So that thou mayst understand those riddles of His, so that thou mayst apprehend (both) the secret sign and the open.1460
تا کنی فهم آن معماهاش را ** تا کنی ادراک رمز و فاش را
Then the spiritual ear becomes the place where wahy (inspiration) descends. What is wahy? A speech hidden from sense-perception.
پس محل وحی گردد گوش جان ** وحی چه بود گفتنی از حس نهان
The spiritual ear and eye are other than this sense-perception, the ear of (discursive) reason and the ear of opinion are destitute of this (inspiration).
گوش جان و چشم جان جز این حس است ** گوش عقل و گوش ظن زین مفلس است
The word “compulsion” (jabr) made me impatient (uncontrollable) for love's sake, while it confined in (the prison of) compulsion him who is not a lover.
لفظ جبرم عشق را بی‌‌صبر کرد ** و آن که عاشق نیست حبس جبر کرد
This is union with God, and it is not compulsion: this is the shining forth of the moon, this is not a cloud.
این معیت با حق است و جبر نیست ** این تجلی مه است این ابر نیست
And if this be compulsion, it is not the compulsion of (suffered by) the vulgar: it is not the compulsion of (exerted by) the evil-commanding self-willed (soul).1465
ور بود این جبر جبر عامه نیست ** جبر آن اماره‌‌ی خودکامه نیست
O son, (only) they know (the real meaning of) compulsion in whose hearts God has opened the sight (of the spiritual eye).
جبر را ایشان شناسند ای پسر ** که خدا بگشادشان در دل بصر
To them the unseen and the future became manifest; to them recollection of the past became naught.
غیب و آینده بر ایشان گشت فاش ** ذکر ماضی پیش ایشان گشت لاش
Their freewill and compulsion is different (from that of ordinary men): in oyster-shells drops (of rain) are pearls.
اختیار و جبر ایشان دیگر است ** قطره‌‌ها اندر صدفها گوهر است
Outside (of the shell) it is a drop of water, small or great, (but) within the shell it is a small or big pearl.
هست بیرون قطره‌‌ی خرد و بزرگ ** در صدف آن در خرد است و سترگ