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1576-1585

  • Where is a bird, weak and innocent, and within him Solomon with (all) his host?
  • کو یکی مرغی ضعیفی بی‌‌گناه ** و اندرون او سلیمان با سپاه‌‌

  • When he moans bitterly, without thanksgiving or complaint, a noise of tumult falls on (arises in) the Seven Spheres (of Heaven).
  • چون بنالد زار بی‌‌شکر و گله ** افتد اندر هفت گردون غلغله‌‌

  • At every moment (there come) to him from God a hundred missives, a hundred couriers: from him one (cry of) “O my Lord!” and from God a hundred (cries of) “Labbayka” (“Here am I”).
  • هر دمش صد نامه صد پیک از خدا ** یا ربی زو شصت لبیک از خدا

  • In the sight of God his backsliding is better than obedience; beside his infidelity all faiths are tattered (worthless).
  • زلت او به ز طاعت نزد حق ** پیش کفرش جمله ایمانها خلق‌‌

  • Every moment he hath an ascension (to God) peculiar to himself: He (God) lays upon his crown a hundred peculiar crowns. 1580
  • هر دمی او را یکی معراج خاص ** بر سر تاجش نهد صد تاج خاص‌‌

  • His form is on earth and his spirit in “no-place,” a “no-place” beyond the imagination of travellers (on the mystic Way):
  • صورتش بر خاک و جان بر لامکان ** لامکانی فوق وهم سالکان‌‌

  • Not such a “no-place” that it should come into thy understanding (or that) a fancy about it should be born in thee every moment;
  • لامکانی نه که در فهم آیدت ** هر دمی در وی خیالی زایدت‌‌

  • Nay, place and “no-place” are in his control, just as the four (Paradisal) rivers are in the control of one who dwells in Paradise.
  • بل مکان و لامکان در حکم او ** همچو در حکم بهشتی چارجو

  • Cut short the explanation of this and avert thy face from it: do not breathe a word (more)—and God knows best what is right.
  • شرح این کوته کن و رخ زین بتاب ** دم مزن و الله اعلم بالصواب‌‌

  • We return, O friends, to the bird and the merchant and India. 1585
  • باز می‌‌گردیم ما ای دوستان ** سوی مرغ و تاجر و هندوستان‌‌