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1933-1957

  • 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

  • If transmission (of the light) occurs in this way till a hundred lamps (are lighted), the seeing of the last (lamp) becomes a meeting with the original (light).
  • همچنین تا صد چراغ ار نقل شد ** دیدن آخر لقای اصل شد

  • Either take it from the hindmost light—there is no difference—or from the candle of the Spirit.
  • خواه از نور پسین بستان تو آن ** هیچ فرقی نیست خواه از شمع‌‌دان‌‌

  • Either behold the light (of God) from the lamp of the last (saints), or behold His light from the candle of those who have gone before. 1950
  • خواه بین نور از چراغ آخرین ** خواه بین نورش ز شمع غابرین‌‌

  • Explanation of the Tradition, “Verily, your Lord hath, during the days of your time, certain breathings: oh, address yourselves to (receive) them.”
  • در بیان این حدیث که إن لربکم فی أیام دهرکم نفحات ألا فتعرضوا لها

  • The Prophet said, “In these days the breathings of God prevail:
  • گفت پیغمبر که نفحتهای حق ** اندر این ایام می‌‌آرد سبق‌‌

  • Keep ear and mind (attentive) to these (spiritual) influences, catch up such-like breathings.”
  • گوش و هش دارید این اوقات را ** در ربایید این چنین نفحات را

  • The (Divine) breathing came, beheld you, and departed: it gave life to whom it would, and departed.
  • نفحه آمد مر شما را دید و رفت ** هر که را که خواست جان بخشید و رفت‌‌

  • Another breathing has arrived. Be thou heedful, that thou mayst not miss this one too, O comrade.
  • نفحه‌‌ی دیگر رسید آگاه باش ** تا از این هم وانمانی خواجه‌‌تاش‌‌

  • The soul of fire gained therefrom extinction; from its everlastingness the dead (soul) put on the mantle (of eternal life). 1955
  • جان ناری یافت از وی انطفا ** مرده پوشید از بقای او قبا

  • This is the freshness and movement of the Túbá-tree, this is not like the movements of animals.
  • تازگی و جنبش طوبی است این ** همچو جنبشهای حیوان نیست این‌‌

  • If it fall on earth and heaven, their galls will turn to water at once (they will be consumed with terror).
  • گر در افتد در زمین و آسمان ** زهره‌‌هاشان آب گردد در زمان‌‌