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3500-3524

  • با تانی گشت موجود از خدا ** تابه شش روز این زمین و چرخها 3500
  • This earth and the (heavenly) spheres were brought into existence by God with deliberation (extending) to six days;

  • ورنه قادر بود کو کن فیکون ** صد زمین و چرخ آوردی برون
  • Otherwise, He was able—“Be, and it is”—to bring forth a hundred earths and heavens (from non-existence).

  • آدمی را اندک اندک آن همام ** تا چهل سالش کند مرد تمام
  • Little by little till forty years (of age) that Potentate makes the human being a complete man,

  • گرچه قادر بود کاندر یک نفس ** از عدم پران کند پنجاه کس
  • Although He was able in a single moment to set flying (raise up) fifty persons from non-existence.

  • عیسی قادر بود کو از یک دعا ** بی توقف بر جهاند مرده را
  • Jesus by means of one prayer was able to make the dead spring up (to life) without delay:

  • خالق عیسی بنتواند که او ** بی توقف مردم آرد تو بتو 3505
  • Is the Creator of Jesus unable, without delay, to bring (full-grown) men in manifold succession (into existence)?

  • این تانی از پی تعلیم تست ** که طلب آهسته باید بی سکست
  • This deliberation is for the purpose of teaching you that you must seek (God) slowly without (any) break.

  • جو یکی کوچک که دایم می‌رود ** نه نجس گردد نه گنده می‌شود
  • A little rivulet which is moving continually does not become defiled or grow fetid.

  • زین تانی زاید اقبال و سرور ** این تانی بیضه دولت چون طیور
  • From this deliberation are born felicity and joy: this deliberation is the egg, fortune is like the birds (hatched from the egg).

  • مرغ کی ماند به بیضه‌ای عنید ** گرچه از بیضه همی آید پدید
  • How should the bird resemble the egg, O obstinate one, though it is produced from the egg?

  • باش تا اجزای تو چون بیضه‌ها ** مرغها زایند اندر انتها 3510
  • Wait till your limbs, like eggs, hatch birds ultimately (at the Resurrection)!

  • بیضه‌ی مار ارچه ماند در شبه ** بیضه گنجشک را دورست ره
  • Though the serpent's egg resembles the sparrow's egg in (outward) likeness, the distance (between them) is far.

  • دانه‌ی آبی به دانه سیب نیز ** گرچه ماند فرقها دان ای عزیز
  • Again, though the seed of the quince resembles the seed of the apple, recognise the differences, O honoured (sir).

  • برگها هم‌رنگ باشد در نظر ** میوه‌ها هر یک بود نوعی دگر
  • Leaves are of the same colour to look at, (but) fruits, every one, are of a diverse sort.

  • برگهای جسمها ماننده‌اند ** لیک هر جانی بریعی زنده‌اند
  • The leaves, (namely) the bodies, are similar, but every soul lives with a (different) produce (which it yields).

  • خلق در بازار یکسان می‌روند ** آن یکی در ذوق و دیگر دردمند 3515
  • In the bazaar the people go (about their business) all alike, (but) one is in glee and another sorrowful.

  • همچنان در مرگ یکسان می‌رویم ** نیم در خسران و نیمی خسرویم
  • Even so in death: we go all alike, (but) half of us are losers and (the other) half are (fortunate as) emperors.

  • وفات یافتن بلال رضی الله عنه با شادی
  • How Bilál, may God be well-pleased with him, died rejoicing.

  • چون بلال از ضعف شد همچون هلال ** رنگ مرگ افتاد بر روی بلال
  • When Bilál from weakness became (thin) as the new-moon, the hue of death fell upon Bilál's face.

  • جفت او دیدش بگفتا وا حرب ** پس بلالش گفت نه نه وا طرب
  • His wife saw him (in this state) and cried, “Oh, sorrow!” Then Bilál said to her, “Nay, nay! (Say), ‘Oh, joy!’

  • تا کنون اندر حرب بودم ز زیست ** تو چه دانی مرگ چون عیشست و چیست
  • Until now I have been in sorrow from living: how shouldst thou know how delightful death is, and what it is (in reality)?”

  • این همی گفت و رخش در عین گفت ** نرگس و گلبرگ و لاله می‌شکفت 3520
  • He was saying this, and at the very moment of saying it his countenance was blooming with narcissi, rose-leaves, and red anemones.

  • تاب رو و چشم پر انوار او ** می گواهی داد بر گفتار او
  • The glow of his face and his eye full of radiance were giving testimony to (the truth of) his words.

  • هر سیه دل می سیه دیدی ورا ** مردم دیده سیاه آمد چرا
  • Every black-hearted one was regarding him as black (and despising him); (but) why is the man (pupil) of the eye black?

  • مردم نادیده باشد رو سیاه ** مردم دیده بود مرآت ماه
  • The man (spiritually) blind is black-faced, (but) the Man of the (inward) eye (the Seer) is the mirror for the Moon.

  • خود کی بیند مردم دیده‌ی ترا ** در جهان جز مردم دیده‌فزا
  • Who in the world, indeed, sees the man of your (inward) eye except the Man of piercing sight?