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  • The wars of mankind are like children's fights—all meaningless, pithless, and contemptible. 3435
  • جنگ خلقان همچو جنگ کودکان ** جمله بی‌‌معنی و بی‌‌مغز و مهان‌‌

  • All their fights are (fought) with wooden swords, all their purposes are (centred) in futility;
  • جمله با شمشیر چوبین جنگشان ** جمله در لاینفعی آهنگشان‌‌

  • They all are riding on a reed-cane (hobby-horse), saying, “This is our Buráq or mule that goes like Duldul.”
  • جمله‌‌شان گشته سواره بر نیی ** کاین براق ماست یا دلدل پیی‌‌

  • They are (really) carrying (their hobby-horses), but in their folly they have raised themselves on high: they have fancied themselves to be riders and carried along the road.
  • حامل‌‌اند و خود ز جهل افراشته ** راکب و محمول ره پنداشته‌‌

  • Wait till the day when those who are borne aloft by God shall pass, galloping, beyond the nine tiers (of Heaven)!
  • باش تا روزی که محمولان حق ** اسب تازان بگذرند از نه طبق‌‌

  • “The spirit and the angels shall ascend to Him”: at the ascension of the spirit Heaven shall tremble. 3440
  • تعرج الروح إلیه و الملک ** من عروج الروح یهتز الفلک‌‌

  • Like children, ye all are riding on your skirts: ye have taken hold of the corner of your skirt (to serve) as a horse.
  • همچو طفلان جمله‌‌تان دامن سوار ** گوشه‌‌ی دامن‌‌گرفته اسب‌‌وار

  • From God came (the text), “Verily, opinion doth not enable (you) to dispense (with the Truth)”: when did the steed of opinion run (mount) to the Heavens?
  • از حق إن الظن لا يغنی رسید ** مرکب ظن بر فلک‌‌ها کی دوید

  • While preferring (in case of doubt) the stronger of the two (alternative) opinions, do not doubt whether you see the sun when it is shining!
  • اغلب الظنین فی ترجیح ذا ** لا تماری الشمس فی توضیحها

  • At that time (when the spirit returns to God) behold your steeds! Ye have made a steed of your own foot.
  • آن گهی بینید مرکبهای خویش ** مرکبی سازیده‌‌اید از پای خویش‌‌

  • Come, recognise that your imagination and reflection and sense-perception and apprehension are like the reed-cane on which children ride. 3445
  • وهم و فکر و حس و ادراک شما ** همچو نی دان مرکب کودک هلا

  • The sciences of the mystics bear them (aloft); the sciences of sensual men are burdens to them.
  • علمهای اهل دل حمالشان ** علمهای اهل تن احمالشان‌‌

  • When knowledge strikes on the heart (is acquired through mystical experience), it becomes a helper (yárí); when knowledge strikes on the body (is acquired through the senses), it becomes a burden (bárí).
  • علم چون بر دل زند یاری شود ** علم چون بر تن زند باری شود

  • God hath said, “(Like an ass) laden with his books”: burdensome is the knowledge that is not from Himself.
  • گفت ایزد یحمل اسفاره ** بار باشد علم کان نبود ز هو

  • The knowledge that is not immediately from Himself does not endure, (it is) like the tire woman's paint.
  • علم کان نبود ز هو بی‌‌واسطه ** آن نپاید همچو رنگ ماشطه‌‌

  • But when you carry this burden well, the burden will be removed and you will be given (spiritual) joy. 3450
  • لیک چون این بار را نیکو کشی ** بار بر گیرند و بخشندت خوشی‌‌

  • Beware! Do not carry that burden of knowledge for the sake of selfish desire (but mortify yourself), so that you may behold the barn (store-house) of knowledge within (you),
  • هین مکش بهر هوا آن بار علم ** تا ببینی در درون انبار علم‌‌

  • So that you may mount the smooth-paced steed of knowledge, (and that) afterwards the burden may fall from your shoulder.
  • تا که بر رهوار علم آیی سوار ** بعد از آن افتد ترا از دوش بار

  • How wilt thou be freed from selfish desires without the cup of Hú (Him), O thou who hast become content with no more of Hú than the name of Hú?
  • از هواها کی رهی بی‌‌جام هو ** ای ز هو قانع شده با نام هو

  • From attribute and name what comes to birth? Phantasy; and that phantasy shows the way to union with Him.
  • از صفت و ز نام چه زاید خیال ** و آن خیالش هست دلال وصال‌‌

  • Hast thou ever seen a subject that shows without (the existence of) an object that is shown: unless there is the road, there can never be the ghoul (which entices travelers to stray from the road). 3455
  • دیده‌‌ای دلال بی‌‌مدلول هیچ ** تا نباشد جاده نبود غول هیچ‌‌

  • Hast thou ever seen a name without the reality (denoted by the name)? Or hast thou plucked a rose (gul) from the (letters) gáf and lám of (the word) gul?
  • هیچ نامی بی‌‌حقیقت دیده‌‌ای ** یا ز گاف و لام گل گل چیده‌‌ای‌‌

  • Thou hast pronounced the name: go, seek the thing named. Know that the moon is on high, not in the water of the stream.
  • اسم خواندی رو مسمی را بجو ** مه به بالا دان نه اندر آب جو

  • If thou wouldst pass beyond name and letter, oh, make thyself wholly purged of self.
  • گر ز نام و حرف خواهی بگذری ** پاک کن خود را ز خود هین یک سری‌‌

  • Like (polished) iron, lose the ferruginous colour; become in thy ascetic discipline (like) a mirror without rust.
  • همچو آهن ز آهنی بی‌‌رنگ شو ** در ریاضت آینه‌‌ی بی‌‌زنگ شو