- When you reach the bottom of your own nature, then you will know that that vileness was from yourself.
- چون به قعر خوی خود اندر رسی ** پس بدانی کز تو بود آن ناکسی
- At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image. 1325
- شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس مینمود
- Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.
- هر که دندان ضعیفی میکند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین میکند
- O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!
- ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم
- The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.
- مومنان آیینهی همدیگرند ** این خبر میاز پیمبر آورند
- You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.
- پیش چشمت داشتی شیشهی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت مینمود
- Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else). 1330
- گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش
- If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?
- مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود
- Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.
- چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی
- Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!
- اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن
- Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.
- تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور
- All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine. 1335
- آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست
- If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.
- گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود
- This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.
- این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بیداد یا رب داد تست
- Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.
- بیطلب تو این طلبمان دادهای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشادهای
- How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.
- مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد
- When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.
- چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت
- Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow, 1340
- شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ میزد شادمان تا مرغزار
- Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.
- دست میزد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ
- Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;
- شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد
- The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;
- برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند
- With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,
- با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** میسراید هر بر و برگی جدا
- Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.” 1345
- که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی
- (Even so) the spirits bound in clay, when they escape glad at heart from their (prisons of) clay,
- جانهای بسته اندر آب و گل ** چون رهند از آب و گلها شاد دل
- Begin to dance in the air of Divine Love and become flawless like the full moon's orb,
- در هوای عشق حق رقصان شوند ** همچو قرص بدر بینقصان شوند
- Their bodies dancing, and their souls—nay, do not ask (how their souls fare); and of that which surrounds the soul—nay, do not ask of those things!
- جسمشان در رقص و جانها خود مپرس ** و آن که گرد جان از آنها خود مپرس