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2194-2218

  • Alas that from (my preoccupation with) the sound of these four-and-twenty (melodies) the caravan passed and the day grew late.”
  • وای کز آواز این بیست و چهار ** کاروان بگذشت و بی‌‌گه شد نهار

  • O God, help (me) against this (self of mine) that is seeking help (from Thee): I seek justice (redress) from no one (else, but only) from this justice-seeking (self). 2195
  • ای خدا فریاد زین فریادخواه ** داد خواهم نه ز کس زین داد خواه‌‌

  • I shall not get justice for myself from any one except, surely, from Him who is nearer to me than I;
  • داد خود از کس نیابم جز مگر ** ز آن که او از من به من نزدیکتر

  • For this “I-hood” comes to me from Him moment by moment: therefore when this has failed me, I see (only) Him,
  • کاین منی از وی رسد دم دم مرا ** پس و را بینم چو این شد کم مرا

  • As (when you are with) one who is counting out gold to you, you keep your gaze (directed) towards him, not towards yourself.
  • همچو آن کاو با تو باشد زر شمر ** سوی او داری نه سوی خود نظر

  • How ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, bade him (the harper) turn his gaze from the stage of weeping, which is (self-) existence, to the stage of absorption (in God).
  • گردانیدن عمر نظر او را از مقام گریه که هستی است به مقام استغراق که نیستی است‌‌

  • Then ‘Umar said to him, “This wailing of thine is also (one of) the marks of thy sobriety (self-consciousness).
  • پس عمر گفتش که این زاری تو ** هست هم آثار هشیاری تو

  • The way of him that has passed away (from self-consciousness) is another way, because sobriety is another sin. 2200
  • راه فانی گشته راهی دیگر است ** ز آن که هشیاری گناهی دیگر است‌‌

  • Sobriety exists (arises) from recollection of what is past: past and future are to thee a curtain (separating thee) from God.
  • هست هشیاری ز یاد ما مضی ** ماضی و مستقبلت پرده‌‌ی خدا

  • Cast fire on them both: how long, because of these twain, wilt thou be full of knots (joints) like a reed?
  • آتش اندر زن به هر دو تا به کی ** پر گره باشی از این هر دو چو نی‌‌

  • Whilst the reed is knotted, it is not a sharer of secrets: it is not the companion of the (flute-player's) lip and voice.
  • تا گره با نی بود هم راز نیست ** همنشین آن لب و آواز نیست‌‌

  • When thou art (engaged) in going about (seeking God) thou art indeed wrapped in (thy) going about: when thou hast come home, thou art still with thyself (self-conscious).
  • چون به طوفی خود به طوفی مرتدی ** چون به خانه آمدی هم با خودی‌‌

  • O thou whose knowledge is without knowledge of the Giver of knowledge, thy repentance is worse than thy sin. 2205
  • ای خبرهات از خبر ده بی‌‌خبر ** توبه‌‌ی تو از گناه تو بتر

  • O thou that seekest to repent of a state that is past, say, when wilt thou repent of this repentance?
  • ای تو از حال گذشته توبه جو ** کی کنی توبه از این توبه بگو

  • At one time thou turnest to the (low) sound of the treble, at another thou dost kiss (art in love with) weeping and wailing.”
  • گاه بانگ زیر را قبله کنی ** گاه گریه‌‌ی زار را قبله زنی‌‌

  • When Fárúq (‘Umar) became a reflector of mysteries, the old man's heart was awakened from within.
  • چون که فاروق آینه‌‌ی اسرار شد ** جان پیر از اندرون بیدار شد

  • He became without weeping or laughter, like the soul: his (animal) soul departed and the other soul came to life.
  • همچو جان بی‌‌گریه و بی‌‌خنده شد ** جانش رفت و جان دیگر زنده شد

  • In that hour such a bewilderment arose within him that he went forth from earth and heaven— 2210
  • حیرتی آمد درونش آن زمان ** که برون شد از زمین و آسمان‌‌

  • A seeking and searching beyond (all) seeking and search: I know not (how to describe it); (if) you know, tell!
  • جستجویی از ورای جستجو ** من نمی‌‌دانم تو می‌‌دانی بگو

  • Feelings and words beyond (all) feelings and words—he had become drowned in the beauty of the Lord of majesty,
  • حال و قالی از ورای حال و قال ** غرقه گشته در جمال ذو الجلال‌‌

  • Drowned, not in such wise that there should be for him any deliverance, or that any one should know him except the (Divine) Ocean.
  • غرقه‌‌ای نه که خلاصی باشدش ** یا بجز دریا کسی بشناسدش‌‌

  • Partial reason would not be telling of (the mysteries of) the Universal (Reason), if there were not demand after demand (perpetual Divine impulses necessitating the manifestation of these mysteries).
  • عقل جزو از کل گویا نیستی ** گر تقاضا بر تقاضا نیستی‌‌

  • Since demand after demand is arriving, the waves of that Sea (Universal Reason) reach this place (the world of partial reason). 2215
  • چون تقاضا بر تقاضا می‌‌رسد ** موج آن دریا بدین جا می‌‌رسد

  • Now that the story of the old man's (spiritual) experiences has come to this point, the old man and his experiences have withdrawn behind the veil.
  • چون که قصه‌‌ی حال پیر اینجا رسید ** پیر و حالش روی در پرده کشید

  • The old man has shaken his skirt free from talk and speech: half of the tale has remained in our mouth (has not been told).
  • پیر دامن را ز گفت‌‌وگو فشاند ** نیم گفته در دهان ما بماند

  • It behoves (us), for the sake of procuring (such) delight and enjoyment, to gamble away (sacrifice) hundreds of thousands of souls (lives).
  • از پی این عیش و عشرت ساختن ** صد هزاران جان بشاید باختن‌‌