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2971-2995

  • جنس و ناجنس از خرد دانی شناخت  ** سوی صورت‌ها نشاید زود تاخت 
  • By reason you can recognise congener and non-congener: you ought not to run at once to (outward) forms.

  • نیست جنسیت به صورت لی و لک  ** عیسی آمد در بشر جنس ملک 
  • My being your congener is not in respect of (outward) form: Jesus, in the form of man, was (really) homogeneous with the angels

  • برکشیدش فوق این نیلی‌حصار  ** مرغ گردونی چو چغزش زاغ‌وار 
  • The celestial Bird (Gabriel) carried him up above this dark-blue fortress (vault) as the raven (carried) the frog.

  • قصه‌ی عبدالغوث و ربودن پریان او را و سالها میان پریان ساکن شدن او و بعد از سالها آمدن او به شهر و فرزندان خویش را باز ناشکیفتن او از آن پریان بحکم جنسیت و همدلی او با ایشان 
  • Story of ‘Abdu ’l-Ghawth and his being carried off by the peris and staying among them for years, and how after (many) years he returned to his (native) town and his children, but could not endure to be parted from the peris, because he was really their congener and spiritually one with them.

  • بود عبدالغوث هم‌جنس پری  ** چون پری نه سال در پنهان‌پری 
  • ‘Abdu ’l-Ghawth was a congener of the peri: for nine years he was flying about invisibly, like a peri.

  • شد زنش را نسل از شوی دگر  ** وآن یتیمانش ز مرگش در سمر  2975
  • His wife had offspring by another husband, and his (‘Abdu ’l-Ghawth's) orphans used to talk of his death,

  • که مرورا گرگ زد یا ره‌زنی  ** یا فتاد اندر چهی یا مکمنی 
  • Saying, “A wolf or a brigand (must have) attacked him, or (perhaps) he fell into a pit or ambush.”

  • جمله فرزندانش در اشغال مست  ** خود نگفتندی که بابایی بدست 
  • All his children were passionately absorbed in (worldly) occupations: they never said (thought) that they had a father (who might be alive).

  • بعد نه سال آمد او هم عاریه  ** گشت پیدا باز شد متواریه 
  • After nine years he came (back) temporarily: he appeared and (then) disappeared again.

  • یک مهی مهمان فرزندان خویش  ** بود و زان پس کس ندیدش رنگ بیش 
  • He was the guest of his children for one month, and after that nobody saw any more of him.

  • برد هم جنسی پریانش چنان  ** که رباید روح را زخم سنان  2980
  • (Inward) homogeneity with the peris carried him off, just as a spear-thrust ravishes the spirit (from the body).

  • چون بهشتی جنس جنت آمدست  ** هم ز جنسیت شود یزدان‌پرست 
  • Since one who is destined for Paradise is (inwardly) homogeneous with Paradise, on account of homogeneity he also becomes a worshipper of God.

  • نه نبی فرمود جود و محمده  ** شاخ جنت دان به دنیا آمده 
  • Has not the Prophet said, “Know that liberality and virtue are (drooping) branches of (the trees in) Paradise (and have) come (have been let down) into this world”?

  • مهرها را جمله جنس مهر خوان  ** قهرها را جمله جنس قهر دان 
  • Declare all loves to be homogeneous with (Divine) Love; deem all wraths to be homogeneous with (Divine) Wrath.

  • لاابالی لا ابالی آورد  ** زانک جنس هم بوند اندر خرد 
  • The reckless man gets a reckless man (as his comrade), because they are congenial in respect of their understanding.

  • بود جنسیت در ادریس از نجوم  ** هشت سال او با زحل بد در قدوم  2985
  • The congeniality (spiritual affinity) in Idrís was (derived) from the stars: for eight years he was coming along with Saturn.

  • در مشارق در مغارب یار او  ** هم‌حدیث و محرم آثار او 
  • He was his (Saturn's) companion in the East and in the West; (he was) his partner in conversation and familiar with his characteristics.

  • بعد غیبت چونک آورد او قدوم  ** در زمین می‌گفت او درس نجوم 
  • When after his absence (from the body) he arrived (on earth), on the earth he was always giving lessons in astronomy.

  • پیش او استارگان خوش صف زده  ** اختران در درس او حاضر شده 
  • The stars gladly ranged themselves in ranks before him: the stars attended his lectures,

  • آنچنان که خلق آواز نجوم  ** می‌شنیدند از خصوص و از عموم 
  • So that the people (present), nobles and commons alike, would hear the voices of the stars.

  • جذب جنسیت کشیده تا زمین  ** اختران را پیش او کرده مبین  2990
  • The attraction exerted by homogeneity (spiritual affinity) drew the stars down to the earth and caused them to speak plainly before him.

  • هر یکی نام خود و احوال خود  ** باز گفته پیش او شرح رصد 
  • Each one declared its name and its circumstances and expounded to him (the science of) astronomical observation.

  • چیست جنسیت یکی نوع نظر  ** که بدان یابند ره در هم‌دگر 
  • What is (real) homogeneity? A species of insight whereby people gain admission into (the minds and feelings of) one another.

  • آن نظر که کرد حق در وی نهان  ** چون نهد در تو تو گردی جنس آن 
  • When God endows you with the same insight which He has hidden in him (another person), you become his congener.

  • هر طرف چه می‌کشد تن را نظر  ** بی‌خبر را کی کشاند با خبر 
  • What draws a body (person) in any direction? Insight. How should the conscious attract the unconscious?

  • چونک اندر مرد خوی زن نهد  ** او مخنث گردد و گان می‌دهد  2995
  • When He (God) implants in a man the nature of a woman, fit catamitus et coitum dat. [When He (God) implants in a man the nature of a woman, he becomes a catamite and offers (anal) intercourse.]