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1324-1333

  • When you reach the bottom of your own nature, then you will know that that vileness was from yourself.
  • چون به قعر خوی خود اندر رسی ** پس بدانی کز تو بود آن ناکسی‌‌

  • At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image. 1325
  • شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود

  • Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.
  • هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند

  • O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!
  • ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌

  • The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.
  • مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند

  • You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.
  • پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود

  • Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else). 1330
  • گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌

  • If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?
  • مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود

  • Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.
  • چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌

  • Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!
  • اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌