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  • رفت آن مسکین و سالی در سفر ** در فراق دوست سوزید از شرر
  • The wretched man went away, and for a year in travel (and) in separation from his friend he was burned with sparks of fire.

  • پخته گشت آن سوخته پس باز گشت ** باز گرد خانه‌‌ی همباز گشت‌‌ 3060
  • That burned one was cooked: then he returned and again paced to and fro beside the house of his comrade.

  • حلقه زد بر در به صد ترس و ادب ** تا بنجهد بی‌‌ادب لفظی ز لب‌‌
  • He knocked at the door with a hundred fears and respects, lest any disrespectful word might escape from his lips.

  • بانگ زد یارش که بر در کیست آن ** گفت بر درهم تویی ای دلستان‌‌
  • His friend called to him, “Who is at the door?” He answered, “’Tis thou art at the door, O charmer of hearts.”

  • گفت اکنون چون منی ای من در آ ** نیست گنجایی دو من را در سرا
  • “Now,” said the friend, “since thou art I, come in, O myself: there is not room in the house for two I's.

  • نیست سوزن را سر رشته دو تا ** چون که یکتایی درین سوزن در آ
  • The double end of thread is not for the needle: inasmuch as thou art single, come into this needle.”

  • رشته را با سوزن آمد ارتباط ** نیست در خور با جمل سم الخیاط 3065
  • ’Tis the thread that is connected with the needle: the eye of the needle is not suitable for the camel.

  • کی شود باریک هستی جمل ** جز به مقراض ریاضات و عمل‌‌
  • How should the existence (body) of the camel be fined down save by the shears of ascetic exercises and works?

  • دست حق باید مر آن را ای فلان ** کاو بود بر هر محالی کن فکان‌‌
  • For that, O reader, the hand (power) of God is necessary, for it is the Be, and it was (bringer into existence) of every (seemingly) impossible thing.

  • هر محال از دست او ممکن شود ** هر حرون از بیم او ساکن شود
  • By His hand every impossible thing is made possible; by fear of Him every unruly one is made quiet.

  • اکمه و ابرص چه باشد مرده نیز ** زنده گردد از فسون آن عزیز
  • What of the man blind from birth and the leper? Even the dead is made living by the spell of the Almighty,

  • و آن عدم کز مرده مرده‌‌تر بود ** در کف ایجاد او مضطر بود 3070
  • And that non-existence which is more dead than the dead— compelled (helpless) in the hand of (under the power of) His bringing (it) into existence.

  • کل يوم هو فی شأن بخوان ** مر و را بی‌‌کار و بی‌‌فعلی مدان‌‌
  • Recite (the text), Every day He is (engaged) in some affair: do not deem Him idle and inactive.

  • کمترین کاریش هر روز است آن ** کاو سه لشکر را کند این سو روان‌‌
  • His least act, every day, is that He despatches three armies:

  • لشکری ز اصلاب سوی امهات ** بهر آن تا در رحم روید نبات‌‌
  • One army from the loins (of the fathers) towards the mothers, in order that the plant may grow in the womb;

  • لشکری ز ارحام سوی خاکدان ** تا ز نر و ماده پر گردد جهان‌‌
  • One army from the wombs to the Earth, that the world may be filled with male and female;

  • لشکری از خاک ز آن سوی اجل ** تا ببیند هر کسی حسن عمل‌‌ 3075
  • One army from the Earth (to what is) beyond death, that every one may behold the beauty of (good) works.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد هین بتاز ** سوی آن دو یار پاک پاک باز
  • This discourse hath no end. Come, hasten (back) to those two sincere and devoted friends.

  • صفت توحید
  • Description of Unification.

  • گفت یارش کاندر آ ای جمله من ** نی مخالف چون گل و خار چمن‌‌
  • His friend said to him, “Come in, O thou who art entirely myself, not different like the rose and thorn in the garden.”

  • رشته یکتا شد غلط کم شد کنون ** گر دو تا بینی حروف کاف و نون‌‌
  • The thread has become single. Do not now fall into error if thou seest that the letters K and N are two.’

  • کاف و نون همچون کمند آمد جذوب ** تا کشاند مر عدم را در خطوب‌‌
  • K and N are pulling like a noose, that they may draw non-existence into great affairs.

  • پس دو تا باید کمند اندر صور ** گر چه یکتا باشد آن دو در اثر 3080
  • Hence the noose must be double in (the world of) forms, though those two (letters) are single in effect.

  • گر دو پا گر چار پا ره را برد ** همچو مقراض دو تا یکتا برد
  • Whether the feet be two or four, they traverse the road, like the double shears (which) makes (but) one cut.

  • آن دو همبازان گازر را ببین ** هست در ظاهر خلافی ز آن و ز این‌‌
  • Look at those two fellow-washermen: there is apparently a difference between that one and this:

  • آن یکی کرباس را در آب زد ** و آن دگر همباز خشکش می‌‌کند
  • The one has thrown the cotton garments into the water, while the other partner is drying them.

  • باز او آن خشک را تر می‌‌کند ** گوییا ز استیزه ضد بر می‌‌تند
  • Again the former makes the dry clothes wet: ’tis as though he were spitefully thwarting his opposite;

  • لیک این دو ضد استیزه نما ** یکدل و یک کار باشد در رضا 3085
  • Yet these two opposites, who seem to be at strife, are of one mind and acting together in agreement.

  • هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است ** لیک تا حق می‌‌برد جمله یکی است‌‌
  • Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice), but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.

  • چون که جمع مستمع را خواب برد ** سنگهای آسیا را آب برد
  • When slumber (heedlessness) overtook the concentration (attention) of the listener, the water carried the millstones away.

  • رفتن این آب فوق آسیاست ** رفتنش در آسیا بهر شماست‌‌
  • The course of this water is above the mill: its going into the mill is for your sakes.

  • چون شما را حاجت طاحون نماند ** آب را در جوی اصلی باز راند
  • Since ye had no further need of the mill, he (the prophet or saint) made the water flow back into the original stream.

  • ناطقه سوی دهان تعلیم راست ** ور نه خود آن نطق را جویی جداست‌‌ 3090
  • The rational spirit (the Logos) is (coming) to the mouth for the purpose of teaching: else (it would not come, for) truly that speech hath a channel apart:

  • می‌‌رود بی‌‌بانگ و بی‌‌تکرارها ** تحتها الأنهار تا گلزارها
  • It is moving without noise and without repetitions (of sound) to the rose-gardens beneath which are the rivers.

  • ای خدا جان را تو بنما آن مقام ** کاندر او بی‌‌حرف می‌‌روید کلام‌‌
  • O God, do Thou reveal to the soul that place where speech is growing without letters,

  • تا که سازد جان پاک از سر قدم ** سوی عرصه‌‌ی دور پهنای عدم‌‌
  • That the pure soul may make of its head a foot (fly headlong) towards the far stretching expanse of non-existence—

  • عرصه‌‌ای بس با گشاد و با فضا ** وین خیال و هست یابد زو نوا
  • An expanse very ample and spacious; and from it this phantasy and being (of ours) is fed.

  • تنگتر آمد خیالات از عدم ** ز آن سبب باشد خیال اسباب غم‌‌ 3095
  • (The realm of) phantasies is narrower than non-existence (potential existence): on that account phantasy is the cause of pain.

  • باز هستی تنگتر بود از خیال ** ز آن شود در وی قمر همچون هلال‌‌
  • (The realm of actual) existence, again, was (ever) narrower than (the realm of) phantasy: hence in it the moon becomes like the moon that has waned

  • باز هستی جهان حس و رنگ ** تنگتر آمد که زندانی است تنگ‌‌
  • Again, the existence of the world of sense and colour is narrower (than this), for ’tis a narrow prison.

  • علت تنگی است ترکیب و عدد ** جانب ترکیب حسها می‌‌کشد
  • The cause of narrowness is composition (compoundness) and number (plurality): the senses are moving towards composition.

  • ز آن سوی حس عالم توحید دان ** گر یکی خواهی بدان جانب بران‌‌
  • Know that the world of Unification lies beyond sense: if you want Unity, march in that direction.

  • امر کن یک فعل بود و نون و کاف ** در سخن افتاد و معنی بود صاف‌‌ 3100
  • The (Divine) Command KuN (Be) was a single act, and the (two letters) N and K occurred (only) in speech, while the (inward) meaning was pure (uncompounded).

  • این سخن پایان ندارد باز گرد ** تا چه شد احوال گرگ اندر نبرد
  • This discourse hath no end. Return, that (we may see) what happened to the wolf in combat (with the lion).

  • ادب کردن شیر گرگ را که در قسمت بی‌‌ادبی کرده بود
  • How the lion punished the wolf who had shown disrespect in dividing (the prey).

  • گرگ را بر کند سر آن سر فراز ** تا نماند دو سری‌‌و امتیاز
  • That haughty one tore off the head of the wolf, in order that two-headedness (dualism) and distinction might not remain (in being).

  • فانتقمنا منهم است ای گرگ پیر ** چون نبودی مرده در پیش امیر
  • ’Tis (the meaning of) So we took vengeance on them, O old wolf, inasmuch as thou wert not dead in the presence of the Amír.

  • بعد از آن رو شیر با روباه کرد ** گفت این را بخش کن از بهر خورد
  • After that, the lion turned to the fox and said, “Divide this for eating.”

  • سجده کرد و گفت کاین گاو سمین ** چاشت خوردت باشد ای شاه گزین‌‌ 3105
  • He bowed low and said, “This fat ox will be thy food at breakfast, O excellent King,

  • و آن بز از بهر میان روز را ** یخنیی باشد شه پیروز را
  • And that goat will be a portion reserved for the victorious King at midday,

  • و آن دگر خرگوش بهر شام هم ** شب چره‌‌ی این شاه با لطف و کرم‌‌
  • And the hare too for supper—(to be) the repast at nightfall of the gracious and bountiful King.”

  • گفت ای روبه تو عدل افروختی ** این چنین قسمت ز کی آموختی‌‌
  • Said the lion, “O fox, thou hast made justice shine forth: from whom didst thou learn to divide in such a manner?