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  • لطف مه بنگر که این هم لطف اوست  ** که بگفت او ابرها ما را عدوست 
  • Behold the kindness of the (Divine) Moon; for this too is His kindness, that He hath said, ‘The clouds are enemies to Us.’

  • مه فراغت دارد از ابر و غبار  ** بر فراز چرخ دارد مه مدار 
  • The Moon is independent of clouds and dust: the Moon hath His orbit aloft in the (spiritual) sky.

  • ابر ما را شد عدو و خصم جان  ** که کند مه را ز چشم ما نهان  690
  • The cloud is our mortal enemy and adversary because it hides the Moon from our eyes.

  • حور را این پرده زالی می‌کند  ** بدر را کم از هلالی می‌کند 
  • This veil makes the houri (to appear as) a hag: it makes the full-moon less than a new moon.

  • ماه ما را در کنار عز نشاند  ** دشمن ما را عدوی خویش خواند 
  • The Moon hath seated us in the lap of glory: He hath called our foe His enemy.

  • تاب ابر و آب او خود زین مهست  ** هر که مه خواند ابر را بس گمرهست 
  • The splendour and beauty of the cloud is (derived) from the Moon, (but) whoever calls the cloud the Moon is much astray.

  • نور مه بر ابر چون منزل شدست  ** روی تاریکش ز مه مبدل شدست 
  • Since the light of the Moon has been poured down upon the cloud, its (the cloud's) dark face has been transfigured by the Moon.

  • گرچه همرنگ مهست و دولتیست  ** اندر ابر آن نور مه عاریتیست  695
  • Although it is of the same colour as the Moon and is associated with (the Moon's) empire, (yet) in the cloud the light of the Moon is (only) borrowed (impermanent).

  • در قیامت شمس و مه معزول شد  ** چشم در اصل ضیا مشغول شد 
  • At the Resurrection the sun and moon are discharged (from their office): the eye is occupied in (contemplating) the Source of (their) radiance,

  • تا بداند ملک را از مستعار  ** وین رباط فانی از دارالقرار 
  • In order that it may know (distinguish) the (permanent) possession from the (temporary) loan, and this perishable caravanseray from the everlasting abode.

  • دایه عاریه بود روزی سه چار  ** مادرا ما را تو گیر اندر کنار 
  • The nurse is borrowed for three or four days: do thou, O Mother, take us into thy bosom!

  • پر من ابرست و پرده‌ست و کثیف  ** ز انعکاس لطف حق شد او لطیف 
  • My feathers are (like) the cloud and are a veil and gross: (only) by the reflexion of God's loveliness are they made lovely.

  • بر کنم پر را و حسنش را ز راه  ** تا ببینم حسن مه را هم ز ماه  700
  • I will pluck my feathers and their beauty from the Way (to God), that I may behold the Moon's beauty (by immediate illumination) from the Moon.

  • من نخواهم دایه مادر خوشترست  ** موسی‌ام من دایه‌ی من مادرست 
  • I do not want the nurse; (my) Mother is fairer. I am (like) Moses: (my) Mother (herself) is my nurse.

  • من نخواهم لطف مه از واسطه  ** که هلاک قوم شد این رابطه 
  • I do not want (to enjoy) the loveliness of the Moon through an intermediary, for this link is perdition to the people;

  • یا مگر ابری شود فانی راه  ** تا نگردد او حجاب روی ماه 
  • Unless (the intermediary be) a cloud (that) becomes naughted in the Way (to God) in order that it may not be a veil to the face of the Moon.

  • صورتش بنماید او در وصف لا  ** هم‌چو جسم انبیا و اولیا 
  • In the aspect of lá (self-negation) it (such a cloud) displays His (the Moon's) form, like the bodies of the prophets and saints.

  • آنچنان ابری نباشد پرده‌بند  ** پرده‌در باشد به معنی سودمند  705
  • Such a cloud is not veil-tying; it is in reality veil-tearing (and) salutary.

  • آن‌چنان که اندر صباح روشنی  ** قطره می‌بارید و بالا ابر نی 
  • ’Tis as when, on a bright morning, drops of rain were falling though there was no cloud above (in the sky).

  • معجزه‌ی پیغامبری بود آن سقا  ** گشته ابر از محو هم‌رنگ سما 
  • That water-skin was a miracle of the Prophet: from self-effacement the cloud (which replenished it) had become of the same colour as the sky.

  • بود ابر و رفته از وی خوی ابر  ** این چنین گردد تن عاشق به صبر 
  • The cloud was (there), but the cloud-nature had gone from it: the body of the lover (of God) becomes like this by means of renunciation.

  • تن بود اما تنی گم گشته زو  ** گشته مبدل رفته از وی رنگ و بو 
  • It is body, but corporeality has vanished from it: it has been transfigured, colour and perfume have gone from it.

  • پر پی غیرست و سر از بهر من  ** خانه‌ی سمع و بصر استون تن  710
  • (My) feathers are for the sake of others, while (my) head is for my own sake: (the head which is) the abode of hearing and sight is the pillar (support) of the body.

  • جان فدا کردن برای صید غیر  ** کفر مطلق دان و نومیدی ز خیر 
  • Know that to sacrifice the spirit for the sake of catching others is absolute infidelity and despair of good.

  • هین مشو چون قند پیش طوطیان  ** بلک زهری شو شو آمن از زیان 
  • Beware! Do not be like sugar before parrots; nay, be a poison, be secure from loss;