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  • آن زره وآن خود مر چالیش‌راست ** وین حریر و رود مر تعریش‌راست
  • The coat of mail and the helmet are for the battle, while this silken raiment and music are for the bower.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای جواد ** ختم کن والله اعلم بالرشاد 3785
  • This topic hath no end, O generous one: conclude it, and God best knoweth the right course.

  • اندر احمد آن حسی کو غاربست ** خفته این دم زیر خاک یثربست
  • The (corporeal) senses in Ahmad (Mohammed), which are mortal, are now laid asleep under the soil of Yathrib (Medina),

  • وآن عظیم الخلق او کان صفدرست ** بی‌تغیر مقعد صدق اندرست
  • But that mighty-natured part of him, which is unconquerable, dwells, without having suffered corruption, within the abode of truth (in Paradise).

  • جای تغییرات اوصاف تنست ** روح باقی آفتابی روشنست
  • The bodily attributes are exposed to corruption; the everlasting spirit is a shining sun,

  • بی ز تغییری که لا شرقیة ** بی ز تبدیلی که لا غربیة
  • Incorruptible, for it is not of the east; unchangeable, for it is not of the west.

  • آفتاب از ذره کی مدهوش شد ** شمع از پروانه کی بیهوش شد 3790
  • How was the sun (ever) dumbfounded by a mote? How was the candle (ever) made senseless by a moth?

  • جسم احمد را تعلق بد بدآن ** این تغیر آن تن باشد بدان
  • The body of Ahmad was liable to that (corruption): know that this corruption belongs (only) to the body,

  • هم‌چو رنجوری و هم‌چون خواب و درد ** جان ازین اوصاف باشد پاک و فرد
  • Such as sickness and sleep and pain; the spirit is untouched by these affections and wholly detached (from them).

  • خود نتانم ور بگويم وصف جان ** زلزله افتد در اين كون و مكان
  • Indeed I cannot describe the spirit, and if I describe it, quaking would fall upon this (world of) phenomenal existence and spatiality.

  • روبهش گر یک دمی آشفته بود ** شیر جان مانا که آن دم خفته بود
  • If its fox (the body) was perturbed for a moment, belike the lion-spirit was then asleep.

  • خفته بود آن شیر کز خوابست پاک ** اینت شیر نرمسار سهمناک 3795
  • That lion which is immune from sleep was (apparently) asleep: lo, a complaisant terrible lion!

  • خفته سازد شیر خود را آنچنان ** که تمامش مرده دانند این سگان
  • The lion feigns to be asleep so (well) that those curs think he is quite dead;

  • ورنه در عالم کرا زهره بدی ** که ربودی از ضعیفی تربدی
  • Else, who in the world would dare to rob a poor man (even) of a grain of turpeth mineral?

  • کف احمد زان نظر مخدوش گشت ** بحر او از مهر کف پرجوش گشت
  • The foam (body) of Ahmad was torn (powerfully affected) by that sight (of Gabriel), (but) his sea (spirit) surged up (displayed itself in action) for love of the foam.

  • مه همه کفست معطی نورپاش ** ماه را گر کف نباشد گو مباش
  • The moon (the spirit of Ahmad) is entirely a bounteous light-diffusing hand: if the moon have no hand (with which to bestow light), let it have none!

  • احمد ار بگشاید آن پر جلیل ** تا ابد بیهوش ماند جبرئیل 3800
  • If Ahmad should display that glorious pinion (his spiritual nature), Gabriel would remain dumbfounded unto everlasting.

  • چون گذشت احمد ز سدره و مرصدش ** وز مقام جبرئیل و از حدش
  • When Ahmad passed beyond the Lote-tree (on the boundary of Paradise) and his (Gabriel's) place of watch and station and farthest limit,

  • گفت او را هین بپر اندر پیم ** گفت رو رو من حریف تو نیم
  • He said to him (Gabriel), “Hark, fly after me.” He (Gabriel) said, “Go, go; I am not thy companion (any farther).”

  • باز گفت او را بیا ای پرده‌سوز ** من باوج خود نرفتستم هنوز
  • He answered him, saying, “Come, O destroyer of veils: I have not yet advanced to my zenith.”

  • گفت بیرون زین حد ای خوش‌فر من ** گر زنم پری بسوزد پر من
  • He replied, “O my illustrious friend, if I take one flight beyond this limit, my wings will be consumed.”

  • حیرت اندر حیرت آمد این قصص ** بیهشی خاصگان اندر اخص 3805
  • This tale of the elect losing their senses in (contemplation of) the most elect is (naught but) amazement on amazement.

  • بیهشیها جمله اینجا بازیست ** چند جان داری که جان پردازیست
  • Here all (other) unconsciousnesses are (a mere) play. How long will you keep possession of your soul? for it is (a case of) abandoning your soul.

  • جبرئیلا گر شریفی و عزیز ** تو نه‌ای پروانه و نه شمع نیز
  • O “Gabriel,” though you are noble and revered, you are not the moth nor the candle either.

  • شمع چون دعوت کند وقت فروز ** جان پروانه نپرهیزد ز سوز
  • When the candle calls at the moment of illumination, the soul of the moth does not shrink from burning.