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  • کار دوزخ می‌کنی در خوردنی ** بهر او خود را تو فربه می‌کنی
  • In respect of food and drink thou art doing the work of Hell thou art fattening thyself for its (Hell’s) sake.

  • کار خود کن روزی حکمت بچر ** تا شود فربه دل با کر و فر
  • Do thine own work, feed on the daily bread of Wisdom, that the glorious heart (spirit) may become fat.

  • خوردن تن مانع این خوردنست ** جان چو بازرگان و تن چون ره‌زنست
  • Bodily eating and drinking is the obstacle to this (spiritual) eating and drinking: the spirit is like a merchant, while the body is like a highwayman.

  • شمع تاجر آنگهست افروخته ** که بود ره‌زن چو هیزم سوخته 3610
  • (Only) at the time when the highwayman is consumed like firewood is the candle of the spirit resplendent;

  • که تو آن هوشی و باقی هوش‌پوش ** خویشتن را گم مکن یاوه مکوش
  • For thou art (in reality) that (spiritual) intelligence, and (all) the rest (of thee) is a mask concealing the intelligence. Do not lose thy (real) self, do not strive in vain!

  • دانک هر شهوت چو خمرست و چو بنگ ** پرده‌ی هوشست وعاقل زوست دنگ
  • Know that every sensual desire is like wine and beng: it is a veil over the intelligence, and thereby the rational man is stupefied.

  • خمر تنها نیست سرمستی هوش ** هر چه شهوانیست بندد چشم و گوش
  • The intoxication of the intelligence is not (caused by) wine alone: whatsoever is sensual shuts the (spiritual) eye and ear.

  • آن بلیس از خمر خوردن دور بود ** مست بود او از تکبر وز جحود
  • Iblís was far removed from wine-drinking: he was drunken with pride and unbelief.

  • مست آن باشد که آن بیند که نیست ** زر نماید آنچ مس و آهنیست 3615
  • The drunken man is he who sees that which is not: (to him) what is (really) a piece of copper or iron appears to be gold.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد موسیا ** لب بجنبان تا برون روژد گیا
  • This discourse hath no end. (God said), “O Moses, move thy lips, that the herbage may spring forth.”

  • هم‌چنان کرد و هم اندر دم زمین ** سبز گشت از سنبل و حب ثمین
  • He (Moses) did so, and immediately the earth became green with hyacinths and costly grains.

  • اندر افتادند در لوت آن نفر ** قحط دیده مرده از جوع البقر
  • That folk fell to (eating) the food, since they had suffered famine and were (almost) dead from ravenous hunger.

  • چند روزی سیر خوردند از عطا ** آن دمی و آدمی و چارپا
  • For several days they ate their fill of the gift, (both) those who were inspired by that breath (of Moses) and the (other) human beings and the quadrupeds.

  • چون شکم پر گشت و بر نعمت زدند ** وآن ضرورت رفت پس طاغی شدند 3620
  • When their bellies were filled and they grasped the (Divine) bounty and the necessity was gone, then they waxed insolent (in disobedience).

  • نفس فرعونیست هان سیرش مکن ** تا نیارد یاد از آن کفر کهن
  • The carnal soul is a follower of Pharaoh: beware, do not satisfy it, lest it remember its ancient infidelity.

  • بی تف آتش نگردد نفس خوب ** تا نشد آهن چو اخگر هین مکوب
  • Without the glowing heat of the fire (of mortification) the carnal soul will never become goodly: hark, do not beat the iron till it has become like live coals.

  • بی‌مجاعت نیست تن جنبش‌کنان ** آهن سردیست می‌کوبی بدان
  • Without hunger the body makes no movement (towards God): ‘tis cold iron thou art beating. Know (this for sure)!

  • گر بگرید ور بنالد زار زار ** او نخواهد شد مسلمان هوش دار
  • Though it weep and wail most piteously, it will never become a true believer. Take heed!

  • او چو فرعونست در قحط آنچنان ** پیش موسی سر نهد لابه‌کنان 3625
  • It is like Pharaoh: in (the time of) famine it lays its head before Moses, as he (Pharaoh) did, making supplication;

  • چونک مستغنی شد او طاغی شود ** خر چو بار انداخت اسکیزه زند
  • (But) when it has been freed from want, it rebels (once more) when the donkey has cast off his load, he kicks.

  • پس فراموشش شود چون رفت پیش ** کار او زان آه و زاریهای خویش
  • So, when its business has gone forward (prosperously), it (the carnal soul) forgets its sighs and lamentations.

  • سالها مردی که در شهری بود ** یک زمان که چشم در خوابی رود
  • The man who lives in a city (many) years, as soon as his eye goes asleep,

  • شهر دیگر بیند او پر نیک و بد ** هیچ در یادش نیاید شهر خود
  • Beholds another city full of good and evil, and his own city comes not into his memory at all,

  • که من آنجا بوده‌ام این شهر نو ** نیست آن من درینجاام گرو 3630
  • So that (he should say), “I have lived there (so many years); this new city is not mine: here I am (only) in pawn.”

  • بل چنان داند که خود پیوسته او ** هم درین شهرش به دست ابداع و خو
  • Nay, he thinks that in sooth he has always lived in this very city and has been born and bred in it.

  • چه عجب گر روح موطنهای خویش ** که بدستش مسکن و میلاد پیش
  • What wonder (then) if the spirit does not remember its (ancient) abodes, which have been its dwelling-place and birthplace aforetime,

  • می‌نیارد یاد کین دنیا چو خواب ** می‌فرو پوشد چو اختر را سحاب
  • Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars? —

  • خاصه چندین شهرها را کوفته ** گردها از درک او ناروفته
  • Especially as it has trodden so many cities, and the dust has not (yet) been swept from its perceptive faculty,

  • اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا 3635
  • Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past;

  • سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز
  • That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.

  • اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا
  • The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.

  • آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد
  • First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.

  • سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد
  • (Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);

  • وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد
  • And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,

  • جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران 3640
  • Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs—

  • هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان
  • Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;

  • هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید
  • (Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).

  • جزو عقل این از آن عقل کلست ** جنبش این سایه زان شاخ گلست
  • The particular intelligence of this (disciple) is derived from that Universal Intelligence: the motion of this shadow is derived from that Rose-bough.

  • سایه‌اش فانی شود آخر درو ** پس بداند سر میل و جست و جو
  • His (the disciple's) shadow disappears at last in him (the Master); then he knows the secret of his inclination and search and seeking.

  • سایه‌ی شاخ دگر ای نیکبخت ** کی بجنبد گر نجنبد این درخت 3645
  • How should the shadow of the other's (the disciple's) bough move, O fortunate one, if this Tree move not?

  • باز از حیوان سوی انسانیش ** می‌کشید آن خالقی که دانیش
  • Again, the Creator, whom thou knowest, was leading him (Man) from the animal (state) towards humanity.

  • هم‌چنین اقلیم تا اقلیم رفت ** تا شد اکنون عاقل و دانا و زفت
  • Thus did he advance from clime to clime (from one world of being to another), till he has now become intelligent and wise and mighty.

  • عقلهای اولینش یاد نیست ** هم ازین عقلش تحول کردنیست
  • He hath no remembrance of his former intelligences (souls); from this (human) intelligence also there is a migration to be made by him,

  • تا رهد زین عقل پر حرص و طلب ** صد هزاران عقل بیند بوالعجب
  • That he may escape from this intelligence full of greed and self-seeking and may behold a hundred thousand intelligences most marvellous.

  • گر چو خفته گشت و شد ناسی ز پیش ** کی گذارندش در آن نسیان خویش 3650
  • Though he fell asleep and became oblivious of the past, how should they leave him in that self-forgetfulness?

  • باز از آن خوابش به بیداری کشند ** که کند بر حالت خود ریش‌خند
  • From that sleep they will bring him back again to wakefulness, that he may mock at his (present) state,

  • که چه غم بود آنک می‌خوردم به خواب ** چون فراموشم شد احوال صواب
  • Saying, “What was that sorrow I was suffering in my sleep? How did I forget the states of truth (the real experiences)?

  • چون ندانستم که آن غم و اعتلال ** فعل خوابست و فریبست و خیال
  • How did not I know that that sorrow and disease is the effect of sleep and is illusion and phantasy?”

  • هم‌چنان دنیا که حلم نایمست ** خفته پندارد که این خود دایمست
  • Even so this world, which is the sleeper's dream: the sleeper fancies that it is really enduring,

  • تا بر آید ناگهان صبح اجل ** وا رهد از ظلمت ظن و دغل 3655
  • Till on a sudden there shall rise the dawn of Death and he shall be delivered from the darkness of opinion and falsehood.

  • خنده‌اش گیرد از آن غمهای خویش ** چون ببیند مستقر و جای خویش
  • (Then) laughter at those sorrows of his will take possession of him when he sees his permanent abode and dwelling-place.