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
This discourse hath no end. Come, hasten (back) to those two sincere and devoted friends.
این سخن پایان ندارد هین بتاز ** سوی آن دو یار پاک پاک باز
Description of Unification.
صفت توحید
His friend said to him, “Come in, O thou who art entirely myself, not different like the rose and thorn in the garden.”
گفت یارش کاندر آ ای جمله من ** نی مخالف چون گل و خار چمن
The thread has become single. Do not now fall into error if thou seest that the letters K and N are two.’
رشته یکتا شد غلط کم شد کنون ** گر دو تا بینی حروف کاف و نون
K and N are pulling like a noose, that they may draw non-existence into great affairs.
کاف و نون همچون کمند آمد جذوب ** تا کشاند مر عدم را در خطوب
Hence the noose must be double in (the world of) forms, though those two (letters) are single in effect.3080
پس دو تا باید کمند اندر صور ** گر چه یکتا باشد آن دو در اثر
Whether the feet be two or four, they traverse the road, like the double shears (which) makes (but) one cut.
گر دو پا گر چار پا ره را برد ** همچو مقراض دو تا یکتا برد