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1032-1056

  • Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;
  • خلق بی‏پایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین‏

  • Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
  • هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد

  • So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—
  • پس چو می‏بینی که از اندیشه‏ای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشه‏ای‏

  • (That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, 1035
  • خانه‏ها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها

  • Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—
  • هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک‏

  • Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?
  • پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور

  • To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.
  • می‏نماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ‏

  • The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
  • عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم‏

  • While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone, 1040
  • وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بی‏خبر

  • Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.
  • ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بی‏بهره‏ای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کره‏ای‏

  • From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.
  • سایه را تو شخص می‏بینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل‏

  • Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).
  • باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بی‏حجابی پر و بال‏

  • You will see that the mountains have become soft as wool, (and that) this Earth of hot and cold has become naught;
  • کوهها بینی شده چون پشم نرم ** نیست گشته این زمین سرد و گرم‏

  • You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving. 1045
  • نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود

  • Here is a tale, (be it) true or false, to illustrate (these) truths.
  • یک فسانه راست آمد یا دروغ ** تا دهد مر راستیها را فروغ‏

  • How the (King's) retainers envied the favourite slave.
  • حسد کردن حشم بر غلام خاص

  • A King had, of his grace, preferred a certain slave above all his retinue.
  • پادشاهی بنده‏ای را از کرم ** بر گزیده بود بر جمله حشم‏

  • His allowance was the stipend of forty Amírs; a hundred Viziers would not see (receive) a tenth of its amount.
  • جامگی او وظیفه‏ی چل امیر ** ده یک قدرش ندیدی صد وزیر

  • Through the perfection of (his) natal star and prosperity and fortune he was an Ayáz, while the King was the Mahmúd of the time.
  • از کمال طالع و اقبال و بخت ** او ایازی بود و شه محمود وقت‏

  • His spirit in its origin, before (the creation of) this body, was near-related and akin to the King's spirit. 1050
  • روح او با روح شه در اصل خویش ** پیش از این تن بوده هم پیوند و خویش‏

  • (Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.
  • کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست‏

  • That which matters belongs to the knower (of God), for he is not squinting: his eye is (fixed) upon the things first sown.
  • کار عارف راست کاو نه احول است ** چشم او بر کشتهای اول است‏

  • That which was sown as wheat (good) or as barley (relatively evil)—day and night his eye is fastened on that place (where it was sown).
  • آن چه گندم کاشتندش و آن چه جو ** چشم او آن جاست روز و شب گرو

  • Night gave birth to nothing but what she was pregnant withal: designs and plots are wind, (empty) wind.
  • آنچ آبست است شب جز آن نزاد ** حیله‏ها و مکرها باد است باد

  • How should he please his heart with fair designs who sees the design of God (prevailing) over them? 1055
  • کی کند دل خوش به حیلتهای گش ** آن که بیند حیله‏ی حق بر سرش‏

  • He is within the snare (of God) and is laying a snare: by your life, neither that (snare) will escape (destruction) nor will this (man).
  • او درون دام دامی می‏نهد ** جان تو نه این جهد نه آن جهد