To God (alone) belongs this foot (power) to kill it: who, indeed, but God should draw its bow (vanquish it)?
این قدم حق را بود کاو را کشد ** غیر حق خود کی کمان او کشد
Only the straight arrow is put on the bow, (but) this bow (of the self) has (its) arrows bent back and crooked.
در کمان ننهند الا تیر راست ** این کمان را باژگون کژ تیرهاست
Be straight, like an arrow, and escape from the bow, for without doubt every straight (arrow) will fly from the bow (to its mark).1385
راست شو چون تیر و واره از کمان ** کز کمان هر راست بجهد بیگمان
When I turned back from the outer warfare, I set my face towards the inner warfare.
چون که واگشتم ز پیکار برون ** روی آوردم به پیکار درون
We have returned from the lesser Jihád, we are engaged along with the Prophet in the greater Jihád.
قد رجعنا من جهاد الاصغریم ** با نبی اندر جهاد اکبریم
I pray God to grant me strength and aid and (the right of) boasting, that I may root up with a needle this mountain of Qáf.
قوت از حق خواهم و توفیق و لاف ** تا به سوزن بر کنم این کوه قاف
Deem of small account the lion (champion) who breaks the ranks (of the enemy): the (true) lion is he that breaks (conquers) himself.
سهل شیری دان که صفها بشکند ** شیر آن است آن که خود را بشکند
How the ambassador of Rúm came to the Commander of the Faithful, ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, and witnessed the gifts of grace with which ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, was endowed.
آمدن رسول روم تا نزد عمر و دیدن او کرامات عمر را
To ‘Umar in Medina there came through the wide desert an ambassador from the Emperor of Rúm.1390
تا عمر آمد ز قیصر یک رسول ** در مدینه از بیابان نغول
He said, “O ye attendants, where is the palace of the Caliph, that I may take thither my horse and baggage?”
گفت کو قصر خلیفه ای حشم ** تا من اسب و رخت را آن جا کشم
The folk said to him, “He has no palace: ‘Umar's (only) palace is an illumined spirit.
قوم گفتندش که او را قصر نیست ** مر عمر را قصر، جان روشنی است