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1296-1320

  • But that which rides on it (on the sense) is not manifested save by good effects and words.
  • لیک پیدا نیست آن راکب بر او ** جز به آثار و به گفتار نکو

  • The sensuous light, which is gross and heavy, is hidden in the black of the eyes.
  • نور حسی کاو غلیظ است و گران ** هست پنهان در سواد دیده‏گان‏

  • Inasmuch as you are not seeing the light of sense with (your) eye, how should you see the light of that religious one (the saint) with (your) eye?
  • چون که نور حس نمی‏بینی ز چشم ** چون ببینی نور آن دینی ز چشم‏

  • The light of sense is hidden notwithstanding this grossness: how (then) should not that radiance be hidden which is pure (and subtle)?
  • نور حس با این غلیظی مختفی است ** چون خفی نبود ضیایی کان صفی است‏

  • This world, like straws in the hand (control) of the wind (which is) the (world) unseen, is a helpless object before the power and sway of the Unseen 1300
  • این جهان چون خس به دست باد غیب ** عاجزی پیش گرفت و داد غیب‏

  • It (this control) makes it now lofty, now low; makes it now sound (and whole), now broken;
  • گه بلندش می‏کند گاهیش پست ** گه درستش می‏کند گاهی شکست‏

  • Now carries it to the right, now to the left; now makes it roses, now thorns.
  • گه یمینش می‏برد گاهی یسار ** گه گلستانش کند گاهیش خار

  • See (how) the Hand (is) hidden, while the pen is writing; the horse careering, while the Rider is invisible.
  • دست پنهان و قلم بین خط گزار ** اسب در جولان و ناپیدا سوار

  • See the arrow flying, and the Bow not in sight; the (individual) souls manifest, and the Soul of souls hidden.
  • تیر پران بین و ناپیدا کمان ** جانها پیدا و پنهان جان جان‏

  • Do not break the arrow, for it is the arrow of a King; it is not shot at long range (at random), it is from the thumb-stall of One who knows (how to hit the target). 1305
  • تیر را مشکن که این تیر شهی است ** تیر پرتابی ز شصت آگهی است‏

  • God said, “Thou didst not throw when thou threwest”: the action of God has precedence over (our) actions.
  • ما رمیت إذ رمیت گفت حق ** کار حق بر کارها دارد سبق‏

  • Break your own anger, do not break the arrow: the eye of your anger reckons milk (to be) blood.
  • خشم خود بشکن تو مشکن تیر را ** چشم خشمت خون شمارد شیر را

  • Give the arrow a kiss and bring it to the King—the blood-stained arrow, wet with your blood.
  • بوسه ده بر تیر و پیش شاه بر ** تیر خون آلود از خون تو تر

  • That which is seen is helpless and confined and feeble; and that which is unseen is so fierce and uncontrollable.
  • آن چه پیدا عاجز و بسته و زبون ** و آن چه ناپیدا چنان تند و حرون‏

  • We are the (hunted) prey: to whom belongs such a (fearful) snare? We are the ball (for the blows) of the polo-bat—and where is the Batsman? 1310
  • ما شکاریم این چنین دامی کراست ** گوی چوگانیم چوگانی کجاست‏

  • He tears, He sews: where is this Tailor? He blows, He burns: where is this Fire-kindler?
  • می‏درد می‏دوزد این خیاط کو ** می‏دمد می‏سوزد این نفاط کو

  • At one hour He makes the true saint an unbeliever; at another hour He makes the (impious) deist an (orthodox) ascetic;
  • ساعتی کافر کند صدیق را ** ساعتی زاهد کند زندیق را

  • For the mukhlis (sincere worshipper) is in danger of the snare until he becomes entirely purged of self,
  • ز انکه مخلص در خطر باشد ز دام ** تا ز خود خالص نگردد او تمام‏

  • Because he is (still) on the Way, and the brigands are numberless: (only) he escapes who is under God's safeguard.
  • ز انکه در راهست و ره زن بی‏حد است ** آن رهد کاو در امان ایزد است‏

  • (If) he has not become (selfless, like) a pure mirror, he is (no more than) mukhlis: (if) he has not caught the bird, he is (still) hunting; 1315
  • آینه‏ی خالص نگشت او مخلص است ** مرغ را نگرفته است او مقنص است‏

  • (But) when the mukhlis has become mukhlas, he is delivered: he has reached the place of safety and has won the victory.
  • چون که مخلص گشت مخلص باز رست ** در مقام امن رفت و برد دست‏

  • No mirror (ever) became iron again; no bread (ever) became the wheat in the stack.
  • هیچ آیینه دگر آهن نشد ** هیچ نانی گندم خرمن نشد

  • No full-grown grape (ever) became a young grape; no mature fruit (ever) became premature fruit.
  • هیچ انگوری دگر غوره نشد ** هیچ میوه‏ی پخته با کوره نشد

  • Become mature and be far from (the possibility of) change for the worse: go, become the Light, like Burhán-i Muhaqqiq.
  • پخته گرد و از تغیر دور شو ** رو چو برهان محقق نور شو

  • When you have escaped from self, you have become wholly the proof (of God): when the slave (in you) has become naught, you have become the King. 1320
  • چون ز خود رستی همه برهان شدی ** چون که بنده نیست شد سلطان شدی‏