- When He pleases, pain itself becomes joy; bondage itself becomes freedom.
- چون بخواهد عین غم شادی شود ** عین بند پای، آزادی شود
- Air and earth and water and fire are (His) slaves: with you and me they are dead, but with God they are alive.
- باد و خاک و آب و آتش بندهاند ** با من و تو مرده با حق زندهاند
- Before God, fire is always standing (ready to do His behest), writhing continually day and night, like a lover.
- پیش حق آتش همیشه در قیام ** همچو عاشق روز و شب پیچان مدام
- If you strike stone on iron, it (the fire) leaps out: ’tis by God's command that it puts forth its foot. 840
- سنگ بر آهن زنی بیرون جهد ** هم به امر حق قدم بیرون نهد
- Do not strike together the iron and stone of injustice, for these two generate like man and woman.
- آهن و سنگ ستم بر هم مزن ** کاین دو میزایند همچون مرد و زن
- The stone and the iron are indeed causes, but look higher, O good man!
- سنگ و آهن خود سبب آمد و لیک ** تو به بالاتر نگر ای مرد نیک
- For this (external) cause was produced by that (spiritual) cause: when did a cause ever proceed from itself without a cause?
- کاین سبب را آن سبب آورد پیش ** بیسبب کی شد سبب هرگز ز خویش
- And those causes which guide the prophets on their way are higher than these (external) causes.
- و آن سببها کانبیا را رهبر است ** آن سببها زین سببها برتر است
- That (spiritual) cause makes this (external) cause operative; sometimes, again, it makes it fruitless and ineffectual. 845
- این سبب را آن سبب عامل کند ** باز گاهی بیبر و عاطل کند
- (Ordinary) minds are familiar with this (external) cause, but the prophets are familiar with those (spiritual) causes.
- این سبب را محرم آمد عقلها ** و آن سببها راست محرم انبیا
- What is (the meaning of) this (word) “cause” (sabab) in Arabic? Say: “cord” (rasan). This cord came into this well (the world) by (Divine) artifice.
- این سبب چه بود به تازی گو رسن ** اندر این چه این رسن آمد به فن
- The revolution of the water-wheel causes the cord (to move), (but) not to see the mover of the water-wheel is an error.
- گردش چرخه رسن را علت است ** چرخه گردان را ندیدن زلت است
- Beware, beware! Do not regard these cords of causation in the world as (deriving their movement) from the giddy wheel (of heaven),
- این رسنهای سببها در جهان ** هان و هان زین چرخ سر گردان مدان
- Lest you remain empty and giddy like the (celestial) wheel, lest through brainlessness you burn like markh wood. 850
- تا نمانی صفر و سر گردان چو چرخ ** تا نسوزی تو ز بیمغزی چو مرخ
- By the command of God the wind devours (extinguishes) fire: both are drunken with the wine of God.
- باد آتش میخورد از امر حق ** هر دو سر مست آمدند از خمر حق
- O son, when you open your eyes you will see that from God too are the water of clemency and the fire of anger.
- آب حلم و آتش خشم ای پسر ** هم ز حق بینی چو بگشایی بصر
- Had not the soul of the wind been informed by God, how would it have distinguished (the believers and unbelievers) amongst the people of ‘Ád?
- گر نبودی واقف از حق جان باد ** فرق کی کردی میان قوم عاد
- The story of the wind which destroyed the people of ‘Ád in the time of (the prophet) Húd, on whom be peace.
- قصهی باد که در عهد هود علیه السلام قوم عاد را هلاک کرد
- Húd drew a line round the believers: the wind would become soft (subside) when it reached that place,
- هود گرد مومنان خطی کشید ** نرم میشد باد کانجا میرسید
- (Although) it was dashing to pieces in the air all who were outside of the line. 855
- هر که بیرون بود ز آن خط جمله را ** پاره پاره میگسست اندر هوا
- Likewise Shaybán the shepherd used to draw a visible line round his flock
- همچنین شیبان راعی میکشید ** گرد بر گرد رمه خطی پدید
- Whenever he went to the Friday service at prayer-time, in order that the wolf might not raid and ravage there:
- چون به جمعه میشد او وقت نماز ** تا نیارد گرگ آن جا ترک تاز
- No wolf would go into that (circle), nor would any sheep stray beyond that mark;
- هیچ گرگی در نرفتی اندر آن ** گوسفندی هم نگشتی ز آن نشان
- The wind of the wolf's and sheeps' concupiscence was barred because of (by) the circle of the man of God.
- باد حرص گرگ و حرص گوسفند ** دایرهی مرد خدا را بود بند
- Even so, to those who know God (‘árifán) the wind of Death is soft and pleasant as the breeze (that wafts the scent) of (loved) ones like Joseph. 860
- همچنین باد اجل با عارفان ** نرم و خوش همچون نسیم یوسفان
- The fire did not set its teeth in Abraham: how should it bite him, since he is the chosen of God?
- آتش ابراهیم را دندان نزد ** چون گزیدهی حق بود چونش گزد