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  • از شش و از پنج عارف گشت فرد  ** محترز گشتست زین شش پنج نرد 
  • The knower of God has been isolated from the six (directions) and the five (senses): (necessarily, therefore), he has become on his guard against the sixes and fives of the backgammon (played by the World and the Devil).

  • رست او از پنج حس و شش جهت  ** از ورای آن همه کرد آگهت 
  • He has escaped from the five senses and the six directions: he has made you acquainted with (what lies) beyond all that.

  • شد اشاراتش اشارات ازل  ** جاوز الاوهام طرا و اعتزل 
  • His intimations are the intimations of Eternity: he has transcended all conceptions and withdrawn himself apart.

  • زین چه شش گوشه گر نبود برون  ** چون بر آرد یوسفی را از درون  4570
  • Unless he is outside of this hexagonal well, how should he bring up a Joseph from the inside (of it)?

  • واردی بالای چرخ بی ستن  ** جسم او چون دلو در چه چاره کن 
  • He is one who goes to draw water above the unpillared firmament, (while) his body, like a bucket, is (low down) in the well, helping (to rescue the fallen).

  • یوسفان چنگال در دلوش زده  ** رسته از چاه و شه مصری شده 
  • The Josephs cling to his bucket, escape from the well, and become kings of Egypt.

  • دلوهای دیگر از چه آب‌جو  ** دلو او فارغ ز آب اصحاب‌جو 
  • The other buckets seek water from the well: his bucket has no concern with the water, it seeks (only) friends (in trouble).

  • دلوها غواص آب از بهر قوت  ** دلو او قوت و حیات جان حوت 
  • The (other) buckets plunge into the water for food: his bucket is the food and life of the soul of the fish.

  • دلوها وابسته‌ی چرخ بلند  ** دلو او در اصبعین زورمند  4575
  • The (other) buckets are attached to the lofty wheel (of Fortune): his bucket is (held) in two Almighty fingers.

  • دلو چه و حبل چه و چرخ چی  ** این مثال بس رکیکست ای اچی 
  • What bucket and what cord and what wheel? This is a very weak comparison, O pasha.

  • از کجا آرم مثالی بی‌شکست  ** کفو آن نه آید و نه آمدست 
  • (But) whence shall I get a comparison that is without frailty? One to match him (the knower of God) will not come, and never has come, (to hand).

  • صد هزاران مرد پنهان در یکی  ** صد کمان و تیر درج ناوکی 
  • (He is) a hundred thousand men concealed in a single man, a hundred bows and arrows enclosed in a single blowpipe;

  • ما رمیت اذ رمیتی فتنه‌ای  ** صد هزاران خرمن اندر حفنه‌ای 
  • A (type of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, a temptation (for the ignorant), a hundred thousand stacks (of grain) in a handful.

  • آفتابی در یکی ذره نهان  ** ناگهان آن ذره بگشاید دهان  4580
  • (He is) a sun hidden in a mote: suddenly that mote opens its mouth (and reveals the sun).

  • ذره ذره گردد افلاک و زمین  ** پیش آن خورشید چون جست از کمین 
  • The heavens and the earth crumble to atoms before that Sun when he springs forth from ambush.

  • این چنین جانی چه درخورد تنست  ** هین بشو ای تن ازین جان هر دو دست 
  • How is a spirit like this meet for (confinement in) the body? Hark, O body, wash thy hands of this spirit!

  • ای تن گشته وثاق جان بسست  ** چند تاند بحر درمشکی نشست 
  • O body that hast become the spirit's dwelling-place, ’tis enough: how long can the Sea abide in a water-skin?

  • ای هزاران جبرئیل اندر بشر  ** ای مسیحان نهان در جوف خر 
  • O thou who art a thousand Gabriels in (the form of) man, O thou who art (many) Messiahs inside the ass (of Jesus),

  • ای هزاران کعبه پنهان در کنیس  ** ای غلط‌انداز عفریت و بلیس  4585
  • O thou who art a thousand Ka‘bas concealed in a church, O thou who causest ‘ifrít and devil to fall into error,

  • سجده‌گاه لامکانی در مکان  ** مر بلیسان را ز تو ویران دکان 
  • Thou art the spaceless Object of worship in space: the devils have their shop destroyed by thee,

  • که چرا من خدمت این طین کنم  ** صورتی را نم لقب چون دین کنم 
  • (For they say), “How should I pay homage to this clay? How should I bestow on a (mere) form a title signifying (my) obedience (adoration)?”

  • نیست صورت چشم را نیکو به مال  ** تا ببینی شعشعه‌ی نور جلال 
  • He is not the form (in which he appears): rub thine eye well, that thou mayst behold (in him) the radiance of the light of (Divine) glory!

  • باز آمدن به شرح قصه‌ی شاه‌زاده و ملازمت او در حضرت شاه 
  • Resuming the explanation of the Story of the (eldest) prince and his constant attendance at the court of the King.

  • شاه‌زاده پیش شه حیران این  ** هفت گردون دیده در یک مشت طین 
  • The prince in the presence of the King was bewildered by this (mystery): he beheld the Seven Heavens in a handful of clay.

  • هیچ ممکن نه ببحثی لب گشود  ** لیک جان با جان دمی خامش نبود  4590
  • Nowise was it possible (for him) to open his lips in discussion, but never for a moment did soul cease to converse with soul.

  • آمده در خاطرش کین بس خفیست  ** این همه معنیست پس صورت ز چیست 
  • It came into his mind that ’twas exceedingly mysterious— “all this is reality: whence, then, comes the form (appearance)?”