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3051-3075

  • Since thou wert not passing away (from thyself) in my presence, ’twas an act of grace to smite thy neck (behead thee).”
  • چون نبودی فانی اندر پیش من ** فضل آمد مر ترا گردن زدن‌‌

  • Everything is perishing except His face: unless thou art in His face (essence), do not seek to exist.
  • کل شی‌‌ء هالک جز وجه او ** چون نه‌‌ای در وجه او هستی مجو

  • When any one has passed away (from himself) in my face (essence), (the words) everything is perishing are not applicable (to him),
  • هر که اندر وجه ما باشد فنا ** کل شيء هالک نبود جزا

  • Because he is in except, he has transcended not (nonentity): whosoever is in except has not passed away (perished).
  • ز آن که در الاست او از لا گذشت ** هر که در الاست او فانی نگشت‌‌

  • Whosoever is uttering ‘I’ and ‘we’ at the door (of the Divine Court), he is turned back from the door and is continuing in not (nonentity). 3055
  • هر که بر در او من و ما می‌‌زند ** رد باب است او و بر لا می‌‌تند

  • The story of the person who knocked at a friend's door: his friend from within asked who he was: he said, “’Tis I,” and the friend answered, “Since thou art thou, I will not open the door: I know not any friend that is ‘I.’ Begone!”
  • قصه‌‌ی آن کس که در یاری بکوفت از درون گفت کیست گفت منم، گفت چون تو تویی در نمی‌‌گشایم هیچ کس را از یاران نمی‌‌شناسم که او من باشد

  • A certain man came and knocked at a friend's door: his friend asked him, “Who art thou, O trusty one?”
  • آن یکی آمد در یاری بزد ** گفت یارش کیستی ای معتمد

  • He answered, “I.” The friend said, “Begone, ’tis not the time (for thee to come in): at a table like this there is no place for the raw.”
  • گفت من، گفتش برو هنگام نیست ** بر چنین خوانی مقام خام نیست‌‌

  • Save the fire of absence and separation, who (what) will cook the raw one? Who (what) will deliver him from hypocrisy?
  • خام را جز آتش هجر و فراق ** کی پزد کی وا رهاند از نفاق‌‌

  • The wretched man went away, and for a year in travel (and) in separation from his friend he was burned with sparks of fire.
  • رفت آن مسکین و سالی در سفر ** در فراق دوست سوزید از شرر

  • That burned one was cooked: then he returned and again paced to and fro beside the house of his comrade. 3060
  • پخته گشت آن سوخته پس باز گشت ** باز گرد خانه‌‌ی همباز گشت‌‌

  • He knocked at the door with a hundred fears and respects, lest any disrespectful word might escape from his lips.
  • حلقه زد بر در به صد ترس و ادب ** تا بنجهد بی‌‌ادب لفظی ز لب‌‌

  • His friend called to him, “Who is at the door?” He answered, “’Tis thou art at the door, O charmer of hearts.”
  • بانگ زد یارش که بر در کیست آن ** گفت بر درهم تویی ای دلستان‌‌

  • “Now,” said the friend, “since thou art I, come in, O myself: there is not room in the house for two I's.
  • گفت اکنون چون منی ای من در آ ** نیست گنجایی دو من را در سرا

  • The double end of thread is not for the needle: inasmuch as thou art single, come into this needle.”
  • نیست سوزن را سر رشته دو تا ** چون که یکتایی درین سوزن در آ

  • ’Tis the thread that is connected with the needle: the eye of the needle is not suitable for the camel. 3065
  • رشته را با سوزن آمد ارتباط ** نیست در خور با جمل سم الخیاط

  • How should the existence (body) of the camel be fined down save by the shears of ascetic exercises and works?
  • کی شود باریک هستی جمل ** جز به مقراض ریاضات و عمل‌‌

  • For that, O reader, the hand (power) of God is necessary, for it is the Be, and it was (bringer into existence) of every (seemingly) impossible thing.
  • دست حق باید مر آن را ای فلان ** کاو بود بر هر محالی کن فکان‌‌

  • By His hand every impossible thing is made possible; by fear of Him every unruly one is made quiet.
  • هر محال از دست او ممکن شود ** هر حرون از بیم او ساکن شود

  • What of the man blind from birth and the leper? Even the dead is made living by the spell of the Almighty,
  • اکمه و ابرص چه باشد مرده نیز ** زنده گردد از فسون آن عزیز

  • And that non-existence which is more dead than the dead— compelled (helpless) in the hand of (under the power of) His bringing (it) into existence. 3070
  • و آن عدم کز مرده مرده‌‌تر بود ** در کف ایجاد او مضطر بود

  • Recite (the text), Every day He is (engaged) in some affair: do not deem Him idle and inactive.
  • کل يوم هو فی شأن بخوان ** مر و را بی‌‌کار و بی‌‌فعلی مدان‌‌

  • His least act, every day, is that He despatches three armies:
  • کمترین کاریش هر روز است آن ** کاو سه لشکر را کند این سو روان‌‌

  • One army from the loins (of the fathers) towards the mothers, in order that the plant may grow in the womb;
  • لشکری ز اصلاب سوی امهات ** بهر آن تا در رحم روید نبات‌‌

  • One army from the wombs to the Earth, that the world may be filled with male and female;
  • لشکری ز ارحام سوی خاکدان ** تا ز نر و ماده پر گردد جهان‌‌

  • One army from the Earth (to what is) beyond death, that every one may behold the beauty of (good) works. 3075
  • لشکری از خاک ز آن سوی اجل ** تا ببیند هر کسی حسن عمل‌‌