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1579-1588

  • 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

  • The merchant accepted this message (and promised) that he would convey the greeting from her (the parrot) to her congeners.
  • مرد بازرگان پذیرفت این پیام ** کاو رساند سوی جنس از وی سلام‌‌

  • How the merchant saw the parrots of India in the plain and delivered the parrot's message.
  • دیدن خواجه طوطیان هندوستان را در دشت و پیغام رسانیدن از آن طوطی‌‌

  • When he reached the farthest bounds of India, he saw a number of parrots in the plain.
  • چون که تا اقصای هندوستان رسید ** در بیابان طوطی چندی بدید

  • He halted his beast; then he gave voice, delivered the greeting and (discharged) the trust.
  • مرکب استانید پس آواز داد ** آن سلام و آن امانت باز داد