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1253-1277

  • موسی و فرعون در هستی تست ** باید این دو خصم را در خویش جست
  • Moses and Pharaoh are in thy being: thou must seek these two adversaries in thyself.

  • تا قیامت هست از موسی نتاج ** نور دیگر نیست دیگر شد سراج
  • The (process of) generation from Moses is (continuing) till the Resurrection: the Light is not different, (though) the lamp has become different.

  • این سفال و این پلیته دیگرست ** لیک نورش نیست دیگر زان سرست 1255
  • This earthenware lamp and this wick are different, but its light is not different: it is from Yonder.

  • گر نظر در شیشه داری گم شوی ** زانک از شیشه‌ست اعداد دوی
  • If thou keep looking at the glass (lantern), thou wilt be lost, because from the glass arise the numbers of (the plurality inherent in) dualism;

  • ور نظر بر نور داری وا رهی ** از دوی واعداد جسم منتهی
  • But if thou keep thy gaze (fixed) upon the Light, thou wilt be delivered from dualism and the numbers (plurality) of the finite body.

  • از نظرگاهست ای مغز وجود ** اختلاف مومن و گبر و جهود
  • From the place (object) of view, O (thou who art the) kernel of Existence, there arises the difference between the true believer and the Zoroastrian and the Jew.

  • اختلاف کردن در چگونگی و شکل پیل
  • The disagreement as to the description and shape of the elephant.

  • پیل اندر خانه‌ی تاریک بود ** عرضه را آورده بودندش هنود
  • The elephant was in a dark house: some Hindús had brought it for exhibition.

  • از برای دیدنش مردم بسی ** اندر آن ظلمت همی‌شد هر کسی 1260
  • In order to see it, many people were going, every one, into that darkness.

  • دیدنش با چشم چون ممکن نبود ** اندر آن تاریکیش کف می‌بسود
  • As seeing it with the eye was impossible, (each one) was feeling it in the dark with the palm of his hand.

  • آن یکی را کف به خرطوم اوفتاد ** گفت همچون ناودانست این نهاد
  • The hand of one fell on its trunk: he said, “This creature is like a water-pipe.”

  • آن یکی را دست بر گوشش رسید ** آن برو چون بادبیزن شد پدید
  • The hand of another touched its ear: to him it appeared to be like a fan.

  • آن یکی را کف چو بر پایش بسود ** گفت شکل پیل دیدم چون عمود
  • Since another handled its leg, he said, “I found the elephant's shape to be like a pillar.”

  • آن یکی بر پشت او بنهاد دست ** گفت خود این پیل چون تختی بدست 1265
  • Another laid his hand on its back: he said, “Truly, this elephant was like a throne.”

  • همچنین هر یک به جزوی که رسید ** فهم آن می‌کرد هر جا می‌شنید
  • Similarly, whenever any one heard (a description of the elephant), he understood (it only in respect of) the part that he had touched.

  • از نظرگه گفتشان شد مختلف ** آن یکی دالش لقب داد این الف
  • On account of the (diverse) place (object) of view, their statements differed: one man entitled it “dál,” another “alif.”

  • در کف هر کس اگر شمعی بدی ** اختلاف از گفتشان بیرون شدی
  • If there had been a candle in each one's hand, the difference would have gone out of their words.

  • چشم حس همچون کف دستست و بس ** نیست کف را بر همه‌ی او دست‌رس
  • The eye of sense-perception is only like the palm of the hand: the palm hath not power to reach the whole of him (the elephant).

  • چشم دریا دیگرست و کف دگر ** کف بهل وز دیده‌ی دریا نگر 1270
  • The eye of the Sea is one thing, and the foam another: leave the foam and look with the eye of the Sea.

  • جنبش کفها ز دریا روز و شب ** کف همی‌بینی و دریا نه عجب
  • Day and night (there is) the movement of foam-flecks from the Sea: thou beholdest the foam, but not the Sea. Marvellous!

  • ما چو کشتیها بهم بر می‌زنیم ** تیره‌چشمیم و در آب روشنیم
  • We are dashing against each other, like boats: our eyes are darkened, though we are in the clear water.

  • ای تو در کشتی تن رفته به خواب ** آب را دیدی نگر در آب آب
  • O thou that hast gone to sleep in the body's boat, thou hast seen the water, (but) look on the Water of the water.

  • آب را آبیست کو می‌راندش ** روح را روحیست کو می‌خواندش
  • The water hath a Water that is driving it; the spirit hath a Spirit that is calling it.

  • موسی و عیسی کجا بد کفتاب ** کشت موجودات را می‌داد آب 1275
  • Where were Moses and Jesus when the (Divine) Sun was giving water to the sown field of existent things?

  • آدم و حوا کجا بد آن زمان ** که خدا افکند این زه در کمان
  • Where were Adam and Eve at the time when God fitted this string to the bow?

  • این سخن هم ناقص است و ابترست ** آن سخن که نیست ناقص آن سرست
  • This (manner of) speech, too, is imperfect and maimed; the speech that is not imperfect is Yonder.