The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.
آن نمکسار معانی معنویست ** از ازل آن تا ابد اندر نویست
This (earthly) newness has oldness as its opposite, but that newness (belonging to the world of Reality) is without opposite or like or number.1860
این نوی را کهنگی ضدش بود ** آن نوی بی ضد و بی ند و عدد
’Tis (even) as by the polishing action of the Light of Mustafá (Mohammed) a hundred thousand sorts of darkness became radiant.
آنچنان که از صقل نور مصطفی ** صد هزاران نوع ظلمت شد ضیا
Jew and polytheist and Christian and Magian—all were made of one colour by that Alp Ulugh (great hero).
از جهود و مشرک و ترسا و مغ ** جملگی یکرنگ شد زان الپ الغ
A hundred thousand shadows short and long became one in the light of that Sun of mystery.
صد هزاران سایه کوتاه و دراز ** شد یکی در نور آن خورشید راز
Neither a long (shadow) remained nor a short nor a wide: shadows of every kind were given in pawn to (absorbed in) the Sun.
نه درازی ماند نه کوته نه پهن ** گونه گونه سایه در خورشید رهن
But the unicolority that is (everywhere) at the Resurrection is (then) revealed and (made) manifest to the evil and the good (alike);1865
لیک یکرنگی که اندر محشرست ** بر بد و بر نیک کشف و ظاهرست
For in that world ideas are endued with form, and our (visible) shapes become congruous with our (moral and spiritual) qualities.
که معانی آن جهان صورت شود ** نقشهامان در خور خصلت شود
The (secret) thoughts will then become (materialised in) the form of the books (recording good and evil actions): this lining will become the working surface of the garments.
گردد آنگه فکر نقش نامهها ** این بطانه روی کار جامهها
During this (present) time (men's) inward beliefs are (as variegated) as a piebald cow, and in the (different) religious sects the spindle of speech is spinning (threads of) a hundred colours.
این زمان سرها مثال گاو پیس ** دوک نطق اندر ملل صد رنگ ریس