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  • ای برادر بر تو حکمت جاریه ست ** آن ز ابدال است و بر تو عاریه ست‌‌ 3255
  • O brother, Wisdom is flowing in upon you: it comes from the Abdál, and in you it is (only) a borrowed thing.

  • گر چه در خود خانه نوری یافته ست ** آن ز همسایه‌‌ی منور تافته ست‌‌
  • Although the house (your heart) has found a light within it, that (light) has shone forth from an illumined neighbour.

  • شکر کن غره مشو بینی مکن ** گوش دار و هیچ خود بینی مکن‌‌
  • Render thanks, be not beguiled by vanity, do not turn up your nose (in disdain), hearken attentively, and do not show any self-conceit.

  • صد دریغ و درد کاین عاریتی ** امتان را دور کرد از امتی‌‌
  • ’Tis a hundred pities and griefs that this borrowed (unreal) state (of self-assertion) has put the religious communities far from religious communion.

  • من غلام آن که او در هر رباط ** خویش را واصل نداند بر سماط
  • I am the (devoted) slave of him who does not regard himself in every caravanseray (at every stage in his spiritual progress) as having attained to (the privilege of sitting at) the table (of union with God).

  • بس رباطی که بباید ترک کرد ** تا به مسکن در رسد یک روز مرد 3260
  • Many is the caravanseray that must be quitted, in order that one day the man may reach home.

  • گر چه آهن سرخ شد او سرخ نیست ** پرتو عاریت آتش زنی است‌‌
  • Though the iron has become red, it is not red (by nature): it (the redness) is a ray borrowed from something that strikes fire.

  • گر شود پر نور روزن یا سرا ** تو مدان روشن مگر خورشید را
  • If the window or the house is full of light, do not deem aught luminous except the sun.

  • هر در و دیوار گوید روشنم ** پرتو غیری ندارم این منم‌‌
  • Every door and wall says, “I am luminous: I do not hold the rays of another, I (myself) am this (light).”

  • پس بگوید آفتاب ای نارشید ** چون که من غارب شوم آید پدید
  • Then the sun says, “O thou who art not right (in thy belief), when I set ’twill become evident (thou wilt see what the truth is).”

  • سبزه‌‌ها گویند ما سبز از خودیم ** شاد و خندانیم و بس زیبا خدیم‌‌ 3265
  • The plants say, “We are green of ourselves, we are gay and smiling (blooming) and we have very beauteous cheeks.”

  • فصل تابستان بگوید ای امم ** خویش را بینید چون من بگذرم‌‌
  • The season of summer says (to them), “O peoples, behold yourselves when I depart!”

  • تن همی‌‌نازد به خوبی و جمال ** روح پنهان کرده فر و پر و بال‌‌
  • The body is boasting of its beauty and comeliness, (while) the spirit, having concealed its glory and pinions and plumes,

  • گویدش ای مزبله تو کیستی ** یک دو روز از پرتو من زیستی‌‌
  • Says to it, “O dunghill, who art thou? Through my beams thou hast come to life for a day or two.

  • غنج و نازت می‌‌نگنجد در جهان ** باش تا که من شوم از تو جهان‌‌
  • Thy coquetry and prideful airs are not contained in the world (go beyond all bounds), (but) wait till I spring up (and escape) from thee!

  • گرم‌‌دارانت ترا گوری کنند ** طعمه‌‌ی موران و مارانت کنند 3270
  • They whose love warmed thee will dig a grave for thee, they will make thee a morsel for ants and reptiles.

  • بینی از گند تو گیرد آن کسی ** کاو به پیش تو همی‌‌مردی بسی‌‌
  • That one who many a time in thy presence was dying (with desire for thee) will hold his nose at thy stench.”

  • پرتو روح است نطق و چشم و گوش ** پرتو آتش بود در آب جوش‌‌
  • The beams of the spirit are speech and eye and ear: the beam (effect) of fire is the bubbling in the water.

  • آن چنان که پرتو جان بر تن است ** پرتو ابدال بر جان من است‌‌
  • As the beam of the spirit falls on the body, so fall the beams of the Abdál on my soul.

  • جان جان چون واکشد پا را ز جان ** جان چنان گردد که بی‌‌جان تن بدان‌‌
  • When the Soul of the soul withdraws from the soul, the soul becomes even as the soulless (lifeless) body. Know (this for sure)!

  • سر از آن رو می‌‌نهم من بر زمین ** تا گواه من بود در روز دین‌‌ 3275
  • For that reason I am laying my head (humbly) on the earth, so that she (the earth) may be my witness on the Day of Judgement.

  • یوم دین که زلزلت زلزالها ** این زمین باشد گواه حالها
  • On the Day of Judgement, when she shall be made to quake mightily, this earth will bear witness to all that passed (in and from us);

  • کاو تحدث جهرة أخبارها ** در سخن آید زمین و خاره‌‌ها
  • For she will plainly declare what she knows: earth and rocks will begin to speak.

  • فلسفی منکر شود در فکر و ظن ** گو برو سر را بر آن دیوار زن‌‌
  • The philosopher, in his (vain) thought and opinion, becomes disbelieving: bid him go and dash his head against that wall!

  • نطق آب و نطق خاک و نطق گل ** هست محسوس حواس اهل دل‌‌
  • The speech of water, the speech of earth, and the speech of mud are apprehended by the senses of them that have hearts (the mystics).

  • فلسفی کاو منکر حنانه است ** از حواس اولیا بیگانه است‌‌ 3280
  • The philosopher who disbelieves in the moaning pillar is a stranger to the senses of the saints.

  • گوید او که پرتو سودای خلق ** بس خیالات آورد در رای خلق‌‌
  • He says that the beam (influence) of melancholia brings many phantasies into people's minds.

  • بلکه عکس آن فساد و کفر او ** این خیال منکری را زد بر او
  • Nay, but the reflexion of his wickedness and infidelity cast this idle fancy of scepticism upon him.

  • فلسفی مر دیو را منکر شود ** در همان دم سخره‌‌ی دیوی بود
  • The philosopher comes to deny the existence of the Devil, and at the same time he is possessed by a devil.

  • گر ندیدی دیو را خود را ببین ** بی‌‌جنون نبود کبودی بر جبین‌‌
  • If thou hast not seen the Devil, behold thyself: without diabolic possession there is no blueness in the forehead.

  • هر که را در دل شک و پیچانی است ** در جهان او فلسفی پنهانی است‌‌ 3285
  • Whosoever hath doubt and perplexity in his heart, he in this world is a secret philosopher.

  • می‌‌نماید اعتقاد و گاه گاه ** آن رگ فلسف کند رویش سیاه‌‌
  • He is professing firm belief, but some time or other that philosophical vein will blacken his face (bring him to shame).

  • الحذر ای مومنان کان در شماست ** در شما بس عالم بی‌‌منتهاست‌‌
  • Take care, O ye Faithful! for that (vein) is in you: in you is many an infinite world.

  • جمله هفتاد و دو ملت در تو است ** وه که روزی آن بر آرد از تو دست‌‌
  • In thee are all the two-and-seventy sects: woe (to thee) if one day they gain the upper hand over thee.

  • هر که او را برگ آن ایمان بود ** همچو برگ از بیم این لرزان بود
  • From fear of this, every one who has the fortune (barg) of (holding) that Faith (Islam) is trembling like a leaf (barg).

  • بر بلیس و دیو از آن خندیده‌‌ای ** که تو خود را نیک مردم دیده‌‌ای‌‌ 3290
  • Thou hast laughed at Iblís and the devils because thou hast regarded thyself as a good man.

  • چون کند جان باژگونه پوستین ** چند واویلا بر آید اهل دین
  • When the soul shall turn its coat inside out (and be revealed as it really is), how many a “Woe is me” will arise from the followers of the (Mohammedan) Religion!

  • بر دکان هر زرنما خندان شده ست ** ز آنکه سنگ امتحان پنهان شده ست‌‌
  • On the counter (of the shop) everything (every gilded coin) that looks like gold is smiling, because the touchstone is out of sight.

  • پرده ای ستار از ما بر مگیر ** باش اندر امتحان ما مجیر
  • O Coverer (of faults), do not lift up the veil from us, be a protector to us in our test (on the Day of Judgement).

  • قلب پهلو می‌‌زند با زر به شب ** انتظار روز می‌‌دارد ذهب‌‌
  • At night the false coin jostles (in rivalry) with the gold: the gold is waiting for day.

  • با زبان حال زر گوید که باش ** ای مزور تا بر آید روز فاش‌‌ 3295
  • With the tongue of its (inward) state the gold says, “Wait, O tinselled one, till day rises clear.”

  • صد هزاران سال ابلیس لعین ** بود ز ابدال و امیر المؤمنین‌‌
  • Hundreds of thousands of years the accursed Iblís was a saint and the prince of true believers;

  • پنجه زد با آدم از نازی که داشت ** گشت رسوا همچو سرگین وقت چاشت‌‌
  • On account of the pride which he had, he grappled with Adam and was put to shame, like dung at morning tide.

  • دعا کردن بلعم باعور که موسی و قومش را از این شهر که حصار داده‌‌اند بی‌‌مراد باز گردان‌‌
  • How Bal‘am son of Bá‘úr prayed (to God), saying, “Cause Moses and his people to turn back, without having gained their desire, from this city which they have besieged and how his prayer was granted.”

  • بلعم باعور را خلق جهان ** سغبه شد مانند عیسای زمان‌‌
  • To Bal‘am son of Bá‘úr the people of the world became subject, (for he was) like unto the Jesus of the time.

  • سجده ناوردند کس را دون او ** صحت رنجور بود افسون او
  • They bowed (worshipfully) to none but him: his spell was (giving) health to the sick.

  • پنجه زد با موسی از کبر و کمال ** آن چنان شد که شنیده ستی تو حال‌‌ 3300
  • From pride and (conceit of) perfection he grappled with Moses: his plight became such as thou hast heard.

  • صد هزار ابلیس و بلعم در جهان ** همچنین بوده ست پیدا و نهان‌‌
  • Even so there have been in the world, manifest or hidden, a hundred thousand like Iblís and Bal‘am.

  • این دو را مشهور گردانید اله ** تا که باشد این دو بر باقی گواه‌‌
  • God caused these twain to be notorious, that these twain might bear witness against the rest.

  • این دو دزد آویخت از دار بلند ** ور نه اندر قهر بس دزدان بدند
  • These two thieves He hanged on a high gallows (to be a warning to all); else there were many (other) thieves in (the pale of) His vengeance.

  • این دو را پرچم به سوی شهر برد ** کشتگان قهر را نتوان شمرد
  • These twain He dragged by their forelocks to the city (for slaughter); (but) ’tis impossible to number (all) the victims of His wrath.