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1399-1423

  • باز صندوقی که خالی شد ز بار ** به ز صندوقی که پر موشست و مار
  • Yet again, the coffer that is empty of (any) load is better than the coffer that is full of mice and snakes.

  • حاصل اندر وصل چون افتاد مرد ** گشت دلاله به پیش مرد سرد 1400
  • The sum (of the matter is this): when a man has attained to union, the go between becomes worthless to him.

  • چون به مطلوبت رسیدی ای ملیح ** شد طلب کاری علم اکنون قبیح
  • Since you have reached the object of your search, O elegant one, the search for knowledge has now become evil.

  • چون شدی بر بامهای آسمان ** سرد باشد جست وجوی نردبان
  • Since you have mounted to the roofs of Heaven, it would be futile to seek a ladder.

  • جز برای یاری و تعلیم غیر ** سرد باشد راه خیر از بعد خیر
  • After (having attained to) felicity, the way (that leads) to felicity is worthless except for the sake of helping and teaching others.

  • آینه‌ی روشن که شد صاف و ملی ** جهل باشد بر نهادن صیقلی
  • The shining mirror, which has become clear and perfect— ’twould be folly to apply a burnisher (to it).

  • پیش سلطان خوش نشسته در قبول ** زشت باشد جستن نامه و رسول 1405
  • Seated happily beside the Sultan (and) in favour (with him) —’twould be disgraceful to seek letter and messenger.

  • داستان مشغول شدن عاشقی به عشق‌نامه خواندن و مطالعه کردن عشق‌نامه درحضور معشوق خویش و معشوق آن را ناپسند داشتن کی طلب الدلیل عند حضور المدلول قبیح والاشتغال بالعلم بعد الوصول الی المعلوم مذموم
  • Story of a lover's being engrossed in reading and perusing a love-letter in the presence of his beloved, and how the beloved was displeased thereat. It is shameful to seek the proof in the presence of that which is proved, and blameworthy to occupy one's self with knowledge after having attained to that which is known.

  • آن یکی را یار پیش خود نشاند ** نامه بیرون کرد و پیش یار خواند
  • A certain man, (when) his beloved let (him) sit beside her, produced a letter and read it to her.

  • بیتها در نامه و مدح و ثنا ** زاری و مسکینی و بس لابه‌ها
  • In the letter were verses and praise and laud, lamentation and wretchedness and many humble entreaties.

  • گفت معشوق این اگر بهر منست ** گاه وصل این عمر ضایع کردنست
  • The beloved said, “If this is for my sake, (to read) this at the time of (our) meeting is to waste one's life.

  • من به پیشت حاضر و تو نامه خوان ** نیست این باری نشان عاشقان
  • I am here beside thee, and thou reading a letter! This, at any rate, is not the mark of (true) lovers.”

  • گفت اینجا حاضری اما ولیک ** من نمی‌یایم نصیب خویش نیک 1410
  • He replied, “Thou art present here, but I am not gaining my pleasure well (completely).

  • آنچ می‌دیدم ز تو پارینه سال ** نیست این دم گرچه می‌بینم وصال
  • That which I felt last year on account of thee is non-existent at this moment, though I am experiencing union (with thee).

  • من ازین چشمه زلالی خورده‌ام ** دیده و دل ز آب تازه کرده‌ام
  • I have drunk cool water from this fountain, I have refreshed eye and heart with its water.

  • چشمه می‌بینم ولیکن آب نی ** راه آبم را مگر زد ره‌زنی
  • I am (still) seeing the fountain, but the water is not there: maybe some brigand has waylaid (and cut off) my water.”

  • گفت پس من نیستم معشوق تو ** من به بلغار و مرادت در قتو
  • She said, “Then I am not thy beloved: I am in Bulghár, and the object of thy desire is in Qutú

  • عاشقی تو بر من و بر حالتی ** حالت اندر دست نبود یا فتی 1415
  • Thou art in love with me and (also) with a state of feeling; the state of feeling is not in thy hand (in thy possession), O youth.

  • پس نیم کلی مطلوب تو من ** جزو مقصودم ترا اندرز من
  • Therefore I am not the whole of that which is sought by thee; I am (only) part of the object of thy quest at the present time.

  • خانه‌ی معشوقه‌ام معشوق نی ** عشق بر نقدست بر صندوق نی
  • I am (only) the house of thy beloved, not the beloved (herself): (true) love is for the cash, not for the coffer (that contains it).”

  • هست معشوق آنک او یکتو بود ** مبتدا و منتهاات او بود
  • The (real) beloved is that one who is single, who is thy beginning and end.

  • چون بیابی‌اش نمانی منتظر ** هم هویدا او بود هم نیز سر
  • When thou findest him, thou wilt not remain in expectation (of aught else): he is both the manifest and also the mystery,

  • میر احوالست نه موقوف حال ** بنده‌ی آن ماه باشد ماه و سال 1420
  • He is the lord of states of feeling, not dependent on any state: month and year are slaves of that Moon.

  • چون بگوید حال را فرمان کند ** چون بخواهد جسمها را جان کند
  • When he bids the “state,” it does his behest; when he wills, he makes bodies (become) spirit.

  • منتها نبود که موقوفست او ** منتظر بنشسته باشد حال‌جو
  • One that is stopped (on the way) is not (at) the (journey's) end; he will be seated, waiting and seeking the “state.”

  • کیمیای حال باشد دست او ** دست جنباند شود مس مست او
  • His (the perfect saint's) hand is the elixir that transmutes the “state”: (if) he move his hand, the copper becomes intoxicated with him.