Without brain and mind they were full of thought, without army and battle they gained victory.175
بیدماغ و دل پر از فکرت بدند ** بیسپاه و جنگ بر نصرت زدند
That immediate intuition (intuitive knowledge) in relation to them is thought; else, indeed, in relation to those who are far (from God) it is vision.
آن عیان نسبت به ایشان فکرت است ** ور نه خود نسبت به دوران رویت است
Thought is of the past and future; when it is emancipated from these two, the difficulty is solved.
فکرت از ماضی و مستقبل بود ** چون از این دو رست مشکل حل شود
The spirit has beheld the wine in the grape, the spirit has beheld thing (entity) in nothing (nonentity);
روح از انگور می را دیده است ** روح از معدوم شی را دیده است
It has beheld every conditioned thing as unconditioned, it has beheld the genuine coin and the alloyed before (the existence of) the mine;
دیده چون بیکیف هر با کیف را ** دیده پیش از کان صحیح و زیف را
Before the creation of grapes it has quaffed wines and shown the excitements (of intoxication).180
پیشتر از خلقت انگورها ** خورده میها و نموده شورها
In hot July they (the Pírs) see December; in the sunbeams they see the shade.
در تموز گرم میبینند دی ** در شعاع شمس میبینند فی
In the heart of the grape they have seen the wine; in absolute faná (privation of objectivity) they have seen the object.
در دل انگور می را دیدهاند ** در فنای محض شی را دیدهاند
The sky is draining draughts from their circling cup, the sun is clad in cloth of gold by their bounty.
آسمان در دور ایشان جرعه نوش ** آفتاب از جودشان زربفت‌پوش
When you see two of them met together as friends, they are one, and at the same time (they are) six hundred thousand.
چون از ایشان مجتمع بینی دو یار ** هم یکی باشند و هم ششصد هزار
Their numbers are in the likeness of waves: the wind will have brought them into number (into plurality from unity).185
بر مثال موجها اعدادشان ** در عدد آورده باشد بادشان
The Sun, which is the spirits, became separated (broken into rays) in the windows, which are our bodies.
مفترق شد آفتاب جانها ** در درون روزن ابدان ما
When you gaze on the Sun's disk, it is itself one, but he that is screened by (his perception of) the bodies is in some doubt.
چون نظر در قرص داری خود یکی است ** و آن که شد محجوب ابدان در شکی است
Separation (plurality) is in the animal spirit; the human spirit is one essence.
تفرقه در روح حیوانی بود ** نفس واحد روح انسانی بود
Inasmuch as God sprinkled His light upon them (mankind), (they are essentially one): His light never becomes separated (in reality).
چون که حق رش علیهم نوره ** مفترق هرگز نگردد نور او
O my comrade on the way, dismiss thy weariness for a moment, that I may describe a single mole (grain) of that Beauty.190
یک زمان بگذار ای همره ملال ** تا بگویم وصف خالی ز آن جمال
The beauty of His state cannot be set forth: what are both the worlds (temporal and spiritual)? The reflexion of His mole.
در بیان ناید جمال حال او ** هر دو عالم چیست عکس خال او
When I breathe a word concerning His beauteous mole, my speech would fain burst my body.
چون که من از خال خوبش دم زنم ** نطق میخواهد که بشکافد تنم
Like an ant, I am so happy in this granary that I am dragging a burden too great for me.
همچو موری اندر این خرمن خوشم ** تا فزون از خویش باری میکشم
How the explanation of the (inner) meaning of the tale was stopped because of the hearer's desire to hear the superficial form of it.
بسته شدن تقریر معنی حکایت به سبب میل مستمع به استماع ظاهر صورت حکایت
When will He who is envied by Light allow me to tell that which is obligatory and ought to be told?
کی گذارد آن که رشک روشنی است ** تا بگویم آن چه فرض و گفتنی است
The sea casts foam in front (of it) and makes a barrier: it draws back and after drawing back flows in (again).195
بحر کف پیش آرد و سدی کند ** جر کند و ز بعد جر مدی کند
Hear what has interfered (hindered my exposition) at the present time: methinks the hearer's mind has wandered elsewhere.
این زمان بشنو چه مانع شد مگر ** مستمع را رفت دل جای دگر
His thoughts have turned to the Súfí guest: he is sunk up to the neck (wholly absorbed) in that business.
خاطرش شد سوی صوفی قنق ** اندر آن سودا فرو شد تا عنق
(Therefore) it behoves me to go back from this discourse to that story in order to describe what happened (to him).
لازم آمد باز رفتن زین مقال ** سوی آن افسانه بهر وصف حال
O dear friend, do not fancy the Súfí is the (external) form (which you behold): how long, like children, (will you be content) with walnuts and raisins?
صوفی آن صورت مپندار ای عزیز ** همچو طفلان تا کی از جوز و مویز