The quality of purity is an endowment (settled) on the light of the moon, though its radiance is (falling) on the defilements of the way.1260
وصف پاکی وقف بر نور مهاست ** تا بشش گر بر نجاسات رهاست
Malignity does not accrue to the light of the moon from those defilements of the way or from pollution.
زان نجاسات ره و آلودگی ** نور را حاصل نگردد بدرگی
The light of the sun heard (the call) Return! and came back in haste to its source.
ارجعی بشنود نور آفتاب ** سوی اصل خویش باز آمد شتاب
No disgrace remained with it from the ashpits, no colour remained with it from the rose-gardens.
نه ز گلحنها برو ننگی بماند ** نه ز گلشنها برو رنگی بماند
The light of the eye and the seer of the light returned (to their source): the desert and plain were left in passionate desire thereof.
نور دیده و نوردیده بازگشت ** ماند در سودای او صحرا و دشت
A certain man asked a mystic theologian, “If any one weep loudly during the ritual prayer and moan and lament, is his prayer rendered void?” He replied, “The name of those (tears) is ‘water of the eye’: consider what that weeper has seen: if he has seen (felt) longing for God or repentance for a sin and weeps, his prayer is not spoilt; nay, it attains perfection, for ‘there is no prayer without presence of the heart’; but if he has (inwardly) seen bodily sickness or the loss of a son, his prayer is spoilt, for the foundation of prayer is the abandonment of the body and the abandonment of sons, like Abraham, who was offering his son as a sacrifice in order to perfect his prayer and giving up his body to Nimrod's fire; and Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, was commanded (by God) to act after these manners: “follow the religion of Abraham.” “Verily ye have had a good example in Abraham.”
یکی پرسید از عالمی عارفی کی اگر در نماز کسی بگرید به آواز و آه کند و نوحه کند نمازش باطل شود جواب گفت کی نام آن آب دیده است تا آن گرینده چه دیده است اگر شوق خدا دیده است و میگرید یا پشیمانی گناهی نمازش تباه نشود بلک کمال گیرد کی لا صلوة الا بحضور القلب و اگر او رنجوری تن یا فراق فرزند دیده است نمازش تباه شود کی اصل نماز ترک تن است و ترک فرزند ابراهیموار کی فرزند را قربان میکرد از بهر تکمیل نماز و تن را به آتش نمرود میسپرد و امر آمد مصطفی را علیهالسلام بدین خصال کی فاتبع ملة ابراهیم لقد کانت لکم اسوة حسنة فیابراهیم
A certain man asked a mufti in private, “If any one weep lamentably during the ritual prayer,1265
آن یکی پرسید از مفتی به راز ** گر کسی گرید به نوحه در نماز
I wonder, will his prayer be rendered void, or will his prayer be licit and perfect?”
آن نماز او عجب باطل شود ** یا نمازش جایز و کامل بود
He replied, “Wherefore is it named ‘the water of the eye’? You should consider what it (the eye) saw and (then) wept.
گفت آب دیده نامش بهر چیست ** بنگری تا که چه دید او و گریست
Consider what the water of the eye saw in secret, so that on that account it began to flow from its spring.
آب دیده تا چه دید او از نهان ** تا بدان شد او ز چشمهی خود روان
If the supplicant has seen yonder world, that prayer (of his) gains a lustre from (his) lamentation;
آن جهان گر دیده است آن پر نیاز ** رونقی یابد ز نوحه آن نماز