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6
206-215

  • Although the destination of these two ways is unto Thee alone, yet the battle is never like the banquet.”
  • زین دو ره گرچه به جز تو عزم نیست  ** لیک هرگز رزم هم‌چون بزم نیست 

  • Hearken to the explanation thereof given by God in the Qur’án, (namely) the Verse they shrank from bearing it.
  • در نبی بشنو بیانش از خدا  ** آیت اشفقن ان یحملنها 

  • This perplexity in the heart is like war: (when a man is perplexed he says, “I wonder) whether this is better for my case or that.”
  • این تردد هست در دل چون وغا  ** کین بود به یا که آن حال مرا 

  • In perplexity the fear (of failure) and the hope of success are always in conflict with each other, (now) advancing and (now) retreating.
  • در تردد می‌زند بر همدگر  ** خوف و اومید بهی در کر و فر 

  • A prayer and a seeking refuge with God from the temptation of free-will and from the temptation of those things that minister to free-will; for the heavens and the earths dreaded and feared free-will and the things that minister to it, while the nature of Man is addicted to seeking free-will and all that ministers to his free-will; as (for example) if he is sick he feels himself to have little free-will and desires health, which ministers to free-will, in order that his free-will may be increased; and he desires high office in order that his free-will may be increased. And it was excess of free-will and of whatever ministers to it that caused the wrath of God to fall upon the peoples of the past. No one ever saw Pharaoh destitute.
  • مناجات و پناه جستن به حق از فتنه‌ی اختیار و از فتنه‌ی اسباب اختیار کی سماوات و ارضین از اختیار و اسباب اختیار شکوهیدند و ترسیدند و خلقت آدمی مولع افتاد بر طلب اختیار و اسباب اختیار خویش چنانک بیمار باشد خود را اختیار کم بیند صحت خواهد کی سبب اختیارست تا اختیارش بیفزاید و منصب خواهد تا اختیارش بیفزاید و مهبط قهر حق در امم ماضیه فرط اختیار و اسباب اختیار بوده است هرگز فرعون بی‌نوا کس ندیده است 

  • From Thee first came this ebb and flow within me; else, O glorious One, this sea (of mine) was still. 210
  • اولم این جزر و مد از تو رسید  ** ورنه ساکن بود این بحر ای مجید 

  • From the same source whence Thou gavest me this perplexity, graciously (now) make me unperplexed likewise.
  • هم از آنجا کین تردد دادیم  ** بی‌تردد کن مرا هم از کرم 

  • Thou art afflicting me. Ah, help (me), O Thou by whose affliction men are (made weak) as women.
  • ابتلاام می‌کنی آه الغیاث  ** ای ذکور از ابتلاات چون اناث 

  • How long (will) this affliction (continue)? Do not (afflict me), O Lord! Bestow on me one path, do not make me follow ten paths!
  • تا بکی این ابتلا یا رب مکن  ** مذهبی‌ام بخش و ده‌مذهب مکن 

  • I am (like) an emaciated camel, and my back is wounded by my free-will which resembles a pack-saddle.
  • اشتری‌ام لاغری و پشت ریش  ** ز اختیار هم‌چو پالان‌شکل خویش 

  • At one moment this pannier weighs heavily on this side, at another moment that pannier sags to that side. 215
  • این کژاوه گه شود این سو گران  ** آن کژاوه گه شود آن سو کشان