He turned his face towards him (the Amír) and said to him, “O Amír, is the kingdom of the heart (spirit) better, or such a despicable kingdom (as I once possessed)?”
رو بدو کرد و بگفتش ای امیر ** ملک دل به یا چنان ملک حقیر
This (miracle) is the outward sign, this is nothing: wait till you enter the inward (shrine and) see (what is there)!
این نشان ظاهر است این هیچ نیست ** تا بباطن در روی بینی تو بیست
From the garden they bring to town (only) a branch: how should they carry thither the (whole) garden and orchard?—3230
سوی شهر از باغ شاخی آورند ** باغ و بستان را کجا آن جا برند
Especially, a Garden whereof this heaven is (but) one leaf; nay, that is the kernel, and this world) is as the husk.
خاصه باغی کاین فلک یک برگ اوست ** بلکه این مغز است وین عالم چو پوست
(If) you are not stepping on (briskly) towards that Garden, seek more scent, and get rid of (your) rheum,
بر نمیداری سوی آن باغ گام ** بوی افزون جوی و کن دفع زکام
In order that that scent may draw your soul (thither); in order that that scent may become the light of your eyes.
تا که آن بو جاذب جانت شود ** تا که آن بو نور چشمانت شود
For the scent's sake Joseph, son of Jacob the prophet, said: “Cast (my shirt) upon my father's face.”
گفت یوسف ابن یعقوب نبی ** بهر بو ألقوا علی وجه أبی
For this scent's sake Ahmad (Mohammed) constantly said in (his) exhortations: “In the ritual prayer is the delight of mine eye.”3235
بهر این بو گفت احمد در عظات ** دایما قرة عینی فی الصلاة
The five (spiritual) senses are linked with one another, all these five have grown (are derived) from a sublime root (source).
پنج حس با همدگر پیوستهاند ** ز انکه این هر پنج از اصلی رستهاند
The strength of one becomes the strength of the rest: each one becomes a cupbearer to the rest.
قوت یک قوت باقی شود ** ما بقی را هر یکی ساقی شود
Seeing with the eye increases love; love increases penetration in the eye.
دیدن دیده فزاید عشق را ** عشق در دیده فزاید صدق را
Penetration (of sight) becomes the (means of) awakening (stimulating) every sense, (so that) perception (of the spiritual) becomes familiar to (all) the senses.
صدق بیداری هر حس میشود ** حسها را ذوق مونس میشود
The beginning of the gnostic's illumination by the Light which sees the invisible world.
آغاز منور شدن عارف به نور غیب بین
When one sense in (the course of its) progress has loosed (its) bonds, all the rest of the senses become changed.3240
چون یکی حس در روش بگشاد بند ** ما بقی حسها همه مبدل شوند
When one sense has perceived things that are not objects of sense-perception, that which is of the invisible world becomes apparent to all the senses.
چون یکی حس غیر محسوسات دید ** گشت غیبی بر همه حسها پدید
When one sheep of the flock has jumped over a stream, then they all jump across on each other's heels.
چون ز جو جست از گله یک گوسفند ** پس پیاپی جمله ز آن سو بر جهند
Drive the sheep, thy senses, to pasture: let them browse on (the pasture indicated in the text)—He who hath brought forth the herbage,
گوسفندان حواست را بران ** در چرا از أخرج المرعی چران
That there they may browse on hyacinth and wild-rose; that they may make their way to the garden of the Realities;
تا در آن جا سنبل و نسرین چرند ** تا به گلزار حقایق ره برند
(That) every sense of thine may become an apostle to the senses (of others), so that severally they may go towards that Paradise;3245
هر حست پیغمبر حسها شود ** تا یکایک سوی آن جنت رود
(And then those) senses will tell their secret to thy senses, without the proper meaning, without tongue, and without metaphor;
حسها با حس تو گویند راز ** بیزبان و بیحقیقت بیمجاز
For this proper meaning admits of (different) interpretations, and this guesswork is the source of (vain) imaginings;
کاین حقیقت قابل تاویلهاست ** وین توهم مایهی تخییلهاست
(But in the case of) that truth which is (perceived) from intuition, there is no room for any interpretation.
آن حقیقت را که باشد از عیان ** هیچ تاویلی نگنجد در میان
When every sense has become subject to thy sense, the heavenly spheres cannot avoid (obedience to) thee.
چون که هر حس بندهی حس تو شد ** مر فلکها را نباشد از تو بد
When a dispute takes place as to the ownership of the husk, the husk belongs to him who possesses the kernel.3250
چون که دعویی رود در ملک پوست ** مغز آن کی بود قشر آن اوست
When there happens to be a quarrel about a load of straw, observe who is the owner of the grain.
چون تنازع در فتد در تنگ کاه ** دانه آن کیست آن را کن نگاه
The heavenly sphere, then, is the husk, and the light of the spirit is the kernel. This (sky) is visible, that (spirit) is concealed; (but) do not stumble on this account.
پس فلک قشر است و نور روح مغز ** این پدید است آن خفی زین رو ملغز