ابلهی صیاد آن سایه شود ** میدود چندان که بیمایه شود
Some fool begins to chase the shadow, running (after it) so far that he becomes powerless (exhausted),
بیخبر کان عکس آن مرغ هواست ** بیخبر که اصل آن سایه کجاست
Not knowing that it is the reflexion of that bird in the air, not knowing where is the origin of the shadow.
تیر اندازد به سوی سایه او ** ترکشش خالی شود از جستجو420
He shoots arrows at the shadow; his quiver is emptied in seeking (to shoot it):
ترکش عمرش تهی شد عمر رفت ** از دویدن در شکار سایه تفت
The quiver of his life became empty: his life passed in running hotly in chase of the shadow.
سایهی یزدان چو باشد دایهاش ** وارهاند از خیال و سایهاش
(But) when the shadow of God is his nurse, it delivers him from (every) phantom and shadow.
سایهی یزدان بود بندهی خدا ** مرده او زین عالم و زندهی خدا
The shadow of God is that servant of God who is dead to this world and living through God.
دامن او گیر زودتر بیگمان ** تا رهی در دامن آخر زمان
Lay hold of his skirt most quickly without misgiving, that you may be saved in the skirt (end) of the last days (of the world).
کيف مد الظل نقش اولیاست ** کاو دلیل نور خورشید خداست425
(The shadow mentioned in the words) How He (God) extended the shadow is the form of the saints, which guides to the light of the Divine Sun.
اندر این وادی مرو بیاین دلیل ** لا أحب الآفلین گو چون خلیل
Do not go in this valley without this guide; say, like Khalíl (Abraham), “I love not them that set.”
رو ز سایه آفتابی را بیاب ** دامن شه شمس تبریزی بتاب
Go, from the shadow gain a sun: pluck the skirt of the (spiritual) king, Shams-i Tabrízí (the Sun of Tabríz)!
ره ندانی جانب این سور و عرس ** از ضیاء الحق حسام الدین بپرس
If you do not know the way to this feast and bridal, ask of Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (the Radiance of God) Husámu’ddín.
ور حسد گیرد ترا در ره گلو ** در حسد ابلیس را باشد غلو
And if on the way envy seize you by the throat, it belongs to (is characteristic of) Iblís to go beyond bounds in envy;
کاو ز آدم ننگ دارد از حسد ** با سعادت جنگ دارد از حسد430
For he because of envy hath disdain for Adam, and because of envy is at war with felicity.
ای خنک آن کش حسد همراه نیست ** عقبهای زین صعبتر در راه نیست
In the Way there is no harder pass than this. Oh, fortunate he who is not companioned by envy!
این جسد خانهی حسد آمد بدان ** از حسد آلوده باشد خاندان
This body, you must know, is the house of envy, for the household are tainted with envy.
گر جسد خانهی حسد باشد و لیک ** آن جسد را پاک کرد الله نیک
If the body is the house of envy, yet God made that body very pure.
طهرا بيتي بیان پاکی است ** گنج نور است ار طلسمش خاکی است
(The text) Cleanse My house, ye twain, is the explanation of (such) purity: it (the purified heart) is a treasure of (Divine) light, though its talisman is of earth.
چون کنی بر بیجسد مکر و حسد ** ز آن حسد دل را سیاهیها رسد435
When you practise deceit and envy against one who is without envy, from that envy black stain arise in your heart.
خاک شو مردان حق را زیر پا ** خاک بر سر کن حسد را همچو ما
Become (as) dust under the feet of the men of God; throw dust on the head of envy, even as we do.
بیان حسد وزیر
Explanation of the envy of the vizier.
آن وزیرک از حسد بودش نژاد ** تا به باطل گوش و بینی باد داد
That petty vizier had his origin from envy, so that for vanity he gave to the wind (sacrificed) his ears and nose,
بر امید آن که از نیش حسد ** زهر او در جان مسکینان رسد
In the hope that by the sting of envy his venom might enter the souls of the poor (Christians).
هر کسی کاو از حسد بینی کند ** خویشتن بیگوش و بیبینی کند
Any one who from envy mutilates his nose makes himself without ear and without nose (unable to apprehend spiritual things).
بینی آن باشد که او بویی برد ** بوی او را جانب کویی برد440
The nose is that which catches a scent, and which the scent leads towards an abode (of spiritual truth).
هر که بویش نیست بیبینی بود ** بوی آن بوی است کان دینی بود
Whoever hath no scent is without a nose; the scent (referred to) is that scent which is religious.
چون که بویی برد و شکر آن نکرد ** کفر نعمت آمد و بینیش خورد
When he has caught a scent and given no thanks for it, (that) ingratitude comes and devours his nose (deprives him of the organ of spiritual perception).