نیکوان رفتند و سنتها بماند ** وز لئیمان ظلم و لعنتها بماند
The righteous departed and their ways remained, and from the vile there remained (nothing but) injustice and execrations.
تا قیامت هر که جنس آن بدان ** در وجود آید بود رویش بدان745
Until the Resurrection, the face of every congener of those wicked men who comes into existence is turned towards that one (who belongs to his own kind).
رگ رگ است این آب شیرین و آب شور ** در خلایق میرود تا نفخ صور
Vein by vein is this sweet water and bitter water, flowing in (God's) creatures until the blast of the trumpet (at the Resurrection).
نیکوان را هست میراث از خوشآب ** آن چه میراث است أورثنا الکتاب
To the righteous is the inheritance of the sweet water. What is that inheritance? We have caused (those of Our servants whom We have chosen) to inherit the Book.
شد نیاز طالبان ار بنگری ** شعلهها از گوهر پیغمبری
If you will consider, the supplications of the seekers (of God) are rays (proceeding) from the substance of prophethood.
شعلهها با گوهران گردان بود ** شعله آن جانب رود هم کان بود
The rays are circling with the substances (whence they spring): the ray goes (ultimately) in the direction where that (substance) is.
نور روزن گرد خانه میدود ** ز آنکه خور برجی به برجی میرود750
The window-gleam runs round the house, because the sun goes from sign to sign of the zodiac.
هر که را با اختری پیوستگی است ** مر و را با اختر خود هم تگی است
Any one who has affinity with a star (planet) has a concurrence (of qualities) with his star.
طالعش گر زهره باشد در طرب ** میل کلی دارد و عشق و طلب
If his ascendant star be Venus, his whole inclination and love and desire is for joy;
ور بود مریخی خونریز خو ** جنگ و بهتان و خصومت جوید او
And if he be one born under Mars, one whose nature is to shed blood, he seeks war and malignity and enmity.
اخترانند از ورای اختران ** که احتراق و نحس نبود اندر آن
Beyond the (material) stars are stars in which is no conflagration or sinister aspect,
سایران در آسمانهای دگر ** غیر این هفت آسمان معتبر755
(Stars) moving in other heavens, not these seven heavens (which are) held in high regard,
راسخان در تاب انوار خدا ** نی بهم پیوسته نی از هم جدا
(Stars) immanent in the radiance of the light of God, neither joined to each other nor separate from each other.
هر که باشد طالع او ز آن نجوم ** نفس او کفار سوزد در رجوم
When any one's ascendant (fortune) is from those stars, his soul burns the infidels in driving (them) off.
خشم مریخی نباشد خشم او ** منقلب رو غالب و مغلوب خو
His anger is not (like) the anger of the man born under Mars—going upside down, and of such nature that it is (now) dominant and (now) dominated.
نور غالب ایمن از نقص و غسق ** در میان اصبعین نور حق
The dominant light (of the saints) is secure from defect and dimness between the two fingers of the Light of God.
حق فشاند آن نور را بر جانها ** مقبلان برداشته دامانها760
God hath scattered that light over (all) spirits, (but only) the fortunate have held up their skirts (to receive it);
و آن نثار نور را وایافته ** روی از غیر خدا بر تافته
And he (that is fortunate), having gained that strown largesse of light, has turned his face away from all except God.
هر که را دامان عشقی نابده ** ز آن نثار نور بیبهره شده
Whosoever has lacked (such) a skirt of love is left without share in that strown largesse of light.
جزوها را رویها سوی کل است ** بلبلان را عشق با روی گل است
The faces of particulars are set towards the universal: nightingales are in love with the face of the rose.
گاو را رنگ از برون و مرد را ** از درون جو رنگ سرخ و زرد را
The ox has his colour outside, but in the case of a man seek the red and yellow hues within.
رنگهای نیک از خم صفاست ** رنگ زشتان از سیاهآبهی جفاست765
The good colours are from the vat of purity; the colour of the wicked is from the black water of iniquity.
صبغة الله نام آن رنگ لطیف ** لعنة الله بوی این رنگ کثیف
The baptism of God is the name of that subtle colour; the curse of God is the smell of this gross colour.
آن چه از دریا به دریا میرود ** از همانجا کامد آن جا میرود
That which is of the sea is going to the sea: it is going to the same place whence it came—
از سر که سیلهای تیز رو ** وز تن ما جان عشق آمیز رو
From the mountain-top the swift-rushing torrents, and from our body the soul whose motion is mingled with love.
آتش کردن پادشاه جهود و بت نهادن پهلوی آتش که هر که این بت را سجود کند از آتش برست
How the Jewish king made a fire and placed an idol beside it, saying, “Whoever bows down to this idol shall escape the fire.”