired through the senses), it becomes a burden (bárí).
گفت ایزد یحمل اسفاره ** بار باشد علم کان نبود ز هو
God hath said, “(Like an ass) laden with his books”: burdensome is the knowledge that is not from Himself.
علم کان نبود ز هو بی‌‌واسطه ** آن نپاید همچو رنگ ماشطه
The knowledge that is not immediately from Himself does not endure, (it is) like the tire woman's paint.
لیک چون این بار را نیکو کشی ** بار بر گیرند و بخشندت خوشی3450
But when you carry this burden well, the burden will be removed and you will be given (spiritual) joy.
هین مکش بهر هوا آن بار علم ** تا ببینی در درون انبار علم
Beware! Do not carry that burden of knowledge for the sake of selfish desire (but mortify yourself), so that you may behold the barn (store-house) of knowledge within (you),
تا که بر رهوار علم آیی سوار ** بعد از آن افتد ترا از دوش بار
So that you may mount the smooth-paced steed of knowledge, (and that) afterwards the burden may fall from your shoulder.
از هواها کی رهی بی‌‌جام هو ** ای ز هو قانع شده با نام هو
How wilt thou be freed from selfish desires without the cup of Hú (Him), O thou who hast become content with no more of Hú than the name of Hú?
از صفت و ز نام چه زاید خیال ** و آن خیالش هست دلال وصال
From attribute and name what comes to birth? Phantasy; and that phantasy shows the way to union with Him.
دیده‌‌ای دلال بی‌‌مدلول هیچ ** تا نباشد جاده نبود غول هیچ3455
Hast thou ever seen a subject that shows without (the existence of) an object that is shown: unless there is the road, there can never be the ghoul (which entices travelers to stray from the road).
هیچ نامی بی‌‌حقیقت دیده‌‌ای ** یا ز گاف و لام گل گل چیده‌‌ای
Hast thou ever seen a name without the reality (denoted by the name)? Or hast thou plucked a rose (gul) from the (letters) gáf and lám of (the word) gul?
اسم خواندی رو مسمی را بجو ** مه به بالا دان نه اندر آب جو
Thou hast pronounced the name: go, seek the thing named. Know that the moon is on high, not in the water of the stream.
گر ز نام و حرف خواهی بگذری ** پاک کن خود را ز خود هین یک سری
If thou wouldst pass beyond name and letter, oh, make thyself wholly purged of self.