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1833-1857

  • (But) a man, in sooth, gives the cupper gold and fondles the blood-drinking lancet.
  • مرد خود زر می‏دهد حجام را ** می‏نوازد نیش خون آشام را

  • The porter runs to the heavy load: he snatches the load from others.
  • می‏دود حمال زی بار گران ** می‏رباید بار را از دیگران‏

  • Behold the struggle of the porters for the load! Such is the endeavour of him that sees (the truth of) things, 1835
  • جنگ حمالان برای بار بین ** این چنین است اجتهاد کار بین‏

  • Inasmuch as burdens are the foundation of ease, and bitter things, too, are the forerunners of enjoyment.
  • چون گرانیها اساس راحت است ** تلخها هم پیشوای نعمت است‏

  • Paradise is compassed about with the things we dislike (to do); the fires (of Hell) are compassed about with our lusts.
  • حفت الجنة بمکروهاتنا ** حفت النیران من شهواتنا

  • The seed (source) of the substance of your fire (of torment) is the fresh bough (of lust); (but) he that is burned by the fire (of renunciation) is the comrade of Kawthar.
  • تخم مایه‏ی آتشت شاخ تر است ** سوخته‏ی آتش قرین کوثر است‏

  • Whosoever is the comrade of affliction in prison—that is the retribution for a mouthful (of unlawful food) and a lust.
  • هر که در زندان قرین محنتی است ** آن جزای لقمه‏ای و شهوتی است‏

  • Whosoever is the comrade of a high fortune in a palace— that is the reward for some battle-field and sore trial. 1840
  • هر که در قصری قرین دولتی است ** آن جزای کارزار و محنتی است‏

  • Whomsoever you have seen unrivalled in (his store of) gold and silver—know that he has been patient in earning.
  • هر که را دیدی به زر و سیم فرد ** دان که اندر کسب کردن صبر کرد

  • When the (spiritual) eye has become piercing, he (the owner) sees without causes. You who are in (the bondage of) sense-perception, pay you heed to causes!
  • بی‏سبب بیند چو دیده شد گذار ** تو که در حسی سبب را گوش دار

  • He whose spirit is beyond (the world of) natural properties— to him belongs the position of power to rive (the chain of) causes.
  • آن که بیرون از طبایع جان اوست ** منصب خرق سببها آن اوست‏

  • The (spiritual) eye regards the fountain of the miracles of the prophets as (being) without cause, not as (arising) from water and herbage.
  • بی‏سبب بیند نه از آب و گیا ** چشم چشمه‏ی معجزات انبیا

  • These causes are (linked together) like the physician and the sick: these causes are like the lamp and the wick. 1845
  • این سبب همچون طبیب است و علیل ** این سبب همچون چراغ است و فتیل‏

  • Twist a new wick for your night-lamp, (but) know that the lamp of the sun transcends these things.
  • شب چراغت را فتیل نو بتاب ** پاک دان زینها چراغ آفتاب‏

  • Go you and make plaster for the roof of your house, (but) know that the roof of the sky is undefiled by plaster.
  • رو تو کهگل ساز بهر سقف خان ** سقف گردون را ز کهگل پاک دان‏

  • Alas that, after our Sweetheart had burned (utterly destroyed) our pain, the night-time of being alone (with Him) passed away and became day!
  • اه که چون دل دار ما غم سوز شد ** خلوت شب در گذشت و روز شد

  • Except at night there is no unveiling of the moon: except through heartache do not seek your heart's desire.
  • جز به شب جلوه نباشد ماه را ** جز به درد دل مجو دل خواه را

  • Forsaking Jesus, you have fostered the ass: of necessity, like the ass, you are outside of the curtain. 1850
  • ترک عیسی کرده خر پرورده‏ای ** لاجرم چون خر برون پرده‏ای‏

  • Knowledge and gnosis are the fortune of Jesus; they are not the fortune of the ass, O you asinine one!
  • طالع عیسی است علم و معرفت ** طالع خر نیست ای تو خر صفت‏

  • You listen to the moaning of the ass, and pity comes over you; then you know not (that) the ass commands you to be asinine.
  • ناله‏ی خر بشنوی رحم آیدت ** پس ندانی خر خری فرمایدت‏

  • Have pity on Jesus and have no pity on the ass: do not make the (carnal) nature lord over your intellect.
  • رحم بر عیسی کن و بر خر مکن ** طبع را بر عقل خود سرور مکن‏

  • Let the (carnal) nature weep sore and bitterly: do you take from it and pay the debt of the (rational) soul.
  • طبع را هل تا بگرید زار زار ** تو از او بستان و وام جان گزار

  • For years you have been the ass's slave. It is enough, for the ass's slave is behind (even) the ass. 1855
  • سالها خربنده بودی بس بود ** ز انکه خربنده ز خر واپس بود

  • The thing meant by (the Prophet's words) “put them (the women) behind” is your fleshly soul; for it must be last, and your intellect (must be) first.
  • ز اخروهن مرادش نفس تست ** کاو به آخر باید و عقلت نخست‏

  • This base intellect has become of the same temperament as the ass: its (only) thought is how it shall get hold of fodder.
  • هم مزاج خر شده ست این عقل پست ** فکرش این که چون علف آرم بدست‏