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  • That my name may be he loves for God's sake, that my desire may be he hates for God's sake,
  • تا احب لله آید نام من ** تا که ابغض لله آید کام من‌‌

  • That my generosity may be he gives for God's sake, that my being may be he withholds for God's sake.
  • تا که اعطا لله آید جود من ** تا که امسک لله آید بود من‌‌

  • My stinginess is for God's sake, my bounty is for God's sake alone: I belong entirely to God, I do not belong to any one (else); 3805
  • بخل من لله عطا لله و بس ** جمله لله‌‌ام نیم من آن کس‌‌

  • And that which I am doing for God's sake is not (done in) conformity, it is not fancy and opinion, it is naught but intuition.
  • و آن چه لله می‌‌کنم تقلید نیست ** نیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست‌‌

  • I have been freed from effort and search, I have tied my sleeve to the skirt of God.
  • ز اجتهاد و از تحری رسته‌‌ام ** آستین بر دامن حق بسته‌‌ام‌‌

  • If I am flying, I behold the place to which I soar; and if I am circling, I behold the axis on which I revolve;
  • گر همی‌‌پرم همی‌‌بینم مطار ** ور همی‌‌گردم همی‌‌بینم مدار

  • And if I am dragging a burden, I know whither: I am the moon, and the Sun is in front of me as the guide.”
  • ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجا ** ماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا

  • There is no means (possibility) of communicating more than this to the people: in the river there is no room for the Sea. 3810
  • بیش از این با خلق گفتن روی نیست ** بحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست‌‌

  • I speak low according to the measure of (their) understandings: ’tis no fault, this is the practice of the Prophet.
  • پست می‌‌گویم به اندازه‌‌ی عقول ** عیب نبود این بود کار رسول‌‌

  • “I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”
  • از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو

  • In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.
  • در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا

  • (Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.
  • گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه‌‌

  • In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude, 3815
  • بنده‌‌ی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق‌‌

  • For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.
  • کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر

  • The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.
  • بنده‌‌ی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص‌‌

  • He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.
  • در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست‌‌

  • He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
  • در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن‌‌

  • I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed. 3820
  • بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود

  • (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
  • این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است‌‌

  • They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.
  • خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست‌‌

  • Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).
  • چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست‌‌

  • (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.
  • گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر

  • “Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in! 3825
  • چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ

  • Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.
  • اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق‌‌

  • Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.
  • اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر