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4
449-473

  • صد چراغت ار مرند ار بیستند ** پس جدا اند و یگانه نیستند
  • Your hundred lamps, then, whether they die (are extinguished) or whether they stand (and burn), are separate (from each other) and are not single.

  • زان همه جنگند این اصحاب ما ** جنگ کس نشنید اندر انبیا 450
  • On that account these companions of ours are all at war, (but) no one (ever) heard of war amongst the prophets,

  • زانک نور انبیا خورشید بود ** نور حس ما چراغ و شمع و دود
  • Because the light of the prophets was the Sun, (while) the light of our senses is lamp and candle and smoke.

  • یک بمیرد یک بماند تا به روز ** یک بود پژمرده دیگر با فروز
  • One (of these lamps) dies, one lasts till daybreak; one is dim, another bright.

  • جان حیوانی بود حی از غذا ** هم بمیرد او بهر نیک و بذی
  • The animal soul is (kept) alive by nutriment; however good or bad its state may be, it dies all the same.

  • گر بمیرد این چراغ و طی شود ** خانه‌ی همسایه مظلم کی شود
  • If this lamp dies and is extinguished, (yet) how should the neighbour's house become dark?

  • نور آن خانه چو بی این هم به پاست ** پس چراغ حس هر خانه جداست 455
  • Inasmuch as without this (lamp) the light in that house is still maintained, hence (it follows that) the lamp of sense-perception is different in every house.

  • این مثال جان حیوانی بود ** نه مثال جان ربانی بود
  • This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.

  • باز از هندوی شب چون ماه زاد ** در سر هر روزنی نوری فتاد
  • Again, when the moon is born from the Hindú, Night, a light falls upon every window.

  • نور آن صد خانه را تو یک شمر ** که نماند نور این بی آن دگر
  • Count the light of those hundred houses as one, for the light of this (house) does not remain (in existence) without (the light of) the other.

  • تا بود خورشید تابان بر افق ** هست در هر خانه نور او قنق
  • So long as the sun is shining on the horizon, its light is a guest in every house;

  • باز چون خورشید جان آفل شود ** نور جمله خانه‌ها زایل شود 460
  • Again, when the spiritual Sun sets, the light in all the houses disappears.

  • این مثال نور آمد مثل نی ** مر ترا هادی عدو را ره‌زنی
  • This is (only) a parable of the Light, not a (complete) similitude; for you (it is) a true guide, for the enemy (of the Light) a highwayman.

  • بر مثال عنکبوت آن زشت‌خو ** پرده‌های گنده را بر بافد او
  • That evil-natured person resembles the spider: he weaves stinking veils (cobwebs).

  • از لعاب خویش پرده‌ی نور کرد ** دیده‌ی ادراک خود را کور کرد
  • Of his own gossamer he made a veil over the Light: he made the eye of his apprehension blind.

  • گردن اسپ ار بگیرد بر خورد ** ور بگیرد پاش بستاند لگد
  • If one takes hold of a horse's neck, he gains advantage; and if he takes hold of its leg, he receives a kick.

  • کم نشین بر اسپ توسن بی‌لگام ** عقل و دین را پیشوا کن والسلام 465
  • Do not mount the restive horse without a bridle: make Reason and Religion your leader, and farewell.

  • اندرین آهنگ منگر سست و پست ** کاندرین ره صبر و شق انفسست
  • Do not look scornfully and contemptuously on this quest, for in this Way there is (need of) self-denial and grievous anguish to (men's) souls.

  • بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی بنای مسجد اقصی
  • The rest of the Story of the building of the Farther Mosque.

  • چون سلیمان کرد آغاز بنا ** پاک چون کعبه همایون چون منی
  • When Solomon began the building—holy like the Ka’ba, august like Miná—

  • در بنااش دیده می‌شد کر و فر ** نی فسرده چون بناهای دگر
  • In his building were seen splendour and magnificence: it was not frigid (dull and lifeless) like other buildings.

  • در بنا هر سنگ کز که می‌سکست ** فاش سیروا بی‌همی گفت از نخست
  • From the first, every stone in the building—(every stone) that was broken off from the mountain—was saying clearly, “Take me along!”

  • هم‌چو از آب و گل آدم‌کده ** نور ز آهک پاره‌ها تابان شده 470
  • As from the water and earth of the house (bodily tenement) of Adam, (so) did light shine forth from the pieces of mortar.

  • سنگ بی‌حمال آینده شده ** وان در و دیوارها زنده شده
  • The stones were coming without carrier, and those doors and walls had become living.

  • حق همی‌گوید که دیوار بهشت ** نیست چون دیوارها بی‌جان و زشت
  • God saith that the ‘wall of Paradise is not lifeless and ugly like (other) walls;

  • چون در و دیوار تن با آگهیست ** زنده باشد خانه چون شاهنشهیست
  • Like the door and wall of the body, it is (endowed) with intelligence: the house (Paradise) is living since it belongs to the King of kings.