If he (the seer) bid you speak, speak gladly, but say little and do not draw out (your words) to length;
ور بفرماید که اندر کش دراز ** هم‌چنان شرمین بگو با امر ساز
And if he bid you draw them out to length, speak with the same modesty (as before) and comply with his command,
همچنین که من درین زیبا فسون ** با ضیاء الحق حسام‌الدین کنون2075
Even as I (am complying) now, in this goodly enchantment (this enchanting poem), with (the command of) Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (the Radiance of God) Husámu’ddín.
چونک کوته می‌کنم من از رشد ** او به صد نوعم بگفتن می‌کشد
When I am cutting short (my discourse) concerning (the Way of) righteousness, he draws me on to speak by a hundred kinds (of contrivance).
ای حسام‌الدین ضیاء ذوالجلال ** چونک می‌بینی چه می‌جویی مقال
O Husámu’ddín, Radiance of the Almighty, inasmuch as thou art seeing, why dost thou seek speech (from me)?
این مگر باشد ز حب مشتهی ** اسقنی خمرا و قل لی انها
Perchance this demand (on thy part) may arise from (thy) love for the Desired One, (as the poet said), “Give me wine to drink and tell me that it is (wine).”
بر دهان تست این دم جام او ** گوش می‌گوید که قسم گوش کو
At this moment His cup is at thy mouth, (but thy) ear says, “Where is the ear's portion?”
قسم تو گرمیست نک گرمی و مست ** گفت حرص من ازین افزون‌ترست2080
(O ear), thy portion is the heat (of love): lo, thou art heated and intoxicated. It replied, “My greed is greater than this.”
جواب گفتن مصطفی علیه‌السلام اعتراض کننده را
How Mustafá, on whom be peace, answered the objector.
در حضور مصطفای قندخو ** چون ز حد برد آن عرب از گفت و گو
When that Arab carried disputation beyond bounds in the presence of sweettempered Mustafá,
آن شه والنجم و سلطان عبس ** لب گزید آن سرد دم را گفت بس
That king of Wa ’l-Najm and that sultan of ‘Abas bit his lip (in anger) and said to the silly prater, “Enough!”
دست می‌زند بهر منعش بر دهان ** چند گویی پیش دانای نهان
He was putting his hand on his (the objector's) mouth to prevent him, (as though to say), “How long wilt thou speak in the presence of one who knows the occult?”
پیش بینا برده‌ای سرگین خشک ** که بخر این را به جای ناف مشک
Thou hast brought dry ordure to one endowed with vision, saying, “Buy this instead of a musk-bag.”
بعر را ای گنده‌مغز گنده‌مخ ** زیر بینی بنهی و گویی که اخ2085
O thou of stinking brain and stinking marrow, thou placest camel's dung beneath thy nose and sayest, “Oh, delicious!”
اخ اخی برداشتی ای گیج گاج ** تا که کالای بدت یابد رواج
O squinting crazy fool, thou hast exclaimed in delight, “Oh, oh,” that thy bad wares may find a ready sale,
تا فریبی آن مشام پاک را ** آن چریده‌ی گلشن افلاک را
And that thou mayst deceive that pure organ of (spiritual) smell, that which pastures in the celestial rose-garden.
حلم او خود را اگر چه گول ساخت ** خویشتن را اندکی باید شناخت
Though his (the saint's) forbearance has feigned to be stupid, one must know one's self a little.
دیگ را گر باز ماند امشب دهن ** گربه را هم شرم باید داشتن
If to-night the mouth of the cooking-pot is left open, yet the cat must have discretion.
خویشتن گر خفته کرد آن خوب فر ** سخت بیدارست دستارش مبر2090
If that glorious one (the saint) has feigned to be asleep, he is (really) very much awake: do not carry off his turban.
چند گویی ای لجوج بی‌صفا ** این فسون دیو پیش مصطفی
How long, O contumacious man devoid of (spiritual) excellence, wilt thou utter these Devil's enchantments in the presence of God's elect one?
صد هزاران حلم دارند این گروه ** هر یکی حلمی از آنها صد چو کوه
This company (of the elect) have a hundred thousand forbearances, every one of which is (immovable) as a hundred mountains.
حلمشان بیدار را ابله کند ** زیرک صد چشم را گمره کند
Their forbearance makes a fool of the wary and causes the keen-witted man with a hundred eyes to lose his way.
Their forbearance, like fine choice wine, mounts by nice degrees up to the brain.
مست را بین زان شراب پرشگفت ** هم‌چو فرزین مست کژ رفتن گرفت2095
Behold the man drunken with that marvellous (earthly) wine: the drunken man has begun to move crookedly like the queen (in chess).
مرد برنا زان شراب زودگیر ** در میان راه می‌افتد چو پیر
From (the effect of) that quickly-catching wine the (vigorous) youth is falling in the middle of the road, like an aged man.
خاصه این باده که از خم بلی است ** نه میی که مستی او یکشبیست
Especially (consider the effect of) this (spiritual) wine which is from the jar of Balá—not the wine whereof the intoxication lasts (only) one night;
آنک آن اصحاب کهف از نقل و نقل ** سیصد و نه سال گم کردند عقل
(But) that (wine) from which, (by drinking it) at dessert and in migration (from place to place), the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers) lost their reason for three hundred and nine years.
زان زنان مصر جامی خورده‌اند ** دستها را شرحه شرحه کرده‌اند
The women of Egypt drank one cup of that (wine) and cut their hands to pieces.
ساحران هم سکر موسی داشتند ** دار را دلدار می‌انگاشتند2100
The magicians (of Pharaoh) too had the intoxication of Moses: they deemed the gallows to be their beloved.
جعفر طیار زان می بود مست ** زان گرو می‌کرد بی‌خود پا و دست
Ja‘far-i Tayyár was drunken with that wine: therefore, being beside himself, he was pawning (sacrificing) his feet and hands (for God's sake).
قصه‌ی سبحانی ما اعظم شانی گفتن ابویزید قدس الله سره و اعتراض مریدان و جواب این مر ایشان را نه به طریق گفت زبان بلک از راه عیان
Story of Báyazíd's—may God sanctify his spirit—saying, "Glory to me! How grand is my estate!" and the objection raised by his disciples, and how he gave them an answer to this, not by the way of speech but by the way of vision (immediate experience).
با مریدان آن فقیر محتشم ** بایزید آمد که نک یزدان منم
That venerable dervish, Báyazíd, came to his disciples, saying, “Lo, I am God.”
گفت مستانه عیان آن ذوفنون ** لا اله الا انا ها فاعبدون
That master of the (mystic) sciences said plainly in drunken fashion, “Hark, there is no god but I, so worship me.”
چون گذشت آن حال گفتندش صباح ** تو چنین گفتی و این نبود صلاح
When that ecstasy had passed, they said to him at dawn, “Thou saidest such and such, and this is impiety.”
گفت این بار ار کنم من مشغله ** کاردها بر من زنید آن دم هله2105
He said, “This time, if I make a scandal, come on at once and dash knives into me.
حق منزه از تن و من با تنم ** چون چنین گویم بباید کشتنم
God transcends the body, and I am with the body: ye must kill me when I say a thing like this.”
چون وصیت کرد آن آزادمرد ** هر مریدی کاردی آماده کرد
When that (spiritual) freeman gave the injunction, each disciple made ready a knife.
مست گشت او باز از آن سغراق زفت ** آن وصیتهاش از خاطر برفت
Again he (Báyazíd) became intoxicated by that potent flagon: those injunctions vanished from his mind.
نقل آمد عقل او آواره شد ** صبح آمد شمع او بیچاره شد
The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.
عقل چون شحنه‌ست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنه‌ی بیچاره در کنجی خزید2110
Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner.
عقل سایه‌ی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب
Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?
چون پری غالب شود بر آدمی ** گم شود از مرد وصف مردمی
When a genie prevails over (gains possession of) a man, the attributes of humanity disappear from the man.
هر چه گوید آن پری گفته بود ** زین سری زان آن سری گفته بود
Whatsoever he says, that genie will (really) have said it: the one who belongs to this side will have spoken from (the control of) the one who belongs to yonder side.
چون پری را این دم و قانون بود ** کردگار آن پری خود چون بود
Since a genie hath this influence and rule, how (much more powerful) indeed must be the Creator of that genie!
اوی او رفته پری خود او شده ** ترک بی‌الهام تازی‌گو شده2115
His (the possessed man's) “he” (personality) is gone: he has in sooth become the genie: the Turk, without (receiving) Divine inspiration, has become a speaker of Arabic.
چون به خود آید نداند یک لغت ** چون پری را هست این ذات و صفت
When he comes to himself, he does not know a word (of Arabic). Inasmuch as a genie hath this essence and quality,