When he (any one) remains away from created beings, he is orphaned (single): for intimacy with God, the heart must be free (from relations with aught besides).
چون بماند از خلق گردد او یتیم ** انس حق را قلب میباید سلیم
When a thief steals some article of property from a blind man, the blind man is blindly lamenting.2375
چون ز کوری دزد دزدد کالهای ** میکند آن کور عمیا نالهای
Until the thief say to him, “’Tis I that stole from thee, for I am an artful thief,”
تا نگوید دزد او را کان منم ** کز تو دزدیدم که دزد پر فنم
How should the blind man know his thief, since he hath not the eye's light and that radiance (of vision)?
کی شناسد کور دزد خویش را ** چون ندارد نور چشم و آن ضیا
When he (the thief) speaks (and confesses), at once take tight hold of him, that he may tell the marks (descriptive) of the (stolen) goods.
چون بگوید هم بگیر او را تو سخت ** تا بگوید او علامتهای رخت
The Greater Jihád (Holy War), then, consists in squeezing the thief, in order that he may tell what he has stolen and what he has carried off.
پس جهاد اکبر آمد عصر دزد ** تا بگوید که چه دزدیده است مزد
First, he has stolen your eye-salve; when you take it (from him), you will regain (your) insight.2380
اولا دزدید کحل دیدهات ** چون ستانی باز یابی تبصرت
The goods of wisdom, which have been lost by (your) heart, are certainly to be found with the man of heart (the saint).
کالهی حکمت که گم کردهی دل است ** پیش اهل دل یقین آن حاصل است
The blind of heart, notwithstanding (his possession of) life and hearing and sight, is never knowing the devilish thief by the traces (which he leaves).
کوردل با جان و با سمع و بصر ** مینداند دزد شیطان را ز اثر
Seek (that knowledge) from the man of heart; do not seek it from the inanimate, for (all other) people are inanimate beside (in comparison with) him.
ز اهل دل جو از جماد آن را مجو ** که جماد آمد خلایق پیش او