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786-810

  • Come in, O mother: I am happy here, although in appearance I am amidst the fire.
  • اندر آ ای مادر اینجا من خوشم ** گر چه در صورت میان آتشم‌‌

  • The fire is a spell that binds the eye for the sake of screening (the truth); this is (in reality) a Divine mercy which has raised its head from the collar (has been manifested from the Unseen).
  • چشم بند است آتش از بهر حجاب ** رحمت است این سر بر آورده ز جیب‌‌

  • Come in, mother, and see the evidence of God, that thou mayst behold the delight of God's elect.
  • اندر آ مادر ببین برهان حق ** تا ببینی عشرت خاصان حق‌‌

  • Come in, and see water that has the semblance of fire; (come away) from a world which is (really) fire and (only) has the semblance of water.
  • اندر آ و آب بین آتش مثال ** از جهانی کاتش است آبش مثال‌‌

  • Come in, and see the mysteries of Abraham, who in the fire found cypress and jessamine. 790
  • اندر آ اسرار ابراهیم بین ** کاو در آتش یافت سرو و یاسمین‌‌

  • I was seeing death at the time of birth from thee: sore was my dread of falling from thee;
  • مرگ می‌‌دیدم گه زادن ز تو ** سخت خوفم بود افتادن ز تو

  • (But) when I was born, I escaped from the narrow prison (of the womb) into a world of pleasant air and beautiful colour.
  • چون بزادم رستم از زندان تنگ ** در جهان خوش هوای خوب رنگ‌‌

  • Now I deem the (earthly) world to be like the womb, since in this fire I have seen such rest:
  • من جهان را چون رحم دیدم کنون ** چون در این آتش بدیدم این سکون‌‌

  • In this fire I have seen a world wherein every atom possesses the (life-giving) breath of Jesus.
  • اندر این آتش بدیدم عالمی ** ذره ذره اندر او عیسی دمی‌‌

  • Lo, (it is) a world apparently non-existent (but) essentially existent, while that (other) world is apparently existent (but) has no permanence. 795
  • نک جهان نیست شکل هست ذات ** و آن جهان هست شکل بی‌‌ثبات‌‌

  • Come in, mother, (I beseech thee) by the right of motherhood: see this fire, how it hath no fieriness.
  • اندر آ مادر به حق مادری ** بین که این آذر ندارد آذری‌‌

  • Come in, mother, for felicity is come; come in, mother, do not let fortune slip from thy hand.
  • اندر آ مادر که اقبال آمده ست ** اندر آ مادر مده دولت ز دست‌‌

  • Thou hast seen the power of that (Jewish) cur: come in, that thou mayst see the power and the grace of God.
  • قدرت آن سگ بدیدی اندر آ ** تا ببینی قدرت و لطف خدا

  • ’Tis (only) out of pity that I am drawing thy feet (hither), for indeed such is my rapture that I have no care for thee.
  • من ز رحمت می‌‌کشانم پای تو ** کز طرب خود نیستم پروای تو

  • Come in and call the others also, for the King has spread a (festal) table within the fire. 800
  • اندر آ و دیگران را هم بخوان ** کاندر آتش شاه بنهاده ست خوان‌‌

  • O true believers, come in, all of you: except the sweetness (‘adhbí) of (the true) religion all is torment (‘adháb).
  • اندر آیید ای مسلمانان همه ** غیر عذب دین عذاب است آن همه‌‌

  • Oh, come in, all of you, like moths; (come) into this fortune which hath a hundred springtimes.”
  • اندر آیید ای همه پروانه‌‌وار ** اندر این بهره که دارد صد بهار

  • (Thus) he was crying amidst that multitude: the souls of the people were filled with awe.
  • بانگ می‌‌زد در میان آن گروه ** پر همی‌‌شد جان خلقان از شکوه‌‌

  • After that, the folk, men and women (alike), cast themselves unwittingly into the fire—
  • خلق خود را بعد از آن بی‌‌خویشتن ** می‌‌فگندند اندر آتش مرد و زن‌‌

  • Without custodian, without being dragged, for love of the Friend, because from Him is the sweetening of every bitterness— 805
  • بی‌‌موکل بی‌‌کشش از عشق دوست ** ز آن که شیرین کردن هر تلخ از اوست‌‌

  • Until it came to pass that the (king's) myrmidons were holding back the people, saying, “Do not enter the fire!”
  • تا چنان شد کان عوانان خلق را ** منع می‌‌کردند کاتش در میا

  • The Jew became black-faced (covered with shame) and dismayed; he became sorry and sick at heart,
  • آن یهودی شد سیه رو و خجل ** شد پشیمان زین سبب بیمار دل‌‌

  • Because the people grew more loving (ardent) in their Faith and more firm in mortification (faná) of the body.
  • کاندر ایمان خلق عاشق‌‌تر شدند ** در فنای جسم صادق‌‌تر شدند

  • Thanks (be to God), the Devil's plot caught him in its toils; thanks (be to God), the Devil saw himself disgraced.
  • مکر شیطان هم در او پیچید شکر ** دیو هم خود را سیه رو دید شکر

  • That which he was rubbing (the shame he was inflicting) on the faces of those persons (the Christians) was all accumulated on the visage of that vile wretch. 810
  • آن چه می‌‌مالید در روی کسان ** جمع شد در چهره‌‌ی آن ناکس آن‌‌