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  • عنکبوت و این صطرلاب رشاد  ** بی‌منجم در کف عام اوفتاد 
  • Without a (spiritual) astronomer (to explain their significance), the “spider” and this astrolabe which guides aright fall (uselessly) into the hands of the vulgar.

  • انبیا را داد حق تنجیم این  ** غیب را چشمی بباید غیب‌بین 
  • God bestowed (knowledge of) this (spiritual) astronomy on the prophets: for (the mysteries of) the Unseen an eye that observes the Unseen is necessary.

  • در چه دنیا فتادند این قرون  ** عکس خود را دید هر یک چه درون 
  • These (worldly) generations fell into the well of the present world: every one saw in the well his own reflexion.

  • از برون دان آنچ در چاهت نمود  ** ورنه آن شیری که در چه شد فرود  3145
  • Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned).

  • برد خرگوشیش از ره کای فلان  ** در تگ چاهست آن شیر ژیان 
  • A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well.

  • در رو اندر چاه کین از وی بکش  ** چون ازو غالب‌تری سر بر کنش 
  • Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”

  • آن مقلد سخره‌ی خرگوش شد  ** از خیال خویشتن پر جوش شد 
  • That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy.

  • او نگفت این نقش داد آب نیست  ** این به جز تقلیب آن قلاب نیست 
  • He did not say, “This image is not produced by the water: this is not (produced) by anything except the changing activity of the (Divine) Changer.”

  • تو هم از دشمن چو کینی می‌کشی  ** ای زبون شش غلط در هر ششی  3150
  • So when you, O slave to the six (directions), wreak vengeance on your enemy you are in error concerning all the six.

  • آن عداوت اندرو عکس حقست  ** کز صفات قهر آنجا مشتقست 
  • That enmity in him (your enemy) is reflected from God, for it is derived from the (Divine) attributes of Wrath (which are manifested) there;

  • وآن گنه در وی ز جنس جرم تست  ** باید آن خو را ز طبع خویش شست 
  • And that sin in him is homogeneous with your sin: you must wash that (evil) disposition out of your own nature.

  • خلق زشتت اندرو رویت نمود  ** که ترا او صفحه‌ی آیینه بود 
  • Your evil character showed itself to you in him because he was (like) the surface of a mirror to you.

  • چونک قبح خویش دیدی ای حسن  ** اندر آیینه بر آیینه مزن 
  • When you have seen your ugliness in the mirror, O Hasan, do not strike (a blow) at the mirror!

  • می‌زند بر آب استاره‌ی سنی  ** خاک تو بر عکس اختر می‌زنی  3155
  • A lofty star is reflected in the water, and you cast earth on the star's reflexion,

  • کین ستاره‌ی نحس در آب آمدست  ** تا کند او سعد ما را زیردست 
  • Saying, “This unlucky star has come into the water to overthrow my good luck.”

  • خاک استیلا بریزی بر سرش  ** چونک پنداری ز شبهه اخترش 
  • You pour upon it the earth of subjection, because on account of the resemblance you deem it to be the star (itself).

  • عکس پنهان گشت و اندر غیب راند  ** تو گمان بردی که آن اختر نماند 
  • (When) the reflexion becomes hidden (from sight) and disappears, you think that the star is no more;

  • آن ستاره‌ی نحس هست اندر سما  ** هم بدان سو بایدش کردن دوا 
  • (But) the unlucky star is in the sky: ’tis in that quarter it must be cured (of its ill-luck);

  • بلک باید دل سوی بی‌سوی بست  ** نحس این سو عکس نحس بی‌سو است  3160
  • Nay, you must fix your heart on that which is quarterless (illimitable); the ill-luck in this quarter is (only) the reflexion of the ill-luck in the realm where no quarters exist.

  • داد داد حق شناس و بخششش  ** عکس آن دادست اندر پنج و شش 
  • Know that (all) gifts are the gift of God and are His bounty: ’tis the reflexion of those gifts that appears in (the world of) the five (senses) and the six (directions).

  • گر بود داد خسان افزون ز ریگ  ** تو بمیری وآن بماند مردریگ 
  • Though the gifts of the base (worldlings) be more (in number) than the sands, (yet) you will die and they will be left behind as an inheritance.

  • عکس آخر چند پاید در نظر  ** اصل بینی پیشه کن ای کژنگر 
  • After all, how long does a reflexion remain in view? Make a practice of contemplating the origin (of the reflexion), O you who look awry.

  • حق چو بخشش کرد بر اهل نیاز  ** با عطا بخشیدشان عمر دراز 
  • When God bestows bounty on those who supplicate Him in their need, together with His gift He bestows on them a long life.

  • خالدین شد نعمت و منعم علیه  ** محیی الموتاست فاجتازوا الیه  3165
  • (Both) the benefit and the beneficiary are made enduring for ever. ’Tis He that brings the dead to life, so repair unto Him.

  • داد حق با تو در آمیزد چو جان  ** آنچنان که آن تو باشی و تو آن 
  • The gifts of God are mingled with you like the spirit, in such wise that you are they and they are you.

  • گر نماند اشتهای نان و آب  ** بدهدت بی این دو قوت مستطاب 
  • If you have no more appetite for bread and water, He will give you goodly nourishment without these twain.

  • فربهی گر رفت حق در لاغری  ** فربهی پنهانت بخشد آن سری 
  • If your fatness is gone, God will give you from yonder a (spiritual) fatness concealed in (bodily) leanness.

  • چون پری را قوت از بو می‌دهد  ** هر ملک را قوت جان او می‌دهد 
  • Since He gives the peri nourishment from scent and gives every angel nourishment from spirit,

  • جان چه باشد که تو سازی زو سند  ** حق به عشق خویش زنده‌ت می‌کند  3170
  • What is the (animal) soul that you should make a support of (should rely upon) it? God will make you living by His love.

  • زو حیات عشق خواه و جان مخواه  ** تو ازو آن رزق خواه و نان مخواه 
  • Ask of Him the life of love and do not ask for the (animal) soul: ask of Him that (spiritual) provision and do not ask for bread.

  • خلق را چون آب دان صاف و زلال  ** اندر آن تابان صفات ذوالجلال 
  • Know that (the world of) created beings is like pure and limpid water in which the attributes of the Almighty are shining.

  • علمشان و عدلشان و لطفشان  ** چون ستاره‌ی چرخ در آب روان 
  • Their knowledge and their justice and their clemency are like a star of heaven (reflected) in running water.

  • پادشاهان مظهر شاهی حق  ** فاضلان مرآت آگاهی حق 
  • Kings are the theatre for the manifestation of God's kingship; the learned (divines) are the mirrors for God's wisdom.

  • قرنها بگذشت و این قرن نویست  ** ماه آن ماهست آب آن آب نیست  3175
  • Generations have passed away, and this is a new generation: the moon is the same moon, the water is not the same water.

  • عدل آن عدلست و فضل آن فضل هم  ** لیک مستبدل شد آن قرن و امم 
  • The justice is the same justice, and the learning is the same learning too; but those generations and peoples have been changed (supplanted by others).

  • قرنها بر قرنها رفت ای همام  ** وین معانی بر قرار و بر دوام 
  • Generations on generations have gone, O sire, but these Ideas (Divine attributes) are permanent and everlasting.

  • آن مبدل شد درین جو چند بار  ** عکس ماه و عکس اختر بر قرار 
  • The water in this channel has been changed many times: the reflexion of the moon and of the stars remains unaltered.

  • پس بنااش نیست بر آب روان  ** بلک بر اقطار عرض آسمان 
  • Therefore its foundation is not in the running water; nay, but in the regions of the breadth (wide expanse) of Heaven.

  • این صفتها چون نجوم معنویست  ** دانک بر چرخ معانی مستویست  3180
  • These attributes are like Ideal stars: know that they are stablished in the sphere of the Ideas (Realities).

  • خوب‌رویان آینه‌ی خوبی او  ** عشق ایشان عکس مطلوبی او 
  • The beauteous are the mirror of His beauty: love for them is the reflexion of the desire of which He is the (real) object.

  • هم به اصل خود رود این خد و خال  ** دایما در آب کی ماند خیال 
  • This cheek and mole goes (back) to the Source thereof: how should a phantom continue in the water for ever?

  • جمله تصویرات عکس آب جوست  ** چون بمالی چشم خود خود جمله اوست 
  • The whole sum of pictured forms (phenomena) is a (mere) reflexion in the water of the river: when you rub your eye, (you will perceive that) all of them are really He.

  • باز عقلش گفت بگذار این حول  ** خل دوشابست و دوشابست خل 
  • Again, his (the debtor's) reason said (to him), “Abandon this seeing double: vinegar is grape-syrup and grape-syrup is vinegar.

  • خواجه را چون غیر گفتی از قصور  ** شرم‌دار ای احول از شاه غیور  3185
  • Since, from defect (of vision), you have called the Khwája ‘other’ (than God), be ashamed (contrite) before the jealous King, O man of double sight.

  • خواجه را که در گذشتست از اثیر  ** جنس این موشان تاریکی مگیر 
  • Do not suppose the Khwája, who has passed beyond the aether (the ninth celestial sphere), to be homogeneous with these mice of darkness.

  • خواجه‌ی جان بین مبین جسم گران  ** مغز بین او را مبینش استخوان 
  • Regard the Khwája as spirit, do not regard him as gross body: regard him as marrow, do not regard him as bone.

  • خواجه را از چشم ابلیس لعین  ** منگر و نسبت مکن او را به طین 
  • Do not look at the Khwája with the eye of Iblís the accursed, and do not relate him (refer his origin) to clay.

  • همره خورشید را شب‌پر مخوان  ** آنک او مسجود شد ساجد مدان 
  • Do not call the fellow-traveller of the Sun ‘a bat’: do not call him who was worshipped (by the angels) a worshipper (of the material).

  • عکس‌ها را ماند این و عکس نیست  ** در مثال عکس حق بنمودنیست  3190
  • This (Khwája) resembles the (other) reflexions; but (in reality) ’tis not a reflexion, ’tis the appearance of God in the likeness of a reflexion.

  • آفتابی دید او جامد نماند  ** روغن گل روغن کنجد نماند 
  • He beheld a Sun and remained frozen no more: the oil of roses was no longer (mingled with) oil of sesame.