If they are not manifest to the good and the evil (alike), what is this envy which the worthless bear against them?
گر نه پیدایند پیش نیک و بد ** چیست با ایشان خسان را این حسد
And if they do not know them with certain knowledge, what is this hatred and hatching of plots and enmity?
ور نمیدانندشان علم الیقین ** چیست این بغض و حیل سازی و کین
And (again), if they know the retribution (which shall take place) at the Resurrection and rising from the dead, how should they dash themselves against a sharp sword?
ور نمیدانند بعث و رستخیز ** چون زنندی خویش بر شمشیر تیز
He (the prophet or saint) smiles upon you, (but) do not deem him to be such (as he appears): in his inward consciousness are hidden a hundred Resurrections.3105
بر تو میخندد مبین او را چنان ** صد قیامت در درون استش نهان
Hell and Paradise are entirely parts of him: he is beyond any thought that you may conceive (of him).
دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوست ** هر چه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست
All that you may think of is liable to pass away; he that comes not into thought is God.
هر چه اندیشی پذیرای فناست ** آن که در اندیشه ناید آن خداست
Wherefore (then do they behave with) presumption at the door of this house, if they know who is within the house?
بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیست ** گر همیدانند کاندر خانه کیست
Fools venerate the mosque and exert themselves in maltreating them that have the heart (in which God dwells).
ابلهان تعظیم مسجد میکنند ** در جفای اهل دل جد میکنند
That (mosque) is phenomenal, this (heart) is real, O asses! The (true) mosque is naught but the hearts of the (spiritual) captains.3110
آن مجاز است این حقیقت ای خران ** نیست مسجد جز درون سروران
The mosque that is the inward (consciousness) of the saints is the place of worship for all: God is there.
مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاست ** سجدهگاه جمله است آن جا خداست
Until the heart of the man of God was grieved, never did God put any generation to shame.
تا دل مرد خدا نامد به درد ** هیچ قومی را خدا رسوا نکرد
They were going to make war on the prophets: they saw the body (of the prophet), they supposed he was a man.
قصد جنگ انبیا میداشتند ** جسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند
In thee are the moral natures of those peoples of yore: how art not thou afraid lest thou be the same (as they)?
در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیان ** چون نمیترسی که تو باشی همان
Forasmuch as all those marks are in thee, and thou art (one) of them, how wilt thou be saved?3115
آن نشانیها همه چون در تو هست ** چون تو زیشانی کجا خواهی برست
The story of Júhí and the child who cried lamentably beside his father's bier.
قصهی جوحی و آن کودک که پیش جنازهی پدر خویش نوحه میکرد
A child was crying bitterly and beating his head beside his father's coffin,
کودکی در پیش تابوت پدر ** زار مینالید و بر میکوفت سر
Saying, “Why, father, where are they taking you to put you under some earth?
کای پدر آخر کجایت میبرند ** تا ترا در زیر خاکی بسپرند
They are taking you to a narrow and noisome house: there is no carpet in it, nor any mat;
میبرندت خانهی تنگ و زحیر ** نی در او قالی و نه در وی حصیر
No lamp at night and no bread by day; neither smell nor sign of food is there.
نی چراغی در شب و نه روز نان ** نی در او بوی طعام و نه نشان
No door in good repair, no way to the roof; not one neighbour to be (your) refuge.3120
نی درش معمور و نی در بام راه ** نی یکی همسایه کاو باشد پناه
Your eye, which was a place for the people's kisses—how should it go into a blind and murky house?—
چشم تو که بوسه گاه خلق بود ** چون رود در خانهی کور و کبود
A pitiless house and narrow room, where neither (your) face will be lasting nor (your) colour.”
خانهی بیزینهار و جای تنگ ** که در او نه روی میماند نه رنگ
In this manner was he enumerating the qualities of the house, whilst he wrung tears of blood from his two eyes.
زین نسق اوصاف خانه میشمرد ** وز دو دیده اشک خونین میفشرد
Júhí said to his father, “O worthy (sir), by God they are taking this (corpse) to our house.”
گفت جوحی را پدر ای ارجمند ** و الله این را خانهی ما میبرند
The father said to Júhí, “Don't be a fool!” “O papa,” said he, “hear the marks (of identity).3125
گفت جوحی را پدر ابله مشو ** گفت ای بابا نشانیها شنو
These marks which he mentioned one by one—our house has them (all), without uncertainty or doubt.
این نشانیها که گفت او یک به یک ** خانهی ما راست بیتردید و شک