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1110-1134

  • 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
  • And if I become despairing, my despair is the objective manifestation of the Sun's  work, O goodly (friend).
  • ور شوم نومید نومیدی من ** عین صنع آفتاب است ای حسن‏
  • How should the objective manifestation of the work be cut off from the very self of the Worker? How should any object of (contingent) being pasture on (derive existence from) aught but (Absolute) Being? 1115
  • عین صنع از نفس صانع چون برد ** هیچ هست از غیر هستی چون چرد
  • All (contingent) beings pasture on this Meadow, whether they be Buráq or Arab horses or even asses;
  • جمله هستیها از این روضه چرند ** گر براق و تازیان ور خود خرند
  • And he that has not regarded (all) becomings (movements and changes) as (proceeding) from that Sea, at every instant turns his face towards a new point of orientation.
  • و انکه گردشها از آن دریا ندید ** هر دم آرد رو به صحرایی جدید
  • He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.
  • او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد ** تا که آب شور او را کور کرد
  • The Sea is saying, “Drink of my water with the right hand, O blind one, that thou mayst gain sight.”
  • بحر می‏گوید به دست راست خور ** ز آب من ای کور تا یابی بصر
  • Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are. 1120
  • هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست‏
  • O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.
  • نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست می‏گردی گهی گاهی دو تو
  • Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.
  • ما ز عشق شمس دین بی‏ناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم‏
  • Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;
  • هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود
  • (Heal him with) the quick-acting tutty of majesty, the darkness-killing remedy of the recalcitrant,
  • توتیای کبریای تیز فعل ** داروی ظلمت کش استیز فعل‏
  • Which, if it strike on the eye of the blind man, will dispel from him a hundred years' darkness. 1125
  • آن که گر بر چشم اعمی بر زند ** ظلمت صد ساله را زو بر کند
  • Heal all the blind ones except the envious man who from envy is bringing denial against thee.
  • جمله کوران را دوا کن جز حسود ** کز حسودی بر تو می‏آرد جحود
  • To thy envier, though it be I, do not give life, (but let me alone) so that I may be suffering the agony of (spiritual) death even as he is.
  • مر حسودت را اگر چه آن منم ** جان مده تا همچنین جان می‏کنم‏
  • (I mean) him that is envious of the Sun and him that is fretting at the existence of the Sun.
  • آن که او باشد حسود آفتاب ** و انکه می‏رنجد ز بود آفتاب‏
  • Look you, this is the incurable disease which he has, alas; look you, this is one fallen for ever to the bottom of the pit.
  • اینت درد بی‏دوا کاو راست آه ** اینت افتاده ابد در قعر چاه‏
  • What he wants is the extinction of the Sun of eternity. Tell (me), how should this desire of his come to pass? 1130
  • نفی خورشید ازل بایست او ** کی بر آید این مراد او بگو
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  • The falcon (seeker of God) is he that comes back to the King; he that has lost the way is the blind falcon.
  • باز آن باشد که باز آید به شاه ** باز کور است آن که شد گم کرده راه‏
  • It lost the way and fell into the wilderness; then in the wilderness it fell amongst owls.
  • راه را گم کرد و در ویران فتاد ** باز در ویران بر جغدان فتاد
  • It (the falcon) is wholly light (derived) from the Light of (Divine) approval, but the marshal, Fate, blinded it.
  • او همه نور است از نور رضا ** لیک کورش کرد سرهنگ قضا
  • He threw dust in its eyes and took it (far) away from the (right) road; he left it amidst owls and (in) the wilderness.
  • خاک در چشمش زد و از راه برد ** در میان جغد و ویرانش سپرد