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1943-1967

  • صد کس از گرگین همه گرگین شوند ** خاصه این گر خبیث ناپسند
  • From (contact with) an itchy person a whole hundred become itchy, especially (in the case of) this loathsome reprobate itch.

  • گر کم عقلی مبادا گبر را ** شوم او بی‌آب دارد ابر را
  • May the itch, lack of intelligence, not befall (even) the infidel His (the fool’s) ill-starredness keeps the cloud rainless.

  • نم نبارد ابر از شومی او ** شهر شد ویرانه از بومی او 1945
  • On account of his ill-starredness the cloud sheds no moisture: by his owlishness the city is made a desert.

  • از گر آن احمقان طوفان نوح ** کرد ویران عالمی را در فضوح
  • Because of the itch of those foolish ones the Flood of Noah devastated a whole world (of people) in disgrace.

  • گفت پیغامبر که احمق هر که هست ** او عدو ماست و غول ره‌زنست
  • The Prophet said, ‘Whosoever is foolish, he is our enemy and a ghoul who waylays (the traveller).

  • هر که او عاقل بود از جان ماست ** روح او و ریح او ریحان ماست
  • Whoso is intelligent, he is (dear to us as) our soul :his breeze and wind is our sweet basil.’

  • عقل دشنامم دهد من راضیم ** زانک فیضی دارد از فیاضیم
  • (If) intelligence revile me, I am well-pleased, because it possesses something that has emanated from my emanative activity.

  • نبود آن دشنام او بی‌فایده ** نبود آن مهمانیش بی‌مایده 1950
  • Its revilement is not without use, its hospitality is not without a table;

  • احمق ار حلوا نهد اندر لبم ** من از آن حلوای او اندر تبم
  • (But) if the fool put sweetmeat on my lip, I am in a fever from (tasting) his sweetmeat.”

  • این یقین دان گر لطیف و روشنی ** نیست بوسه‌ی کون خر را چاشنی
  • If you are goodly and enlightened, know this for sure, (that) kissing the arse of an ass hath no (delicious) savour.

  • سبلتت گنده کند بی‌فایده ** جامه از دیگش سیه بی‌مایده
  • He (the unsavoury fool) uselessly makes your moustache fetid; your dress is blackened by his kettle without (there being) a table (of food).

  • مایده عقلست نی نان و شوی ** نور عقلست ای پسر جان را غذی
  • Intelligence is the table, not bread and roast-meat: the light of intelligence, O son, is the nutriment for the soul.

  • نیست غیر نور آدم را خورش ** از جز آن جان نیابد پرورش 1955
  • Man hath no food but the light: the soul does not obtain nourishment from aught but that.

  • زین خورشها اندک اندک باز بر ** کین غذای خر بود نه آن حر
  • Little by little cut (yourself) off from the (material) foods –– for these are the nutriment of an ass, not that of a free (noble) man ––

  • تا غذای اصل را قابل شوی ** لقمه‌های نور را آکل شوی
  • So that you may become capable of (absorbing) the original nutriment and may eat habitually the dainty morsels of the light.

  • عکس آن نورست کین نان نان شدست ** فیض آن جانست کین جان جان شدست
  • ‘Tis (from) the reflexion of that light that this bread has become bread; ‘tis (from) the overflowing of that (rational) soul that this (animal) soul has become soul.

  • چون خوری یکبار از ماکول نور ** خاک ریزی بر سر نان و تنور
  • When you eat once of the light you will pour earth over the (material) bread and oven.

  • عقل دو عقلست اول مکسبی ** که در آموزی چو در مکتب صبی 1960
  • Intelligence consists of two intelligences; the former is the acquired one which you learn, like a boy at school,

  • از کتاب و اوستاد و فکر و ذکر ** از معانی وز علوم خوب و بکر
  • From book and teacher and reflexion and (committing to) memory, and from concepts, and from excellent and virgin (hitherto unstudied) sciences.

  • عقل تو افزون شود بر دیگران ** لیک تو باشی ز حفظ آن گران
  • (By this means) your intelligence becomes superior to (that of) others; but through preserving (retaining in your mind) that (knowledge) you are heavily burdened.

  • لوح حافظ باشی اندر دور و گشت ** لوح محفوظ اوست کو زین در گذشت
  • You, (occupied) in wandering and going about (in search of knowledge), are a preserving (recording) tablet; the preserved tablet is he that has passed beyond this.

  • عقل دیگر بخشش یزدان بود ** چشمه‌ی آن در میان جان بود
  • The other intelligence is the gift of God: its fountain is in the midst of the soul.

  • چون ز سینه آب دانش جوش کرد ** نه شود گنده نه دیرینه نه زرد 1965
  • When the water of (God-given) knowledge gushes from the breast, it does not become fetid or old or yellow (impure);

  • ور ره نبعش بود بسته چه غم ** کو همی‌جوشد ز خانه دم به دم
  • And if its way of issue (to outside) be stopped, what harm? for it gushes continually from the house (of the heart).

  • عقل تحصیلی مثال جویها ** کان رود در خانه‌ای از کویها
  • The acquired intelligence is like the conduits which run into a house from the streets: