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1651-1660

  • The people of that (other) world, like that world, on account of (their) probity continue for ever in (observance of their) covenant and promise.
  • اهل آن عالم چو آن عالم ز بر ** تا ابد در عهد و پیمان مستمر
  • When, in sooth, did two prophets oppose each other? When did they wrest (their) evidential miracles (spiritual powers and privileges) from one another?
  • خود دو پیغمبر به هم کی ضد شدند ** معجزات از همدگر کی بستدند
  • How should the fruit of that world become stale? Intellectual joy does not turn into sorrows.
  • کی شود پژمرده میوه‌ی آن جهان ** شادی عقلی نگردد اندهان
  • The fleshly soul is unplighted (bound by no covenant); for that reason it ought to be killed: it is base, and base is the spot to which its desires are directed.
  • نفس بی‌عهدست زان رو کشتنیست ** او دنی و قبله‌گاه او دنیست
  • This assembly (the world) is well-adapted for fleshly souls: the grave and shroud are suitable to the dead. 1655
  • نفسها را لایقست این انجمن ** مرده را درخور بود گور و کفن
  • Although the fleshly soul is sagacious and acute, its qibla (objective) is this world, (therefore) regard it as dead.
  • نفس اگر چه زیرکست و خرده‌دان ** قبله‌اش دنیاست او را مرده دان
  • (But when) the water of God's inspiration has reached this dead (soul), the living (soul) comes into view (rises) from the tomb of a corpse.
  • آب وحی حق بدین مرده رسید ** شد ز خاک مرده‌ای زنده پدید
  • Until inspiration comes, do not thou (meanwhile) be duped by that rouge (vanity) of “May his life be long!”
  • تا نیاید وحش تو غره مباش ** تو بدان گلگونه‌ی طال بقاش
  • Seek the applause and renown that does not die away, the splendour of the sun that does not sink.
  • بانگ و صیتی جو که آن خامل نشد ** تاب خورشیدی که آن آفل نشد
  • Those abstruse sciences and disputations are (like) the people of Pharaoh: Death is like the water of the Nile. 1660
  • آن هنرهای دقیق و قال و قیل ** قوم فرعون‌اند اجل چون آب نیل