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  • تری تن را بجویند آبها ** کای تری باز آ ز غربت سوی ما
  • The waters seek the moisture of the body, saying, “O moisture, come back to us from exile.”

  • گرمی تن را همی‌خواند اثیر ** که ز ناری راه اصل خویش گیر 4425
  • The aether is calling the heat of the body, saying, “Thou art of fire: take the way to thy origin.”

  • هست هفتاد و دو علت در بدن ** از کششهای عناصر بی رسن
  • There are two-and-seventy diseases in the body, (caused) by the elements pulling without cord.

  • علت آید تا بدن را بسکلد ** تا عناصر همدگر را وا هلد
  • Disease comes to shatter the body, so that the elements may abandon each other.

  • چار مرغ‌اند این عناصر بسته‌پا ** مرگ و رنجوری و علت پاگشا
  • These elements are four birds with their legs tied (together): death and sickness and disease loose their legs.

  • پایشان از همدگر چون باز کرد ** مرغ هر عنصر یقین پرواز کرد
  • When it (death) has released their legs from one another, assuredly every bird-element flies away.

  • جذبه‌ی این اصلها و فرعها ** هر دمی رنجی نهد در جسم ما 4430
  • The pull between these originals and derivatives continually implants some pain in our bodies,

  • تا که این ترکیبها را بر درد ** مرغ هر جزوی به اصل خود پرد
  • In order that it may rend these coalitions asunder (and that) each part, like a bird, may fly to its home;

  • حکمت حق مانع آید زین عجل ** جمعشان دارد بصحت تا اجل
  • (But) Divine Providence hinders them from this hastening and keeps them together in health till the appointed term,

  • گوید ای اجزا اجل مشهود نیست ** پر زدن پیش از اجلتان سود نیست
  • And says, “O parts, the term is not certainly known (to you): ’tis useless for you to take wing before the term.”

  • چونک هر جزوی بجوید ارتفاق ** چون بود جان غریب اندر فراق
  • Inasmuch as every part (of the body) seeks support, what must be the state of the soul, a stranger, in separation (from its home)?

  • منجذب شدن جان نیز به عالم ارواح و تقاضای او و میل او به مقر خود و منقطع شدن از اجزای اجسام کی هم کنده‌ی پای باز روح‌اند
  • How likewise the soul is drawn to the world of spirits, and how it craves and desires its home, and becomes severed from the bodily parts which are a fetter on the leg of the spiritual falcon.

  • گوید ای اجزای پست فرشیم ** غربت من تلختر من عرشیم 4435
  • It (the soul) says, “O my base earthly parts, my exile is more bitter (than yours): I am celestial.”

  • میل تن در سبزه و آب روان ** زان بود که اصل او آمد از آن
  • The desire of the body for green herbs and running water is because its origin is from those;

  • میل جان اندر حیات و در حی است ** زانک جان لامکان اصل وی است
  • The desire of the soul is for Life and for the Living One, because its origin is the Infinite Soul.

  • میل جان در حکمتست و در علوم ** میل تن در باغ و راغست و کروم
  • The desire of the soul is for wisdom and the sciences; the desire of the body is for orchards and meadows and vines.

  • میل جان اندر ترقی و شرف ** میل تن در کسب و اسباب علف
  • That exaltedness too hath desire and love towards the soul: from this (fact) understand (the meaning of) He loves them and they love (Him).

  • میل و عشق آن شرف هم سوی جان ** زین یحب را و یحبون را بدان 4440
  • That exaltedness too hath desire and love towards the soul: from this (fact) understand (the meaning of) He loves them and they love (Him).

  • حاصل آنک هر که او طالب بود ** جان مطلوبش درو راغب بود
  • If I explain this, ’twill be endless: the Mathnawí will amount to eighty volumes.

  • گر بگویم شرح این بی حد شود ** مثنوی هشتاد تا کاغذ شود
  • The gist is that whenever any one seeks, the soul of the object sought by him is desiring him.

  • آدمی حیوان نباتی و جماد ** هر مرادی عاشق هر بی‌مراد
  • (Whether it be) man, animal, plant, or mineral, every object of desire is in love with everything that is without (has not attained to) the object of desire.

  • بی‌مرادان بر مرادی می‌تنند ** و آن مرادان جذب ایشان می‌کنند
  • Those who are without their object of desire attach themselves to an object of desire, and those desired ones draw them (on);

  • لیک میل عاشقان لاغر کند ** میل معشوقان خوش و خوش‌فر کند 4445
  • But the desire of the lovers makes them lean, (while) the desire of the loved ones makes them fair and beauteous.

  • عشق معشوقان دو رخ افروخته ** عشق عاشق جان او را سوخته
  • The love of the loved ones illumines the cheeks; the love of the lover consumes his soul.

  • کهربا عاشق به شکل بی‌نیاز ** کاه می‌کوشد در آن راه دراز
  • The amber loves (the straw) with the appearance of wanting naught, (while) the straw is making efforts (to advance) on that long road.

  • این رها کن عشق آن تشنه‌دهان ** تافت اندر سینه‌ی صدر جهان
  • Leave this (topic). The love of that thirsty-mouthed man shone (was reflected) in the breast of the Sadr-i Jahán.