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  • گرچه آن وصلت بقا اندر بقاست ** لیک ز اول آن بقا اندر فناست
  • Although that union (with God) is immortality on immortality, yet at first that immortality (baqá) consists in dying to self (faná).

  • سایه‌هایی که بود جویای نور ** نیست گردد چون کند نورش ظهور 4660
  • The reflexions that are seeking the Light are naughted when His Light appears.

  • عقل کی ماند چو باشد سرده او ** کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
  • How should the reason remain when He bids it go?Everything is perishing except His Face.

  • هالک آید پیش وجهش هست و نیست ** هستی اندر نیستی خود طرفه‌ایست
  • Before His Face the existent and the non-existent perish: existence in nonexistence is in sooth a marvellous thing!

  • اندرین محضر خردها شد ز دست ** چون قلم اینجا رسیده شد شکست
  • In this place of presence (all) minds are lost beyond control; when the pen reaches this point, it breaks.

  • نواختن معشوق عاشق بیهوش را تا به هوش باز آید
  • How the Beloved caressed the senseless lover, that he might return to his senses.

  • می‌کشید از بیهشی‌اش در بیان ** اندک اندک از کرم صدر جهان
  • The Sadr-i Jahán, from kindness, was drawing him little by little from senselessness into (the capacity for) clear expression.

  • بانگ زد در گوش او شه کای گدا ** زر نثار آوردمت دامن گشا 4665
  • The Prince cried into his ear, “O beggar, I bring gold to scatter o’er thee; spread out thy skirt.

  • جان تو کاندر فراقم می‌طپید ** چونک زنهارش رسیدم چون رمید
  • Thy spirit, which was quivering (with distress) in separation. from me—since I have come to protect it, how has it fled?

  • ای بدیده در فراقم گرم و سرد ** با خود آ از بی‌خودی و باز گرد
  • O thou who hast suffered heat and cold in separation from me, come to thyself from selflessness and return!”

  • مرغ خانه اشتری را بی خرد ** رسم مهمانش به خانه می‌برد
  • The domestic fowl, in the manner of a host, foolishly brings a camel to her house.

  • چون به خانه مرغ اشتر پا نهاد ** خانه ویران گشت و سقف اندر فتاد
  • When the camel set foot in the hen’s house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.

  • خانه‌ی مرغست هوش و عقل ما ** هوش صالح طالب ناقه‌ی خدا 4670
  • The hen’s house is our (weak) intelligence and understanding the good intelligence is a seeker of God’s she-camel

  • ناقه چون سر کرد در آب و گلش ** نه گل آنجا ماند نه جان و دلش
  • When the she-camel put her head into its water and clay, neither its clay remained there (in existence) nor its soul and heart.

  • کرد فضل عشق انسان را فضول ** زین فزون‌جویی ظلومست و جهول
  • Pre-eminence in love made Man overweening: because of this desire for excess he is very unjust and very ignorant.

  • جاهلست و اندرین مشکل شکار ** می‌کشد خرگوش شیری در کنار
  • He is ignorant, and in this difficult chase the hare is clasping a lion in his arms.

  • کی کنار اندر کشیدی شیر را ** گر بدانستی و دیدی شیر را
  • How would he clasp the lion in his arms, if he knew and saw the lion?

  • ظالمست او بر خود و بر جان خود ** ظلم بین کز عدلها گو می‌برد 4675
  • He is unjust to himself and to his own soul: behold an injustice that bears away the ball (the palm) from (all) justices!

  • جهل او مر علمها را اوستاد ** ظلم او مر عدلها را شد رشاد
  • His ignorance is the teacher to (all) knowledges, his injustice has become the right way for (all) justices.

  • دست او بگرفت کین رفته دمش ** آنگهی آید که من دم بخشمش
  • He (the Sadr-i Jahán) took his (the lover’s) hand, saying, “This man whose breath has departed will (only) then come (to life) when I give him (spiritual) breath.

  • چون به من زنده شود این مرده‌تن ** جان من باشد که رو آرد به من
  • When this man whose body is dead shall become living through Me (then) it will be My spirit that turns its face towards me.

  • من کنم او را ازین جان محتشم ** جان که من بخشم ببیند بخششم
  • By means of this spirit I make him possessed of high estate: (only) the spirit that I give sees (experiences) My bounty.

  • جان نامحرم نبیند روی دوست ** جز همان جان کاصل او از کوی اوست 4680
  • The unfamiliar (unprivileged) spirit does not see the face of the Beloved: (none sees it) except that spirit whose origin is from His dwelling-place.

  • در دمم قصاب‌وار این دوست را ** تا هلد آن مغز نغزش پوست را
  • Butcher-like, I breathe upon this dear friend, in order that his goodly inward part may leave the skin.”

  • گفت ای جان رمیده از بلا ** وصل ما را در گشادیم الصلا
  • He said, “O spirit that hast fled from tribulation, We have opened the door to union with Us; welcome!

  • ای خود ما بی‌خودی و مستی‌ات ** ای ز هست ما هماره هستی‌ات
  • O thou whose selflessness and intoxication is (caused by) Our Self, O thou whose being is incessantly (derived) from Our Being,