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1932-1956

  • عشق دان ای فندق تن دوستت  ** جانت جوید مغز و کوبد پوستت 
  • O nut-like body, know that Love is thy friend: thy soul (inspired by Love) will seek thy kernel and batter thy shell (to pieces).

  • دوزخی که پوست باشد دوستش  ** داد بدلنا جلودا پوستش 
  • The man doomed to Hell whose skin is his friend—(God who hath said) “We will give them (other) skins in exchange” bestows a (new) skin upon him.

  • معنی و مغزت بر آتش حاکمست  ** لیک آتش را قشورت هیزمست 
  • Thy spiritual principle and kernel is dominant over the Fire, but thy skins (sensual faculties) are fuel for the Fire.

  • کوزه‌ی چوبین که در وی آب جوست  ** قدرت آتش همه بر ظرف اوست  1935
  • (In the case of) a wooden pot in which river-water is (contained), the power of fire is entirely (directed) against the vessel containing it.

  • معنی انسان بر آتش مالکست  ** مالک دوزخ درو کی هالکست 
  • Man's spiritual principle is a ruler over the Fire: when is Málik (the Ruler) of Hell destroyed therein?

  • پس میفزا تو بدن معنی فزا  ** تا چو مالک باشی آتش را کیا 
  • Do not, then, increase (pamper) thy body; increase (cherish and cultivate) thy spiritual principle, in order that thou mayst be the Fire's sovereign, like Málik.

  • پوستها بر پوست می‌افزوده‌ای  ** لاجرم چون پوست اندر دوده‌ای 
  • Thou hast ever been adding skins to thy skin: necessarily thou art (black) as a skin (enveloped) in (layers of) soot.

  • زانک آتش را علف جز پوست نیست  ** قهر حق آن کبر را پوستین کنیست 
  • Since the Fire hath no fodder (fuel) except the skin, the vengeance of God will tear the skin off that pride (of thine).

  • این تکبر از نتیجه‌ی پوستست  ** جاه و مال آن کبر را زان دوستست  1940
  • This arrogance is a product of the skin; hence power and riches are friends to that pride.

  • این تکبر چیست غفلت از لباب  ** منجمد چون غفلت یخ ز آفتاب 
  • What is this arrogance? (It consists in) being oblivious to the essential principle and frozen (insensible)—like the oblivion of ice to the sun.

  • چون خبر شد ز آفتابش یخ نماند  ** نرم گشت و گرم گشت و تیز راند 
  • When it (the ice) becomes conscious of the sun, the ice does not endure: it becomes soft and warm and moves on rapidly.

  • شد ز دید لب جمله‌ی تن طمع  ** خوار و عاشق شد که ذل من طمع 
  • From seeing the kernel (essential principle) the whole body becomes (filled with) desire: it becomes miserable and passionately in love, for “Wretched is he who desires.”

  • چون نبیند مغز قانع شد به پوست  ** بند عز من قنع زندان اوست 
  • When it does not see the kernel, it is content with the skin: (then) the bondage of “Glorious is he who is content” is its prison.

  • عزت اینجا گبریست و ذل دین  ** سنگ تا فانی نشد کی شد نگین  1945
  • Here glory is infidelity, and wretchedness is (true) religion: until the stone became naughted, when did it become the gem set in a ring?

  • در مقام سنگی آنگاهی انا  ** وقت مسکین گشتن تست وفنا 
  • (To remain) in the state of stoniness and then (to say) “I” (is absurd): ’tis time for thee to become lowly and naughted (dead to self).

  • کبر زان جوید همیشه جاه و مال  ** که ز سرگینست گلحن را کمال 
  • Pride always seeks power and riches because the bath-furnace derives its perfection from dung;

  • کین دو دایه پوست را افزون کنند  ** شحم و لحم و کبر و نخوت آکنند 
  • For these two nurses increase (foster) the skin: they stuff it with fat and flesh and pride and arrogance.

  • دیده را بر لب لب نفراشتند  ** پوست را زان روی لب پنداشتند 
  • They have not raised their eyes to the kernel of the kernel: on that account they have deemed the skin to be the kernel.

  • پیش‌وا ابلیس بود این راه را  ** کو شکار آمد شبیکه‌ی جاه را  1950
  • Iblís was the leader on this way, for he fell a prey to the net (temptation) of power (eminence).

  • مال چون مارست و آن جاه اژدها  ** سایه‌ی مردان زمرد این دو را 
  • Riches are like a snake, and power is a dragon: the shadow (protection and guidance) of (holy) men is the emerald (which is fatal) to them both.

  • زان زمرد مار را دیده جهد  ** کور گردد مار و ره‌رو وا رهد 
  • At (the sight of) that emerald the snake's eye jumps (out of its head): the snake is blinded and the traveller is delivered (from death).

  • چون برین ره خار بنهاد آن رئیس  ** هر که خست او گفته لعنت بر بلیس 
  • When that Prince (Iblís) had laid thorns on this road, every one that was wounded (by them) cried, “Curse Iblís!”

  • یعنی این غم بر من از غدر ویست  ** غدر را آن مقتدا سابق‌پیست 
  • Meaning to say, “This pain is (fallen) upon me through his treachery”: he (Iblís) who is taken as a model (by the wicked) was the first to tread the path of treason.

  • بعد ازو خود قرن بر قرن آمدند  ** جملگان بر سنت او پا زدند  1955
  • Truly, generation on generation came (into being) after him, and all set their feet on his way (followed his practice).

  • هر که بنهد سنت بد ای فتا  ** تا در افتد بعد او خلق از عمی 
  • Whosoever institutes an evil practice, O youth, in order that people may blindly fall in after him,