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1058-1082

  • ان رایتم ناصحین انصفوا  ** بادروا التعلیم لا تستنکفوا 
  • If ye see sincere (spiritual) advisers, deal fairly (with them) and be eager to learn: do not show disdain.

  • در دباغی گر خلق پوشید مرد  ** خواجگی خواجه را آن کم نکرد 
  • If the man (engaged) in tanning wore a threadbare garment, that did not diminish the master's mastery (of his trade);

  • وقت دم آهنگر ار پوشید دلق  ** احتشام او نشد کم پیش خلق  1060
  • If the ironsmith wore a patched frock when blowing the bellows, his reputation was not impaired in the eyes of the people.

  • پس لباس کبر بیرون کن ز تن  ** ملبس ذل پوش در آموختن 
  • Therefore strip the raiment of pride from thy body: in learning, put on the garment of humility.

  • علم آموزی طریقش قولی است  ** حرفت آموزی طریقش فعلی است 
  • If thou wouldst learn (theoretical) knowledge, the way of (acquiring) it is oral; if thou wouldst learn a craft, the way of (acquiring) it is practical (by practice).

  • فقر خواهی آن به صحبت قایمست  ** نه زبانت کار می‌آید نه دست 
  • If thou desire (spiritual) poverty, that depends on companionship (with a Shaykh): neither thy tongue nor thy hand avails.

  • دانش آن را ستاند جان ز جان  ** نه ز راه دفتر و نه از زبان 
  • Soul receives from soul the knowledge thereof, not by way of book nor from tongue.

  • در دل سالک اگر هست آن رموز  ** رمزدانی نیست سالک را هنوز  1065
  • If those mysteries (of spiritual poverty) are in the traveller's heart, knowledge of the mystery is not yet possessed by the traveller.

  • تا دلش را شرح آن سازد ضیا  ** پس الم نشرح بفرماید خدا 
  • (Let him wait) until the expansion (illumination) of his heart shall make it (full of) the Light: then God saith, “Did not We expand …?

  • که درون سینه شرحت داده‌ایم  ** شرح اندر سینه‌ات بنهاده‌ایم 
  • For We have given thee the expansion (illumination) within thy breast, We have put the expansion into thy breast.”

  • تو هنوز از خارج آن را طالبی  ** محلبی از دیگران چون حالبی 
  • Thou art still seeking it from outside; thou art a source of milk: how art thou a milker of others?

  • چشمه‌ی شیرست در تو بی‌کنار  ** تو چرا می‌شیر جویی از تغار 
  • There is an illimitable fountain of milk within thee: why art thou seeking milk from the pail?

  • منفذی داری به بحر ای آبگیر  ** ننگ دار از آب جستن از غدیر  1070
  • O lake, thou hast a channel to the Sea: be ashamed to seek water from the pool;

  • که الم نشرح نه شرحت هست باز  ** چون شدی تو شرح‌جو و کدیه‌ساز 
  • For did not We expand…? Again, hast not thou the expansion? How art thou become a seeker of the expansion and a mendicant?

  • در نگر در شرح دل در اندرون  ** تا نیاید طعنه‌ی لا تبصرون 
  • Contemplate the expansion of the heart within (thee), lest there come the reproach, Do not ye see?

  • تفسیر و هو معکم 
  • Commentary on “And He is with you.”

  • یک سپد پر نان ترا بی‌فرق سر  ** تو همی خواهی لب نان در به در 
  • There is a basket full of loaves on the crown of thy head, and thou art begging a crust of bread from door to door.

  • در سر خود پیچ هل خیره‌سری  ** رو در دل زن چرا بر هر دری 
  • Attend to thine own head, abandon giddy-headedness; go, knock at the door of thy heart: why art thou (knocking) at every door?

  • تا بزانویی میان آب‌جو  ** غافل از خود زین و آن تو آب جو  1075
  • Whilst thou art up to the knee in the river-water, thou art heedless of thyself and art seeking water from this one and that one.

  • پیش آب و پس هم آب با مدد  ** چشمها را پیش سد و خلف سد 
  • Water in front; and behind, too, an unfailing supply of water; (but) before thine eyes is a barrier and behind them a barrier.

  • اسپ زیر ران و فارس اسپ‌جو  ** چیست این گفت اسپ لیکن اسپ کو 
  • The horse is under the (rider's) thigh, and the rider is seeking the horse. (When asked), “What is this?” he says, “A horse, but where is the horse?”

  • هی نه اسپست این به زیر تو پدید  ** گفت آری لیک خود اسپی که دید 
  • “Eh, is not this a horse under thee, plain to see?” “Yes,” says he, “but who ever saw a horse?”

  • مست آب و پیش روی اوست آن  ** اندر آب و بی‌خبر ز آب روان 
  • He (such a one) is mad with thirst for the water, and it (the water) is before his face: he is in the water and unconscious of the running water.

  • چون گهر در بحر گوید بحر کو  ** وآن خیال چون صدف دیوار او  1080
  • Like the pearl in the sea, he says, “Where is the sea?” and that shell-like phantasy is his wall.

  • گفتن آن کو حجابش می‌شود  ** ابر تاب آفتابش می‌شود 
  • His saying “Where?” becomes for him a screen: it becomes for him a cloud over the radiance of the sun.

  • بند چشم اوست هم چشم بدش  ** عین رفع سد او گشته سدش 
  • His bad (sensual) eye is a bandage on his (inward) eye: his very (awareness of) removing the barrier has become a barrier for him.