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515-539

  • Wherever there was an ear, through Him it became an eye; wherever there was a stone, through Him it became a jasper. 515
  • هر کجا گوشی بد از وی چشم گشت ** هر کجا سنگی بد از وی یشم گشت‌‌

  • He is an alchemist—what is alchemy (compared with His action)? He is a giver of miracles (to prophets)—what is magic (compared with these miracles)?
  • کیمیا ساز است چه بود کیمیا ** معجزه بخش است چه بود سیمیا

  • This uttering of praise (to Him) is (really) the omission of praise on my part, for this (praise) is a proof of (my) being, and being is a sin.
  • این ثنا گفتن ز من ترک ثناست ** کین دلیل هستی و هستی خطاست‌‌

  • It behoves (us) to be not-being in the presence of His Being: in His presence what is (our) being? Blind and blue.
  • پیش هست او بباید نیست بود ** چیست هستی پیش او کور و کبود

  • Were it not blind it would have been melted (consumed) by Him: it would have known the heat of (the Divine) sun;
  • گر نبودی کور از او بگداختی ** گرمی خورشید را بشناختی‌‌

  • And were it not blue from mourning, how would this region (of phenomenal existence) have (remained) frozen like ice? 520
  • ور نبودی او کبود از تعزیت ** کی فسردی همچو یخ این ناحیت‌‌

  • Setting forth how the vizier incurred perdition (by engaging) in this plot.
  • بیان خسارت وزیر در این مکر

  • The vizier was ignorant and heedless, like the (Jewish) king: he was wrestling with the eternal and inevitable,
  • همچو شه نادان و غافل بد وزیر ** پنجه می‌‌زد با قدیم ناگزیر

  • With a God so mighty that in a moment He causes a hundred worlds like ours to come into existence from non-existence:
  • با چنان قادر خدایی کز عدم ** صد چو عالم هست گرداند به دم‌‌

  • A hundred worlds like ours He displays to the sight, when He makes your eye seeing by (the light of) Himself.
  • صد چو عالم در نظر پیدا کند ** چون که چشمت را به خود بینا کند

  • If the world appears to you vast and bottomless, know that to Omnipotence it is not (so much as) an atom.
  • گر جهان پیشت بزرگ و بی‌‌بنی است ** پیش قدرت ذره ای می‌‌دان که نیست‌‌

  • This world, indeed, is the prison of your souls: oh, go in yonder direction, for there lies your open country. 525
  • این جهان خود حبس جانهای شماست‌‌ ** هین روید آن سو که صحرای شماست

  • This world is finite, and truly that (other) is infinite: image and form are a barrier to that Reality.
  • این جهان محدود آن خود بی حد است ** نقش و صورت پیش ٱن معنی سد است

  • The myriads of Pharaoh's lances were shattered by (the hand of) Moses (armed) with a single staff.
  • صد هزاران نیزه‌‌ی فرعون را ** در شکست از موسیی با یک عصا

  • Myriads were the therapeutic arts of Galen: before Jesus and his (life-giving) breath they were a laughing-stock.
  • صد هزاران طب جالینوس بود ** پیش عیسی و دمش افسوس بود

  • Myriads were the books of (pre-Islamic) poems: at the word of an illiterate (prophet) they were (put to) shame.
  • صد هزاران دفتر اشعار بود ** پیش حرف امیی آن عار بود

  • (Confronted) with such an all-conquering Lord, how should any one not die (to self), unless he be a vile wretch? 530
  • با چنین غالب خداوندی کسی ** چون نمیرد گر نباشد او خسی‌‌

  • Many a mind (strong and firm) as a mountain did He uproot; the cunning bird He hung up by its two feet.
  • بس دل چون کوه را انگیخت او ** مرغ زیرک با دو پا آویخت او

  • To sharpen the intelligence and wits is not the (right) way: none but the broken (in spirit) wins the favour of the King.
  • فهم و خاطر تیز کردن نیست راه ** جز شکسته می‌‌نگیرد فضل شاه‌‌

  • Oh, many the amassers of treasure, digging holes (in search of treasure), who became an ox's beard (dupe) to that vain schemer (the vizier)!
  • ای بسا گنج آگنان کنج کاو ** کان خیال اندیش را شد ریش گاو

  • Who is the ox that you should become his beard? What is earth that you should become its stubble?
  • گاو که بود تا تو ریش او شوی ** خاک چه بود تا حشیش او شوی‌‌

  • When a woman became pale-faced (ashamed) of (her) wickedness, God metamorphosed her and made her Zuhra (the planet Venus). 535
  • چون زنی از کار بد شد روی زرد ** مسخ کرد او را خدا و زهره کرد

  • To make a woman Zuhra was metamorphosis: is it not metamorphosis to become earth and clay, O contumacious one?
  • عورتی را زهره کردن مسخ بود ** خاک و گل گشتن نه مسخ است ای عنود

  • Your spirit was bearing you towards the highest sphere (of heaven): you went towards the water and the clay amongst the lowest (of the low).
  • روح می‌‌بردت سوی چرخ برین ** سوی آب و گل شدی در اسفلین‌‌

  • By this fall you metamorphosed yourself from that (state of) existence which was the envy of the (spiritual) intelligences.
  • خویشتن را مسخ کردی زین سفول ** ز آن وجودی که بد آن رشک عقول‌‌

  • Consider, then, how is (what is the character of) this metamorphosis: compared with that metamorphosis (of the woman) this (which you have suffered) is exceedingly vile.
  • پس ببین کین مسخ کردن چون بود ** پیش آن مسخ این به غایت دون بود