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  • زانک آنجا گفت زینجا دور شد ** بر خیالی از حقی مهجور شد
  • Because he said “yonder” he became far from here (from the place where the water is): (through resting) in a vain imagination he was banished from a reality.

  • دوربینانند و بس خفته‌روان ** رحمتی آریدشان ای ره‌روان
  • They (the worldly) are far-seeing (for their selfish ends) and very fast asleep spiritually: take some mercy upon them, O travellers on the Way!

  • من ندیدم تشنگی خواب آورد ** خواب آرد تشنگی بی‌خرد
  • I never saw thirst (eager desire) induce sleep: (only) the thirst of the unintelligent induces sleep.

  • خود خرد آنست کو از حق چرید ** نه خرد کان را عطارد آورید 3310
  • The (true) intelligence, indeed, is that which was fed by God, not the intelligence that was bestowed by (the planet) Mercury.

  • بیان آنک عقل جزوی تا بگور بیش نبیند در باقی مقلد اولیا و انبیاست
  • Explaining that the particular (discursive) intellect does not see beyond the grave and, as regards all the rest, is subject to the authority of the saints and prophets.

  • پیش‌بینی این خرد تا گور بود ** وآن صاحب دل به نفخ صور بود
  • The foresight of this intellect extends (only) to the grave, while that of the spiritual man is till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).

  • این خرد از گور و خاکی نگذرد ** وین قدم عرصه‌ی عجایب نسپرد
  • This intellect does not pass beyond a grave and sepulchre, and this (intellectual) foot does not tread the arena of marvels.

  • زین قدم وین عقل رو بیزار شو ** چشم غیبی جوی و برخوردار شو
  • Go, become quit of this foot and this intellect: seek the eye appertaining to the invisible (the inward eye) and enjoy (contemplation).

  • هم‌چو موسی نور کی یابد ز جیب ** سخره‌ی استاد و شاگردان کتاب
  • How should one subservient to a preceptor and in pupilage to a book find, like Moses, light from (his own) bosom?

  • زین نظر وین عقل ناید جز دوار ** پس نظر بگذار و بگزین انتظار 3315
  • From this (scholastic) study and this intellect comes naught but vertigo; therefore leave this study and adopt (in its stead) expectation.

  • از سخن‌گویی مجویید ارتفاع ** منتظر را به ز گفتن استماع
  • Do not seek (spiritual) eminence from disputation: for him who is expectant (of Divine inspiration) listening is better than speaking.

  • منصب تعلیم نوع شهوتست ** هر خیال شهوتی در ره بتست
  • The office of teaching is a sort of sensual desire: every sensual fancy is an idol (source of polytheism) in the Way.

  • گر بفضلش پی ببردی هر فضول ** کی فرستادی خدا چندین رسول
  • If every busybody had found the track (had attained) to His grace, how should God have sent so many prophets?

  • عقل جزوی هم‌چو برقست و درخش ** در درخشی کی توان شد سوی وخش
  • The particular intellect is like the lightning and the flash: how is it possible to go to Wakhsh in a flash?

  • نیست نور برق بهر رهبری ** بلک امریست ابر را که می‌گری 3320
  • The light of the lightning is not for guidance on the way; nay, it is a command to the cloud to weep.

  • برق عقل ما برای گریه است ** تا بگرید نیستی در شوق هست
  • The lightning of our intellect is for the sake of weeping, to the end that nonexistence may weep in longing for (real) existence.

  • عقل کودک گفت بر کتاب تن ** لیک نتواند به خود آموختن
  • The child's intellect said, “Attend school”; but it cannot learn by itself.

  • عقل رنجور آردش سوی طبیب ** لیک نبود در دوا عقلش مصیب
  • The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him.

  • نک شیاطین سوی گردون می‌شدند ** گوش بر اسرار بالا می‌زدند
  • Mark, the devils were going heavenward and listening to the secrets on high

  • می‌ربودند اندکی زان رازها ** تا شهب می‌راندشان زود از سما 3325
  • And carrying away a little of those secrets, till the shooting stars quickly drove them from heaven,

  • که روید آنجا رسولی آمدست ** هر چه می‌خواهید زو آید به دست
  • Saying, “Begone! A prophet is come there (on the earth): from him will be obtained whatsoever ye crave.

  • گر همی‌جویید در بی‌بها ** ادخلوا الابیات من ابوابها
  • If ye are seeking priceless pearls, enter the houses by their doors.

  • می‌زن آن حلقه‌ی در و بر باب بیست ** از سوی بام فلکتان راه نیست
  • Keep knocking that door-ring and stand at the door: there is no way for you in the direction of the vault of heaven.

  • نیست حاجتتان بدین راه دراز ** خاکیی را داده‌ایم اسرار راز
  • Ye need not take this long road: We have bestowed on an earthly one the secrets of the mystery.

  • پیش او آیید اگر خاین نیید ** نیشکر گردید ازو گرچه نیید 3330
  • Come to him, if ye are not disloyal; be made sugar-cane by him, though ye are (empty) reeds.”

  • سبزه رویاند ز خاکت آن دلیل ** نیست کم از سم اسپ جبرئیل
  • That Guide will cause verdure to grow from thy earth: he is not inferior to the hoof of the horse of Gabriel.

  • سبزه گردی تازه گردی در نوی ** گر توخاک اسپ جبریلی شوی
  • Thou wilt be made verdure, thou wilt be made fresh anew, if thou become the dust of the horse of a Gabriel—

  • سبزه‌ی جان‌بخش که آن را سامری ** کرد در گوساله تا شد گوهری
  • The life-giving verdure which Sámirí put into the (golden) calf, so that it became endowed with the (vital) essence.

  • جان گرفت و بانگ زد زان سبزه او ** آنچنان بانگی که شد فتنه‌ی عدو
  • From that verdure it took life and bellowed—such a bellowing as confounded the foe.

  • گر امین آیید سوی اهل راز ** وا رهید از سر کله مانند باز 3335
  • If ye come loyally to the possessors of the mystery, ye will be freed from the hood, like a falcon—

  • سر کلاه چشم‌بند گوش‌بند ** که ازو بازست مسکین و نژند
  • The hood that binds eye and ear, whereby the falcon is (made) wretched and abject.

  • زان کله مر چشم بازان را سدست ** که همه میلش سوی جنس خودست
  • The hood is (placed as) a blind on the eyes of falcons because its (the falcon's) whole desire is for its own kind.

  • چون برید از جنس با شه گشت یار ** بر گشاید چشم او را بازدار
  • When it has been severed from its kind, it associates with the king: the falconer unveils its eye.

  • راند دیوان را حق از مرصاد خویش ** عقل جزوی را ز استبداد خویش
  • God drove the devils from His place of watch, (He drove) the particular intellect from its autonomy,

  • که سری کم کن نه‌ای تو مستبد ** بلک شاگرد دلی و مستعد 3340
  • Saying, “Do not domineer: thou art not autonomous; nay, thou art the pupil of the heart and predisposed (to learn from it).

  • رو بر دل رو که تو جزو دلی ** هین که بنده‌ی پادشاه عادلی
  • Go to the heart, go, for thou art a part of the heart: take heed, for thou art a slave of the just King.”

  • بندگی او به از سلطانیست ** که انا خیر دم شیطانیست
  • To be His slave is better than being a sovereign, for “I am better” is the word of Satan.

  • فرق بین و برگزین تو ای حبیس ** بندگی آدم از کبر بلیس
  • Do thou see the distinction and pick out (choose by preference), O prisoner, the slavery of Adam from the pride of Iblís.

  • گفت آنک هست خورشید ره او ** حرف طوبی هر که ذلت نفسه
  • He who is the Sun of the Way uttered the saying, “Good (túbá) betide every one whose carnal soul is abased!”

  • سایه‌ی طوبی ببین وخوش بخسپ ** سر بنه در سایه بی‌سرکش بخسپ 3345
  • Behold the shade of Túbá (the tree in Paradise) and sleep well; lay thy head in the shade and sleep without lifting thy head (haughtily).

  • ظل ذلت نفسه خوش مضجعیست ** مستعد آن صفا و مهجعیست
  • The shade of (one) “whose carnal soul is abased” is a pleasant place for reclining: it is a (good) sleeping-place for him that is predisposed to that (spiritual) purity.

  • گر ازین سایه روی سوی منی ** زود طاغی گردی و ره گم کنی
  • If thou go from this shade towards egoism, thou wilt soon become disobedient (to God) and lose the way.

  • بیان آنک یا ایها الذین آمنوا لا تقدموا بین یدی الله و رسوله چون نبی نیستی ز امت باش چونک سلطان نه‌ای رعیت باش پس رو خاموش باش از خود زحمتی و رایی متراش
  • Explaining (the Verse), "O ye that believe, do not put (yourselves) forward in the presence of God and His Apostle." Since thou art not the Prophet, be one of the religious community; since thou art not the sovereign, be a subject.

  • پس برو خاموش باش از انقیاد ** زیر ظل امر شیخ و اوستاد
  • Go therefore, be silent in submission beneath the shade of the command of the Shaykh and Master;

  • ورنه گر چه مستعد و قابلی ** مسخ گردی تو ز لاف کاملی
  • Otherwise, though thou art predisposed and capable, thou wilt become deformed through boasting of (thy) perfection.

  • هم ز استعداد وا مانی اگر ** سر کشی ز استاد راز و با خبر 3350
  • Thou wilt be deprived even of (thy good) predisposition, if thou rebel against the Master of the mystery who is endowed with knowledge.

  • صبر کن در موزه دوزی تو هنوز ** ور بوی بی‌صبر گردی پاره‌دوز
  • Do thou still have patience in cobbling; for if thou be impatient, thou wilt become a rag-stitcher.

  • کهنه‌دوزان گر بدیشان صبر و حلم ** جمله نودوزان شدندی هم به علم
  • If the stitchers of old clothes had patience and forbearance, all of them too would become stitchers of new garments through (acquisition of) knowledge.

  • بس بکوشی و بخر از کلال ** هم تو گویی خویش کالعقل عقال
  • Thou strivest much, and at last even thou thyself sayest in weariness that the intellect is a fetter,

  • هم‌چو آن مرد مفلسف روز مرگ ** عقل را می‌دید بس بی‌بال و برگ
  • Like the philosopher (who) on the day of his death perceived his intellect to be very poor and feeble,

  • بی‌غرض می‌کرد آن دم اعتراف ** کز ذکاوت راندیم اسپ از گزاف 3355
  • And in that hour disinterestedly confessed (the truth), saying, “(Impelled) by acuteness of mind we galloped in vain.

  • از غروری سر کشیدیم از رجال ** آشنا کردیم در بحر خیال
  • In delusion we drew (scornfully) away from the holy men, we swam in the sea of phantasy.”