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  • پس اگر گویی بدانم دور نیست ** ور ندانم گفت کذب و زور نیست
  • Therefore, if you say “I know,” ’tis not far (from the truth); and if you say, “I do not know,” ’tis not a lie and a falsehood.

  • گر کسی گوید که دانی نوح را ** آن رسول حق و نور روح را
  • If some one say (to you), “Do you know Noah, the Messenger of God and the Light of the spirit?”—

  • گر بگویی چون ندانم کان قمر ** هست از خورشید و مه مشهورتر
  • And if you reply, “How should not I know (him)? for that (spiritual) Moon is more celebrated than the sun and moon:

  • کودکان خرد در کتابها ** و آن امامان جمله در محرابها
  • The little children at school and all the Imáms in the mosques

  • نام او خوانند در قرآن صریح ** قصه‌اش گویند از ماضی فصیح 3645
  • Recite his name distinctly in the Qur’án and tell plainly his story (as it has come down) from the past”—

  • راست‌گو دانیش تو از روی وصف ** گرچه ماهیت نشد از نوح کشف
  • You, veracious man, know him by way of description, though the quiddity of Noah has not been revealed (to you).

  • ور بگویی من چه دانم نوح را ** همچو اویی داند او را ای فتی
  • And if you reply, “How should I know Noah? (Only) one like him can know him, O youth.

  • مور لنگم من چه دانم فیل را ** پشه‌ای کی داند اسرافیل را
  • I am a lame ant. How should I know the elephant? How should a gnat know Isráfíl?”—

  • این سخن هم راستست از روی آن ** که بماهیت ندانیش ای فلان
  • This saying (answer) is also true in regard to the fact that you do not know him in his quiddity, O so-and-so.

  • عجز از ادراک ماهیت عمو ** حالت عامه بود مطلق مگو 3650
  • To be unable to perceive the quiddity, uncle, is the condition of common men: do not say it absolutely,

  • زانک ماهیات و سر سر آن ** پیش چشم کاملان باشد عیان
  • Inasmuch as quiddities and their inmost secret are clearly visible to the eyes of the Perfect.

  • در وجود از سر حق و ذات او ** دورتر از فهم و استبصار کو
  • Where in existence is (anything) more remote from understanding and mental perception than the consciousness and essence of God?

  • چونک آن مخفی نماند از محرمان ** ذات و وصفی چیست کان ماند نهان
  • Since that does not remain hidden from (His) familiars, what is the essence and attribute that should remain concealed?

  • عقل بحثی گوید این دورست و گو ** بی ز تاویل محالی کم شنو
  • The intellect of the scholastic theologian says, “This is far (from reasonable) and deeply involved (in error): do not listen to an absurdity without some explanation.”

  • قطب گوید مر ترا ای سست‌حال ** آنچ فوق حال تست آید محال 3655
  • The Qutb (the Head of the Saints) replies, “To thee, O infirm one, that which is above thy (spiritual) state seems absurd.”

  • واقعاتی که کنونت بر گشود ** نه که اول هم محالت می‌نمود
  • The visions which are now revealed to you, is it not the case that at first they seemed absurd to you?

  • چون رهانیدت ز ده زندان کرم ** تیه را بر خود مکن حبس ستم
  • Inasmuch as the (Divine) Bounty has released you from ten prisons, do not make the (wide) desert an oppressive prison to yourself.

  • جمع و توفیق میان نفی و اثبات یک چیز از روی نسبت و اختلاف جهت
  • How the negation and affirmation of one (and the same) thing may be combined and reconciled from the standpoint of relativity and difference of aspect.

  • نفی آن یک چیز و اثباتش رواست ** چون جهت شد مختلف نسبت دوتاست
  • It is possible to deny and affirm the same thing: when the point of view is different, the relation is twofold.

  • ما رمیت اذ رمیت از نسبتست ** نفی و اثباتست و هر دو مثبتست
  • (The text) thou didst not throw when thou threwest is relative: it is negation and affirmation: both are authorised.

  • آن تو افکندی چو بر دست تو بود ** تو نه افکندی که قوت حق نمود 3660
  • Thou threwest that (gravel), since it was on thy hand; thou didst not throw, for God manifested (His) power.

  • زور آدم‌زاد را حدی بود ** مشت خاک اشکست لشکر کی شود
  • The strength of one born of Adam has a limit: how should a handful of earth become (the cause of) the rout of an army?

  • مشت مشت تست و افکندن ز ماست ** زین دو نسبت نفی و اثباتش رواست
  • “(O Mohammed), the handful is thy handful, and the throwing is from Me”: on account of these two relations (both) the denial and the affirmation of it (the throwing) are right.

  • یعرفون الانبیا اضدادهم ** مثل ما لا یشتبه اولادهم
  • The prophets are known by their enemies, just as their (the enemies') children are not doubtful (to their parents).

  • همچو فرزندان خود دانندشان ** منکران با صد دلیل و صد نشان
  • The unbelievers know them (the prophets) as (they know) their children by a hundred indications and a hundred signs,

  • لیک از رشک و حسد پنهان کنند ** خویشتن را بر ندانم می‌زنند 3665
  • But, from jealousy and envy, they conceal (their knowledge) and attach themselves to (become addicted to saying) “I do not know.”

  • پس چو یعرف گفت چون جای دگر ** گفت لایعرفهم غیری فذر
  • Then, since He (God) hath said, “He (the unbeliever) knows,” how hath He said in another place?—“None knoweth them except Me, so leave off (seeking to know them);

  • انهم تحت قبابی کامنون ** جز که یزدانشان نداند ز آزمون
  • Verily, they are hidden beneath My tents.” None knows them by (immediate) experience except God.

  • هم بنسبت گیر این مفتوح را ** که بدانی و ندانی نوح را
  • Regard also as (explicable) by means of relation this (subject) which was opened (above), (namely) that you know and do not know Noah.

  • مسله‌ی فنا و بقای درویش
  • The question of the faná and baqá of the dervish.

  • گفت قایل در جهان درویش نیست ** ور بود درویش آن درویش نیست
  • The speaker said, “There is no dervish in the world; and if there be a dervish, that dervish is (really) non-existent.”

  • هست از روی بقای ذات او ** نیست گشته وصف او در وصف هو 3670
  • He exists in respect of the survival of his essence, (but) his attributes have become non-existent in the attributes of Him (God).

  • چون زبانه‌ی شمع پیش آفتاب ** نیست باشد هست باشد در حساب
  • Like the flame of a candle in the presence of the sun, he is (really) non-existent, (though he is) existent in (formal) calculation.

  • هست باشد ذات او تا تو اگر ** بر نهی پنبه بسوزد زان شرر
  • Its (the flame's) essence is existent, so that, if you put cotton upon it, it (the cotton) will be consumed by the sparks;

  • نیست باشد روشنی ندهد ترا ** کرده باشد آفتاب او را فنا
  • (But) it is (really) non-existent: it gives you no light: the sun will have naughted it.

  • در دو صد من شهد یک اوقیه خل ** چون در افکندی و در وی گشت حل
  • When you have thrown an ounce of vinegar into two hundred maunds of sugar, and it has become dissolved therein,

  • نیست باشد طعم خل چون می‌چشی ** هست اوقیه فزون چون برکشی 3675
  • The flavour of the vinegar, when you taste (the sugar), is non-existent, (though) the ounce exists (as a) surplus when you weigh.

  • پیش شیری آهوی بیهوش شد ** هستی‌اش در هست او روپوش شد
  • In the presence of a lion a deer becomes senseless: her existence becomes a (mere) veil for his existence.

  • این قیاس ناقصان بر کار رب ** جوشش عشقست نه از ترک ادب
  • These analogies drawn by imperfect men concerning the action of the Lord are (like) the emotion of love, (they are) not from irreverence.

  • نبض عاشق بی ادب بر می‌جهد ** خویش را در کفه‌ی شه می‌نهد
  • The lover's pulse bounds up without reverence, he lays himself on the scale of the King's balance.

  • بی‌ادب‌تر نیست کس زو در جهان ** با ادب‌تر نیست کس زو در نهان
  • None is more irreverent than he in the world (outwardly); none is more reverent than he in secret (inwardly).

  • هم بنسبت دان وفاق ای منتجب ** این دو ضد با ادب با بی‌ادب 3680
  • Know, O chosen one, that these two opposites also, “reverent” and “irreverent,” are reconciled by means of relation.

  • بی‌ادب باشد چو ظاهر بنگری ** که بود دعوی عشقش هم‌سری
  • He (the lover) is irreverent when you regard the outward aspect, for his claim of love is (involves) equality (with the Beloved);

  • چون به باطن بنگری دعوی کجاست ** او و دعوی پیش آن سلطان فناست
  • (But) when you regard the inward aspect, where is the claim? He and (his) claim are naughted in the presence of that Sultan.

  • مات زید زید اگر فاعل بود ** لیک فاعل نیست کو عاطل بود
  • Máta Zaydun (Zayd died): if Zayd is the agent (grammatical subject), (yet) he is not the agent, for he is defunct.

  • او ز روی لفظ نحوی فاعلست ** ورنه او مفعول و موتش قاتلست
  • He is the agent (only) in respect of the grammatical expression; otherwise, he is the one acted upon (the object of the action), and Death is his slayer.

  • فاعل چه کو چنان مقهور شد ** فاعلیها جمله از وی دور شد 3685
  • What agent (is he), since he has been so overpowered and all the qualities of an agent have been removed from him?

  • قصه وکیل صدر جهان کی متهم شد و از بخارا گریخت از بیم جان باز عشقش کشید رو کشان کی کار جان سهل باشد عاشقان را
  • Story of the Sadr-i Jahán's Wakíl (minister), who fell under suspicion and fled from Bukhárá in fear of his life; then love drew him back irresistibly, for the matter of life is of small account to lovers.

  • در بخارا بنده‌ی صدر جهان ** متهم شد گشت از صدرش نهان
  • In Bukhárá the servant of the Sadr-i Jahán incurred suspicion and hid from his Sadr (prince).

  • مدت ده سال سرگردان بگشت ** گه خراسان گه کهستان گاه دشت
  • During ten years he roamed distractedly, now in Khurásán, now in the mountain-land, now in the desert.

  • از پس ده سال او از اشتیاق ** گشت بی‌طاقت ز ایام فراق
  • After ten years, through longing he became unable to endure the days of separation (from his beloved).

  • گفت تاب فرقتم زین پس نماند ** صبر کی داند خلاعت را نشاند
  • He said, “Henceforth I cannot bear to be parted (from him) any more: how can patience allay (the lover's) state of abandonment?”

  • از فراق این خاکها شوره بود ** آب زرد و گنده و تیره شود 3690
  • From separation these soils are nitrous (barren), and water becomes yellow and stinking and dark;