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  • قرنها بر قرنها رفت ای همام  ** وین معانی بر قرار و بر دوام 
  • Generations on generations have gone, O sire, but these Ideas (Divine attributes) are permanent and everlasting.

  • آن مبدل شد درین جو چند بار  ** عکس ماه و عکس اختر بر قرار 
  • The water in this channel has been changed many times: the reflexion of the moon and of the stars remains unaltered.

  • پس بنااش نیست بر آب روان  ** بلک بر اقطار عرض آسمان 
  • Therefore its foundation is not in the running water; nay, but in the regions of the breadth (wide expanse) of Heaven.

  • این صفتها چون نجوم معنویست  ** دانک بر چرخ معانی مستویست  3180
  • These attributes are like Ideal stars: know that they are stablished in the sphere of the Ideas (Realities).

  • خوب‌رویان آینه‌ی خوبی او  ** عشق ایشان عکس مطلوبی او 
  • The beauteous are the mirror of His beauty: love for them is the reflexion of the desire of which He is the (real) object.

  • هم به اصل خود رود این خد و خال  ** دایما در آب کی ماند خیال 
  • This cheek and mole goes (back) to the Source thereof: how should a phantom continue in the water for ever?

  • جمله تصویرات عکس آب جوست  ** چون بمالی چشم خود خود جمله اوست 
  • The whole sum of pictured forms (phenomena) is a (mere) reflexion in the water of the river: when you rub your eye, (you will perceive that) all of them are really He.

  • باز عقلش گفت بگذار این حول  ** خل دوشابست و دوشابست خل 
  • Again, his (the debtor's) reason said (to him), “Abandon this seeing double: vinegar is grape-syrup and grape-syrup is vinegar.

  • خواجه را چون غیر گفتی از قصور  ** شرم‌دار ای احول از شاه غیور  3185
  • Since, from defect (of vision), you have called the Khwája ‘other’ (than God), be ashamed (contrite) before the jealous King, O man of double sight.

  • خواجه را که در گذشتست از اثیر  ** جنس این موشان تاریکی مگیر 
  • Do not suppose the Khwája, who has passed beyond the aether (the ninth celestial sphere), to be homogeneous with these mice of darkness.

  • خواجه‌ی جان بین مبین جسم گران  ** مغز بین او را مبینش استخوان 
  • Regard the Khwája as spirit, do not regard him as gross body: regard him as marrow, do not regard him as bone.

  • خواجه را از چشم ابلیس لعین  ** منگر و نسبت مکن او را به طین 
  • Do not look at the Khwája with the eye of Iblís the accursed, and do not relate him (refer his origin) to clay.

  • همره خورشید را شب‌پر مخوان  ** آنک او مسجود شد ساجد مدان 
  • Do not call the fellow-traveller of the Sun ‘a bat’: do not call him who was worshipped (by the angels) a worshipper (of the material).

  • عکس‌ها را ماند این و عکس نیست  ** در مثال عکس حق بنمودنیست  3190
  • This (Khwája) resembles the (other) reflexions; but (in reality) ’tis not a reflexion, ’tis the appearance of God in the likeness of a reflexion.

  • آفتابی دید او جامد نماند  ** روغن گل روغن کنجد نماند 
  • He beheld a Sun and remained frozen no more: the oil of roses was no longer (mingled with) oil of sesame.

  • چون مبدل گشته‌اند ابدال حق  ** نیستند از خلق بر گردان ورق 
  • Since the Abdál (Lieutenants) of God have been transmuted, they are not (to be reckoned) among created beings: turn over a (new) leaf!

  • قبله‌ی وحدانیت دو چون بود  ** خاک مسجود ملایک چون شود 
  • How should the qibla (object of worship), namely, the (Divine) Unity, be two? How should earth be worshipped by the angels?

  • چون درین جو دیدعکس سیب مرد  ** دامنش را دید آن پر سیب کرد 
  • When a man sees the reflexion of apples in this river, and the sight of them fills his skirt with (real) apples,

  • آنچ در جو دید کی باشد خیال  ** چونک شد از دیدنش پر صد جوال  3195
  • How should that which he saw in the river be a phantom, when a hundred sacks have been filled by his vision?

  • تن مبین و آن مکن کان بکم و صم  ** کذبوا بالحق لما جائهم 
  • Do not regard the body, and do not act like those dumb and deaf men (who) disbelieved in the Truth when it came to them.

  • ما رمیت اذ رمیت احمد بدست  ** دیدن او دیدن خالق شدست 
  • The Khwája is (the God-man of whom God said) Thou didst not throw when thou threwest: to see him is to see the Creator.

  • خدمت او خدمت حق کردنست  ** روز دیدن دیدن این روزنست 
  • To serve him is to serve God: to see this window is to see the Daylight;

  • خاصه این روزن درخشان از خودست  ** نی ودیعه‌ی آفتاب و فرقدست 
  • Especially (as) this window is resplendent of itself: nothing (no light) is deposited (therein) by the sun and the Farqad (stars).

  • هم از آن خورشید زد بر روزنی  ** لیک از راه و سوی معهود نی  3200
  • From that (Divine) Sun, too, (beams) strike upon a window, but not in the ordinary way and direction.

  • در میان شمس و این روزن رهی  ** هست روزنها نشد زو آگهی 
  • Between the Sun and this window there is a way; (but) the (other) windows are not acquainted with it,