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2022-2071

  • هم‌چنین هر حس یک یک می‌شمر ** هر یکی معزول از آن کار دگر
  • Similarly, enumerate each sense, one by one: each one is removed from (incapable of doing) the work of another.

  • پنج حس ظاهر و پنج اندرون ** ده صف‌اند اندر قیام الصافون
  • The five external and the five internal senses are (arrayed) in ten ranks in the standing posture of the (angels) ranked (for worship of God).

  • هر کسی کو از صف دین سرکشست ** می‌رود سوی صفی کان واپسست
  • Any one who (disobediently) draws back from the rank of (the true) religion will go into the rank that is behind.

  • تو ز گفتار تعالوا کم مکن ** کیمیای بس شگرفست این سخن 2025
  • Do not make little of the (Divine) Word ta‘álaw (come ye): this Word is an exceedingly great elixir.

  • گر مسی گردد ز گفتارت نفیر ** کیمیا را هیچ از وی وام گیر
  • If a copper (a base person) turn away in repugnance from your saying (this Word), by no means withhold the elixir from him.

  • این زمان گر بست نفس ساحرش ** گفت تو سودش کند در آخرش
  • If his magician-like soul has bound (cast a spell upon) him at the present time, (yet) your saying will profit him in his latter end.

  • قل تعالوا قل تعالوا ای غلام ** هین که ان الله یدعوا للسلام
  • O slave (of God), say, Come ye, say, Come ye: take heed, for verily God inviteth unto the (Abode of) Peace.

  • خواجه باز آ از منی و از سری ** سروری جو کم طلب کن سروری
  • Then come back, sire, from egoism and headship: seek a leader, do not desire leadership.

  • اعتراض کردن معترضی بر رسول علیه‌السلام بر امیر کردن آن هذیلی
  • How an objector objected to the Prophet's—on whom be peace— appointing the man of Hudhayl to be commander.

  • چون پیمبر سروری کرد از هذیل ** از برای لشکر منصور خیل 2030
  • When the Prophet appointed a leader from (the tribe of) Hudhayl for the army whose troops were Divinely aided,

  • بوالفضولی از حسد طاقت نداشت ** اعتراض و لانسلم بر فراشت
  • An insolent fellow, through envy, could not endure (to keep silence): he raised objection and opposition.

  • خلق را بنگر که چون ظلمانی‌اند ** در متاع فانیی چون فانی‌اند
  • Behold humankind, how dark (unenlightened) they are, and how they are perishing in (desire for) a perishable piece of goods.

  • از تکبر جمله اندر تفرقه ** مرده از جان زنده‌اند از مخرقه
  • On account of pride they all are in separation (from God), dead to the spirit, living in deception.

  • این عجب که جان به زندان اندرست ** وانگهی مفتاح زندانش به دست
  • ’Tis wonderful that the spirit is in prison, and then (all that time) the key of the prison is in its hand!

  • پای تا سر غرق سرگین آن جوان ** می‌زند بر دامنش جوی روان 2035
  • That youth (the spirit) is plunged in dung from head to foot, (whilst) the flowing river is (almost) touching his skirt!

  • دایما پهلو به پهلو بی‌قرار ** پهلوی آرامگاه و پشت‌دار
  • (He is) always moving restlessly from side to side beside the place of repose and the couch where he might recline!

  • نور پنهانست و جست و جو گواه ** کز گزافه دل نمی‌جوید پناه
  • The (Divine) light is hidden, and search is the evidence (of its existence), for the heart (spirit) does not seek shelter in vain.

  • گر نبودی حبس دنیا را مناص ** نه بدی وحشت نه دل جستی خلاص
  • If this world's prison had no refuge, neither would there be any feeling of aversion nor would the heart seek release.

  • وحشتت هم‌چون موکل می‌کشد ** که بجو ای ضال منهاج رشد
  • Thy aversion is dragging thee along, like a custodian, saying, “O man astray, seek the path of righteousness.”

  • هست منهاج و نهان در مکمنست ** یافتش رهن گزافه جستنست 2040
  • The path is there, but it is hidden in a secret place: its discovery is in pawn to (involves) seeking in vain (before it can be found).

  • تفرقه‌جویان جمع اندر کمین ** تو درین طالب رخ مطلوب بین
  • Separation is secretly in quest of union: in this seeker do thou discern the face of the sought.

  • مردگان باغ برجسته ز بن ** کان دهنده‌ی زندگی را فهم کن
  • The dead (trees and plants) of the orchard spring up from the root, saying, “Perceive the Giver of life!”

  • چشم این زندانیان هر دم به در ** کی بدی گر نیستی کس مژده‌ور
  • How should the eyes of these prisoners (of the world) be always (fixed) on (what lies) beyond, if there were no bringer of the good news (of deliverance)?

  • صد هزار آلودگان آب‌جو ** کی بدندی گر نبودی آب جو
  • How should there be a hundred thousand befouled ones seeking water, if there were no water in the river?

  • بر زمین پهلوت را آرام نیست ** دان که در خانه لحاف و بستریست 2045
  • (If) there is no rest for thy side upon the earth, (yet) know that there is a coverlet and mattress at home.

  • بی‌مقرگاهی نباشد بی‌قرار ** بی‌خمار اشکن نباشد این خمار
  • Without (there being) a resting-place there would not be the restless (seeker); without (there being) that which takes away the headache of intoxication, there would not be this headache.

  • گفت نه نه یا رسول الله مکن ** سرور لشکر مگر شیخ کهن
  • He (the objector) said, “Nay, nay, O Messenger of God, do not appoint any but an old Shaykh to be chief of the army.

  • یا رسول الله جوان ار شیرزاد ** غیر مرد پیر سر لشکر مباد
  • O Messenger of God, (even) if the youth is lion-born (heroic), may none but an old man be head of the army!

  • هم تو گفتستی و گفت تو گوا ** پیر باید پیر باید پیشوا
  • Thou too hast said, and thy word is (a true) witness, ‘The leader must be old, must be old.’

  • یا رسول‌الله درین لشکر نگر ** هست چندین پیر و از وی پیشتر 2050
  • O Messenger of God, look on this army, (in which) there are so many elders and (persons) superior to him.”

  • زین درخت آن برگ زردش را مبین ** سیبهای پخته‌ی او را بچین
  • Do not regard the yellow leaves of this tree, (but) pick its ripe apples.

  • برگهای زرد او خود کی تهیست ** این نشان پختگی و کاملیست
  • How, in sooth, are its yellow leaves void (of worth)? This is the sign of maturity and perfection.

  • برگ زرد ریش و آن موی سپید ** بهر عقل پخته می‌آرد نوید
  • The yellow leaf of the (elder's) beard and his white hair bring tidings of joy on account of his mature intelligence.

  • برگهای نو رسیده‌ی سبزفام ** شد نشان آنک آن میوه‌ست خام
  • The newly-arrived green-coloured leaves signify that this fruit is unripe.

  • برگ بی‌برگی نشان عارفیست ** زردی زر سرخ رویی صارفیست 2055
  • The provision of leaflessness (spiritual poverty) is the sign of being a gnostic; the yellowness of gold is the (cause of the) money-changer's ruddiness of face (cheerful countenance).

  • آنک او گل عارضست ار نو خطست ** او به مکتب گاه مخبر نوخطست
  • If he that (still) is rosy-cheeked has fresh down (on his face), (yet) he has just begun to learn writing in the school of knowledge.

  • حرفهای خط او کژمژ بود ** مزمن عقلست اگر تن می‌دود
  • The letters of his handwriting are very crooked (misshapen): he is a cripple in respect of intelligence, though his body moves with agility.

  • پای پیر از سرعت ار چه باز ماند ** یافت عقل او دو پر بر اوج راند
  • Although an old man's feet are deprived of rapid movement, his intelligence has gotten two wings and has sped to the zenith.

  • گر مثل خواهی به جعفر در نگر ** داد حق بر جای دست و پاش پر
  • If you wish for an example (of this), look at Ja‘far: God gave him wings instead of hands and feet.

  • بگذر از زر کین سخت شد محتجب ** هم‌چو سیماب این دلم شد مضطرب 2060
  • Cease from (speaking of) gold (pallor), for this topic is recondite: this heart of mine has become agitated like quicksilver.

  • ز اندرونم صدخموش خوش‌نفس ** دست بر لب می‌زند یعنی که بس
  • From within me a hundred sweet-breathing silent ones put their hands on their lips, signifying, “It is enough.”

  • خامشی بحرست و گفتن هم‌چو جو ** بحر می‌جوید ترا جو را مجو
  • Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking thee: do not seek the river.

  • از اشارتهای دریا سر متاب ** ختم کن والله اعلم بالصواب
  • Do not turn thy head away from the indications given by the sea: conclude (the subject)—and God best knoweth the right course.

  • هم‌چنین پیوسته کرد آن بی‌ادب ** پیش پیغامبر سخن زان سرد لب
  • That irreverent (objector) made no pause in the words (which he poured forth) in this fashion from those cold (insipid) lips (of his) in the presence of the Prophet.

  • دست می‌دادش سخن او بی‌خبر ** که خبر هرزه بود پیش نظر 2065
  • Words were assisting (did not fail) him, (but) he was ignorant that hearsay (traditional knowledge) is mere babble in the presence of sight (immediate vision).

  • این خبرها از نظر خود نایبست ** بهر حاضر نیست بهر غایبست
  • Indeed, these matters of hearsay are (only) a substitute for sight: they are not for him who is present, (but) for him who is absent.

  • هر که او اندر نظر موصول شد ** این خبرها پیش او معزول شد
  • Whoever has been caused to attain unto sight, before him these matters of hearsay are idle.

  • چونک با معشوق گشتی همنشین ** دفع کن دلالگان را بعد ازین
  • When you have sat down beside your beloved, after this banish the dallálas (the old women who act as go-betweens).

  • هر که از طفلی گذشت و مرد شد ** نامه و دلاله بر وی سرد شد
  • When any one has passed beyond childhood and has become a man, the letter and the dallála become irksome to him.

  • نامه خواند از پی تعلیم را ** حرف گوید از پی تفهیم را 2070
  • He reads letters, (but only) for the purpose of teaching (others); he utters words, (but only) for the purpose of making (others) understand.

  • پیش بینایان خبر گفتن خطاست ** کان دلیل غفلت و نقصان ماست
  • ’Tis wrong to speak by hearsay in the presence of those who see (who are endowed with vision), for it is a proof of our heedlessness and deficiency.