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  • از سیاهی و سپیدی فارغست ** نور ماهش بر دل و جان بازغست
  • It is free from blackness and whiteness: the light of its moon rises (and shines) upon heart and soul.

  • این سیاه و این سپید ار قدر یافت ** زان شب قدرست کاختروار تافت
  • If this black and white’ has gotten (any) power (value), ‘tis from the Night of Power that shone forth like a star.

  • قیمت همیان و کیسه از زرست ** بی ز زر همیان و کیسه ابترست
  • The value of scrip and purse is (derived) from the gold: with out the gold, scrip and purse are docked

  • همچنانک قدر تن از جان بود ** قدر جان از پرتو جانان بود 2535
  • Even as the worth of the body is (derived) from the soul, (so) the worth of the soul is (derived) from the radiance of the Soul of souls.

  • گر بدی جان زنده بی پرتو کنون ** هیچ گفتی کافران را میتون
  • If the soul were now alive without (that) radiance, would He (God) ever have called the infidels “dead”

  • هین بگو که ناطقه جو می‌کند ** تا به قرنی بعد ما آبی رسد
  • Come, speak (O my soul)! for the Logos is digging a channel to the end that some water may reach a generation after us.

  • گرچه هر قرنی سخن‌آری بود ** لیک گفت سالفان یاری بود
  • Although (in) every generation there is one who brings the word (of God), yet the sayings of them that have gone before are helpful

  • نه که هم توریت و انجیل و زبور ** شد گواه صدق قرآن ای شکور
  • Is it not (the case) that the Pentateuch and the Gospel and the Psalms have borne witness to the truth of theQur’an, O thankful one?

  • روزی بی‌رنج جو و بی‌حساب ** کز بهشتت آورد جبریل سیب 2540
  • Seek a (spiritual) livelihood (won) without toil and without reckoning, so that Gabriel may bring you apples from Paradise;

  • بلک رزقی از خداوند بهشت ** بی‌صداع باغبان بی رنج کشت
  • Nay, (that there may come to you) a livelihood from the Lord of Paradise, without headache (trouble) on the part of the gardener and without the toil of sowing.

  • زانک نفع نان در آن نان داد اوست ** بدهدت آن نفع بی توسیط پوست
  • Inasmuch as in that (spiritual) bread the benefit of (conferred by) the bread is His (God’s) gift, He gives you that benefit (directly), without making the husk a means (of imparting it to you).

  • ذوق پنهان نقش نان چون سفره‌ایست ** نان بی سفره ولی را بهره‌ایست
  • The savour is hidden; the outward form of the bread is (visible) like a table-cloth: the bread that is without table-cloth is a portion (reserved) for the saint.

  • رزق جانی کی بری با سعی و جست ** جز به عدل شیخ کو داود تست
  • How will you, notwithstanding (all your) endeavour and search, gain the spiritual livelihood except through ‘the justice of the Shaykh who is your David?

  • نفس چون با شیخ بیند کام تو ** از بن دندان شود او رام تو 2545
  • ‘When the fleshly soul sees your steps (joined) with (those of) the Shaykh, willy-nilly it becomes submissive to you.

  • صاحب آن گاو رام آنگاه شد ** کز دم داود او آگاه شد
  • Then (and then only) did the owner of the cow become sub missive, when he was made aware of the (inspired) words of David.

  • عقل گاهی غالب آید در شکار ** برسگ نفست که باشد شیخ یار
  • The intellect, in chase (of spiritual truth), prevails over your currish fleshly soul (only) at the time when the Shaykh is its helper.

  • نفس اژدرهاست با صد زور و فن ** روی شیخ او را زمرد دیده کن
  • The fleshly soul is a dragon with hundredfold strength and cunning: the face of the Shaykh is the emerald that plucks out its eye

  • گر تو صاحب گاو را خواهی زبون ** چون خران سیخش کن آن سو ای حرون
  • If you wish the owner of the cows to be abased, goad him in that direction as (you would goad) asses, O contumacious man!

  • چون به نزدیک ولی الله شود ** آن زبان صد گزش کوته شود 2550
  • When he approaches him (the saint) who is nigh unto God, his tongue, a hundred ells long, is shortened.

  • صد زبان و هر زبانش صد لغت ** زرق و دستانش نیاید در صفت
  • (He hath) a hundred tongues, and each tongue of him (hath) a hundred languages: his fraud and guile come not into (the bounds of) description.

  • مدعی گاو نفس آمد فصیح ** صد هزاران حجت آرد ناصحیح
  • The claimant for the cow, the fleshly soul, is eloquent and brings forward hundreds of thousands of unsound pleas.

  • شهر را بفریبد الا شاه را ** ره نتاند زد شه آگاه را
  • He deceives (all in) the city except the king: he cannot waylay the sagacious king.

  • نفس را تسبیح و مصحف در یمین ** خنجر و شمشیر اندر آستین
  • The fleshly soul hath glorification of God (on its tongue), and the Qur’án in its right hand; (but) in its sleeve (it hath) dagger and sword.

  • مصحف و سالوس او باور مکن ** خویش با او هم‌سر و هم‌سر مکن 2555
  • Do not believe its Qur’án and hypocritical ostentation, do not make yourself its confidant and comrade;

  • سوی حوضت آورد بهر وضو ** واندر اندازد ترا در قعر او
  • (For) it will take you to the tank to perform the ritual ablution, and will cast you to the bottom thereof.

  • عقل نورانی و نیکو طالبست ** نفس ظلمانی برو چون غالبست
  • The intellect is luminous and a seeker of good: how (then) does the dark fleshly soul prevail over it?

  • زانک او در خانه عقل تو غریب ** بر در خود سگ بود شیر مهیب
  • (It prevails) because it is at home, (while) your intellect is a stranger: the dog at his own door is (like) a terrible lion.

  • باش تا شیران سوی بیشه روند ** وین سگان کور آنجا بگروند
  • Wait till the lions go (back) to the jungle and these blind dogs’ will believe (in them) there.

  • مکر نفس و تن نداند عام شهر ** او نگردد جز بوحی القلب قهر 2560
  • The common folk of the city do not know the deceit of the fleshly soul and of the body: it (the fleshly soul) is not subdued save by (Divine) inspiration in the heart.

  • هر که جنس اوست یار او شود ** جز مگر داود کان شیخت بود
  • Every one that is its congener becomes its friend, except, to be sure, the David who is your Shaykh;

  • کو مبدل گشت و جنس تن نماند ** هر که را حق در مقام دل نشاند
  • For he has been transmuted, and whomsoever God hath seated in the abode of the heart, he( that person) is no more the body’s congener.

  • خلق جمله علتی‌اند از کمین ** یار علت می‌شود علت یقین
  • All the (other) people are (rendered) infirm by (that which lies in) ambush (within them): ‘tis certain that infirmity associates with infirmity.

  • هر خسی دعوی داودی کند ** هر که بی تمییز کف در وی زند
  • Every worthless fellow pretends to be (a) David; every one who lacks discernment lays hold of him (attaches himself to him):

  • از صیادی بشنود آواز طیر ** مرغ ابله می‌کند آن سوی سیر 2565
  • He hears the bird’s note from a fowler and, (like a) foolish bird, he keeps going in that direction.

  • نقد را از نقل نشناسد غویست ** هین ازو بگریز اگر چه معنویست
  • ‘He dos not distinguish fact from fiction: he is misguided. Come, flee from him, even if he is spiritual (in appearance).

  • رسته و بر بسته پیش او یکیست ** گر یقین دعوی کند او در شکیست
  • What has grown (genuinely) and what has been tied on (artificially) is (all) one to him: though he may claim (to possess) intuitive certainty, he is (really) in a (great) doubt.

  • این چنین کس گر ذکی مطلقست ** چونش این تمییز نبود احمقست
  • If such a one is absolutely keen-witted, (still), when he has not this (power of) discernment, he is a fool.

  • هین ازو بگریز چون آهو ز شیر ** سوی او مشتاق ای دانا دلیر
  • Hark, flee from him as the deer from the lion: do not hasten boldly towards him, O wise man!

  • گریختن عیسی علیه السلام فراز کوه از احمقان
  • How Jesus, on whom be peace, fled to the top of a mountain (to escape) from the fools.

  • عیسی مریم به کوهی می‌گریخت ** شیرگویی خون او می‌خواست ریخت 2570
  • Jesus, son of Mary, was fleeing to a mountain: you would say that a lion wished to shed his blood.

  • آن یکی در پی دوید و گفت خیر ** در پیت کس نیست چه گریزی چو طیر
  • A certain man ran after him and said, “(Is it) well (with thee)? There is no one in pursuit of thee: why dost thou flee, like a bird?”

  • با شتاب او آنچنان می‌تاخت جفت ** کز شتاب خود جواب او نگفت
  • (But) he (Jesus) still kept running with haste so (quickly) that on account of his haste he did not answer him.

  • یک دو میدان در پی عیسی براند ** پس بجد جد عیسی را بخواند
  • He pushed on in pursuit of Jesus for the distance of one or two fields, and then invoked Jesus with the utmost earnestness,

  • کز پی مرضات حق یک لحظه بیست ** که مرا اندر گریزت مشکلیست
  • Saying, “For the sake of pleasing God, stop one moment, for I have a difficulty concerning thy flight.

  • از کی این سو می‌گریزی ای کریم ** نه پیت شیر و نه خصم و خوف و بیم 2575
  • From whom art thou fleeing in this direction, O noble one? There is no lion pursuing thee, no enemy, and there is no fear or danger.”

  • گفت از احمق گریزانم برو ** می‌رهانم خویش را بندم مشو
  • He said, “I am fleeing from the fool. Begone! I am saving myself. Do not debar me!”

  • گفت آخر آن مسیحا نه توی ** که شود کور و کر از تو مستوی
  • “Why,” said he, “art not thou the Messiah by whom the blind and the deaf are restored (to sight and hearing)?”

  • گفت آری گفت آن شه نیستی ** که فسون غیب را ماویستی
  • He said, “Yea.” Said the other, “Art not thou the King in whom the spells of the Unseen World have their abode?—

  • چون بخوانی آن فسون بر مرده‌ای ** برجهد چون شیر صید آورده‌ای
  • (So that) when thou chantest those spells over a dead man, he springs up (rejoicing) like a lion that has caught his prey.”

  • گفت آری آن منم گفتا که تو ** نه ز گل مرغان کنی ای خوب‌رو 2580
  • He said, “Yea, I am he.” Said the other, “Dost not thou make (living) birds out of clay, O beauteous one?”

  • گفت آری گفت پس ای روح پاک ** هرچه خواهی می‌کنی از کیست باک
  • He said, “Yea.” Said the other, “Then, O pure Spirit, thou doest whatsoever thou wilt: of whom hast thou fear?