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1944-1968

  • 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

  • Truly, from fear of this infinite breath (they were filled with dismay): recite (the words of the Qur’án) but they refused to bear it (the trust offered to them).
  • خود ز بیم این دم بی‌‌منتها ** باز خوان فأبين أن یحملنها

  • Else, how should (the words) they shrank from it have been (in the Qur’án), unless from fear of it the heart of the mountain had become blood?
  • ور نه خود أشفقن منها چون بدی ** گرنه از بیمش دل که خون شدی‌‌

  • Yesternight this (breath) presented itself (to me) in a different guise (but) some morsels (of food) came in and barred the way. 1960
  • دوش دیگر لون این می‌‌داد دست ** لقمه‌‌ی چندی در آمد ره ببست‌‌

  • For a morsel's sake a Luqmán has become (held in custody as) a pledge: ’tis the time for Luqmán: begone, O morsel!
  • بهر لقمه گشته لقمانی گرو ** وقت لقمان است ای لقمه برو

  • These pricks (of the flesh) for desire of a morsel! Seek ye always (to draw forth) the thorn from the sole of Luqmán.
  • از هوای لقمه‌‌ی این خار خار ** از کف لقمان همی‌‌جویید خار

  • In his sole there is (really) no thorn or even the shadow of it, but because of concupiscence ye have not that discernment.
  • در کف او خار و سایه‌‌ش نیز نیست ** لیکتان از حرص آن تمییز نیست‌‌

  • Know that the thorn is that which thou, because thou art very greedy and very blind, hast deemed to be a date.
  • خار دان آن را که خرما دیده‌‌ای ** ز آن که بس نان کور و بس نادیده‌‌ای‌‌

  • Inasmuch as Luqmán's spirit is the rose-garden of God, why is the foot of his spirit wounded by a thorn? 1965
  • جان لقمان که گلستان خداست ** پای جانش خسته‌‌ی خاری چراست‌‌

  • This thorn-eating existence is (like) a camel, and upon this camel one born of Mustafá (Mohammed) is mounted.
  • اشتر آمد این وجود خار خوار ** مصطفی زادی بر این اشتر سوار

  • O camel, on thy back is a bale of roses, from the perfume of which a hundred rosaries grew within thee.
  • اشترا تنگ گلی بر پشت تست ** کز نسیمش در تو صد گلزار رست‌‌

  • Thy inclination is towards thorn-bushes and sand: I wonder what roses thou wilt gather from worthless thorns.
  • میل تو سوی مغیلان است و ریگ ** تا چه گل چینی ز خار مرده‌‌ریگ‌‌