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1422-1446

  • 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.

  • گر بخواهد مرگ هم شیرین شود ** خار و نشتر نرگس و نسرین شود
  • If he will, even death becomes sweet; thorns and stings become narcissus and wild-rose.

  • آنک او موقوف حالست آدمیست ** کو بحال افزون و گاهی در کمیست 1425
  • He that is dependent on the “state” is (still) a human being: for (at one moment) he is (made) greater by the “state,” at another moment he is in decrease.

  • صوفی ابن الوقت باشد در منال ** لیک صافی فارغست از وقت و حال
  • In respect of gaining (the 'state'), the Súfí is “the son of the time,” but the pure one (sáfí) is unconcerned with “time” and “state.”

  • حالها موقوف عزم و رای او ** زنده از نفخ مسیح‌آسای او
  • “States” are dependent on his decision and judgement; (they are) vivified by his Messiah-like breath.

  • عاشق حالی نه عاشق بر منی ** بر امید حال بر من می‌تنی
  • “Thou art in love with thy ‘state,’ thou art not in love with me; thou art attached to me in the hope of (experiencing) the ‘state.’”

  • آنک یک دم کم دمی کامل بود ** نیست معبود خلیل آفل بود
  • He that at one moment is deficient and at another moment perfect is not He that was worshipped by Khalíl (Abraham): he is one that sinks;

  • وانک آفل باشد و گه آن و این ** نیست دلبر لا احب افلین 1430
  • And he that is liable to sink and is now that and (now) this is not the (true) beloved: “I love not them that sink.”

  • آنک او گاهی خوش و گه ناخوشست ** یک زمانی آب و یک دم آتشست
  • He that is now pleasing and now unpleasing, at one time water and at one moment fire,

  • برج مه باشد ولیکن ماه نه ** نقش بت باشد ولی آگاه نه
  • May be the mansion of the Moon, but he is not the Moon; he may be the picture of the Adored One, but he is not conscious.

  • هست صوفی صفاجو ابن وقت ** وقت را همچون پدر بگرفته سخت
  • The Súfí that seeks purity is ‘the son of the time’: he has clasped the ‘time’ tightly as (though it were) his father.

  • هست صافی غرق عشق ذوالجلال ** ابن کس نه فارغ از اوقات و حال
  • The pure one (sáfí) is plunged in love of the Glorious (God); he is not the son of any one, (he is) free from ‘times’ and ‘states’—

  • غرقه‌ی نوری که او لم یولدست ** لم یلد لم یولد آن ایزدست 1435
  • Plunged in the Light which is unbegotten: (the description) He neither begetteth nor is He begotten belongs to God (alone).

  • رو چنین عشقی بجو گر زنده‌ای ** ورنه وقت مختلف را بنده‌ای
  • Go, seek a love like this, if thou art (spiritually) alive; otherwise, thou art a slave to the changing “time.”

  • منگر اندر نقش زشت و خوب خویش ** بنگر اندر عشق و در مطلوب خویش
  • Do not regard thy ugly or beauteous form; regard Love and the object of thy search.

  • منگر آنک تو حقیری یا ضعیف ** بنگر اندر همت خود ای شریف
  • Do not regard the fact that thou art despicable or infirm; look upon thy aspiration, O noble one.

  • تو به هر حالی که باشی می‌طلب ** آب می‌جو دایما ای خشک‌لب
  • In whatsoever state thou be, keep searching; O thou with dry lip, always be seeking the water,

  • کان لب خشکت گواهی می‌دهد ** کو بخر بر سر منبع رسد 1440
  • For that dry lip of thine gives evidence that at last it will reach the springhead.

  • خشکی لب هست پیغامی ز آب ** که بمات آرد یقین این اضطراب
  • Dryness of lip is a message from the water (to say) that this agitation (anxious search) will certainly bring thee to the water,

  • کین طلب‌کاری مبارک جنبشیست ** این طلب در راه حق مانع کشیست
  • For this seeking is a blessed motion; this search is a killer of obstacles on the Way to God.

  • این طلب مفتاح مطلوبات تست ** این سپاه و نصرت رایات تست
  • This search is the key to the things sought by thee; this (search) is thy army and the victory of thy banners.

  • این طلب همچون خروسی در صیاح ** می‌زند نعره که می‌آید صباح
  • This search is like a cock crowing and proclaiming that the dawn is at hand.

  • گرچه آلت نیستت تو می‌طلب ** نیست آلت حاجت اندر راه رب 1445
  • Although thou hast no equipment, do thou be ever seeking: equipment is not necessary on the Way of the Lord.

  • هر که را بینی طلب‌کار ای پسر ** یار او شو پیش او انداز سر
  • Whomsoever thou seest engaged in search, O son, become his friend and cast thy head before him,