Become without sense and without ear and without thought, that ye may hear the call (of God to the soul), ‘Return!’”
بی‌‌حس و بی‌‌گوش و بی‌‌فکرت شوید ** تا خطاب ارجعی را بشنوید
So long as thou art (engaged) in the conversation of wakefulness, how wilt thou catch any scent of the conversation of sleep?
تا به گفت‌‌وگوی بیداری دری ** تو ز گفت خواب بویی کی بری
Our speech and action is the exterior journey: the interior journey is above the sky.570
سیر بیرونی است قول و فعل ما ** سیر باطن هست بالای سما
The (physical) sense saw (only) dryness, because it was born of dryness (earth): the Jesus of the spirit set foot on the sea.
حس خشکی دید کز خشکی بزاد ** عیسی جان پای بر دریا نهاد
The journey of the dry body befell on dry land, (but) the journey of the spirit set foot (took place) in the heart of the sea.
سیر جسم خشک بر خشکی فتاد ** سیر جان پا در دل دریا نهاد
Since thy life has passed in travelling on land, now mountain, now river, now desert,
چون که عمر اندر ره خشکی گذشت ** گاه کوه و گاه صحرا گاه دشت
Whence wilt thou gain the Water of Life? Where wilt thou cleave the waves of the Sea?
آب حیوان از کجا خواهی تو یافت ** موج دریا را کجا خواهی شکافت
The waves of earth are our imagination and understanding and thought; the waves of water are (mystical) self-effacement and intoxication and death (faná).575
موج خاکی وهم و فهم و فکر ماست ** موج آبی محو و سکر است و فناست
Whilst thou art in this (sensual) intoxication, thou art far from that (mystical) intoxication; whilst thou art drunken with this, thou art blind to that cup.
تا در این سکری از آن سکری تو دور ** تا از این مستی از آن جامی تو دور
Outward speech and talk is as dust: do thou for a time make a habit of silence. Take heed!
گفت‌‌وگوی ظاهر آمد چون غبار ** مدتی خاموش خو کن هوش دار
How the disciples repeated their request that he should interrupt his seclusion.