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1954-1978

  • همچو داودم نود نعجه مراست ** طمع در نعجه‌ی حریفم هم بخاست
  • I am like David: I have ninety ewes, and yet desire for my rival's ewe hath arisen in me.

  • حرص اندر عشق تو فخرست و جاه ** حرص اندر غیر تو ننگ و تباه 1955
  • Greed for Thy love is glorious and grand; greed for (the love of) any besides Thee is shameful and corrupt.”

  • شهوت و حرص نران بیشی بود ** و آن حیزان ننگ و بدکیشی بود
  • The lust and greed of the manly is advancement (in the spiritual Way), while that of the effeminate is disgrace and irreligion.

  • حرص مردان از ره پیشی بود ** در مخنث حرص سوی پس رود
  • The greed of (true) men is by the forward way, (but) greed in the effeminate goes backward.

  • آن یکی حرص از کمال مردی است ** و آن دگر حرص افتضاح و سردی است
  • The one greed belongs to the perfection of manliness, while the other greed is (a cause of) opprobrium and disgust.

  • آه سری هست اینجا بس نهان ** که سوی خضری شود موسی روان
  • Ah, there is a very occult mystery here (in the fact) that Moses sets out to go towards a Khizr.

  • همچو مستسقی کز آبش سیر نیست ** بر هر آنچ یافتی بالله مه‌ایست 1960
  • By God, do not tarry in anything (any spiritual position) that thou hast gained, (but crave more) like one suffering from dropsy who is never sated with water.

  • بی نهایت حضرتست این بارگاه ** صدر را بگذار صدر تست راه
  • This (Divine) court is the Infinite Plane. Leave the seat of honour behind: the Way is thy seat of honour.

  • سر طلب کردن موسی خضر را علیهماالسلام با کمال نبوت و قربت
  • The mystery of Moses seeking Khizr, notwithstanding his perfection as a prophet and as one nigh unto God.

  • از کلیم حق بیاموز ای کریم ** بین چه می‌گوید ز مشتاقی کلیم
  • Learn from him with whom God spake, O noble sir! See what Kalím (Moses) says in his longing!

  • با چنین جاه و چنین پیغامبری ** طالب خضرم ز خودبینی بری
  • “Notwithstanding such a dignity and such a prophetic office (as I possess), I am a seeker of Khizr, (I am) quit of self-regard.”

  • موسیا تو قوم خود را هشته‌ای ** در پی نیکوپیی سرگشته‌ای
  • (They said), “O Moses, thou hast forsaken thy people; thou hast wandered distraught in search of a blessed man.

  • کیقبادی رسته از خوف و رجا ** چند گردی چند جویی تا کجا 1965
  • Thou art an emperor delivered from fear and hope: how long wilt thou wander? How long wilt thou seek? To what bound?

  • آن تو با تست و تو واقف برین ** آسمانا چند پیمایی زمین
  • (He that is) thine is with thee, and thou art conscious of this. O (thou who art exalted as the) sky, how long wilt thou traverse the (low) earth?”

  • گفت موسی این ملامت کم کنید ** آفتاب و ماه را کم ره زنید
  • Moses said, “Do not make this reproach (against me), do not waylay the Sun and the Moon.

  • می‌روم تا مجمع البحرین من ** تا شوم مصحوب سلطان زمن
  • I will fare as far as the meeting-place of the two seas, that (afterwards) I may be accompanied by the Sovereign of the time.

  • اجعل الخضر لامری سببا ** ذاک او امضی و اسری حقبا
  • I will make Khizr a means to (the achievement of) my purpose: (either) that, or I will go onward and journey by night a long while.

  • سالها پرم بپر و بالها ** سالها چه بود هزاران سالها 1970
  • I will fly with wings and pinions for years: what are years? For thousands of years.”

  • می‌روم یعنی نمی‌ارزد بدان ** عشق جانان کم مدان از عشق نان
  • (He said) “I will fare,” meaning, “Is it not worth that (toilsome journey)? Do not deem the passion for the Beloved to be less than the passion for bread (worldly goods).”

  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای عمو ** داستان آن دقوقی را بگو
  • This discourse hath no end, O uncle. (Now) tell the story of Daqúqí.

  • بازگشتن به قصه‌ی دقوقی
  • Resuming the story of Daqúqí.

  • آن دقوقی رحمة الله علیه ** گفت سافرت مدی فی خافقیه
  • That Daqúqí, God have mercy on him, said: “I travelled a long time between His two horizons.

  • سال و مه رفتم سفر از عشق ماه ** بی‌خبر از راه حیران در اله
  • Years and months I went on my journey for love of the Moon, unconscious of the way, lost in God.”

  • پا برهنه می‌روی بر خار و سنگ ** گفت من حیرانم و بی خویش و دنگ 1975
  • (Some one asked him), “(Why) dost thou go bare-foot over thorns and stones?” He said, “I am bewildered and beside myself and crazed.”

  • تو مبین این پایها را بر زمین ** زانک بر دل می‌رود عاشق یقین
  • Do not regard these feet (that walk) on the earth, for assuredly the lover (of God) walks on his heart;

  • از ره و منزل ز کوتاه و دراز ** دل چه داند کوست مست دل‌نواز
  • (And) the heart that is intoxicated with the Sweetheart, what should it know of road and stage or of short (distance) and long?

  • آن دراز و کوته اوصاف تنست ** رفتن ارواح دیگر رفتنست
  • That “long” and “short” are attributes of the body: the faring of spirits is another (kind of) faring.