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  • شه در آمد دید آن جا نقشها ** می‌‌ربود آن عقل را و فهم را
  • The King entered and saw the pictures there: that (sight) was robbing him of his wits and understanding.

  • بعد از آن آمد به سوی رومیان ** پرده را بالا کشیدند از میان‌‌ 3480
  • After that, he came towards the Greeks: they drew up the intervening curtain.

  • عکس آن تصویر و آن کردارها ** زد بر این صافی شده دیوارها
  • The reflexion of those (Chinese) pictures and works (of art) struck upon these walls which had been made pure (from stain).

  • هر چه آن جا دید اینجا به نمود ** دیده را از دیده خانه می‌‌ربود
  • All that he had seen there (in the Chinese room) seemed more beautiful here: ’twas snatching the eye from the socket.

  • رومیان آن صوفیانند ای پدر ** بی‌‌ز تکرار و کتاب و بی‌‌هنر
  • The Greeks, O father, are the Súfís: (they are) without (independent of) study and books and erudition,

  • لیک صیقل کرده‌‌اند آن سینه‌‌ها ** پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینه‌‌ها
  • But they have burnished their breasts (and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.

  • آن صفای آینه وصف دل است ** کاو نقوش بی‌‌عدد را قابل است‌‌ 3485
  • That purity of the mirror is the attribute of the heart (which) receives the infinite form.

  • صورت بی‌‌صورت بی‌‌حد غیب ** ز آینه‌‌ی دل تافت بر موسی ز جیب‌‌
  • That Moses (the perfect saint) holds in his bosom the formless infinite form of the Unseen (reflected) from the mirror of his heart.

  • گر چه آن صورت نگنجد در فلک ** نه به عرش و فرش و دریا و سمک‌‌
  • Although that form is not contained in Heaven, nor in the empyrean nor the earth nor the sea nor the Fish,

  • ز آن که محدود است و معدود است آن ** آینه‌‌ی دل را نباشد حد بدان‌‌
  • Because (all) those are bounded and numbered—(yet is it contained in the heart): know that the mirror of the heart hath no bound.

  • عقل اینجا ساکت آمد یا مضل ** ز آنکه دل با اوست یا خود اوست دل‌‌
  • Here the understanding becomes silent or (else) it leads into error, because the heart is with Him (God), or indeed the heart is He.

  • عکس هر نقشی نتابد تا ابد ** جز ز دل هم با عدد هم بی‌‌عدد 3490
  • The reflexion of every image shines unto everlasting from the heart alone, both with plurality and without.

  • تا ابد هر نقش نو کاید بر او ** می‌‌نماید بی‌‌حجابی اندر او
  • Unto everlasting every new image that falls on it (the heart) is appearing therein without any veil.

  • اهل صیقل رسته‌‌اند از بوی و رنگ ** هر دمی بینند خوبی بی‌‌درنگ‌‌
  • They that burnish (their hearts) have escaped from (mere) scent and colour: they behold Beauty at every moment without tarrying.

  • نقش و قشر علم را بگذاشتند ** رایت عین الیقین افراشتند
  • They have relinquished the form and husk of knowledge, they have raised the banner of the eye of certainty.

  • رفت فکر و روشنایی یافتند ** نحر و بحر آشنایی یافتند
  • Thought is gone, and they have gained light: they have gained the throat (core and essence) and the sea (ultimate source) of gnosis.

  • مرگ کاین جمله از او در وحشت‌‌اند ** می‌‌کنند این قوم بر وی ریشخند 3495
  • Death, of which all these (others) are sore afraid, this people (the perfect Súfís) are holding in derision.

  • کس نیابد بر دل ایشان ظفر ** بر صدف آید ضرر نی بر گهر
  • None gains the victory over their hearts: the hurt falls on the oyster-shell, not on the pearl.

  • گر چه نحو و فقه را بگذاشتند ** لیک محو و فقر را برداشتند
  • Though they have let go grammar (nahw) and jurisprudence (fiqh), yet they have taken up (instead) the (mystical) self-effacement of (spiritual) poverty (faqr).

  • تا نقوش هشت جنت تافته ست ** لوح دلشان را پذیرا یافته ست‌‌
  • Ever since the forms of the Eight Paradises have shone forth, they have found the tablets of their (the Súfís') hearts receptive.

  • برترند از عرش و کرسی و خلا ** ساکنان مقعد صدق خدا
  • They who dwell in God's seat of truth are higher than the Throne and the Footstool and the Void.

  • پرسیدن پیغامبر علیه السلام مر زید را امروز چونی و چون برخاستی و جواب گفتن او که اصبحت مومنا یا رسول الله‌‌
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, asked Zayd, “How art thou to-day and in what state hast thou risen?” and how Zayd answered him, saying, “This morning I am a true believer, O Messenger of Allah.”

  • گفت پیغمبر صباحی زید را ** کیف اصبحت ای رفیق با صفا 3500
  • One morning the Prophet said to Zayd, “How art thou this morning, O sincere comrade?”

  • گفت عبدا مومنا باز اوش گفت ** کو نشان از باغ ایمان گر شگفت‌‌
  • He replied, “(This morning I am) a faithful servant of God.” Again he (the Prophet) said to him, “Where is thy token from the garden of Faith, if it has bloomed?”

  • گفت تشنه بوده‌‌ام من روزها ** شب نخفته ستم ز عشق و سوزها
  • He said, “I have been athirst in the daytime, at night I have not slept because of love and burning griefs,

  • تا ز روز و شب گذر کردم چنان ** که از اسپر بگذرد نوک سنان‌‌
  • So that I passed through (and beyond) day and night, as the point of the spear passes through the shield;