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  • زان نیامد یک عبارت در جهان ** که نهانست و نهانست و نهان
  • Not one word (capable of) expressing it has (ever) come into the world, for it is hidden, hidden, hidden,

  • زانک این اسما و الفاظ حمید ** از گلابه‌ی آدمی آمد پدید
  • Inasmuch as these glorious names and words were manifested from the reel (uttered from the mouth) of Adam.

  • علم الاسما بد آدم را امام ** لیک نه اندر لباس عین و لام 2970
  • He (God) taught (him) the names was an Imám (an infallible authority) for Adam; but (the teaching was) not in the garb of (letters such as) ‘ayn and lám.

  • چون نهاد از آب و گل بر سر کلاه ** گشت آن اسمای جانی روسیاه
  • When he put on his head the cap of water and clay, those spiritual names became black-faced,

  • که نقاب حرف و دم در خود کشید ** تا شود بر آب و گل معنی پدید
  • For they assumed the veil of letters and breath, (only) in order that the essential reality might (gradually) be made manifest to the water and clay.

  • گرچه از یک وجه منطق کاشف است ** لیک از ده وجه پرده و مکنف است
  • Although from one point of view speech is a revealer, yet from ten points of view it is a curtain and concealer.

  • گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا
  • How Khalíl (Abraham) answered Gabriel, on both of whom be peace, when he asked him, "Hast thou any need?"—"As regards need of thee, no!"

  • من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیل ** من نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل
  • “I am the Khalíl (Abraham) of the present time, and he is the Gabriel: I do not want him as a guide (to deliver me) in calamity.

  • او ادب ناموخت از جبریل راد ** که بپرسید از خیل حق مراد 2975
  • He did not learn respectfulness (as he might) from noble Gabriel, who asked the Friend of God (Abraham) what was his wish,

  • که مرادت هست تا یاری کنم ** ورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم
  • Saying, ‘Hast thou a wish?—that I may help (thee to obtain it); otherwise, I will flee and make a speedy departure.’

  • گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میان ** واسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان
  • Abraham said, ‘No; begone out of the way! After direct vision the intermediary is (only) an inconvenience.’

  • بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه ** مومنان را زانک هست او واسطه
  • On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).

  • هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
  • If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?

  • گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست ** لیک کار من از آن نازکترست 2980
  • Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that.

  • کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی شاهست لیک ** پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک
  • His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”

  • آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
  • That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).

  • بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
  • Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;

  • کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
  • For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.

  • بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف 2985
  • Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words;

  • لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
  • But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.

  • هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
  • This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.

  • هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر ** جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر
  • The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,

  • زانک داند کین جهان کاشتن ** هست بهر محشر و برداشتن
  • Because he knows that this world of sowing is for the sake of the (Last) Congregation and (for the sake of) gathering in (the harvest).

  • هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبود ** بلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود 2990
  • No contract (of sale) was (ever made) for the sake of itself; nay, but for the sake of (being in) the position of (making) gain and profit.

  • هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگری ** منکری‌اش بهر عین منکری
  • There is no disbeliever, if you look (carefully), whose disbelief is for the sake of the disbelief itself;

  • بل برای قهر خصم اندر حسد ** یا فزونی جستن و اظهار خود
  • Nay, but (it is) for the purpose of subduing his adversary in envy (of him), or seeking superiority and self-display.