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504-513

  • Thou art mightily well drunken, but, O Bu ’l-Hasan, there is a bit of way (to be traversed ere thou attain) to seeing.
  • سخت خوش مستی ولی ای بوالحسن ** پاره‌ای راهست تا بینا شدن
  • This is the blind man's portion from the Sun, (and) a hundred such (portions); and God best knoweth what is right. 505
  • این نصیب کور باشد ز آفتاب ** صد چنین والله اعلم بالصواب
  • And he that hath vision of that Light—how should the explanation of him (his state) be a task (within the capacity) of Bú Síná?
  • وآنک او آن نور را بینا بود ** شرح او کی کار بوسینا بود
  • (Even) if it be hundredfold, who (what) is this tongue that it should move with its hand the veil of (mystical) clairvoyance?
  • ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان ** که بجنباند به کف پرده‌ی عیان
  • Woe to it if it touch the veil! The Divine sword severs its hand.
  • وای بر وی گر بساید پرده را ** تیغ اللهی کند دستش جدا
  • What of the hand? It (the sword) rends off even its (the tongue's) head—the head that from ignorance puts forth many a head (of pride and self-conceit).
  • دست چه بود خود سرش را بر کند ** آن سری کز جهل سرها می‌کند
  • I have said this to you, speaking hypothetically; otherwise, indeed, how far is its hand from being able to do that! 510
  • این به تقدیر سخن گفتم ترا ** ورنه خود دستش کجا و آن کجا
  • Materterae si testiculi essent, ea avunculus esset: this is hypothetical—“if there were.” [(If) in regard to a maternal aunt there were testicles, she would would be a maternal uncle: this is hypothetical—“if there were.”]
  • خاله را خایه بدی خالو شدی ** این به تقدیر آمدست ار او بدی
  • (If) I say that between the tongue and the eye that is free from doubt there is a hundred thousand years' (journey), ’tis little (in comparison with the reality).
  • از زبان تا چشم کو پاک از شکست ** صد هزاران ساله گویم اندکست
  • Now come, do not despair! When God wills, light arrives from heaven in a single moment.
  • هین مشو نومید نور از آسمان ** حق چو خواهد می‌رسد در یک زمان