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  • زید را اکنون نیابی کاو گریخت ** جست از صف نعال و نعل ریخت‌‌
  • You will not find Zayd now, for he has fled: he has darted away from the shoe-row and dropped his shoes.

  • تو که باشی زید هم خود را نیافت ** همچو اختر که بر او خورشید تافت‌‌
  • Who are you (that you should hope to find him)? Zayd cannot even find himself, (he has vanished) like the star on which the sun shone.

  • نی از او نقشی بیابی نی نشان ** نی کهی یابی نه راه کهکشان‌‌ 3670
  • You will find neither mark nor trace of him, you will not find a straw (star) in the straw-strewn Way (the Milky Way).

  • شد حواس و نطق با پایان ما ** محو نور دانش سلطان ما
  • Our senses and finite speech (reason) are obliterated in the light of the knowledge of our (Divine) King.

  • حسها و عقلهاشان در درون ** موج در موج لدينا محضرون‌‌
  • Their (the God-intoxicated mystics') senses and understandings within (them) are (tossed), wave on wave, in (the sea of) they are assembled before Us.

  • چون شب آمد باز وقت بار شد ** انجم پنهان شده بر کار شد
  • When dawn comes, ’tis again the time of (bearing) the burden: the stars, which had become hidden, go (again) to work.

  • بی‌‌هشان را وادهد حق هوشها ** حلقه حلقه حلقه‌‌ها در گوشها
  • God gives back to the senseless ones their (lost) senses: (they return to consciousness) troop after troop, with rings (of mystic knowledge) in their ears,

  • پای کوبان دست افشان در ثنا ** ناز نازان ربنا أحییتنا 3675
  • Dancing, waving their hands in praise (of God), triumphing (and crying), “O Lord, Thou hast brought us to life.”

  • آن جلود و آن عظام ریخته ** فارسان گشته غبار انگیخته‌‌
  • Those crumbled skins and bones have become (like) horsemen and have raised the dust:

  • حمله آرند از عدم سوی وجود ** در قیامت هم شکور و هم کنود
  • At Resurrection both the thankful and the ungrateful rush along from non-existence towards existence.

  • سر چه می‌‌پیچی کنی نادیده‌‌ای ** در عدم ز اول نه سرپیچیده‌‌ای‌‌
  • Why do you turn away your head and pretend not to see? Did you not turn away your head at first, (when you were) in non-existence (and disbelieved that you would ever come into existence)?

  • در عدم افشرده بودی پای خویش ** که مرا که بر کند از جای خویش‌‌
  • You had planted your foot (firmly) in non-existence, saying, “Who will uproot me from my place?”

  • می‌‌نبینی صنع ربانیت را ** که کشید او موی پیشانیت را 3680
  • Are not you beholding the action of your Lord, who dragged you (into existence) by the forelock,

  • تا کشیدت اندر این انواع حال ** که نبودت در گمان و در خیال‌‌
  • Until He drew you into (all) these various states (of being), which were not in your thought or fancy?

  • آن عدم او را هماره بنده است ** کار کن دیوا سلیمان زنده است‌‌
  • That non-existence is always His slave: work (in His service), O demon! Solomon is living.

  • دیو می‌‌سازد جفان کالجواب ** زهره نی تا دفع گوید یا جواب‌‌
  • The demon is making large bowls like watering-troughs: he dare not say a word in refusal or in retort.

  • خویش را بین چون همی‌‌لرزی ز بیم ** مر عدم را نیز لرزان دان مقیم‌‌
  • Look at yourself, how you are trembling with fear (of non-existence): know that nonexistence also is constantly trembling (lest God should bring it into existence).

  • ور تو دست اندر مناصب می‌‌زنی ** هم ز ترس است آن که جانی می‌‌کنی‌‌ 3685
  • And if you are grasping at (worldly) dignities, ’tis from fear too that you are suffering agony of spirit.

  • هر چه جز عشق خدای احسن است ** گر شکر خواری است آن جان کندن است‌‌
  • Except love of the most beauteous God everything, though (outwardly) it is (pleasant like) eating sugar, is (in truth) agony of spirit.

  • چیست جان کندن سوی مرگ آمدن ** دست در آب حیاتی نازدن‌‌
  • What is agony of spirit? To advance towards death and not grasp the Water of Life.

  • خلق را دو دیده در خاک و ممات ** صد گمان دارند در آب حیات‌‌
  • People fix both their eyes on earth and death: they have a hundred doubts concerning the Water of Life.

  • جهد کن تا صد گمان گردد نود ** شب برو ور تو بخسبی شب رود
  • Strive that the hundred doubts may become ninety (may decrease): go (towards God) in the night (of this world), for if you slumber, the night will go (from you).

  • در شب تاریک جوی آن روز را ** پیش کن آن عقل ظلمت سوز را 3690
  • In the dark night seek that (shining) Day: put in front (follow) the darkness consuming Reason.

  • در شب بد رنگ بس نیکی بود ** آب حیوان جفت تاریکی بود
  • In the evil-coloured night there is much good: the Water of Life is the mate of darkness.

  • سر ز خفتن کی توان برداشتن ** با چنین صد تخم غفلت کاشتن‌‌
  • How is it possible to lift up the head from slumber, whilst you are sowing a hundred such seeds of slothfulness?