(But) my image gave voice (spoke) from thine eye (and said), “I am thou and thou art I in (perfect) oneness;
نقش من از چشم تو آواز داد ** که منم تو تو منی در اتحاد
For how should a phantom find the way into this illumined eye which never ceases from (contemplating) the (Divine) realities?”
کاندر این چشم منیر بیزوال ** از حقایق راه کی یابد خیال
(Thou saidst), “If you behold your image in the eyes of any other than me, know that ’tis a phantom and reprobate,105
در دو چشم غیر من تو نقش خود ** گر ببینی آن خیالی دان و رد
Because he (every one except me) is applying (to his eye) the collyrium of nonexistence (unreality) and is imbibing the wine of Satan's illusion-making.
ز آن که سرمهی نیستی در میکشد ** باده از تصویر شیطان میچشد
Their eye is the home of phantasy and non-existence: necessarily it sees as existent the things which are non-existent;
چشمشان خانهی خیال است و عدم ** نیستها را هست بیند لاجرم
(But) since my eye saw (got) collyrium from the Glorious (God), it is the home of (real) existence, not the home of phantasy.”
چشم من چون سرمه دید از ذو الجلال ** خانهی هستی است نه خانهی خیال
So long as a single hair of you is before your eye, in your phantasy a pearl will be as jasper.
تا یکی مو باشد از تو پیش چشم ** در خیالت گوهری باشد چو یشم
You will know jasper from pearls (only) at the time when you pass away from (abandon) your phantasy entirely.110
یشم را آن گه شناسی از گهر ** کز خیال خود کنی کلی عبر
O connoisseur of pearls, listen to a story, that you may distinguish actual seeing from (mere) inference.
یک حکایت بشنو ای گوهر شناس ** تا بدانی تو عیان را از قیاس
How in the time of ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, a certain person imagined that what he saw was the new moon.
هلال پنداشتن آن شخص خیال را در عهد عمر
The Fasting-month (Ramadán) came round in ‘Umar's time. Some people ran to the top of a hill,
ماه روزه گشت در عهد عمر ** بر سر کوهی دویدند آن نفر
In order to take (the appearance of) the new moon as a good omen, and one of them said, “Look, O ‘Umar, here is the new moon!”
تا هلال روزه را گیرند فال ** آن یکی گفت ای عمر اینک هلال
As ‘Umar did not see the moon in the sky, he said, “This moon has risen from thy phantasy.
چون عمر بر آسمان مه را ندید ** گفت کاین مه از خیال تو دمید
Otherwise, (since) I am a better seer of the heavens (than thou), how is it that I do not see the pure crescent?115
ور نه من بیناترم افلاک را ** چون نمیبینم هلال پاک را
Wet thy hand,” said he, “and rub it on thine eyebrow, and then look up towards the new moon.”
گفت تر کن دست و بر ابرو بمال ** آن گهان تو بر نگر سوی هلال
When he wetted his eyebrow, he did not see the moon. “O King,” he said, “there is no moon; it has disappeared.”
چون که او تر کرد ابرو مه ندید ** گفت ای شه نیست مه شد ناپدید
“Yes,” said ‘Umar, “the hair of thine eyebrow had become (curved) like a bow and shot at thee an arrow of opinion.”
گفت آری موی ابرو شد کمان ** سوی تو افکند تیری از گمان
When one hair became crooked, it waylaid him (hindered him from seeing truly), so that, making a false claim, he boasted to have seen the moon.
چون یکی مو کج شد او را راه زد ** تا به دعوی لاف دید ماه زد
Inasmuch as a crooked hair veils the sky, how will it be when all your members are crooked?120
موی کج چون پردهی گردون بود ** چون همه اجزات کج شد چون بود
Straighten your members by (the help of) the straight (the righteous). O you who (would) go straight, turn not your head aside from that threshold (where the righteous dwell).
راست کن اجزات را از راستان ** سر مکش ای راست رو ز آن آستان
Balance makes balance correct; balance also makes balance defective.
هم ترازو را ترازو راست کرد ** هم ترازو را ترازو کاست کرد
Whoever weighs the same (adopts the same standard) as the unrighteous falls into deficiency, and his understanding becomes dazed.
هر که با ناراستان هم سنگ شد ** در کمی افتاد و عقلش دنگ شد
Go, be hard on the infidels, sprinkle dust on (renounce) fondness for the strangers.
رو أشداء علی الکفار باش ** خاک بر دل داری اغیار پاش
Be as a sword upon the heads of the strangers: come, do not play foxy tricks, be a lion,125
بر سر اغیار چون شمشیر باش ** هین مکن روباه بازی شیر باش
In order that the friends (of God), moved by (righteous) jealousy, may not break with you, because those thorns (the wicked) are the enemies of this rose (the friend of God).
تا ز غیرت از تو یاران نگسلند ** ز آنکه آن خاران عدوی این گلند
Set fire to the wolves as (to) rue-seed, because those wolves are the enemies of Joseph.
آتش اندر زن به گرگان چون سپند ** ز آن که آن گرگان عدوی یوسفند