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504-553

  • سخت خوش مستی ولی ای بوالحسن ** پاره‌ای راهست تا بینا شدن
  • Thou art mightily well drunken, but, O Bu ’l-Hasan, there is a bit of way (to be traversed ere thou attain) to seeing.

  • این نصیب کور باشد ز آفتاب ** صد چنین والله اعلم بالصواب 505
  • This is the blind man's portion from the Sun, (and) a hundred such (portions); and God best knoweth what is right.

  • وآنک او آن نور را بینا بود ** شرح او کی کار بوسینا بود
  • And he that hath vision of that Light—how should the explanation of him (his state) be a task (within the capacity) of Bú Síná?

  • ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان ** که بجنباند به کف پرده‌ی عیان
  • (Even) if it be hundredfold, who (what) is this tongue that it should move with its hand the veil of (mystical) clairvoyance?

  • وای بر وی گر بساید پرده را ** تیغ اللهی کند دستش جدا
  • Woe to it if it touch the veil! The Divine sword severs its hand.

  • دست چه بود خود سرش را بر کند ** آن سری کز جهل سرها می‌کند
  • What of the hand? It (the sword) rends off even its (the tongue's) head—the head that from ignorance puts forth many a head (of pride and self-conceit).

  • این به تقدیر سخن گفتم ترا ** ورنه خود دستش کجا و آن کجا 510
  • I have said this to you, speaking hypothetically; otherwise, indeed, how far is its hand from being able to do that!

  • خاله را خایه بدی خالو شدی ** این به تقدیر آمدست ار او بدی
  • Materterae si testiculi essent, ea avunculus esset: this is hypothetical—“if there were.” [(If) in regard to a maternal aunt there were testicles, she would would be a maternal uncle: this is hypothetical—“if there were.”]

  • از زبان تا چشم کو پاک از شکست ** صد هزاران ساله گویم اندکست
  • (If) I say that between the tongue and the eye that is free from doubt there is a hundred thousand years' (journey), ’tis little (in comparison with the reality).

  • هین مشو نومید نور از آسمان ** حق چو خواهد می‌رسد در یک زمان
  • Now come, do not despair! When God wills, light arrives from heaven in a single moment.

  • صد اثر در کانها از اختران ** می‌رساند قدرتش در هر زمان
  • At every instant His power causes a hundred influences from the stars to reach the (subterranean) mines.

  • اختر گردون ظلم را ناسخست ** اختر حق در صفاتش راسخست 515
  • The star (planet) of heaven deletes the darkness; the star of God is fixed in His Attributes.

  • چرخ پانصد ساله راه ای مستعین ** در اثر نزدیک آمد با زمین
  • O thou that seekest help, the celestial sphere, (at a distance) of five hundred years' journey, is in effect nigh unto the earth.

  • سه هزاران سال و پانصد تا زحل ** دم بدم خاصیتش آرد عمل
  • ’Tis (a journey of) three thousand five hundred years to Saturn; (yet) his special property acts incessantly (upon the earth).

  • در همش آرد چو سایه در ایاب ** طول سایه چیست پیش آفتاب
  • He (God) rolls it up like a shadow at the return (of the sun): in the sun's presence what is (what avails) the length of the shadow?

  • وز نفوس پاک اختروش مدد ** سوی اخترهای گردون می‌رسد
  • And from the pure star like souls replenishment is ever coming to the stars of heaven.

  • ظاهر آن اختران قوام ما ** باطن ما گشته قوام سما 520
  • The outward (aspect) of those stars is our ruler, (but) our inward (essence) has become the ruler of the sky.

  • در بیان آنک حکما گویند آدمی عالم صغریست و حکمای اللهی گویند آدمی عالم کبریست زیرا آن علم حکما بر صورت آدمی مقصور بود و علم این حکما در حقیقت حقیقت آدمی موصول بود
  • Explaining that (while) philosophers say that Man is the microcosm, theosophists say that Man is the macrocosm, the reason being that philosophy is confined to the phenomenal form of Man, whereas theosophy is connected with the essential truth of his true nature.

  • پس به صورت عالم اصغر توی ** پس به معنی عالم اکبر توی
  • Therefore in form thou art the microcosm, therefore in reality thou art the macrocosm.

  • ظاهر آن شاخ اصل میوه است ** باطنا بهر ثمر شد شاخ هست
  • Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.

  • گر نبودی میل و اومید ثمر ** کی نشاندی باغبان بیخ شجر
  • If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?

  • پس به معنی آن شجر از میوه زاد ** گر به صورت از شجر بودش ولاد
  • Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.

  • مصطفی زین گفت که آدم و انبیا ** خلف من باشند در زیر لوا 525
  • Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Adam and the (other) prophets are (following) behind me under (my) banner.”

  • بهر این فرموده است آن ذو فنون ** رمز نحن اخرون السابقون
  • For this reason that master of (all) sorts of knowledge has uttered the allegorical saying, “We are the last and the foremost.”

  • گر بصورت من ز آدم زاده‌ام ** من به معنی جد جد افتاده‌ام
  • (That is to say), “If in appearance I am born of Adam, in reality I am the forefather of (every) forefather,

  • کز برای من بدش سجده‌ی ملک ** وز پی من رفت بر هفتم فلک
  • Since the worship of the angels was (rendered) to him for my sake, and he ascended to the Seventh Heaven on my account.

  • پس ز من زایید در معنی پدر ** پس ز میوه زاد در معنی شجر
  • Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”

  • اول فکر آخر آمد در عمل ** خاصه فکری کو بود وصف ازل 530
  • The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal.

  • حاصل اندر یک زمان از آسمان ** می‌رود می‌آید ایدر کاروان
  • To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.

  • نیست بر این کاروان این ره دراز ** کی مفازه زفت آید با مفاز
  • This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?

  • دل به کعبه می‌رود در هر زمان ** جسم طبع دل بگیرد ز امتنان
  • The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.

  • این دراز و کوتهی مر جسم راست ** چه دراز و کوته آنجا که خداست
  • This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?

  • چون خدا مر جسم را تبدیل کرد ** رفتنش بی‌فرسخ و بی‌میل کرد 535
  • When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile.

  • صد امیدست این زمان بردار گام ** عاشقانه ای فتی خل الکلام
  • There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.

  • گرچه پله‌ی چشم بر هم می‌زنی ** در سفینه خفته‌ای ره می‌کنی
  • Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).

  • تفسیر این حدیث کی مثل امتی کمثل سفینة نوح من تمسک بها نجا و من تخلف عنها غرق
  • Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."

  • بهر این فرمود پیغامبر که من ** هم‌چو کشتی‌ام به طوفان زمن
  • On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.

  • ما و اصحابم چو آن کشتی نوح ** هر که دست اندر زند یابد فتوح
  • I and my Companions are as the Ship of Noah: whoso clings (to us) will gain (spiritual) graces.”

  • چونک با شیخی تو دور از زشتیی ** روز و شب سیاری و در کشتیی 540
  • When you are with the Shaykh you are far removed from wickedness: day and night you are a traveller and in a ship.

  • در پناه جان جان‌بخشی توی ** کشتی اندر خفته‌ای ره می‌روی
  • You are under the protection of a life-giving spirit: you are asleep in the ship, you are going on the way.

  • مسکل از پیغامبر ایام خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر فن و بر کام خویش
  • Do not break with the prophet of your days: do not rely on your own skill and footsteps.

  • گرچه شیری چون روی ره بی‌دلیل ** خویش‌بین و در ضلالی و ذلیل
  • Lion though you are, you are self-conceited and in error and contemptible when you go on the way without a guide.

  • هین مپر الا که با پرهای شیخ ** تا ببینی عون و لشکرهای شیخ
  • Beware! Do not fly but with the wings of the Shaykh, that you may see (receive) the aid of the armies of the Shaykh.

  • یک زمانی موج لطفش بال تست ** آتش قهرش دمی حمال تست 545
  • At one time the wave of his mercy is your pinion, at another moment the fire of his wrath is your carrier.

  • قهر او را ضد لطفش کم شمر ** اتحاد هر دو بین اندر اثر
  • Do not reckon his wrath to be the contrary of his mercy: behold the oneness of both (these qualities) in the effect.

  • یک زمان چون خاک سبزت می‌کند ** یک زمان پر باد و گبزت می‌کند
  • At one time he will make you green like the earth, at another time he will make you full of wind, and big.

  • جسم عارف را دهد وصف جماد ** تا برو روید گل و نسرین شاد
  • He gives the quality of inorganic things to the body of the knower (of God), in order that gay roses and eglantines may grow on it;

  • لیک او بیند نبیند غیر او ** جز به مغز پاک ندهد خلد بو
  • But he (the Shaykh) alone sees (them), none sees but he: Paradise yields no scent but to the purified brain.

  • مغز را خالی کن از انکار یار ** تا که ریحان یابد از گلزار یار 550
  • Empty your brain of disbelief in the Friend, that it may feel sweet odours from the rose-garden of the Friend;

  • تا بیابی بوی خلد از یار من ** چون محمد بوی رحمن از یمن
  • So that you may feel the scent of Paradise from my Friend, as Mohammed the scent of the Merciful (God) from Yemen.

  • در صف معراجیان گر بیستی ** چون براقت بر کشاند نیستی
  • If you stand in the rank of those who make the (spiritual) ascension, not-being (self-naughtedness) will bear you aloft, like Buráq.

  • نه چو معراج زمینی تا قمر ** بلک چون معراج کلکی تا شکر
  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a piece of earth (an earthly being) to the moon; nay, but like the ascension of a cane to sugar.