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1617-1641

  • دید طین آدم و دینش ندید ** این جهان دید آن جهان‌بینش ندید
  • He saw the clay (tín) of Adam but did not see his obedience to God (dín): he saw in him this world but did not see that (spirit) which beholds yonder world.

  • فضل مردان بر زنان ای بو شجاع ** نیست بهر قوت و کسب و ضیاع
  • The superiority of men to women, O valorous one, is not on account of strength and money-making and (the possession of) landed estates;

  • ورنه شیر و پیل را بر آدمی ** فضل بودی بهر قوت ای عمی
  • Otherwise the lion and elephant because of (their) strength would be superior to the human being, O blind one.

  • فضل مردان بر زن ای حالی‌پرست ** زان بود که مرد پایان بین‌ترست 1620
  • The superiority of men to women, O time-server, is because man is more regardful of the end.

  • مرد کاندر عاقبت‌بینی خمست ** او ز اهل عاقبت چون زن کمست
  • The man who is crooked in respect of seeing the end, he, like a woman, is inferior to those acquainted with the end.

  • از جهان دو بانگ می‌آید به ضد ** تا کدامین را تو باشی مستعد
  • From the World are coming two cries in opposition (to each other): (bethink thyself) for which (of them) thou art adapted.

  • آن یکی بانگش نشور اتقیا ** وان یکی بانگش فریب اشقیا
  • Its one cry is the (means of) quickening the devout with (spiritual) life; and its other cry is the (means of) cajoling the graceless.

  • من شکوفه‌ی خارم ای خوش گرمدار ** گل بریزد من بمانم شاخ خار
  • (The World says), “I am the thorn-blossom, O sweet cherisher (of love for me): the flower will drop and I shall remain a (mere) thorn-bough.”

  • بانگ اشکوفه‌ش که اینک گل‌فروش ** بانگ خار او که سوی ما مکوش 1625
  • The cry of its (the World's) blossom is, “Here is the flower-seller!” The cry of its thorn is, “Do not strive (to advance) towards me.”

  • این پذیرفتی بماندی زان دگر ** که محب از ضد محبوبست کر
  • (If) thou hast accepted (responded to) this (alluring cry), thou art left (unmoved) by the other, for a lover is deaf to the contrary of the object loved (by him).

  • آن یکی بانگ این که اینک حاضرم ** بانگ دیگر بنگر اندر آخرم
  • The one cry is this, “Here am I, ready”; the other cry is, “Look upon my latter end.

  • حاضری‌ام هست چون مکر و کمین ** نقش آخر ز آینه‌ی اول ببین
  • My readiness is like guile and ambush: behold the image of the end in the mirror of the beginning.”

  • چون یکی زین دو جوال اندر شدی ** آن دگر را ضد و نا درخور شدی
  • When thou hast gone into one of these two sacks, thou hast become contrary and unsuitable to the other.

  • ای خنک آنکو ز اول آن شنید ** کش عقول و مسمع مردان شنید 1630
  • Oh, happy is he who, from the first, heard that which the intelligences and the (spiritual) ears of (holy) men have heard.

  • خانه خالی یافت و جا را او گرفت ** غیر آنش کژ نماید یا شگفت
  • (If) it (the World) has found the house (the heart) empty and taken abode (there), all else appears to him (the owner of the house) perverted or wonderful (extraordinary).

  • کوزه‌ی نو کو به خود بولی کشید ** آن خبث را آب نتواند برید
  • (So with) the new pot that has drawn to itself some urine: water cannot detach that filth (from it).

  • در جهان هر چیز چیزی می‌کشد ** کفر کافر را و مرشد را رشد
  • Everything in the world draws something (to itself): infidelity (draws) the infidel and righteousness him who is guided aright.

  • کهربا هم هست و مقناطیس هست ** تا تو آهن یا کهی آیی بشست
  • There is both the amber and the magnet (lodestone): whether thou art iron or straw thou wilt come to the hook (thou wilt be attracted).

  • برد مقناطیست ار تو آهنی ** ور کهی بر کهربا بر می‌تنی 1635
  • The magnet carries thee off if thou art iron; and if thou art straw, thou wilt be in contact with the amber.

  • آن یکی چون نیست با اخیار یار ** لاجرم شد پهلوی فجار جار
  • When any one is not associated with the good, he inevitably becomes a neighbour to the wicked.

  • هست موسی پیش قبطی بس ذمیم ** هست هامان پیش سبطی بس رجیم
  • Moses is very despicable in the eyes of the Egyptian; Hámán is exceedingly accursed in the eyes of the Israelite.

  • جان هامان جاذب قبطی شده ** جان موسی طالب سبطی شده
  • The spirit of Hámán has drawn the Egyptian (to itself); the spirit of Moses has sought the Israelite.

  • معده‌ی خر که کشد در اجتذاب ** معده‌ی آدم جذوب گندم آب
  • The belly of the ass draws straw (to itself) at the (moment of) indrawing (deglutition); the belly of Adam (Man) is an attractor of wheat-broth.

  • گر تو نشناسی کسی را از ظلام ** بنگر او را کوش سازیدست امام 1640
  • If, on account of the darkness (of ignorance), thou dost not recognise a person (so as to discern his real nature), look at him whom he has made his imam (leader);

  • بیان آنک عارف را غذاییست از نور حق کی ابیت عند ربی یطعمنی و یسقینی و قوله الجوع طعام الله یحیی به ابدان الصدیقین ای فی الجوع یصل طعام‌الله
  • Explaining that the gnostic hath a nutriment (consisting) of the Light of God, for (the Prophet said), "I pass the night with my Lord: He giveth me meat and drink"; and "Hunger is God's food whereby He revives the bodies of the siddíqs," that is, "in hunger God's food reaches (them)."

  • زانک هر کره پی مادر رود ** تا بدان جنسیتش پیدا شود
  • For every foal goes after its dam, so that thereby (the fact of) its being a congener becomes apparent.