You will find neither mark nor trace of him, you will not find a straw (star) in the straw-strewn Way (the Milky Way).3670
نی از او نقشی بیابی نی نشان ** نی کهی یابی نه راه کهکشان
Our senses and finite speech (reason) are obliterated in the light of the knowledge of our (Divine) King.
شد حواس و نطق با پایان ما ** محو نور دانش سلطان ما
Their (the God-intoxicated mystics') senses and understandings within (them) are (tossed), wave on wave, in (the sea of) they are assembled before Us.
حسها و عقلهاشان در درون ** موج در موج لدينا محضرون
When dawn comes, ’tis again the time of (bearing) the burden: the stars, which had become hidden, go (again) to work.
چون شب آمد باز وقت بار شد ** انجم پنهان شده بر کار شد
God gives back to the senseless ones their (lost) senses: (they return to consciousness) troop after troop, with rings (of mystic knowledge) in their ears,
بیهشان را وادهد حق هوشها ** حلقه حلقه حلقهها در گوشها
Dancing, waving their hands in praise (of God), triumphing (and crying), “O Lord, Thou hast brought us to life.”3675
پای کوبان دست افشان در ثنا ** ناز نازان ربنا أحییتنا
Those crumbled skins and bones have become (like) horsemen and have raised the dust:
آن جلود و آن عظام ریخته ** فارسان گشته غبار انگیخته
At Resurrection both the thankful and the ungrateful rush along from non-existence towards existence.
حمله آرند از عدم سوی وجود ** در قیامت هم شکور و هم کنود
Why do you turn away your head and pretend not to see? Did you not turn away your head at first, (when you were) in non-existence (and disbelieved that you would ever come into existence)?
سر چه میپیچی کنی نادیدهای ** در عدم ز اول نه سرپیچیدهای
You had planted your foot (firmly) in non-existence, saying, “Who will uproot me from my place?”
در عدم افشرده بودی پای خویش ** که مرا که بر کند از جای خویش
Are not you beholding the action of your Lord, who dragged you (into existence) by the forelock,3680
مینبینی صنع ربانیت را ** که کشید او موی پیشانیت را
Until He drew you into (all) these various states (of being), which were not in your thought or fancy?
تا کشیدت اندر این انواع حال ** که نبودت در گمان و در خیال
That non-existence is always His slave: work (in His service), O demon! Solomon is living.
آن عدم او را هماره بنده است ** کار کن دیوا سلیمان زنده است
The demon is making large bowls like watering-troughs: he dare not say a word in refusal or in retort.
دیو میسازد جفان کالجواب ** زهره نی تا دفع گوید یا جواب
Look at yourself, how you are trembling with fear (of non-existence): know that nonexistence also is constantly trembling (lest God should bring it into existence).
خویش را بین چون همیلرزی ز بیم ** مر عدم را نیز لرزان دان مقیم
And if you are grasping at (worldly) dignities, ’tis from fear too that you are suffering agony of spirit.3685
ور تو دست اندر مناصب میزنی ** هم ز ترس است آن که جانی میکنی
Except love of the most beauteous God everything, though (outwardly) it is (pleasant like) eating sugar, is (in truth) agony of spirit.
هر چه جز عشق خدای احسن است ** گر شکر خواری است آن جان کندن است
What is agony of spirit? To advance towards death and not grasp the Water of Life.
چیست جان کندن سوی مرگ آمدن ** دست در آب حیاتی نازدن
People fix both their eyes on earth and death: they have a hundred doubts concerning the Water of Life.
خلق را دو دیده در خاک و ممات ** صد گمان دارند در آب حیات
Strive that the hundred doubts may become ninety (may decrease): go (towards God) in the night (of this world), for if you slumber, the night will go (from you).
جهد کن تا صد گمان گردد نود ** شب برو ور تو بخسبی شب رود
In the dark night seek that (shining) Day: put in front (follow) the darkness consuming Reason.3690
در شب تاریک جوی آن روز را ** پیش کن آن عقل ظلمت سوز را
In the evil-coloured night there is much good: the Water of Life is the mate of darkness.
در شب بد رنگ بس نیکی بود ** آب حیوان جفت تاریکی بود
How is it possible to lift up the head from slumber, whilst you are sowing a hundred such seeds of slothfulness?
سر ز خفتن کی توان برداشتن ** با چنین صد تخم غفلت کاشتن
Slumber is dead (unlawful) food is dead; they are friends (to each other): the merchant fell asleep and the night-thief got to work.
خواب مرده لقمهی مرده یار شد ** خواجه خفت و دزد شب بر کار شد
Do you not know who your enemies are? Those made of fire are enemies to the existence of those made of earth.
تو نمیدانی که خصمانت کیاند ** ناریان خصم وجود خاکیاند