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  • جسم خاکست و چو حق تابیش داد ** در جهان‌گیری چو مه شد اوستاد
  • The body is earth; and when God gave it a spark (of His Light) it became adept, like the moon, in taking possession of the world.

  • هین طلسمست این و نقش مرده است ** احمقان را چشمش از ره برده است
  • Beware! this (worldly empire) is a talisman and a dead image: its eye hath led the foolish astray from the (right) path.

  • می‌نماید او که چشمی می‌زند ** ابلهان سازیده‌اند او را سند
  • It appears to wink: the foolish have made it their support (have put their trust in it).

  • در خواستن قبطی دعای خیر و هدایت از سبطی و دعا کردن سبطی قبطی را به خیر و مستجاب شدن از اکرم الاکرمین وارحم الراحمین
  • How the Egyptian besought blessing and guidance from the Israelite, and how the Israelite prayed for the Egyptian and received a favourable answer to his prayer from the Most Gracious and Merciful (God).

  • گفت قبطی تو دعایی کن که من ** از سیاهی دل ندارم آن دهن
  • The Egyptian said, “Do thou offer a prayer (for me), since from blackness of heart I have not the mouth (fit for offering an acceptable prayer),

  • که بود که قفل این دل وا شود ** زشت را در بزم خوبان جا شود 3495
  • For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous.

  • مسخی از تو صاحب خوبی شود ** یا بلیسی باز کروبی شود
  • Through thee the deformed may become endowed with beauty, or an Iblís may again become one of the Cherubim;

  • یا بفر دست مریم بوی مشک ** یابد و تری و میوه شاخ خشک
  • Or, by the august influence of Mary's hand, the withered bough may acquire the fragrance of musk and freshness and fruit.”

  • سبطی آن دم در سجود افتاد و گفت ** کای خدای عالم جهر و نهفت
  • Thereupon the Israelite fell to worship and said, “O God who knowest the manifest and the hidden,

  • جز تو پیش کی بر آرد بنده دست ** هم دعا و هم اجابت از توست
  • To whom but Thee should Thy servant lift his hand? Both the prayer and the answer (to prayer) are from Thee.

  • هم ز اول تو دهی میل دعا ** تو دهی آخر دعاها را جزا 3500
  • Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers.

  • اول و آخر توی ما در میان ** هیچ هیچی که نیاید در بیان
  • Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.”

  • این چنین می‌گفت تا افتاد طشت ** از سر بام و دلش بیهوش گشت
  • He was speaking in this wise, till he fell into ecstasy and his heart became senseless.

  • باز آمد او به هوش اندر دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی
  • (Whilst engaged) in prayer, he came back to his senses (and witnessed the effect of his prayer): Man shall have nothing but what he hath wrought.

  • در دعا بود او که ناگه نعره‌ای ** از دل قبطی بجست و غره‌ای
  • He was (still) praying when suddenly a loud cry and roar burst from the heart of the Egyptian,

  • که هلا بشتاب و ایمان عرضه کن ** تا ببرم زود زنار کهن 3505
  • (Who exclaimed), “Come, make haste and submit (the profession of) the Faith (for my acceptance), that I may quickly cut the old girdle (of unbelief).

  • آتشی در جان من انداختند ** مر بلیسی را به جان بنواختند
  • They have cast a fire into my heart, they have shown affection with (all) their soul for an Iblís (like me).

  • دوستی تو و از تو ناشکفت ** حمدلله عاقبت دستم گرفت
  • Praise be to God! Thy friendship and (my) not being able to do without thee have succoured me at last.

  • کیمیایی بود صحبتهای تو ** کم مباد از خانه‌ی دل پای تو
  • My consortings with thee were (as) an elixir: may thy foot never disappear from the house of my heart!

  • تو یکی شاخی بدی از نخل خلد ** چون گرفتم او مرا تا خلد برد
  • Thou wert a bough of the palm-tree of Paradise: when I grasped it, it bore me to Paradise.

  • سیل بود آنک تنم را در ربود ** برد سیلم تا لب دریای جود 3510
  • That which carried away my body was a torrent: the torrent bore me to the brink of the Sea of Bounty.

  • من به بوی آب رفتم سوی سیل ** بحر دیدم در گرفتم کیل کیل
  • I went towards the torrent in hope of (obtaining) water: I beheld the Sea and took pearls, bushel on bushel.”

  • طاس آوردش که اکنون آب‌گیر ** گفت رو شد آبها پیشم حقیر
  • He (the Israelite) brought the cup to him, saying, “Now take the water!” “Go,” he replied; “(all) waters have become despicable in my sight.

  • شربتی خوردم ز الله اشتری ** تا به محشر تشنگی ناید مرا
  • I have drunk such a draught from God hath purchased that no thirst will come to me till the Congregation (at the Last Judgement).

  • آنک جوی و چشمه‌ها را آب داد ** چشمه‌ای در اندرون من گشاد
  • He who gave water to the rivers and fountains hath opened a fountain within me.

  • این جگر که بود گرم و آب‌خوار ** گشت پیش همت او آب خوار 3515
  • This heart, which was hot and water-drinking—to its high aspiration water has become vile.

  • کاف کافی آمد او بهر عباد ** صدق وعده‌ی کهیعص
  • He (God), for the sake of His servants, became (symbolised by) the (letter) káf of Káfí (All-sufficing), (in token of) the truth of the promise of Káf, Há, Yá, ‘Ayn, Sád.

  • کافیم بدهم ترا من جمله خیر ** بی‌سبب بی‌واسطه‌ی یاری غیر
  • (God saith), ‘I am All-sufficing: I will give thee all good, without (the intervention of) a secondary cause, without the mediation of another's aid.

  • کافیم بی‌نان ترا سیری دهم ** بی‌سپاه و لشکرت میری دهم
  • I am All-sufficing: I will give thee satiety without bread, I will give thee sovereignty without soldiers and armies.

  • بی‌بهارت نرگس و نسرین دهم ** بی‌کتاب و اوستا تلقین دهم
  • I will give thee narcissi and wild-roses without the spring, I will give thee instruction without a book and teacher.

  • کافیم بی داروت درمان کنم ** گور را و چاه را میدان کنم 3520
  • I am All-sufficing: I will heal thee without medicine, I will make the grave and the pit a (spacious) playing-field.

  • موسیی را دل دهم با یک عصا ** تا زند بر عالمی شمشیرها
  • To a Moses I give heart (courage) with a single rod, that he may brandish swords against a multitude.

  • دست موسی را دهم یک نور و تاب ** که طپانچه می‌زند بر آفتاب
  • (Such) a light and splendour do I give to the hand of Moses that it is slapping the sun (in triumph).

  • چوب را ماری کنم من هفت سر ** که نزاید ماده مار او را ز نر
  • I make the wooden staff a seven-headed dragon, which the female dragon does not (conceive and) bring to birth from the male.

  • خون نیامیزم در آب نیل من ** خود کنم خون عین آبش را به فن
  • I do not mingle blood in the water of the Nile: in sooth by My cunning I make the very essence of its water to be blood.

  • شادیت را غم کنم چون آب نیل ** که نیابی سوی شادیها سبیل 3525
  • I turn thy joy into sorrow like the (polluted) water of the Nile, so that thou wilt not find the way to rejoicings.

  • باز چون تجدید ایمان بر تنی ** باز از فرعون بیزاری کنی
  • Again, when thou art intent on renewing thy faith and abjurest Pharaoh once more,

  • موسی رحمت ببینی آمده ** نیل خون بینی ازو آبی شده
  • Thou wilt see (that) the Moses of Mercy (has) come, thou wilt see the Nile of blood turned by him into water.

  • چون سر رشته نگه داری درون ** نیل ذوق تو نگردد هیچ خون
  • When thou keepest safe within (thee) the end of the rope (of faith), the Nile of thy spiritual delight will never be changed into blood.’

  • من گمان بردم که ایمان آورم ** تا ازین طوفان خون آبی خورم
  • I thought I would profess the Faith in order that from this deluge of blood I might drink some water.

  • من چه دانستم که تبدیلی کند ** در نهاد من مرا نیلی کند 3530
  • How did I know that He would work a transformation in my nature and make me a (spiritual) Nile?

  • سوی چشم خود یکی نیلم روان ** برقرارم پیش چشم دیگران
  • To my own eye, I am a flowing Nile, (but) to the eyes of others I am at rest.”

  • هم‌چنانک این جهان پیش نبی ** غرق تسبیحست و پیش ما غبی
  • Just as, to the Prophet, this world is plunged in glorification of God, while to us it is heedless (insensible).

  • پیش چشمش این جهان پر عشق و داد ** پیش چشم دیگران مرده و جماد
  • To his eye, this world is filled with love and bounty; to the eyes of others it is dead and inert.

  • پست و بالا پیش چشمش تیزرو ** از کلوخ و خشت او نکته شنو
  • To his eye, vale and hill are moving swiftly: he hears subtle discourse from clod and brick.

  • با عوام این جمله بسته و مرده‌ای ** زین عجب‌تر من ندیدم پرده‌ای 3535
  • To the vulgar, all this (world) is a bound and dead (thing): I have not seen a veil (of blindness) more wonderful than this.

  • گورها یکسان به پیش چشم ما ** روضه و حفره به چشم اولیا
  • To our eye, (all) the graves are alike; to the eyes of the saints, (one is) a garden (in Paradise), and (another is) a pit (in Hell).

  • عامه گفتندی که پیغامبر ترش ** از چه گشتست و شدست او ذوق‌کش
  • The vulgar would say, “Wherefore has the Prophet become sour (of visage) and why has he become pleasure-killing?”

  • خاص گفتندی که سوی چشمتان ** می‌نماید او ترش ای امتان
  • The elect would say, “To your eyes, O peoples, he appears to be sour;

  • یک زمان درچشم ما آیید تا ** خنده‌ها بینید اندر هل اتی
  • (But) come for once into our eyes, that ye may behold the laughs (of delight described) in (the Súra beginning with the words) Hal atá (Did not there come?).”

  • از سر امرود بن بنماید آن ** منعکس صورت بزیر آ ای جوان 3540
  • That appears (to thee) in the form of inversion (illusion) from the top of the pear-tree: come down, O youth!