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3501-3525

  • He replied, “(This morning I am) a faithful servant of God.” Again he (the Prophet) said to him, “Where is thy token from the garden of Faith, if it has bloomed?”
  • گفت عبدا مومنا باز اوش گفت ** کو نشان از باغ ایمان گر شگفت‌‌

  • He said, “I have been athirst in the daytime, at night I have not slept because of love and burning griefs,
  • گفت تشنه بوده‌‌ام من روزها ** شب نخفته ستم ز عشق و سوزها

  • So that I passed through (and beyond) day and night, as the point of the spear passes through the shield;
  • تا ز روز و شب گذر کردم چنان ** که از اسپر بگذرد نوک سنان‌‌

  • For beyond (the realm of contraries) all religion is one: hundreds of thousands of years are the same as a single hour.
  • که از آن سو جمله‌‌ی ملت یکی ست ** صد هزاران سال و یک ساعت یکی ست‌‌

  • Eternity and everlastingness are unified (yonder): the understanding hath no way thither by means of inquiry.” 3505
  • هست ازل را و ابد را اتحاد ** عقل را ره نیست آن سو ز افتقاد

  • The Prophet said, “Where is the traveller's gift (that thou hast brought home) from this journey? Produce (a gift) suitable to the understanding of (intelligible to) the minds of this country (the phenomenal world).”
  • گفت از این ره کو رهاوردی بیار ** در خور فهم و عقول این دیار

  • Zayd said, “When (other) people see the sky, I behold the Empyrean with those who dwell there.
  • گفت خلقان چون ببینند آسمان ** من ببینم عرش را با عرشیان‌‌

  • The Eight Paradises and the Seven Hells are as visible to me as the idol to the idolater.
  • هشت جنت هفت دوزخ پیش من ** هست پیدا همچو بت پیش شمن‌‌

  • I am distinguishing the people (here), one by one, like wheat from barley in the mill,
  • یک به یک وامی‌‌شناسم خلق را ** همچو گندم من ز جو در آسیا

  • So that who is for Paradise and who shall be a stranger (to Paradise) is as clear to me as (the difference between) snake and fish.” 3510
  • که بهشتی کیست و بیگانه کی است ** پیش من پیدا چو مار و ماهی است‌‌

  • At the present time there hath been made manifest to this (illumined) class of men (what shall come to pass) on the Day when faces shall become white or black.
  • این زمان پیدا شده بر این گروه ** یوم تبیض و تسود وجوه‌‌

  • Before this (birth), however sinful the spirit was, it was in the womb (of the body) and was hidden from the people.
  • پیش از این هر چند جان پر عیب بود ** در رحم بود و ز خلقان غیب بود

  • The damned are they that are damned in the mother's womb: their state is known from the bodily marks.
  • الشقی من شقی فی بطن الام ** من سمات الجسم یعرف حالهم‌‌

  • The body, like a mother, is big with the spirit-child: death is the pangs and throes of birth.
  • تن چو مادر طفل جان را حامله ** مرگ درد زادن است و زلزله‌‌

  • All the spirits that have passed over (to the next life) are waiting to see in what state that proud spirit shall be born. 3515
  • جمله جانهای گذشته منتظر ** تا چگونه زاید آن جان بطر

  • The Ethiopians (the damned spirits) say, “It belongs to us”; the Anatolians (the blessed spirits) say, “It is very comely.”
  • زنگیان گویند خود از ماست او ** رومیان گویند بس زیباست او

  • As soon as it is born into the world of spirit and (Divine) grace, there is no further difference (of opinion) between the whites (the blessed) and the blacks (the damned).
  • چون بزاید در جهان جان و جود ** پس نماند اختلاف بیض و سود

  • If it is an Ethiopian (a damned spirit), the Ethiopians carry it off; and if it is an Anatolian (a blessed spirit), the Anatolians lead it away.
  • گر بود زنگی برندش زنگیان ** روم را رومی برد هم از میان‌‌

  • Until it is born (into the next life), it is a riddle for (all) the world: few are they that know (the destiny of) the unborn.
  • تا نزاد او مشکلات عالم است ** آن که نازاده شناسد او کم است‌‌

  • Such a one surely is seeing by the light of God, for he has the way (the means of knowing what is hidden) within the skin. 3520
  • او مگر ینظر بنور الله بود ** کاندرون پوست او را ره بود

  • Principium aquae seminis candidum est et pulchrum, but the reflexion of the spirit, (whether the spirit be) Anatolian or Ethiopian, [The original (nature of) seminal fluid is white and fair, but the reflexion of the spirit, (whether the spirit be) Anatolian or Ethiopian,]
  • اصل آب نطفه اسپید است و خوش ** لیک عکس جان رومی و حبش‌‌

  • Is giving colour (glory) to those (the Anatolians) who are most excellent in their (original) constitution, (while) it is bearing this (other) half (i.e. the Ethiopians) down to the lowest depth.
  • می‌‌دهد رنگ احسن التقویم را ** تا به اسفل می‌‌برد این نیم را

  • This discourse hath no end. Hasten back, that we may not be left behind by the caravan's file of camels.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد باز ران ** تا نمانیم از قطار کاروان‌‌

  • On the Day when faces shall become white or black, Turk and Hindi shall become manifest (shall be clearly discerned) from among that company.
  • یوم تبیض و تسود وجوه ** ترک و هندو شهره گردد ز آن گروه‌‌

  • In the womb (of this world) Hindoo and Turk are not distinguishable, (but) when each is born (into the next world) he (the seer) sees that each is miserable or glorious (according to his spiritual nature). 3525
  • در رحم پیدا نباشد هند و ترک ** چون که زاید بیندش زار و سترگ‌‌