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  • نقل آمد عقل او آواره شد ** صبح آمد شمع او بیچاره شد
  • The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.

  • عقل چون شحنه‌ست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنه‌ی بیچاره در کنجی خزید 2110
  • Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner.

  • عقل سایه‌ی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب
  • Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?

  • چون پری غالب شود بر آدمی ** گم شود از مرد وصف مردمی
  • When a genie prevails over (gains possession of) a man, the attributes of humanity disappear from the man.

  • هر چه گوید آن پری گفته بود ** زین سری زان آن سری گفته بود
  • Whatsoever he says, that genie will (really) have said it: the one who belongs to this side will have spoken from (the control of) the one who belongs to yonder side.

  • چون پری را این دم و قانون بود ** کردگار آن پری خود چون بود
  • Since a genie hath this influence and rule, how (much more powerful) indeed must be the Creator of that genie!

  • اوی او رفته پری خود او شده ** ترک بی‌الهام تازی‌گو شده 2115
  • His (the possessed man's) “he” (personality) is gone: he has in sooth become the genie: the Turk, without (receiving) Divine inspiration, has become a speaker of Arabic.

  • چون به خود آید نداند یک لغت ** چون پری را هست این ذات و صفت
  • When he comes to himself, he does not know a word (of Arabic). Inasmuch as a genie hath this essence and quality,

  • پس خداوند پری و آدمی ** از پری کی باشدش آخر کمی
  • Then how, pray, should the Lord of genie and man have inferiority to the genie?

  • شیرگیر ار خون نره شیر خورد ** تو بگویی او نکرد آن باده کرد
  • If a pot-valiant fellow has drunk the blood of a fierce lion, you will say that the wine did it, not he;

  • ور سخن پردازد از زر کهن ** تو بگویی باده گفتست آن سخن
  • And if he fashion words of old (pure) gold, you will say that the wine has spoken those words.

  • باده‌ای را می‌بود این شر و شور ** نور حق را نیست آن فرهنگ و زور 2120
  • A wine hath this (power to excite) disturbance and commotion: hath not the Light of God that virtue and potency

  • که ترا از تو به کل خالی کند ** تو شوی پست او سخن عالی کند
  • To make you entirely empty of self, (so that) you should be laid low and He should make the Word lofty (within you)?

  • گر چه قرآن از لب پیغامبرست ** هر که گوید حق نگفت او کافرست
  • Though the Qur’án is (dictated) from the lips of the Prophet —if any one says God did not speak it, he is an infidel.

  • چون همای بی‌خودی پرواز کرد ** آن سخن را بایزید آغاز کرد
  • When the humá of selflessness took wing (and soared), Báyazíd began (to repeat) those words.

  • عقل را سیل تحیر در ربود ** زان قوی‌تر گفت که اول گفته بود
  • The flood of bewilderment swept away his reason: he spoke more strongly than he had spoken at first,

  • نیست اندر جبه‌ام الا خدا ** چند جویی بر زمین و بر سما 2125
  • (Saying), “Within my mantle there is naught but God: how long wilt thou seek on the earth and in heaven?”

  • آن مریدان جمله دیوانه شدند ** کاردها در جسم پاکش می‌زدند
  • All the disciples became frenzied and dashed their knives at his holy body.

  • هر یکی چون ملحدان گرده کوه ** کارد می‌زد پیر خود را بی ستوه
  • Like the heretics of Girdakúh, every one was ruthlessly stabbing his spiritual Director.

  • هر که اندر شیخ تیغی می‌خلید ** بازگونه از تن خود می‌درید
  • Every one who plunged a dagger into the Shaykh was reversely making a gash in his own body.

  • یک اثر نه بر تن آن ذوفنون ** وان مریدان خسته و غرقاب خون
  • There was no mark (of a wound) on the body of that possessor of the (mystic) sciences, while those disciples were wounded and drowned in blood.

  • هر که او سویی گلویش زخم برد ** حلق خود ببریده دید و زار مرد 2130
  • Whoever aimed a blow at his throat saw his own throat cut, and died miserably;

  • وآنک او را زخم اندر سینه زد ** سینه‌اش بشکافت و شد مرده‌ی ابد
  • And whoever inflicted a blow on his breast, his (own) breast was riven, and he became dead for ever;

  • وآنک آگه بود از آن صاحب‌قران ** دل ندادش که زند زخم گران
  • And he that was acquainted with that (spiritual) emperor of high fortune, (and) his heart (courage) did not consent to strike a heavy blow,

  • نیم‌دانش دست او را بسته کرد ** جان ببرد الا که خود را خسته کرد
  • Half-knowledge tied his hand, (so that) he saved his life and only wounded himself.