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  • اژدهای هفت‌سر دوزخ بود  ** حرص تو دانه‌ست و دوزخ فخ بود 
  • Hell is a seven-headed dragon: thy greed is the bait and Hell the snare.

  • دام را بدران بسوزان دانه را  ** باز کن درهای نو این خانه را 
  • Pull the snare to pieces, burn the bait, open new doors in this (bodily) tenement!

  • چون تو عاشق نیستی ای نرگدا  ** هم‌چو کوهی بی‌خبر داری صدا 
  • O sturdy beggar, unless thou art a lover (of God), thou hast (only) an echo, like the unconscious mountain.

  • کوه را گفتار کی باشد ز خود  ** عکس غیرست آن صدا ای معتمد  4660
  • How should the mountain possess a voice of its own? The echo is reflected from another, O trusty man.

  • گفت تو زان سان که عکس دیگریست  ** جمله احوالت به جز هم عکس نیست 
  • In the same fashion as thy speech is the reflexion of another, so all thy feelings are nothing but a reflexion.

  • خشم و ذوقت هر دو عکس دیگران  ** شادی قواده و خشم عوان 
  • Both thy anger and thy pleasure are (only) reflected from others, (like) the joy of the procuress and the rage of the night-patrol.

  • آن عوان را آن ضعیف آخر چه کرد  ** که دهد او را به کینه زجر و درد 
  • Pray, what (harm) did that poor fellow do to the night-patrol that he should punish and torment him in revenge?

  • تا بکی عکس خیال لامعه  ** جهد کن تا گرددت این واقعه 
  • How long (wilt thou follow) the glittering phantom reflected (from another)?Strive to make this (experience) actual for thyself,

  • تا که گفتارت ز حال تو بود  ** سیر تو با پر و بال تو بود  4665
  • So that thy words will be (prompted) by thy immediate feelings, and thy flight will be made with thine own wings and pinions.

  • صید گیرد تیر هم با پر غیر  ** لاجرم بی‌بهره است از لحم طیر 
  • ’Tis with alien feathers that the arrow captures its prey; consequently it gets no share of the bird's flesh;

  • باز صید آرد به خود از کوهسار  ** لاجرم شاهش خوراند کبک و سار 
  • (But) the falcon brings its quarry from the mountains itself; consequently the king lets it eat partridge and starling.

  • منطقی کز وحی نبود از هواست  ** هم‌چو خاکی در هوا و در هباست 
  • The speech that is not (derived) from (Divine) inspiration springs from self-will: it is like dust (floating) in the air and among the motes (in the sunbeams).

  • گر نماید خواجه را این دم غلط  ** ز اول والنجم بر خوان چند خط 
  • If this saying appear to the Khwája to be erroneous, recite a few lines at the beginning of (the Súra) Wa’l-Najm.

  • تا که ما ینطق محمد عن هوی  ** ان هو الا بوحی احتوی  4670
  • Down to (the words), Mohammed does not speak from self-will: ’tis only (a speech) gained by inspiration.

  • احمدا چون نیستت از وحی یاس  ** جسمیان را ده تحری و قیاس 
  • O Ahmad (Mohammed), since thou despairest not of (receiving) inspiration, leave investigation and conjecture to the corporealists;

  • کز ضرورت هست مرداری حلال  ** که تحری نیست در کعبه‌ی وصال 
  • For in case of necessity a carcase is lawful (food), but there is no need to investigate (when one is) in the Ka‘ba of union.

  • بی‌تحری و اجتهادات هدی  ** هر که بدعت پیشه گیرد از هوی 
  • Whosoever wilfully adopts a heresy without investigation and the utmost efforts to discover the right way,

  • هم‌چو عادش بر برد باد و کشد  ** نه سلیمانست تا تختش کشد 
  • The wind (of self-will) will lift him up and kill him, like (the people of) ‘Ád: he is no Solomon that it should waft his throne along.

  • عاد را با دست حمال خذول  ** هم‌چو بره در کف مردی اکول  4675
  • For ‘Ád (and those like them) the wind is a treacherous carrier: (they are) as a lamb in the hands of a glutton,

  • هم‌چو فرزندش نهاده بر کنار  ** می‌برد تا بکشدش قصاب‌وار 
  • Which he lays in his lap as though it were his own child and carries away to slaughter like a butcher.

  • عاد را آن باد ز استکبار بود  ** یار خود پنداشتند اغیار بود 
  • That wind was (the punishment) for ‘Ád because of their pride: they indeed deemed it a friend, (but) it was (really) a stranger (foe).

  • چون بگردانید ناگه پوستین  ** خردشان بشکست آن بس القرین 
  • When of a sudden it turned its coat, that evil comrade shattered them piecemeal.

  • باد را بشکن که بس فتنه‌ست باد  ** پیش از آن کت بشکند او هم‌چو عاد 
  • Shatter (destroy) the wind—for the wind (of self-will) is a great temptation— ere it shatter thee, like ‘Ád.

  • هود دادی پند که ای پر کبر خیل  ** بر کند از دستتان این باد ذیل  4680
  • Húd admonished them, saying, “O prideful folk, this wind will tear out of your hands the skirt (to which ye are clinging).

  • لشکر حق است باد و از نفاق  ** چند روزی با شما کرد اعتناق 
  • The wind is God's army, and (only) in hypocrisy (deceit) has it embraced you for a few days.