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  • گر بمیرد استخوانش غرق ذوق  ** ذره ذره‌ش در شعاع نور شوق 
  • If he die, his bones are drowned in (spiritual) savour; every mote of him is (floating) in the beams of the light of love-desire.

  • وآنک آنش نیست باغ بی‌ثمر  ** که خزانش می‌کند زیر و زبر 
  • And he who hath not that (Light) is an orchard without fruit, which the autumn brings to ruin.

  • گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه  ** زرد و بی‌مغز آمده چون تل کاه 
  • The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.

  • تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا  ** که ازو این حله‌ها گردد جدا 
  • O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.

  • خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن  ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن  980
  • “It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!”

  • شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست  ** عالمش می‌راند از خود جرم چیست 
  • The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?

  • جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست  ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست 
  • “The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.

  • واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین  ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانه‌چین 
  • We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;

  • تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود  ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود 
  • That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”

  • آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر  ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر  985
  • (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence.

  • باز می‌گردند چون استارها  ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها 
  • They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.

  • پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه  ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه 
  • (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.

  • آنک کرد او در رخ خوبانت دنگ  ** نور خورشیدست از شیشه‌ی سه رنگ 
  • That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.

  • شیشه‌های رنگ رنگ آن نور را  ** می‌نمایند این چنین رنگین بما 
  • The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.

  • چون نماند شیشه‌های رنگ‌رنگ  ** نور بی‌رنگت کند آنگاه دنگ  990
  • When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed.

  • خوی کن بی‌شیشه دیدن نور را  ** تا چو شیشه بشکند نبود عمی 
  • Make it thy habit to behold the Light without the glass, in order that when the glass is shattered there may not be blindness (in thee).

  • قانعی با دانش آموخته  ** در چراغ غیر چشم افروخته 
  • Thou art content with knowledge learned (from others): thou hast lit thine eye at another's lamp.

  • او چراغ خویش برباید که تا  ** تو بدانی مستعیری نی‌فتا 
  • He takes away his lamp, that thou mayst know thou art a borrower, not a giver.

  • گر تو کردی شکر و سعی مجتهد  ** غم مخور که صد چنان بازت دهد 
  • If thou hast rendered thanks (to God for what thou hast received) and made the utmost exertion (in doing so), be not grieved (at its loss), for He will give (thee) a hundred such (gifts) in return;

  • ور نکردی شکر اکنون خون گری  ** که شدست آن حسن از کافر بری  995
  • But if thou hast not rendered thanks, weep (tears of) blood now, for that (spiritual) excellence has become quit of (has abandoned) the ungrateful.

  • امة الکفران اضل اعمالهم  ** امة الایمان اصلح بالهم 
  • He (God) causeth the works of the unbelieving people to be lost; He maketh the state of the believing people to prosper.

  • گم شد از بی‌شکر خوبی و هنر  ** که دگر هرگز نبیند زان اثر 
  • From the ungrateful man (his) excellence and knowledge disappear, so that never again does he see a trace of them.

  • خویشی و بی‌خویشی و سکر وداد  ** رفت زان سان که نیاردشان به یاد 
  • (His feelings of) affinity and non-affinity and gratitude and affection vanish in such wise that he cannot remember them;

  • که اضل اعمالهم ای کافران  ** جستن کامست از هر کام‌ران 
  • For, O ingrates, (the words) He causeth their works to be lost are (signify) the flight of (every) object of desire from every one who has obtained his desire (in this world),

  • جز ز اهل شکر و اصحاب وفا  ** که مریشان راست دولت در قفا  1000
  • Excepting the thankful and faithful who are attended by fortune.

  • دولت رفته کجا قوت دهد  ** دولت آینده خاصیت دهد 
  • How should the past fortune bestow strength (on its possessors)? ’Tis the future fortune that bestows a special virtue.

  • قرض ده زین دولت اندر اقرضوا  ** تا که صد دولت ببینی پیش رو 
  • In (obedience to the Divine command) “Lend,” make a loan (to God) from this (worldly) fortune, that thou mayst see a hundred fortunes before thy face.

  • اندکی زین شرب کم کن بهر خویش  ** تا که حوض کوثری یابی به پیش 
  • Diminish a little for thine own sake this (eating and) drinking, that thou mayst find in front (of thee) the basin of Kawthar.

  • جرعه بر خاک وفا آنکس که ریخت  ** کی تواند صید دولت زو گریخت 
  • He who poured a draught on the earth of faithfulness, how should the prey, fortune, be able to flee from him?

  • خوش کند دلشان که اصلح بالهم  ** رد من بعد التوی انزالهم  1005
  • He (God) gladdens their hearts, for He maketh their state to prosper: He restoreth their (worldly) entertainment after they have perished.

  • ای اجل وی ترک غارت‌ساز ده  ** هر چه بردی زین شکوران باز ده 
  • (He says), “O Death, O Turcoman who plunderest the village, give back whatsoever thou hast taken from these thankful ones.”

  • وا دهد ایشان بنپذیرند آن  ** زانک منعم گشته‌اند از رخت جان 
  • He (Death) gives it back; (but) they will not receive it, for they have been endowed with the goods of spiritual life.

  • صوفییم و خرقه‌ها انداختیم  ** باز نستانیم چون در باختیم 
  • (They say), “We are Súfís and have cast off our (bodily) mantles: we will not take (them) back after we have gambled (them) away.

  • ما عوض دیدیم آنگه چون عوض  ** رفت از ما حاجت و حرص و غرض 
  • We have seen the recompense (from God)—(and) how (can there be) a (worldly) recompense then (after that)? Want and desire and object are gone from us.

  • ز آب شور و مهلکی بیرون شدیم  ** بر رحیق و چشمه‌ی کوثر زدیم  1010
  • We have emerged from a briny and destroying water, we have attained to the pure wine (of Paradise) and the fountain of Kawthar.

  • آنچ کردی ای جهان با دیگران  ** بی‌وفایی و فن و ناز گران 
  • O World, that which thou hast shown unto others—faithlessness and deceit and grievous pride—

  • بر سرت ریزیم ما بهر جزا  ** که شهیدیم آمده اندر غزا 
  • We pour (it all) on thy head in repayment, for we are martyrs come to war (against thee).”

  • تا بدانی که خدای پاک را  ** بندگان هستند پر حمله و مری 
  • (This is) in order that you may know that the Holy God hath servants impetuous and combative,

  • سبلت تزویر دنیا بر کنند  ** خیمه را بر باروی نصرت زنند 
  • (Who) tear out the moustache of worldly hypocrisy and pitch their tents on the rampart of (Divine) aid.

  • این شهیدان باز نو غازی شدند  ** وین اسیران باز بر نصرت زدند  1015
  • These martyrs have become warriors anew, and these captives have gained the victory once more;

  • سر برآوردند باز از نیستی  ** که ببین ما را گر اکمه نیستی 
  • They have lifted up their heads again from non-existence, saying, “Behold us if thou art not blind from birth,”

  • تا بدانی در عدم خورشیدهاست  ** وآنچ اینجا آفتاب آنجا سهاست 
  • That you may know that in non-existence there are suns, and that what is a sun here is (only) a small star yonder.

  • در عدم هستی برادر چون بود  ** ضد اندر ضد چون مکنون بود 
  • How, O brother, is existence (contained) in non-existence? How is opposite concealed in opposite?

  • یخرج الحی من المیت بدان  ** که عدم آمد امید عابدان 
  • He brings forth the living from the dead: know that the hope of (His) worshippers is non-existence.

  • مرد کارنده که انبارش تهیست  ** شاد و خوش نه بر امید نیستیست  1020
  • The sower whose barn is empty, is not he joyful and happy in hope of non-existence—

  • که بروید آن ز سوی نیستی  ** فهم کن گر واقف معنیستی 
  • (Namely, in the hope) that that (crop) will grow from the quarter of nonexistence? Apprehend (this) if thou art aware of (spiritual) reality.

  • دم به دم از نیستی تو منتظر  ** که بیابی فهم و ذوق آرام و بر 
  • Moment by moment thou art expecting from non-existence to gain understanding and (spiritual) perception and peace and good.

  • نیست دستوری گشاد این راز را  ** ورنه بغدادی کنم ابخاز را 
  • ’Tis not permitted to divulge this mystery; else I should make Abkház a Baghdád.

  • پس خزانه‌ی صنع حق باشد عدم  ** که بر آرد زو عطاها دم به دم 
  • Non-existence, then, is God's factory from which He continually produces gifts.

  • مبدع آمد حق و مبدع آن بود  ** که برآرد فرع بی‌اصل و سند  1025
  • God is the Originator, and an originator is he who produces a branch (derivative) without root (fundamental principle) or support (model).

  • مثال عالم هست نیست‌نما و عالم نیست هست‌نما 
  • Parable of the world (really) existent that appears non-existent and the world (really) non-existent that appears existent.