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1170-1194

  • I am not a congener of the King of kings—far be it from Him!—but I have light from Him in (His) self-manifestation. 1170
  • من نیم جنس شهنشه دور از او ** لیک دارم در تجلی نور از او

  • Homogeneity is not in respect of form and essence: water becomes homogeneous with earth in the plant.
  • نیست جنسیت ز روی شکل و ذات ** آب جنس خاک آمد در نبات‏

  • Wind (air) becomes homogeneous with fire in consistency; wine at last becomes homogeneous with the constitution (of the body).
  • باد جنس آتش آمد در قوام ** طبع را جنس آمده ست آخر مدام‏

  • Since my genus is not the genus of my King, my ego has passed away (faná) for the sake of His ego.
  • جنس ما چون نیست جنس شاه ما ** مای ما شد بهر مای او فنا

  • Inasmuch as my ego passed away, He remained alone: I roll at the feet of His horse, like dust.
  • چون فنا شد مای ما او ماند فرد ** پیش پای اسب او گردم چو گرد

  • The (individual) soul (self) became dust, and the (only) signs of it are the mark of His feet on its dust. 1175
  • خاک شد جان و نشانیهای او ** هست بر خاکش نشان پای او

  • Become dust at His feet for the sake of this mark, in order that you may become the crown on the head of the lofty.
  • خاک پایش شو برای این نشان ** تا شوی تاج سر گردن کشان‏

  • Let not my form beguile you: partake of my dessert before my departure.”
  • تا که نفریبد شما را شکل من ** نقل من نوشید پیش از نقل من‏

  • Oh, (there is) many a one whom the form waylaid: he aimed at the form (of the holy man) and (in reality) struck at God.
  • ای بسا کس را که صورت راه زد ** قصد صورت کرد و بر الله زد

  • After all, this soul is joined to the body, (but) has this soul any likeness to the body?
  • آخر این جان با بدن پیوسته است ** هیچ این جان با بدن مانند هست‏

  • The sparkle of the eye's light is paired with the fat; the light of the heart is hidden in a drop of blood; 1180
  • تاب نور چشم با پیه است جفت ** نور دل در قطره‏ی خونی نهفت‏

  • Joy (has its seat) in the kidneys, grief in the liver; intellect, (bright) as a candle, inside the brain in the head.
  • شادی اندر گرده و غم در جگر ** عقل چون شمعی درون مغز سر

  • These connexions are not without a how and a why, (but) as regards knowledge of the why (our) minds are impotent.
  • این تعلقها نه بی‏کیف است و چون ** عقلها در دانش چونی زبون‏

  • The Universal Soul came into contact with the partial (individual) soul, and the (latter) soul received from it a pearl and put it into its bosom.
  • جان کل با جان جزو آسیب کرد ** جان از او دری ستد در جیب کرد

  • Through that touch on its bosom the (individual) soul became pregnant, like Mary, with a heart-beguiling Messiah,
  • همچو مریم جان از آن آسیب جیب ** حامله شد از مسیح دل فریب‏

  • Not the Messiah who is (a traveller) on land and water, (but) the Messiah who is beyond (the limitation of) measuring (space). 1185
  • آن مسیحی نه که بر خشک و تر است ** آن مسیحی کز مساحت برتر است‏

  • So when the soul has been impregnated by the Soul of soul, by such a soul the world is impregnated.
  • پس ز جان جان چو حامل گشت جان ** از چنین جانی شود حامل جهان‏

  • Then the world gives birth to another world, and displays to this congregated people a place of congregation (for the realities which are raised to life).
  • پس جهان زاید جهان دیگری ** این حشر را وا نماید محشری‏

  • Though I should speak and recount till the Resurrection, I lack the power to describe this (spiritual) resurrection.
  • تا قیامت گر بگویم بشمرم ** من ز شرح این قیامت قاصرم‏

  • These sayings (of mine), indeed, are really an “O Lord” (a prayer addressed to God); the words are the lure for the breath of a sweet-lipped One.
  • این سخنها خود به معنی یا ربی است ** حرفها دام دم شیرین لبی است‏

  • How, then, should he (that seeks the answer) fail (to pray)? How should he be silent, inasmuch as “Here am I” is (always) coming in response to his “O Lord”? 1190
  • چون کند تقصیر پس چون تن زند ** چون که لبیکش به یا رب می‏رسد

  • It is a “Here am I” that you cannot hear, but can taste (feel and enjoy) from head to foot.
  • هست لبیکی که نتوانی شنید ** لیک سر تا پای بتوانی چشید

  • How the thirsty man threw bricks from the top of the wall into the stream of water.
  • کلوخ انداختن تشنه از سر دیوار در جوی آب

  • On the bank of the stream there was a high wall, and on the top of the wall a sorrowful thirsty man.
  • بر لب جو بود دیواری بلند ** بر سر دیوار تشنه‏ی دردمند

  • The wall hindered him from (reaching) the water; he was in distress for the water, like a fish.
  • مانعش از آب آن دیوار بود ** از پی آب او چو ماهی زار بود

  • Suddenly he threw a brick into the water: the noise of the water came to his ear like spoken words,
  • ناگهان انداخت او خشتی در آب ** بانگ آب آمد به گوشش چون خطاب‏