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1923-1947

  • For peri and man (alike) are prisoners: both are (captive) in the prison of this ignorance.
  • که پری و آدمی زندانی‌‌اند ** هر دو در زندان این نادانی‌‌اند

  • Recite O community of Jinn (and men) in the Súratu l’-Rahmán; recognise (the meaning of) if ye be able to pass forth.
  • معشر الجن سوره‌‌ی رحمان بخوان ** تستطیعوا تنفذوا را باز دان‌‌

  • The inward notes of the saints say, at first, “O ye particles of lá (not = not-being), 1925
  • نغمه‌‌های اندرون اولیا ** اولا گوید که ای اجزای لا

  • Take heed, lift up your heads from the lá of negation, cast aside this fancy and vain imagining.
  • هین ز لای نفی سرها بر زنید ** این خیال و وهم یک سو افکنید

  • O ye who all are rotten in (the world of) generation and corruption, your everlasting soul neither grew nor came to birth.”
  • ای همه پوسیده در کون و فساد ** جان باقیتان نرویید و نزاد

  • If I tell (even) a tittle of those (saintly) notes, the souls will lift up their heads from the tombs.
  • گر بگویم شمه‌‌ای ز آن نغمه‌‌ها ** جانها سر بر زنند از دخمه‌‌ها

  • Put thine ear close, for that (melody) is not far off, but ’tis not permitted to convey it to thee.
  • گوش را نزدیک کن کان دور نیست ** لیک نقل آن به تو دستور نیست‌‌

  • Hark! for the saints are the Isráfíls of the (present) time: from them to the dead comes life and freshness. 1930
  • هین که اسرافیل وقت‌‌اند اولیا ** مرده را ز یشان حیات است و حیا

  • At their voice the soul of every dead one starts up from the body's grave in their winding sheets.
  • جان هر یک مرده‌‌ای از گور تن ** بر جهد ز آوازشان اندر کفن‌‌

  • He (that is thus awakened) says, “This voice is separate from (all other) voices: to quicken (the dead) is the work of the voice of God.
  • گوید این آواز ز آوازها جداست ** زنده کردن کار آواز خداست‌‌

  • We (had) died and were entirely decayed: the call of God came: we all arose.”
  • ما بمردیم و بکلی کاستیم ** بانگ حق آمد همه برخاستیم‌‌

  • The call of God, (whether it be) veiled or unveiled, bestows that which He bestowed on Mary from His bosom.
  • بانگ حق اندر حجاب و بی‌‌حجاب ** آن دهد کو داد مریم را ز جیب‌‌

  • O ye whom death (in your hearts) hath made naught underneath the skin, return from non-existence at the voice of the Friend! 1935
  • ای فناتان نیست کرده زیر پوست ** باز گردید از عدم ز آواز دوست‌‌

  • Absolutely, indeed, that voice is from the King (God), though it be from the larynx of God's servant.
  • مطلق آن آواز خود از شه بود ** گر چه از حلقوم عبد الله بود

  • He (God) has said to him (the saint), “I am thy tongue and eye; I am thy senses and I am thy good pleasure and thy wrath.
  • گفته او را من زبان و چشم تو ** من حواس و من رضا و خشم تو

  • Go, for thou art (he of whom God saith), ‘By Me he hears and by Me he sees’: thou art the (Divine) consciousness (itself): what is the occasion (propriety) of (saying), ‘Thou art the possessor of the (Divine) consciousness’?
  • رو که بی‌‌یسمع و بی‌‌یبصر تویی ** سر تویی چه جای صاحب سر تویی‌‌

  • Since thou hast become, through bewilderment, ‘He that belongs to God,’ I am thine, for ‘God shall belong to him.’
  • چون شدی من کان لله از وله ** من ترا باشم که کان الله له‌‌

  • Sometimes I say to thee, ‘’Tis thou,’ sometimes, ‘’Tis I’: whatever I say, I am the Sun illuminating (all). 1940
  • گه تویی گویم ترا گاهی منم ** هر چه گویم آفتاب روشنم‌‌

  • Wheresoever I shine forth from the lamp-niche of a breath (Divine word), there the difficulties of a (whole) world are resolved.
  • هر کجا تابم ز مشکات دمی ** حل شد آن جا مشکلات عالمی‌‌

  • The darkness which the (earthly) sun did not remove, through My breath that darkness becomes like bright morning.”
  • ظلمتی را کافتابش بر نداشت ** از دم ما گردد آن ظلمت چو چاشت‌‌

  • To an Adam He in His own person showed the (Divine) Names; to the rest He was revealing the Names by means of Adam.
  • آدمی را او به خویش اسما نمود ** دیگران را ز آدم اسما می‌‌گشود

  • Do thou receive His light either from Adam or from Himself: take the wine either from the jar or from the gourd (cup),
  • خواه ز آدم گیر نورش خواه از او ** خواه از خم گیر می‌‌خواه از کدو

  • For this gourd is very closely connected with the jar: the blessed gourd is not rejoiced (by the same causes) as thou art. 1945
  • کاین کدو با خنب پیوسته ست سخت ** نی چو تو شاد آن کدوی نیک بخت‌‌

  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Happy he that has seen me and he that looks at him that saw my face.”
  • گفت طوبی من رآنی مصطفا ** و الذی یبصر لمن وجهی رأی‌‌

  • When a lamp has derived (its) light from a candle, every one that sees it (the lamp) certainly sees the candle.
  • چون چراغی نور شمعی را کشید ** هر که دید آن را یقین آن شمع دید