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1596-1620

  • When you see the leaves of your spirit yellow and black; how know you not the anger of the King?
  • چون که برگ روح خود زرد و سیاه ** می‏ببینی چون ندانی خشم شاه‏

  • The King's sun, in the (zodiacal) sign of reproach, makes faces black as a piece of roasted meat.
  • آفتاب شاه در برج عتاب ** می‏کند روها سیه همچون کباب‏

  • Our souls are leaves for that Mercury (to write on): that white and black (writing) is our standard (criterion).
  • آن عطارد را ورقها جان ماست ** آن سپیدی و آن سیه میزان ماست‏

  • Again, he writes a patent in red and green, that (our) spirits may be delivered from melancholy and despair.
  • باز منشوری نویسد سرخ و سبز ** تا رهند ارواح از سودا و عجز

  • Red and green are Spring's cancellation (of winter); in regard (to their significance they are) like the (coloured) lines of the rainbow. 1600
  • سرخ و سبز افتاد نسخ نو بهار ** چون خط قوس و قزح در اعتبار

  • How reverence for the message of Solomon, on whom be peace, was reflected in the heart of Bilqís from the despicable form of the hoopoe.
  • عکس تعظیم پیغام سلیمان علیه السلام در دل بلقیس از صورت حقیر هدهد

  • Hundredfold mercy be on that Bilqís to whom God gave the intellect of a hundred men!
  • رحمت صد تو بر آن بلقیس باد ** که خدایش عقل صد مرده بداد

  • A hoopoe brought the letter with the (royal) sign-manual from Solomon—a few eloquent words.
  • هدهدی نامه بیاورد و نشان ** از سلیمان چند حرفی با بیان‏

  • (When) she read those pregnant sayings, she did not look with contempt on the messenger.
  • خواند او آن نکتهای با شمول ** با حقارت ننگرید اندر رسول‏

  • Her body saw him as a hoopoe, (but) her spirit saw him as the ‘Anqá; her senses saw him as a fleck of foam, (but) her heart saw him as the sea.
  • جسم هدهد دید و جان عنقاش دید ** حس چو کفی دید و دل دریاش دید

  • Because of these two-coloured (diverse) talismans (appearance and reality) the intellect is at war with the senses, as Mohammed with the likes of Abú Jahl. 1605
  • عقل با حس زین طلسمات دو رنگ ** چون محمد با ابو جهلان به جنگ‏

  • The infidels regarded Ahmad (Mohammed) as (only) a man, since they did not see in him (the Prophetic nature which was manifested by the miracle) the moon was cleft asunder.
  • کافران دیدند احمد را بشر ** چون ندیدند از وی انشق القمر

  • Throw dust on your sense-perceiving eye: the sensuous eye is the enemy of intellect and religion.
  • خاک زن در دیده‏ی حس بین خویش ** دیده‏ی حس دشمن عقل است و کیش‏

  • God has called the sensuous eye blind; He has said that it is an idolater and our foe,
  • دیده‏ی حس را خدا اعماش خواند ** بت پرستش گفت و ضد ماش خواند

  • Because it saw the foam and not the sea, because it saw the present and not to-morrow.
  • ز انکه او کف دید و دریا را ندید ** ز انکه حالی دید و فردا را ندید

  • The master of to-morrow and of the present (is) before it; (yet) of a (whole) treasure it sees only a groat. 1610
  • خواجه‏ی فردا و حالی پیش او ** او نمی‏بیند ز گنجی جز تسو

  • (If) a mote bring a message from yonder Sun, the sun would become a slave to that mote.
  • ذره‏ای ز آن آفتاب آرد پیام ** آفتاب آن ذره را گردد غلام‏

  • The drop that has become an envoy from the Sea of Unity— the seven seas would be captive to that drop.
  • قطره‏ای کز بحر وحدت شد سفیر ** هفت بحر آن قطره را باشد اسیر

  • If a handful of earth become His courier, His heavens will lay their heads (in homage) before His earth.
  • گر کف خاکی شود چالاک او ** پیش خاکش سر نهد افلاک او

  • Since the earth of Adam became God's courier, God's angels lay their heads (in worship) before His earth.
  • خاک آدم چون که شد چالاک حق ** پیش خاکش سر نهند املاک حق‏

  • Wherefore (was it), pray, that heaven was rent asunder? Because of one (spiritual) eye that an earthly creature opened. 1615
  • السماء انشقت آخر از چه بود ** از یکی چشمی که خاکی بر گشود

  • Earth, from its grossness, settles beneath water; (but) see how earth has sped beyond the empyrean!
  • خاک از دردی نشیند زیر آب ** خاک بین کز عرش بگذشت از شتاب‏

  • Know, then, that the subtlety (of water) is not (derived) from the water: ’tis only the gift of the Bounteous Originator.
  • آن لطافت پس بدان کز آب نیست ** جز عطای مبدع وهاب نیست‏

  • If He make air and fire low (in place), and if He let the thorn surpass the rose,
  • گر کند سفلی هوا و نار را ** ور ز گل او بگذراند خار را

  • He is the Ruler and (the One who said) God doeth what He willeth: from the very self of pain He raises the remedy.
  • حاکم است و یفعل الله ما یشاء ** کاو ز عین درد انگیزد دوا

  • If He make air and fire low (in place), and make (them assume the qualities of) darkness and grossness and heaviness, 1620
  • گر هوا و نار را سفلی کند ** تیرگی و دردی و ثقلی کند