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که نمیماند به ما گرچه ز ماست ** ما همه مسیم و احمد کیمیاست
- For he doth not resemble us, though he is of us: we all are (as) the copper, while Ahmad (Mohammed) is the Elixir.
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آن عجایبها که من دیدم برو ** من ندیدم بر ولی و بر عدو
- The wondrous things that I have seen in him I have not seen in friend or enemy.
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آنک فضل تو درین طفلیش داد ** کس نشان ندهد به صد ساله جهاد
- None, (even) with a hundred years' endeavour, would (be able to) indicate that which Thy bounty has bestowed on him in childhood.
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چون یقین دیدم عنایتهای تو ** بر وی او دریست از دریای تو
- Since I saw with (intuitive) certainty Thy favours towards him, (I know that) he is a pearl of Thy sea.
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من هم او را می شفیع آرم به تو ** حال او ای حالدان با من بگو 995
- Him I bring (forward) to plead with Thee: tell me his plight, O Thou who knowest (every) plight!”
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از درون کعبه آمد بانگ زود ** که هماکنون رخ به تو خواهد نمود
- From within the Ka‘ba came at once a cry, “Even now he will show his face unto thee.
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با دو صد اقبال او محظوظ ماست ** با دو صد طلب ملک محفوظ ماست
- He is blessed by Us with two hundred felicities, he is guarded by Us with two hundred troops of angels.
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ظاهرش را شهرهی گیهان کنیم ** باطنش را از همه پنهان کنیم
- We make his outward (appearance) celebrated in the world; We make his inward (reality) to be hidden from all.
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زر کان بود آب و گل ما زرگریم ** که گهش خلخال و گه خاتم بریم
- The water and clay was (like) gold of the mine: We are the goldsmith; for We carve it now into an anklet, now into a seal.
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گه حمایلهای شمشیرش کنیم ** گاه بند گردن شیرش کنیم 1000
- Now We make it the shoulder-belt for a sword, now the chain on the neck of a lion.
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گه ترنج تخت بر سازیم ازو ** گاه تاج فرقهای ملکجو
- Now We fashion from it the ball (on the top) of a throne, now the diadem on the heads (of them) that seek empire.
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عشقها داریم با این خاک ما ** زانک افتادست در قعدهی رضا
- We have great affections towards this earth, because it lies in the posture of acquiescence.
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گه چنین شاهی ازو پیدا کنیم ** گه هم او را پیش شه شیدا کنیم
- Now We produce from it a (spiritual) king like this; now We make it frenzied (with love) in the presence of the king:
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صد هزاران عاشق و معشوق ازو ** در فغان و در نفیر و جست و جو
- On account of him hundreds of thousands of lovers and loved ones are in lamentation and outcry and search.
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کار ما اینست بر کوری آن ** که به کار ما ندارد میل جان 1005
- This is Our work, to the confusion of that one who hath no spiritual inclination towards Our work.
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این فضیلت خاک را زان رو دهیم ** که نواله پیش بیبرگان نهیم
- We confer this eminence on the earth for the same reason that We place a portion of food before the destitute,
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زانک دارد خاک شکل اغبری ** وز درون دارد صفات انوری
- Because the earth has the external form of dunness, while inwardly it has the qualities of luminosity.
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ظاهرش با باطنش گشته به جنگ ** باطنش چون گوهر و ظاهر چو سنگ
- Its outward (appearance) has come to be at war with its inward (reality): its inward is like a jewel and its outward like a (common) stone.
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ظاهرش گوید که ما اینیم و بس ** باطنش گوید نکو بین پیش و پس
- Its outward says, ‘We are this, and no more’; its inward says, ‘Look well before and behind!’
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ظاهرش منکر که باطن هیچ نیست ** باطنش گوید که بنماییم بیست 1010
- Its outward is denying (and says) that the inward is naught; its inward says, ‘We will show (thee the truth): wait (and see)!’
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ظاهرش با باطنش در چالشاند ** لاجرم زین صبر نصرت میکشند
- Its outward and its inward are in strife: necessarily they are drawing (Divine) aid from this patient endurance.
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زین ترشرو خاک صورتها کنیم ** خندهی پنهانش را پیدا کنیم
- We make the forms (of existence) from this sour-faced earth: We make manifest its hidden laughter,
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زانک ظاهر خاک اندوه و بکاست ** در درونش صد هزاران خندههاست
- For (though) outwardly the earth is (all) sorrow and tears, within it there are hundreds of thousands of laughters.
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کاشف السریم و کار ما همین ** کین نهانها را بر آریم از کمین
- We are the Revealer of the mystery, and Our work is just this, that We bring forth these hidden things from concealment.
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گرچه دزد از منکری تن میزند ** شحنه آن از عصر پیدا میکند 1015
- Although the thief is mute in denial (of his theft), the magistrate brings it to light by torture.