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  • امتحان هم‌چون تصرف دان درو ** تو تصرف بر چنان شاهی مجو 380
  • Know that to make trial (of him) is like exercising authority over him: do not seek to exercise authority over such a (spiritual) king.

  • چه تصرف کرد خواهد نقشها ** بر چنان نقاش بهر ابتلا
  • What authority should the pictures (phenomenal forms) desire to exercise over such an Artist for the purpose of testing Him?

  • امتحانی گر بدانست و بدید ** نی که هم نقاش آن بر وی کشید
  • If it (the picture) has known and experienced any trial, is it not the case that the Artist brought that (trial) upon it?

  • چه قدر باشد خود این صورت که بست ** پیش صورتها که در علم ویست
  • Indeed, this form that He fashioned—what is it worth in comparison with the forms which are in His knowledge?

  • وسوسه‌ی این امتحان چون آمدت ** بخت بد دان کمد و گردن زدت
  • When the temptation to make this trial has come to you, know that ill fortune has come and smitten your neck.

  • چون چنین وسواس دیدی زود زود ** با خدا گرد و در آ اندر سجود 385
  • When you feel such a temptation, at once, at once turn unto God and begin the prostration (in prayer).

  • سجده گه را تر کن از اشک روان ** کای خدا تو وا رهانم زین گمان
  • Make the place of prostration wet with flowing tears and say, “O God, do Thou deliver me from this doubt!”

  • آن زمان کت امتحان مطلوب شد ** مسجد دین تو پر خروب شد
  • At the time when it is your object to make trial (of God), the mosque, namely, your religion, becomes filled with kharrúb (carob).

  • قصه‌ی مسجد اقصی و خروب و عزم کردن داود علیه‌السلام پیش از سلیمان علیه‌السلام بر بنای آن مسجد
  • Story of the Farther Mosque and the carob and how, before (the reign of) Solomon, on whom be peace, David, on whom be peace, resolved on building that Mosque.

  • چون درآمد عزم داودی به تنگ ** که بسازد مسجد اقصی به سنگ
  • When David's resolve that he would build the Farther Mosque with stone came to sore straits,

  • وحی کردش حق که ترک این بخوان ** که ز دستت برنیاید این مکان
  • God made a Revelation to him, saying, “Proclaim the abandonment of this (enterprise), for (the building of) this place will not be achieved by thy hand.

  • نیست در تقدیر ما آنک تو این ** مسجد اقصی بر آری ای گزین 390
  • ’Tis not in Our fore-ordainment that thou shouldst raise this Farther Mosque, O chosen one.”

  • گفت جرمم چیست ای دانای راز ** که مرا گویی که مسجد را مساز
  • He said, “O Knower of the secret, what is my crime, that Thou forbiddest me to construct the Mosque?”

  • گفت بی‌جرمی تو خونها کرده‌ای ** خون مظلومان بگردن برده‌ای
  • He (God) said, “Without (committing) a crime, thou hast wrought much bloodshed: thou hast taken upon thy neck (art responsible for) the blood of (many) persons who have suffered injustice;

  • که ز آواز تو خلقی بی‌شمار ** جان بدادند و شدند آن را شکار
  • For from (hearing) thy voice a countless multitude gave up the ghost and fell a prey to it (thy voice).

  • خون بسی رفتست بر آواز تو ** بر صدای خوب جان‌پرداز تو
  • Much blood has gone to the score of (is chargeable to) thy voice, to thy beautiful soul-ravishing song.”

  • گفت مغلوب تو بودم مست تو ** دست من بر بسته بود از دست تو 395
  • He (David) said, “I was overpowered by Thee, drunken with Thee: my hand (power) was tied up by Thy hand.

  • نه که هر مغلوب شه مرحوم بود ** نه که المغلوب کالمعدوم بود
  • Was not every one that was overpowered by the King the object of (His) mercy? Was not he (excused on the ground that) ‘The overpowered is like the non-existent’?”

  • گفت این مغلوب معدومیست کو ** جز به نسبت نیست معدوم ایقنوا
  • He (God) said, “This overpowered man is that non-existent one who is only relatively non-existent. Have sure faith!

  • این چنین معدوم کو از خویش رفت ** بهترین هستها افتاد و زفت
  • Such a non-existent one who hath gone from himself (become selfless) is the best of beings, and the great (one among them).

  • او به نسبت با صفات حق فناست ** در حقیقت در فنا او را بقاست
  • He hath passed away (faná) in relation to (the passing away of his attributes in) the Divine attributes, (but) in passing away (from selfhood) he really hath the life everlasting (baqá).

  • جمله‌ی ارواح در تدبیر اوست ** جمله‌ی اشباح هم در تیر اوست 400
  • All spirits are under his governance; all bodies too are in his control.

  • آنک او مغلوب اندر لطف ماست ** نیست مضطر بلک مختار ولاست
  • He that is overpowered (overwhelmed) in Our grace is not compelled; nay, he is one who freely chooses devotion (to Us).”

  • منتهای اختیار آنست خود ** که اختیارش گردد اینجا مفتقد
  • In sooth the end of free-will is that his free-will should be lost here.

  • اختیاری را نبودی چاشنی ** گر نگشتی آخر او محو از منی
  • The free agent would feel no savour (spiritual delight) if at last he did not become entirely purged of egoism.

  • در جهان گر لقمه و گر شربتست ** لذت او فرع محو لذتست
  • If there is delicious food and drink in the world, (yet) his pleasure (in them) is (only) a branch of (derived from) the extinction of (worldly) pleasure.