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  • 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.

  • روز گشت و آن مریدان کاسته ** نوحه‌ها از خانه‌شان برخاسته
  • Day broke, and the disciples were thinned: wails of lamentation arose from their house.

  • پیش او آمد هزاران مرد و زن ** کای دو عالم درج در یک پیرهن 2135
  • Thousands of men and women came to him (Báyazíd), saying, “O thou in whose single shirt the two worlds are contained,

  • این تن تو گر تن مردم بدی ** چون تن مردم ز خنجر گم شدی
  • If this body of thine were a human body, it would have been destroyed, like a human body, by the daggers.”

  • با خودی با بی‌خودی دوچار زد ** با خود اندر دیده‌ی خود خار زد
  • A self-existent one encountered a selfless one in combat: the self-existent one drove a thorn into his own eye (hurt himself).

  • ای زده بر بی‌خودان تو ذوالفقار ** بر تن خود می‌زنی آن هوش دار
  • O you who stab the selfless ones with the sword, you are stabbing your own body with it. Beware!

  • زانک بی‌خود فانی است و آمنست ** تا ابد در آمنی او ساکنست
  • For the selfless one has passed away (in God) and is safe: he is dwelling in safety for ever.

  • نقش او فانی و او شد آینه ** غیر نقش روی غیر آن جای نه 2140
  • His form has passed away and he has become a mirror: naught is there but the form (image) of the face of another.

  • گر کنی تف سوی روی خود کنی ** ور زنی بر آینه بر خود زنی
  • If you spit (at it), you spit at your own face; and if you strike at the mirror, you strike at yourself;

  • ور ببینی روی زشت آن هم توی ** ور ببینی عیسی و مریم توی
  • And if you see an ugly face (in that mirror), ’tis you; and if you see Jesus and Mary, ’tis you.