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  • گشته ایشان پیر و باباشان جوان ** پس پدرشان پیش آمد ناگهان
  • They had grown old, while their father had been made young. Then suddenly their father met them.

  • پس بپرسیدند ازو کای ره‌گذر ** از عزیر ما عجب داری خبر
  • So they inquired of him, saying, “O wayfarer, we wonder if thou hast news of our ‘Uzayr;

  • که کسی‌مان گفت که امروز آن سند ** بعد نومیدی ز بیرون می‌رسد
  • For some one told us that to-day that man of (great) authority would arrive from abroad after we had given up hope (of seeing him).”

  • گفت آری بعد من خواهد رسید ** آن یکی خوش شد چو این مژده شنید 3275
  • “Yes,” he replied, “he will arrive after me.” That one (the son of ‘Uzayr) rejoiced when he heard the good tidings,

  • بانگ می‌زد کای مبشر باش شاد ** وان دگر بشناخت بیهوش اوفتاد
  • Crying, “Joy to thee, O bringer of the good news!” But the other (son) recognised (him) and fell (to the ground) unconscious,

  • که چه جای مژده است ای خیره‌سر ** که در افتادیم در کان شکر
  • Saying, “What occasion is there for good tidings, O scatterbrain, when we have fallen into the mine (the very midst) of sugar?”

  • وهم را مژده‌ست و پیش عقل نقد ** ز انک چشم وهم شد محجوب فقد
  • To Opinion it is (merely) good tidings, whereas in the sight of Reason it is ready cash (actuality), because the eye of Opinion is veiled by missing (the object sought).

  • کافران را درد و مومن را بشیر ** لیک نقد حال در چشم بصیر
  • It is pain to the infidels and glad news to the faithful, but in the eye of the seer it is immediate experience.

  • زانک عاشق در دم نقدست مست ** لاجرم از کفر و ایمان برترست 3280
  • Inasmuch as the lover is intoxicated at the moment of immediacy, he is necessarily superior to infidelity and faith.

  • کفر و ایمان هر دو خود دربان اوست ** کوست مغز و کفر و دین او را دو پوست
  • Indeed, both infidelity and faith are his door-keeper (who secures him from intrusion); for he is the kernel, while infidelity and religion are his two rinds.

  • کفر قشر خشک رو بر تافته ** باز ایمان قشر لذت یافته
  • Infidelity is the dry peel that has averted its face (from the kernel); faith, again, is the peel (inner integument) that has gained a delicious flavour.

  • قشرهای خشک را جا آتش است ** قشر پیوسته به مغز جان خوش است
  • The place for the dry peels is the fire, (but) the peel attached to the spiritual kernel is sweet.

  • مغز خود از مرتبه‌ی خوش برترست ** برترست از خوش که لذت گسترست
  • The kernel itself is above the grade of “sweet”: it is above “sweet” because it is the dispenser of deliciousness.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد باز گرد ** تا برآرد موسیم از بحر گرد 3285
  • This discourse hath no end: turn back, that my Moses may cleave the sea asunder.

  • درخور عقل عوام این گفته شد ** از سخن باقی آن بنهفته شد
  • This (preceding part) of the discourse hath been spoken suitably to the intelligence of the vulgar; the remainder thereof hath been concealed.

  • زر عقلت ریزه است ای متهم ** بر قراضه مهر سکه چون نهم
  • The gold, (which is) thy intelligence, is in fragments, O suspected one: how should I set the stamp of the die upon clippings?

  • عقل تو قسمت شده بر صد مهم ** بر هزاران آرزو و طم و رم
  • Thy intelligence is distributed over a hundred important affairs, over thousands of desires and great matters and small.

  • جمع باید کرد اجزا را به عشق ** تا شوی خوش چون سمرقند و دمشق
  • Thou must unite the (scattered) parts by means of love, to the end that thou mayst become sweet as Samarcand and Damascus.

  • جو جوی چون جمع گردی ز اشتباه ** پس توان زد بر تو سکه‌ی پادشاه 3290
  • When thou becomest united, grain by grain, from (after thy dispersion in) perplexity, then it is possible to stamp upon thee the King's die;

  • ور ز مثقالی شوی افزون تو خام ** از تو سازد شه یکی زرینه جام
  • And if thou, foolish man, become greater than a mithqál (dinar), the King will make of thee a cup of gold.

  • پس برو هم نام و هم القاب شاه ** باشد و هم صورتش ای وصل خواه
  • Then thereon will be both the name and the titles of the King and also his effigy, O thou that cravest to attain,

  • تا که معشوقت بود هم نان هم آب ** هم چراغ و شاهد و نقل شراب
  • So that the Beloved will be to thee both bread and water and lamp and minion and dessert and wine.

  • جمع کن خود را جماعت رحمتست ** تا توانم با تو گفتن آنچ هست
  • Unite thyself—union is (a Divine) mercy—that I may be able to speak unto thee that which is;

  • زانک گفتن از برای باوریست ** جان شرک از باوری حق بریست 3295
  • For speaking is for the purpose of (producing) belief: the spirit of polytheism is quit (devoid) of belief in God.

  • جان قسمت گشته بر حشو فلک ** در میان شصت سودا مشترک
  • The spirit that has been distributed over the contents of the (mundane) sphere is shared amongst sixty passions;