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1798-1822

  • هم ز نبضت هم ز چشمت هم ز رنگ ** صد سقم بینند در تو بی‌درنگ
  • From your pulse and your eyes and your complexion alike they immediately discern a hundred (spiritual) maladies in you.

  • این طبیبان نوآموزند خود ** که بدین آیاتشان حاجت بود
  • In sooth, ’tis (only) these newly-taught physicians that have need of these (external) signs.

  • کاملان از دور نامت بشنوند ** تا به قعر باد و بودت در دوند 1800
  • The perfect (the divine physicians) will hear your name from afar and quickly penetrate into the deepest ground of your being and existence;

  • بلک پیش از زادن تو سالها ** دیده باشندت ترا با حالها
  • Nay, they will have seen you (many) years before your birth —you together with all the circumstances (connected with you).

  • مژده دادن ابویزید از زادن ابوالحسن خرقانی قدس الله روحهما پیش از سالها و نشان صورت او سیرت او یک به یک و نوشتن تاریخ‌نویسان آن در جهت رصد
  • How Abú Yazíd (Bistámí) announced the birth of Abu ’l-Hasan Kharraqání—may God sanctify the spirit of them both—(many) years before it took place, and gave a detailed description of his outer and inner characteristics; and how the chronologers wrote it down for the purpose of observation.

  • آن شنیدی داستان بایزید ** که ز حال بوالحسن پیشین چه دید
  • Have you heard the story of Báyazíd—what he saw beforehand of the (spiritual) state of Bu ’l-Hasan?

  • روزی آن سلطان تقوی می‌گذشت ** با مریدان جانب صحرا و دشت
  • One day that sultan of piety was passing with his disciples (on the way) towards the open country and the plain.

  • بوی خوش آمد مر او را ناگهان ** در سواد ری ز سوی خارقان
  • Suddenly there came to him, in the district of Rayy, a sweet scent from the direction of Kháraqán.

  • هم بدانجا ناله‌ی مشتاق کرد ** بوی را از باد استنشاق کرد 1805
  • On the spot he uttered the lamentable cry of one who is yearning, and sniffed the scent from the breeze.

  • بوی خوش را عاشقانه می‌کشید ** جان او از باد باده می‌چشید
  • He was inhaling the sweet scent lovingly: his soul was tasting wine from the breeze.

  • کوزه‌ای کو از یخابه پر بود ** چون عرق بر ظاهرش پیدا شود
  • When “sweat” appears on the outside of a pot that is full of icy water,

  • آن ز سردی هوا آبی شدست ** از درون کوزه نم بیرون نجست
  • It has been turned into water by the coldness of the air: the moisture has not escaped from the inside of the pot.

  • باد بوی‌آور مر او را آب گشت ** آب هم او را شراب ناب گشت
  • The scent-bearing breeze became water for him; for him too the water became pure wine.

  • چون درو آثار مستی شد پدید ** یک مرید او را از آن دم بر رسید 1810
  • When the marks of intoxication appeared in him, a disciple questioned him concerning that breath (Divine afflatus);

  • پس بپرسیدش که این احوال خوش ** که برونست از حجاب پنج و شش
  • Then he asked him, “(What are) these sweet ecstasies which are beyond the pale of the five (senses) and the six (directions)?

  • گاه سرخ و گاه زرد و گه سپید ** می‌شود رویت چه حالست و نوید
  • Thy face is becoming now red and now yellow and now white: what is the (good) hap and the glad tidings?

  • می‌کشی بوی و به ظاهر نیست گل ** بی‌شک از غیبست و از گلزار کل
  • Thou art inhaling scent, and no flowers are visible: doubtless it is from the Unseen and from the garden of the Universal.

  • ای تو کام جان هر خودکامه‌ای ** هر دم از غیبت پیام و نامه‌ای
  • O thou who art the desire of every one who (wilfully) follows his own desire (for God), thou to whom there is (coming) at every moment a message and letter from the Unseen,

  • هر دمی یعقوب‌وار از یوسفی ** می‌رسد اندر مشام تو شفا 1815
  • Thou to whose (spiritual) organ of smell there is coming at every moment, as to Jacob, balm from a Joseph,

  • قطره‌ای بر ریز بر ما زان سبو ** شمه‌ای زان گلستان با ما بگو
  • Spill upon us one drop from that pitcher, give us one word that smells of that garden.

  • خو نداریم ای جمال مهتری ** که لب ما خشک و تو تنها خوری
  • We are not accustomed, O (thou who art the) beauty of (spiritual) majesty, that thou shouldst drink alone while our lips are dry.

  • ای فلک‌پیمای چست چست‌خیز ** زانچ خوردی جرعه‌ای بر ما بریز
  • O nimble, nimbly-rising traverser of Heaven, spill upon us one draught of that which thou hast drunk.

  • میر مجلس نیست در دوران دگر ** جز تو ای شه در حریفان در نگر
  • There is no other Master of the Revels in the world except thee: O king, look (with favour) on the boon-companions!

  • کی توان نوشید این می زیردست ** می یقین مر مرد را رسواگرست 1820
  • How is it possible to quaff this wine underhand (in secret)? Certainly wine is the exposer of man.

  • بوی را پوشیده و مکنون کند ** چشم مست خویشتن را چون کند
  • He may disguise and conceal the scent, (but) how will he hide his intoxicated eye?

  • خود نه آن بویست این که اندر جهان ** صد هزاران پرده‌اش دارد نهان
  • In sooth this is not a scent that thousands of veils will keep hidden in the world.