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  • خود ملایک نیز ناهمتا بدند ** زین سبب بر آسمان صف صف شدند
  • Even the angels too were not peers: for this reason they formed diverse ranks in Heaven.

  • کودکان گرچه به یک مکتب درند ** در سبق هر یک ز یک بالاترند
  • Children, though they are at one (the same) school, surpass each other in (their) lessons.

  • مشرقی و مغربی را حسهاست ** منصب دیدار حس چشم‌راست
  • Sense-perceptions are possessed by Easterner and Westerner, (but) the function of sight belongs to the ocular sense (alone).

  • صد هزاران گوشها گر صف زنند ** جمله محتاجان چشم روشن‌اند
  • Though a hundred thousand ears be arrayed in rank, they all are in need of the clear eye.

  • باز صف گوشها را منصبی ** در سماع جان و اخبار و نبی 2020
  • Again, the ranks of ears have a (special) function in respect of hearing the (words of the) Spirit and the Traditions (of the Prophet) and the Revelation.

  • صد هزاران چشم را آن راه نیست ** هیچ چشمی از سماع آگاه نیست
  • A hundred thousand eyes do not possess that avenue (faculty): no eye is acquainted with hearing.

  • هم‌چنین هر حس یک یک می‌شمر ** هر یکی معزول از آن کار دگر
  • Similarly, enumerate each sense, one by one: each one is removed from (incapable of doing) the work of another.

  • پنج حس ظاهر و پنج اندرون ** ده صف‌اند اندر قیام الصافون
  • The five external and the five internal senses are (arrayed) in ten ranks in the standing posture of the (angels) ranked (for worship of God).

  • هر کسی کو از صف دین سرکشست ** می‌رود سوی صفی کان واپسست
  • Any one who (disobediently) draws back from the rank of (the true) religion will go into the rank that is behind.

  • تو ز گفتار تعالوا کم مکن ** کیمیای بس شگرفست این سخن 2025
  • Do not make little of the (Divine) Word ta‘álaw (come ye): this Word is an exceedingly great elixir.

  • گر مسی گردد ز گفتارت نفیر ** کیمیا را هیچ از وی وام گیر
  • If a copper (a base person) turn away in repugnance from your saying (this Word), by no means withhold the elixir from him.

  • این زمان گر بست نفس ساحرش ** گفت تو سودش کند در آخرش
  • If his magician-like soul has bound (cast a spell upon) him at the present time, (yet) your saying will profit him in his latter end.

  • قل تعالوا قل تعالوا ای غلام ** هین که ان الله یدعوا للسلام
  • O slave (of God), say, Come ye, say, Come ye: take heed, for verily God inviteth unto the (Abode of) Peace.

  • خواجه باز آ از منی و از سری ** سروری جو کم طلب کن سروری
  • Then come back, sire, from egoism and headship: seek a leader, do not desire leadership.

  • اعتراض کردن معترضی بر رسول علیه‌السلام بر امیر کردن آن هذیلی
  • How an objector objected to the Prophet's—on whom be peace— appointing the man of Hudhayl to be commander.

  • چون پیمبر سروری کرد از هذیل ** از برای لشکر منصور خیل 2030
  • When the Prophet appointed a leader from (the tribe of) Hudhayl for the army whose troops were Divinely aided,

  • بوالفضولی از حسد طاقت نداشت ** اعتراض و لانسلم بر فراشت
  • An insolent fellow, through envy, could not endure (to keep silence): he raised objection and opposition.

  • خلق را بنگر که چون ظلمانی‌اند ** در متاع فانیی چون فانی‌اند
  • Behold humankind, how dark (unenlightened) they are, and how they are perishing in (desire for) a perishable piece of goods.

  • از تکبر جمله اندر تفرقه ** مرده از جان زنده‌اند از مخرقه
  • On account of pride they all are in separation (from God), dead to the spirit, living in deception.

  • این عجب که جان به زندان اندرست ** وانگهی مفتاح زندانش به دست
  • ’Tis wonderful that the spirit is in prison, and then (all that time) the key of the prison is in its hand!

  • پای تا سر غرق سرگین آن جوان ** می‌زند بر دامنش جوی روان 2035
  • That youth (the spirit) is plunged in dung from head to foot, (whilst) the flowing river is (almost) touching his skirt!

  • دایما پهلو به پهلو بی‌قرار ** پهلوی آرامگاه و پشت‌دار
  • (He is) always moving restlessly from side to side beside the place of repose and the couch where he might recline!

  • نور پنهانست و جست و جو گواه ** کز گزافه دل نمی‌جوید پناه
  • The (Divine) light is hidden, and search is the evidence (of its existence), for the heart (spirit) does not seek shelter in vain.

  • گر نبودی حبس دنیا را مناص ** نه بدی وحشت نه دل جستی خلاص
  • If this world's prison had no refuge, neither would there be any feeling of aversion nor would the heart seek release.

  • وحشتت هم‌چون موکل می‌کشد ** که بجو ای ضال منهاج رشد
  • Thy aversion is dragging thee along, like a custodian, saying, “O man astray, seek the path of righteousness.”

  • هست منهاج و نهان در مکمنست ** یافتش رهن گزافه جستنست 2040
  • The path is there, but it is hidden in a secret place: its discovery is in pawn to (involves) seeking in vain (before it can be found).