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551-575

  • The people became mad from longing for him and on account of being separated from his (spiritual) feeling and discourse and intuition.
  • خلق دیوانه شدند از شوق او ** از فراق حال و قال و ذوق او

  • They were making supplication and lament, while he in solitude was bent double by austerities.
  • لابه و زاری همی‌‌کردند و او ** از ریاضت گشته در خلوت دو تو

  • They said, “Without thee we have no light: how (what) is the state of a blind man without a leader?
  • گفته ایشان نیست ما را بی‌‌تو نور ** بی‌‌عصا کش چون بود احوال کور

  • By way of showing favour (to us) and for God's sake, do not keep us parted from thee any longer.
  • از سر اکرام و از بهر خدا ** بیش از این ما را مدار از خود جدا

  • We are as children and thou art our nurse: do thou spread over us that shadow (of thy protection).” 555
  • ما چو طفلانیم و ما را دایه تو ** بر سر ما گستران آن سایه تو

  • He said, “My soul is not far from them that love (me), but there is no permission to come forth.”
  • گفت جانم از محبان دور نیست ** لیک بیرون آمدن دستور نیست‌‌

  • Those amírs came for intercession, and the disciples came in reproach,
  • آن امیران در شفاعت آمدند ** و آن مریدان در شناعت آمدند

  • Saying, “O noble sir, what a misfortune is this for us! Without thee we are left orphaned (deprived) of our hearts and our religion.
  • کاین چه بد بختی است ما را ای کریم ** از دل و دین مانده ما بی‌‌تو یتیم‌‌

  • Thou art making a pretence while we in grief are heaving cold (fruitless) sighs from the burning heat of our hearts.
  • تو بهانه می‌‌کنی و ما ز درد ** می‌‌زنیم از سوز دل دمهای سرد

  • We have become accustomed to thy sweet discourse, we have drunk of the milk of thy wisdom. 560
  • ما به گفتار خوشت خو کرده‌‌ایم ** ما ز شیر حکمت تو خورده‌‌ایم‌‌

  • Allah! Allah! do not thou (O vizier) treat us with such cruelty: show kindness to-day, do not (put off till) to-morrow.
  • الله الله این جفا با ما مکن ** خیر کن امروز را فردا مکن‌‌

  • Does thy heart give to thee (consent) that these who have lost their hearts (to thee) should at last, being without thee, become (numbered) amongst them that have nothing left?
  • می‌‌دهد دل مر ترا کاین بی‌‌دلان ** بی‌‌تو گردند آخر از بی‌‌حاصلان‌‌

  • They all are writhing like fishes on dry land: let loose the water, remove the dam from the stream.
  • جمله در خشکی چو ماهی می‌‌تپند ** آب را بگشا ز جو بر دار بند

  • O thou like whom there is none in the world, for God's sake, for God's sake, come to the aid of thy people!”
  • ای که چون تو در زمانه نیست کس ** الله الله خلق را فریاد رس‌‌

  • How the vizier refused the request of the disciples.
  • دفع گفتن وزیر مریدان را

  • He said: “Beware, O ye enslaved by words and talk, ye who seek admonition and discourse (conveyed) by the tongue and (through the) ear. 565
  • گفت هان ای سخرگان گفت‌‌وگو ** وعظ و گفتار زبان و گوش جو

  • Put cotton-wool in the ear of the low (physical) sense, take off the bandage of (that) sense from your eyes!
  • پنبه اندر گوش حس دون کنید ** بند حس از چشم خود بیرون کنید

  • The ear of the head is the cotton-wool of the ear of the conscience: until the former becomes deaf, that inward (ear) is deaf.
  • پنبه‌‌ی آن گوش سر گوش سر است ** تا نگردد این کر آن باطن کر است‌‌

  • Become without sense and without ear and without thought, that ye may hear the call (of God to the soul), ‘Return!’”
  • بی‌‌حس و بی‌‌گوش و بی‌‌فکرت شوید ** تا خطاب ارجعی را بشنوید

  • So long as thou art (engaged) in the conversation of wakefulness, how wilt thou catch any scent of the conversation of sleep?
  • تا به گفت‌‌وگوی بیداری دری ** تو ز گفت خواب بویی کی بری‌‌

  • Our speech and action is the exterior journey: the interior journey is above the sky. 570
  • سیر بیرونی است قول و فعل ما ** سیر باطن هست بالای سما

  • The (physical) sense saw (only) dryness, because it was born of dryness (earth): the Jesus of the spirit set foot on the sea.
  • حس خشکی دید کز خشکی بزاد ** عیسی جان پای بر دریا نهاد

  • The journey of the dry body befell on dry land, (but) the journey of the spirit set foot (took place) in the heart of the sea.
  • سیر جسم خشک بر خشکی فتاد ** سیر جان پا در دل دریا نهاد

  • Since thy life has passed in travelling on land, now mountain, now river, now desert,
  • چون که عمر اندر ره خشکی گذشت ** گاه کوه و گاه صحرا گاه دشت‌‌

  • Whence wilt thou gain the Water of Life? Where wilt thou cleave the waves of the Sea?
  • آب حیوان از کجا خواهی تو یافت ** موج دریا را کجا خواهی شکافت‌‌

  • The waves of earth are our imagination and understanding and thought; the waves of water are (mystical) self-effacement and intoxication and death (faná). 575
  • موج خاکی وهم و فهم و فکر ماست ** موج آبی محو و سکر است و فناست‌‌