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1693-1717

  • If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”
  • گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد

  • You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”
  • بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانه‏وار

  • You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him. 1695
  • گویی‏اش من صاحبی گم کرده‏ام ** رو به جستجوی او آورده‏ام‏

  • May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”
  • دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار

  • When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—
  • چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر

  • Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.
  • ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت‏

  • You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”
  • تو شدی بی‏هوش و افتادی به طاق ** بی‏خبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق‏

  • How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union. 1700
  • او چه می‏بیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست‏

  • This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?
  • این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید

  • Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.
  • هر زمان کز وی نشانی می‏رسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی می‏رسید

  • Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.
  • ماهی بی‏چاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب‏

  • Hence the signs which are in the prophets are peculiar to (known exclusively by) him who is a friend (knower and lover of God).
  • پس نشانیها که اندر انبیاست ** خاص آن جان را بود کاو آشناست‏

  • This discourse remains imperfect and unsettled; I have no heart (understanding), I am out of my mind: excuse me. 1705
  • این سخن ناقص بماند و بی‏قرار ** دل ندارم بی‏دلم معذور دار

  • How can any one number the motes, especially that one whose understanding has been transported by Love?
  • ذره‏ها را کی تواند کس شمرد ** خاصه آن کاو عشق عقل او ببرد

  • Shall I number the leaves of the garden? Shall I number the cries of the partridge and the crow?
  • می‏شمارم برگهای باغ را ** می‏شمارم بانگ کبک و زاغ را

  • They come not into computation, but I enumerate them for the guidance of him that is put to trial.
  • در شمار اندر نیاید لیک من ** می‏شمارم بهر رشد ممتحن‏

  • The sinister influence of Saturn and the auspicious influence of Jupiter come not into computation, though you may enumerate;
  • نحس کیوان یا که سعد مشتری ** ناید اندر حصر گر چه بشمری‏

  • But still, some of these two (diverse) effects must be explained—that is, the benefit and injury (which they involve)— 1710
  • لیک هم بعضی از این هر دو اثر ** شرح باید کرد یعنی نفع و ضر

  • In order that some little part of the effects of the (Divine) decree may be made known to the good-fortuned and the ill-starred.
  • تا شود معلوم آثار قضا ** شمه ای مر اهل سعد و نحس را

  • He whose ascendant (ruling planet) is Jupiter will be rejoiced by vivacity (of disposition) and eminence;
  • طالع آن کس که باشد مشتری ** شاد گردد از نشاط و سروری‏

  • And it will be necessary for him whose ascendant is Saturn to take precautions against every (kind of) mischief in his affairs.
  • و انکه را طالع زحل از هر شرور ** احتیاطش لازم آید در امور

  • If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.
  • گر بگویم آن زحل استاره را ** ز آتشش سوزد مر آن بی‏چاره را

  • Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light. 1715
  • اذکروا الله شاه ما دستور داد ** اندر آتش دید ما را نور داد

  • He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,
  • گفت اگر چه پاکم از ذکر شما ** نیست لایق مر مرا تصویرها

  • Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”
  • لیک هرگز مست تصویر و خیال ** در نیابد ذات ما را بی‏مثال‏