’Tis the Pír full of wisdom, well-acquainted with the Way, that digs a channel for the gardens of the Universal Soul.3220
هست پیر راه دان پر فطن ** باغهای نفس کل را جوی کن
Who is able to cleanse the channel of his (sensual) self? Man's knowledge is made beneficial (only) by God's knowledge.
جوی خود را کی تواند پاک کرد ** نافع از علم خدا شد علم مرد
How shall the sword fashion its own hilt? Go, entrust (the cure of) this wound to a surgeon.
کی تراشد تیغ دسته‌‌ی خویش را ** رو به جراحی سپار این ریش را
Flies gather on every wound, so that no one sees the foulness of his wound.
بر سر هر ریش جمع آمد مگس ** تا نبیند قبح ریش خویش کس
Those flies are your (evil) thoughts and your (love of) possessions: your wound is the darkness of your (spiritual) states;
آن مگس اندیشه‌‌ها و آن مال تو ** ریش تو آن ظلمت احوال تو
And if the Pír lays a plaster on your wound, at once the pain and lamentation are stilled,3225
ور نهد مرهم بر آن ریش تو پیر ** آن زمان ساکن شود درد و نفیر
So that he (the patient) fancies it (the wound) is healed, (whereas in reality) the (healing) ray of the plaster has shone upon the (wounded) spot.
تا که پندارد که صحت یافته ست ** پرتو مرهم بر آن جا تافته ست
Beware! Do not (scornfully) turn your head away from the plaster, O you who are wounded in the back, but recognise that that (healing of the wound) proceeds from the ray: do not regard it as (proceeding) from your own constitution.
هین ز مرهم سر مکش ای پشت ریش ** و آن ز پرتو دان مدان از اصل خویش
How the writer of the (Qur’ánic) Revelation fell into apostasy because (when) the ray of the Revelation shot upon him, he recited the (revealed) verse before the Prophet, on whom be peace, (had dictated it to him); then he said, “So I too am one upon whom Revelation has descended.”
مرتد شدن کاتب وحی به سبب آن که پرتو وحی بر او زد آن آیت را پیش از پیغامبر صلی الله علیه و اله بخواند گفت پس من هم محل وحیم
Before (the time of) ‘Uthmán there was a scribe who used to be diligent in writing down the Revelation.
پیش از عثمان یکی نساخ بود ** کاو به نسخ وحی جدی می‌‌نمود
Whenever the Prophet dictated the Revelation, he would write out the same (portion) on the leaf.
چون نبی از وحی فرمودی سبق ** او همان را وانبشتی بر ورق