In that quarter where, in order to avert a calamity, you seek wind for (winnowing) the corn or (speeding) a ship (on its way);
آن طرف که بهر دفع زشتیی ** باد جویی بهر کشت و کشتیی
In that quarter which is signified by the heart when the tongue utters the expression ‘Yá Hú.’3320
آن طرف که دل اشارت میکند ** چون زبان یا هو عبارت میکند
He is always with God (and) beyond ‘where? where?’ (kú, kú). Would that like weavers I might have said má kú!
او معالله است بی کو کو همی ** کاش جولاهانه ماکو گفتمی
Where is our reason, that it should (be able to) perceive the spiritual West and East (the universal Divine epiphany) flashing forth a hundred kinds of splendour?
عقل ما کو تا ببیند غرب و شرق ** روحها را میزند صد گونه برق
His (the Khwája's) ebb and flow was caused by a (great) foaming Sea: (now) the ebb has ceased and (only) the flow remains.
جزر و مدش بد به بحری در زبد ** منتهی شد جزر و باقی ماند مد
I am nine thousand (dinars) in debt and have no resources: there are (only) a hundred dinars, (resulting) from this subscription.
نه هزارم وام و من بی دسترس ** هست صد دینار ازین توزیع و بس
God hath withdrawn thee (from this world) and I am left in agony: I am going (hence) in despair, O thou whose dust is sweet!3325
حق کشیدت ماندم در کشمکش ** میروم نومید ای خاک تو خوش
Keep in thy mind a prayer for thy grief-stricken (mourner), O thou whose face and hands and prayers are auspicious.
همتی میدار در پر حسرتت ** ای همایون روی و دست و همتت
I come to the spring and the source of (all) fountains: I find in it instead of water blood.
آمدم بر چشمه و اصل عیون ** یافتم در وی به جای آب خون
The sky is the same sky, (but) ’tis not the same moonlight: the river is the same river, (but) the water is not the same water.
چرخ آن چرخست آن مهتاب نیست ** جوی آن جویست آب آن آب نیست