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1602-1611

  • For a prophet does not speak from self-will: how should self-will proceed from him who is preserved by God?
  • زانک ما ینطق رسول بالهوی  ** کی هوا زاید ز معصوم خدا 

  • Make yourself one that speaks eloquently from ecstatic feeling, lest you become a slave to argumentation like me.”
  • خویشتن را ساز منطیقی ز حال  ** تا نگردی هم‌چو من سخره‌ی مقال 

  • How the Súfi questioned the Cadi.
  • سال کردن آن صوفی قاضی را 

  • The Súfi said, “Since (all) the gold is from a single Mine, why is this beneficial and that other harmful?
  • گفت صوفی چون ز یک کانست زر  ** این چرا نفعست و آن دیگر ضرر 

  • Since the whole (Creation) has come from a single Hand, why has this one come sober and that one intoxicated? 1605
  • چونک جمله از یکی دست آمدست  ** این چرا هوشیار و آن مست آمدست 

  • Since (all) these rivers flow from a single Sea, why is this one honey and that one poison in the mouth?
  • چون ز یک دریاست این جوها روان  ** این چرا نوش است و آن زهر دهان 

  • Since all lights are (derived) from the everlasting Sun, wherefore did the true dawn and the false dawn rise?
  • چون همه انوار از شمس بقاست  ** صبح صادق صبح کاذب از چه خاست 

  • Since the blackness of every seeing person’s eye is (derived) from a single Collyrium, wherefore did true sight and strabism come (into being)?
  • چون ز یک سرمه‌ست ناظر را کحل  ** از چه آمد راست‌بینی و حول 

  • Since God is the Governor of the Mint, how is it that (both) good and spurious coins are struck?
  • چونک دار الضرب را سلطان خداست  ** نقد را چون ضرب خوب و نارواست 

  • Since God has called the Way ‘My Way,’ wherefore is this one a trusty escort and that one a brigand? 1610
  • چون خدا فرمود ره را راه من  ** این خفیر از چیست و آن یک راه‌زن 

  • How can (both) the (noble) freeman and the (base) fool come from a single womb, since it is certain that the son is (the expression of) his father’s inmost nature?
  • از یک اشکم چون رسد حر و سفیه  ** چون یقین شد الولد سر ابیه