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1089-1113

  • The heart is eating a (particular) food from every single companion; the heart is getting a (particular) excellence from every single (piece of) knowledge.
  • دل ز هر یاری غذایی می‏خورد ** دل ز هر علمی صفایی می‏برد

  • Every human being's (outer) form is like a cup; (only) the (spiritual) eye is a percipient of his (or her) reality. 1090
  • صورت هر آدمی چون کاسه‏ای است ** چشم از معنی او حساسه‏ای است‏

  • You eat (receive) something from meeting with any one, and you carry away something from conjunction with any associate.
  • از لقای هر کسی چیزی خوری ** و ز قران هر قرین چیزی بری‏

  • When planet comes into conjunction with planet, the effect appropriate to them both is assuredly produced,
  • چون ستاره با ستاره شد قرین ** لایق هر دو اثر زاید یقین‏

  • As (for example) the conjunction of man and woman brings to birth the human being, and (as) sparks arise from the conjunction of stone and iron;
  • چون قران مرد و زن زاید بشر ** وز قران سنگ و آهن شد شرر

  • And (as) from the conjunction of earth with rains (there are produced) fruits and greenery and sweet herbs;
  • و ز قران خاک با بارانها ** میوه‏ها و سبزه و ریحانها

  • And (as) from the conjunction of green things (plants and verdant spots) with man (there is produced) joy of heart and carelessness and happiness; 1095
  • و ز قران سبزه‏ها با آدمی ** دل خوشی و بی‏غمی و خرمی‏

  • And (as) from the conjunction of happiness with our souls are born our goodness and beneficence.
  • وز قران خرمی با جان ما ** می‏بزاید خوبی و احسان ما

  • Our bodies become capable of eating and drinking when our desire for recreation (in the open air) is satisfied.
  • قابل خوردن شود اجسام ما ** چون بر آید از تفرج کام ما

  • Redness of countenance is (derived) from the conjunction of blood (with the face); blood is (derived) from the beautiful rose-coloured sun.
  • سرخ رویی از قران خون بود ** خون ز خورشید خوش گلگون بود

  • Redness is the best of (all) colours, and that is (born) of the sun and is arriving (to us) from it.
  • بهترین رنگها سرخی بود ** و آن ز خورشید است و از وی می‏رسد

  • Every land that has been conjoined with Saturn has become nitrous and is not the place for sowing. 1100
  • هر زمینی کان قرین شد با زحل ** شوره گشت و کشت را نبود محل‏

  • Through concurrence power comes into action, as (in the case of) the conjunction of the Devil with hypocrites.
  • قوت اندر فعل آید ز اتفاق ** چون قران دیو با اهل نفاق‏

  • These spiritual truths without (possessing) any (worldly) pomp and grandeur, have pomp and grandeur from the Ninth Heaven.
  • این معانی راست از چرخ نهم ** بی‏همه طاق و طرم طاق و طرم‏

  • The pomp and grandeur belonging to (the world of) creation is a borrowed (adventitious) thing; the pomp and grandeur belonging to the (world of) Command is an essential thing.
  • خلق را طاق و طرم عاریت است ** امر را طاق و طرم ماهیت است‏

  • For the sake of (earthly) pomp and grandeur they endure abasement; in the hope of glory they are happy in (their) abasement.
  • از پی طاق و طرم خواری کشند ** بر امید عز در خواری خوشند

  • In the hope of a ten days' (transient) glory (full) of annoyance, they have made their necks, from anxiety, (thin) as a spindle. 1105
  • بر امید عز ده روزه‏ی خدوک ** گردن خود کرده‏اند از غم چو دوک‏

  • How do not they come to this place where I am?—for in this (spiritual) glory I am the shining Sun.
  • چون نمی‏آیند اینجا که منم ** کاندر این عز آفتاب روشنم‏

  • The rising-place of the sun is the pitch-coloured tower (of heaven), (but) my Sun is beyond (all) rising-places.
  • مشرق خورشید برج قیرگون ** آفتاب ما ز مشرقها برون‏

  • His “rising-place” (is only) in relation to His motes: His essence neither rose nor set.
  • مشرق او نسبت ذرات او ** نه بر آمد نه فرو شد ذات او

  • I who am left behind (surpassed in eminence) by His motes am (nevertheless) in both worlds a sun without shadow.
  • ما که واپس ماند ذرات وی‏ایم ** در دو عالم آفتابی بی‏فی‏ایم‏

  • Still, I am revolving round the Sun—’tis wonderful; the cause of this is the majesty of the Sun. 1110
  • باز گرد شمس می‏گردم عجب ** هم ز فر شمس باشد این سبب‏

  • The Sun is acquainted with (all secondary) causes; at the same time the cord of (all secondary) causes is severed from Him.
  • شمس باشد بر سببها مطلع ** هم از او حبل سببها منقطع‏

  • Hundreds of thousands of times have I cut off (abandoned) hope—of whom? Of the Sun? Do you believe this?
  • صد هزاران بار ببریدم امید ** از که از شمس این شما باور کنید

  • Do not believe of me that I can endure to be without the Sun, or the fish to be without water;
  • تو مرا باور مکن کز آفتاب ** صبر دارم من و یا ماهی ز آب‏