He (the prophet or saint) smiles upon you, (but) do not deem him to be such (as he appears): in his inward consciousness are hidden a hundred Resurrections.3105
بر تو میخندد مبین او را چنان ** صد قیامت در درون استش نهان
Hell and Paradise are entirely parts of him: he is beyond any thought that you may conceive (of him).
دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوست ** هر چه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست
All that you may think of is liable to pass away; he that comes not into thought is God.
هر چه اندیشی پذیرای فناست ** آن که در اندیشه ناید آن خداست
Wherefore (then do they behave with) presumption at the door of this house, if they know who is within the house?
بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیست ** گر همیدانند کاندر خانه کیست
Fools venerate the mosque and exert themselves in maltreating them that have the heart (in which God dwells).
ابلهان تعظیم مسجد میکنند ** در جفای اهل دل جد میکنند
That (mosque) is phenomenal, this (heart) is real, O asses! The (true) mosque is naught but the hearts of the (spiritual) captains.3110
آن مجاز است این حقیقت ای خران ** نیست مسجد جز درون سروران
The mosque that is the inward (consciousness) of the saints is the place of worship for all: God is there.
مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاست ** سجدهگاه جمله است آن جا خداست
Until the heart of the man of God was grieved, never did God put any generation to shame.
تا دل مرد خدا نامد به درد ** هیچ قومی را خدا رسوا نکرد
They were going to make war on the prophets: they saw the body (of the prophet), they supposed he was a man.
قصد جنگ انبیا میداشتند ** جسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند
In thee are the moral natures of those peoples of yore: how art not thou afraid lest thou be the same (as they)?
در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیان ** چون نمیترسی که تو باشی همان