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2931-2955

  • When the blossom was shed, the fruit became visible: when that diminished this began to increase.
  • چون شکوفه ریخت میوه شد پدید ** چون که آن کم شد شد این اندر مزید

  • How should bread give strength until it is broken? How should uncrushed clusters (of grapes) yield wine?
  • تا که نان نشکست قوت کی دهد ** ناشکسته خوشه‌ها کی مَیْ دهد

  • Unless myrobalan is pounded up with medicines, how should the medicines by themselves become health-increasing (act as tonics)?
  • تا هلیله نشکند با ادویه ** کی شود خود صحت افزا ادویه‌‌

  • Concerning the qualities of the Pír (Spiritual Guide) and (the duty of) obedience to him.
  • در صفت پیر و مطاوعت وی‌‌

  • O Splendour of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, take one or two sheets of paper and add (them to the poem) in description of the Pír.
  • ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین بگیر ** یک دو کاغذ بر فزا در وصف پیر

  • Although thy slender body hath no strength, yet without the sun (of thy spirit) we have no light. 2935
  • گر چه جسم نازکت را زور نیست ** لیک بی‌‌خورشید ما را نور نیست‌‌

  • Although thou hast become the lighted wick and the glass (lamp), yet thou art the heart's leader (the Spiritual Guide): thou art the end of the thread (which serves as a clue).
  • گر چه مصباح و زجاجه گشته‌‌ای ** لیک سر خیل دلی سر رشته‌‌ای‌‌

  • Inasmuch as the end of the thread is in thy hand and will, the pearls (of spiritual knowledge) on the heart's necklace are (derived) from thy bounty.
  • چون سر رشته به دست و کام تست ** درهای عقد دل ز انعام تست‌‌

  • Write down what appertains to the Pír (Guide) who knows the Way:—Choose the Pír and regard him as the essence of the Way.
  • بر نویس احوال پیر راهدان ** پیر را بگزین و عین راه دان‌‌

  • The Pír is (like) summer, and (other) people are (like) the autumn month; (other) people are like night, and the Pír is the moon.
  • پیر تابستان و خلقان تیر ماه ** خلق مانند شب‌‌اند و پیر ماه‌‌

  • I have bestowed on (my) young Fortune (Husámu’ddín) the name of Pír (old), because he is (made) old by the Truth, not (made) old by Time. 2940
  • کرده‌‌ام بخت جوان را نام پیر ** کاو ز حق پیر است نز ایام پیر

  • So old is he that he hath no beginning: there is no rival to such a unique Pearl.
  • او چنان پیری است کش آغاز نیست ** با چنان در یتیم انباز نیست‌‌

  • Verily, old wine grows more potent, especially the wine that is the presence of God.
  • خود قوی‌‌تر می‌‌شود خمر کهن ** خاصه آن خمری که باشد من لدن‌‌

  • Choose a Pír, for without a Pír this journey is exceeding full of woe and affright and danger.
  • پیر را بگزین که بی‌‌پیر این سفر ** هست بس پر آفت و خوف و خطر

  • Without an escort you are bewildered (even) on a road you have travelled many times (before):
  • آن رهی که بارها تو رفته‌‌ای ** بی‌‌قلاووز اندر آن آشفته‌‌ای‌‌

  • Do not, then, travel alone on a Way that you have not seen at all, do not turn your head away from the Guide. 2945
  • پس رهی را که ندیده ستی تو هیچ ** هین مرو تنها ز رهبر سر مپیچ‌‌

  • Fool, if his shadow (protection) be not over you, then the cry of the ghoul will keep you (wandering about) with your head in a whirl.
  • گر نباشد سایه‌‌ی او بر تو گول ** پس ترا سر گشته دارد بانگ غول‌‌

  • The ghoul will (entice you) from the Way (and) cast you into destruction: there have been in this Way many craftier than you (who have perished miserably).
  • غولت از ره افکند اندر گزند ** از تو داهی‌‌تر در این ره بس بدند

  • Hear (learn) from the Qur’án the perdition of the wayfarers, what the evil-souled Iblís did unto them:
  • از نبی بشنو ضلال رهروان ** که چشان کرد آن بلیس بد روان‌‌

  • He carried them far—a journey of hundreds of thousands of years—from the Highway, and made them backsliders and naked (devoid of good works).
  • صد هزاران ساله راه از جاده دور ** بردشان و کردشان ادبار و عور

  • Behold their bones and their hair! Take warning, and drive not your ass towards them! 2950
  • استخوانهاشان ببین و مویشان ** عبرتی گیر و مران خر سویشان‌‌

  • Seize the neck of your ass (the flesh) and lead him towards the Way, towards the good keepers and knowers of the Way.
  • گردن خر گیر و سوی راه کش ** سوی ره‌‌بانان و ره دانان خوش‌‌

  • Beware! do not let your ass go, and do not remove your hand from him, because his love is for the place where green herbs are plentiful.
  • هین مهل خر را و دست از وی مدار ** ز آن که عشق اوست سوی سبزه‌‌زار

  • If you carelessly leave him free for one moment, he will go (many) leagues in the direction of the herbage.
  • گر یکی دم تو به غفلت واهلیش ** او رود فرسنگ‌‌ها سوی حشیش‌‌

  • The ass is an enemy to the Way, (he is) madly in love with fodder: oh, many is the attendant on him that he has brought to ruin!
  • دشمن راه است خر مست علف ** ای که بس خر بنده را کرد او تلف‌‌

  • If you know not the Way, whatsoever the ass desires, do the contrary thereof: that, surely, will be the right Way. 2955
  • گر ندانی ره هر آن چه خر بخواست ** عکس آن کن خود بود آن راه راست‌‌