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1866-1890

  • که معانی آن جهان صورت شود  ** نقشهامان در خور خصلت شود 
  • For in that world ideas are endued with form, and our (visible) shapes become congruous with our (moral and spiritual) qualities.

  • گردد آنگه فکر نقش نامه‌ها  ** این بطانه روی کار جامه‌ها 
  • The (secret) thoughts will then become (materialised in) the form of the books (recording good and evil actions): this lining will become the working surface of the garments.

  • این زمان سرها مثال گاو پیس  ** دوک نطق اندر ملل صد رنگ ریس 
  • During this (present) time (men's) inward beliefs are (as variegated) as a piebald cow, and in the (different) religious sects the spindle of speech is spinning (threads of) a hundred colours.

  • نوبت صدرنگیست و صددلی  ** عالم یک رنگ کی گردد جلی 
  • ’Tis the turn (reign) of many-colouredness and many-mindedness: how should the one-coloured world become unveiled?

  • نوبت زنگست رومی شد نهان  ** این شبست و آفتاب اندر رهان  1870
  • ’Tis the turn (reign) of the Ethiopian; the Greek is hidden (from view): this is night, and the sun is in pawn.

  • نوبت گرگست و یوسف زیر چاه  ** نوبت قبطست و فرعونست شاه 
  • ’Tis the turn (reign) of the wolf, and Joseph is at the bottom of the well; ’tis the turn (reign) of the Egyptians, and Pharaoh is king.

  • تا ز رزق بی‌دریغ خیره‌خند  ** این سگان را حصه باشد روز چند 
  • (Such is the Divine purpose), in order that for a few days these curs may have their allotted portion of the unstinted and deluding (worldly) provision.

  • در درون بیشه شیران منتظر  ** تا شود امر تعالوا منتشر 
  • (But) within the jungle (of this world) are lions (righteous and holy men), waiting for the command “Come!” to be spread abroad.

  • پس برون آیند آن شیران ز مرج  ** بی‌حجابی حق نماید دخل و خرج 
  • Then those lions will come forth from the (worldly) pasture, and God will show (unto them) their income and expenditure without any veil (disguise).

  • جوهر انسان بگیرد بر و بحر  ** پیسه گاوان بسملان آن روز نحر  1875
  • The (spiritual) essence of Man will encompass land and sea, (while) the piebald cattle will be killed as victims on the Day of Slaughter.

  • روز نحر رستخیز سهمناک  ** مومنان را عید و گاوان را هلاک 
  • The terrible Day of Slaughter at the Resurrection is a festival for the true believers and (the hour of) destruction for the cattle.

  • جمله‌ی مرغان آب آن روز نحر  ** هم‌چو کشتیها روان بر روی بحر 
  • On that Day of Slaughter all the water-birds (will be) sailing along like ships on the surface of the Sea.

  • تا که یهلک من هلک عن بینه  ** تا که ینجو من نجا واستیقنه 
  • (This Day is ordained) to the end that they who perish may perish by a clear proof, and that they who are saved and have sure knowledge thereof may be saved (by a clear proof),

  • تا که بازان جانب سلطان روند  ** تا که زاغان سوی گورستان روند 
  • And that the falcons may go to the Sultan and that the crows may go to the graveyard;

  • که استخوان و اجزاء سرگین هم‌چو نان  ** نقل زاغان آمدست اندر جهان  1880
  • For in this world the dessert of the crows was bones and pieces of dung like bread.

  • قند حکمت از کجا زاغ از کجا  ** کرم سرگین از کجا باغ از کجا 
  • How remote is the sugar of wisdom from the crow! How remote is the dung-beetle from the orchard!

  • نیست لایق غزو نفس و مرد غر  ** نیست لایق عود و مشک و کون خر 
  • It is not suitable for an effeminate man to go to fight against the carnal soul: aloes-wood and musk are not suitable for the arse of an ass.

  • چون غزا ندهد زنان را هیچ دست  ** کی دهد آنک جهاد اکبرست 
  • Since women are not at all adapted for fighting, how should they be adapted for that (fight) which is the greater holy war?

  • جز بنادر در تن زن رستمی  ** گشته باشد خفیه هم‌چون مریمی 
  • A Rustam may (sometimes) have been concealed in a woman's body, as (was the case with) a Mary; (but) only seldom.

  • آنچنان که در تن مردان زنان  ** خفیه‌اند و ماده از ضعف جنان  1885
  • Similarly, women are (sometimes) concealed in men's bodies, and they (such men) are (virtually) female because of (their) faintness of heart.

  • آن جهان صورت شود آن مادگی  ** هر که در مردی ندید آمادگی 
  • In that world, if any one has not found in his manhood the capacity (for spiritual combat), his feminality takes (visible) shape.

  • روز عدل و عدل داد در خورست  ** کفش آن پا کلاه آن سرست 
  • The Day (of Judgement) is justice, and justice consists in giving (to every one) what is proper: the shoe belongs to the foot, and the cap belongs to the head.

  • تا به مطلب در رسد هر طالبی  ** تا به غرب خود رود هر غاربی 
  • (This is) in order that every seeker may attain to the object of his search, and that everything destined to set may go to its point of setting.

  • نیست هر مطلوب از طالب دریغ  ** جفت تابش شمس و جفت آب میغ 
  • No object of search is withheld from the seeker: the sun is paired with heat and the cloud with water.

  • هست دنیا قهرخانه‌ی کردگار  ** قهر بین چون قهر کردی اختیار  1890
  • The present world is the Creator's penitentiary: since you have chosen (to incur) punishment, suffer punishment!