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2463-2472

  • Is it not (true) that my heart (spirit) and body are under His control, (so that) at one moment He makes me a kernel, at another moment a rind?
  • نی که قلب و قالبم در حکم اوست ** لحظه‌‌ای مغزم کند یک لحظه پوست‌‌

  • When He bids me be a cornfield, I become green; when He bids me be ugly, I become yellow.
  • سبز گردم چون که گوید کشت باش ** زرد گردم چون که گوید زشت باش‌‌

  • At one moment He makes me a moon, at another black.” How, indeed, is the action of God other than this? 2465
  • لحظه‌‌ای ماهم کند یک دم سیاه ** خود چه باشد غیر این کار اله‌‌

  • Before the (blows of the) bat of His decree, “Be, and it was,” we are running (like balls) in Space and beyond.
  • پیش چوگانهای حکم کن فکان ** می‌‌دویم اندر مکان و لامکان‌‌

  • Since colourlessness (pure Unity) became the captive of colour (manifestation in the phenomenal world), a Moses came into conflict with a Moses.
  • چون که بی‌‌رنگی اسیر رنگ شد ** موسیی با موسیی در جنگ شد

  • When you attain unto the colourlessness which you (originally) possessed, Moses and Pharaoh are at peace (with each other).
  • چون به بی‌‌رنگی رسی کان داشتی ** موسی و فرعون دارند آشتی‌‌

  • If it occurs to you to ask questions about this mystery, (I reply), how should (the world of) colour be devoid of contradiction?
  • گر ترا آید بر این نکته سؤال ** رنگ کی خالی بود از قیل و قال‌‌

  • The marvel is that this colour arose from that which is colourless: how did colour arise to war with the colourless? 2470
  • این عجب کاین رنگ از بی‌‌رنگ خاست ** رنگ با بی‌‌رنگ چون در جنگ خاست‌‌

  • The original source of oil (the oil producing tree) is made to grow by means of water: how (then) does it (oil) finally become opposed to water?
  • چون که روغن را ز آب اسرشته‌‌اند ** آب با روغن چرا ضد گشته‌‌اند

  • Since the rose springs from the thorn, and the thorn from the rose, why are both of them at war and (engaged) in recrimination?
  • چون گل از خار است و خار از گل چرا ** هر دو در جنگند و اندر ماجرا