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1625-1674

  • بانگ اشکوفه‌ش که اینک گل‌فروش ** بانگ خار او که سوی ما مکوش 1625
  • The cry of its (the World's) blossom is, “Here is the flower-seller!” The cry of its thorn is, “Do not strive (to advance) towards me.”

  • این پذیرفتی بماندی زان دگر ** که محب از ضد محبوبست کر
  • (If) thou hast accepted (responded to) this (alluring cry), thou art left (unmoved) by the other, for a lover is deaf to the contrary of the object loved (by him).

  • آن یکی بانگ این که اینک حاضرم ** بانگ دیگر بنگر اندر آخرم
  • The one cry is this, “Here am I, ready”; the other cry is, “Look upon my latter end.

  • حاضری‌ام هست چون مکر و کمین ** نقش آخر ز آینه‌ی اول ببین
  • My readiness is like guile and ambush: behold the image of the end in the mirror of the beginning.”

  • چون یکی زین دو جوال اندر شدی ** آن دگر را ضد و نا درخور شدی
  • When thou hast gone into one of these two sacks, thou hast become contrary and unsuitable to the other.

  • ای خنک آنکو ز اول آن شنید ** کش عقول و مسمع مردان شنید 1630
  • Oh, happy is he who, from the first, heard that which the intelligences and the (spiritual) ears of (holy) men have heard.

  • خانه خالی یافت و جا را او گرفت ** غیر آنش کژ نماید یا شگفت
  • (If) it (the World) has found the house (the heart) empty and taken abode (there), all else appears to him (the owner of the house) perverted or wonderful (extraordinary).

  • کوزه‌ی نو کو به خود بولی کشید ** آن خبث را آب نتواند برید
  • (So with) the new pot that has drawn to itself some urine: water cannot detach that filth (from it).

  • در جهان هر چیز چیزی می‌کشد ** کفر کافر را و مرشد را رشد
  • Everything in the world draws something (to itself): infidelity (draws) the infidel and righteousness him who is guided aright.

  • کهربا هم هست و مقناطیس هست ** تا تو آهن یا کهی آیی بشست
  • There is both the amber and the magnet (lodestone): whether thou art iron or straw thou wilt come to the hook (thou wilt be attracted).

  • برد مقناطیست ار تو آهنی ** ور کهی بر کهربا بر می‌تنی 1635
  • The magnet carries thee off if thou art iron; and if thou art straw, thou wilt be in contact with the amber.

  • آن یکی چون نیست با اخیار یار ** لاجرم شد پهلوی فجار جار
  • When any one is not associated with the good, he inevitably becomes a neighbour to the wicked.

  • هست موسی پیش قبطی بس ذمیم ** هست هامان پیش سبطی بس رجیم
  • Moses is very despicable in the eyes of the Egyptian; Hámán is exceedingly accursed in the eyes of the Israelite.

  • جان هامان جاذب قبطی شده ** جان موسی طالب سبطی شده
  • The spirit of Hámán has drawn the Egyptian (to itself); the spirit of Moses has sought the Israelite.

  • معده‌ی خر که کشد در اجتذاب ** معده‌ی آدم جذوب گندم آب
  • The belly of the ass draws straw (to itself) at the (moment of) indrawing (deglutition); the belly of Adam (Man) is an attractor of wheat-broth.

  • گر تو نشناسی کسی را از ظلام ** بنگر او را کوش سازیدست امام 1640
  • If, on account of the darkness (of ignorance), thou dost not recognise a person (so as to discern his real nature), look at him whom he has made his imam (leader);

  • بیان آنک عارف را غذاییست از نور حق کی ابیت عند ربی یطعمنی و یسقینی و قوله الجوع طعام الله یحیی به ابدان الصدیقین ای فی الجوع یصل طعام‌الله
  • Explaining that the gnostic hath a nutriment (consisting) of the Light of God, for (the Prophet said), "I pass the night with my Lord: He giveth me meat and drink"; and "Hunger is God's food whereby He revives the bodies of the siddíqs," that is, "in hunger God's food reaches (them)."

  • زانک هر کره پی مادر رود ** تا بدان جنسیتش پیدا شود
  • For every foal goes after its dam, so that thereby (the fact of) its being a congener becomes apparent.

  • آدمی را شیر از سینه رسد ** شیر خر از نیم زیرینه رسد
  • The human creature's milk comes from the breast (the upper half); the milk of the ass comes from the under-half.

  • عدل قسامست و قسمت کردنیست ** این عجب که جبر نی و ظلم نیست
  • ’Tis the Justice of the Dispenser, ’tis an act of (just) dispensation: the wonder is this, that (in the Divine dispensation) there is neither compulsion nor injustice.

  • جبر بودی کی پشیمانی بدی ** ظلم بودی کی نگهبانی بدی
  • Were there compulsion, how would there be repentance? Were there injustice, how would there be protection?

  • روز آخر شد سبق فردا بود ** راز ما را روز کی گنجا بود 1645
  • The day is ended: the lesson will be to-morrow: how should the day (of this life) contain our mystery?

  • ای بکرده اعتماد واثقی ** بر دم و بر چاپلوس فاسقی
  • O thou who hast put firm confidence in the breath (vain words) and flattery of a scoundrel,

  • قبه‌ای بر ساختستی از حباب ** آخر آن خیمه‌ست بس واهی‌طناب
  • Thou hast raised up a tent of bubbles: in the end (thou wilt find that) that tent has exceedingly weak ropes.

  • زرق چون برقست و اندر نور آن ** راه نتوانند دیدن ره‌روان
  • Hypocrisy is like lightning, and in its gleam the travellers cannot see the way.

  • این جهان و اهل او بی‌حاصل‌اند ** هر دو اندر بی‌وفایی یکدل‌اند
  • This world and its people are good-for-nothing: both are unanimous in respect of (their) faithlessness.

  • زاده‌ی دنیا چو دنیا بی‌وفاست ** گرچه رو آرد به تو آن رو قفاست 1650
  • The son of the world (the worldling) is faithless like the world: though he turn the face towards thee, that face is (really) the nape (back).

  • اهل آن عالم چو آن عالم ز بر ** تا ابد در عهد و پیمان مستمر
  • The people of that (other) world, like that world, on account of (their) probity continue for ever in (observance of their) covenant and promise.

  • خود دو پیغمبر به هم کی ضد شدند ** معجزات از همدگر کی بستدند
  • When, in sooth, did two prophets oppose each other? When did they wrest (their) evidential miracles (spiritual powers and privileges) from one another?

  • کی شود پژمرده میوه‌ی آن جهان ** شادی عقلی نگردد اندهان
  • How should the fruit of that world become stale? Intellectual joy does not turn into sorrows.

  • نفس بی‌عهدست زان رو کشتنیست ** او دنی و قبله‌گاه او دنیست
  • The fleshly soul is unplighted (bound by no covenant); for that reason it ought to be killed: it is base, and base is the spot to which its desires are directed.

  • نفسها را لایقست این انجمن ** مرده را درخور بود گور و کفن 1655
  • This assembly (the world) is well-adapted for fleshly souls: the grave and shroud are suitable to the dead.

  • نفس اگر چه زیرکست و خرده‌دان ** قبله‌اش دنیاست او را مرده دان
  • Although the fleshly soul is sagacious and acute, its qibla (objective) is this world, (therefore) regard it as dead.

  • آب وحی حق بدین مرده رسید ** شد ز خاک مرده‌ای زنده پدید
  • (But when) the water of God's inspiration has reached this dead (soul), the living (soul) comes into view (rises) from the tomb of a corpse.

  • تا نیاید وحش تو غره مباش ** تو بدان گلگونه‌ی طال بقاش
  • Until inspiration comes, do not thou (meanwhile) be duped by that rouge (vanity) of “May his life be long!”

  • بانگ و صیتی جو که آن خامل نشد ** تاب خورشیدی که آن آفل نشد
  • Seek the applause and renown that does not die away, the splendour of the sun that does not sink.

  • آن هنرهای دقیق و قال و قیل ** قوم فرعون‌اند اجل چون آب نیل 1660
  • Those abstruse sciences and disputations are (like) the people of Pharaoh: Death is like the water of the Nile.

  • رونق و طاق و طرنب و سحرشان ** گرچه خلقان را کشد گردن کشان
  • Although their brilliance and pomp and show and enchantment drag the people along by the scruff of the neck,

  • سحرهای ساحران دان جمله را ** مرگ چوبی دان که آن گشت اژدها
  • Know that all (that) is (like) the enchantments of the magicians; know that Death is (like) the rod (of Moses) which became a dragon.

  • جادویها را همه یک لقمه کرد ** یک جهان پر شب بد آن را صبح خورد
  • It made one mouthful of all (their) sorceries. There was a world filled with night: the dawn devoured it.

  • نور از آن خوردن نشد افزون و بیش ** بل همان سانست کو بودست پیش
  • The light is not made greater and more by that (act of) devouring; nay, it is just the same as it has (always) been before.

  • در اثر افزون شد و در ذات نی ** ذات را افزونی و آفات نی 1665
  • It is increased in respect of the effect (which it has produced), but not in respect of its essence: the essence hath (suffers) no increase or diminution.

  • حق ز ایجاد جهان افزون نشد ** آنچ اول آن نبود اکنون نشد
  • God was not increased by (His) bringing the world into existence: that which He was not formerly He has not become now;

  • لیک افزون گشت اثر ز ایجاد خلق ** در میان این دو افزونیست فرق
  • But the effect (phenomenal being) was increased by (His) bringing created things into existence: there is (a great) difference between these two increases.

  • هست افزونی اثر اظهار او ** تا پدید آید صفات و کار او
  • The increase of the effect is His manifestation, in order that His attributes and action may be made visible.

  • هست افزونی هر ذاتی دلیل ** کو بود حادث به علتها علیل
  • The increase of any (so-called) essence is a proof that it (the essence) is originated and subject to causes.

  • تفسیر اوجس فی نفسه خیفة موسی قلنا لا تخف انک انت الا علی
  • Commentary on "Moses conceived a fear in his heart: We said, ‘Fear not, verily thou wilt be the superior.’"

  • گفت موسی سحر هم حیران‌کنیست ** چون کنم کین خلق را تمییز نیست 1670
  • Moses said, “Magic too is a bewildering thing: how shall I act?—for this people have no discernment.”

  • گفت حق تمییز را پیدا کنم ** عقل بی‌تمییز را بینا کنم
  • God said, “I will produce discernment, I will make the undiscerning mind able to perceive (the truth).

  • گرچه چون دریا برآوردند کف ** موسیا تو غالب آیی لا تخف
  • Howbeit they (the magicians) have raised up foam, like the sea, thou, O Moses, wilt prevail: fear not!”

  • بود اندر عهده خود سحر افتخار ** چون عصا شد مار آنها گشت عار
  • Magic was glorious in its own time: when the rod became a dragon, those (magic arts) were disgraced.

  • هر کسی را دعوی حسن و نمک ** سنگ مرگ آمد نمکها را محک
  • Every one pretends to excellence and elegance: the stone of Death is the touchstone for (these) elegances.