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  • So that from folly and drowsiness (forgetfulness) and vanity— He is beside us, and (yet) we are sick of Him.
  • تا ز جهل و خوابناکی و فضول ** او به پیش ما و ما از وی ملول‏

  • The noise of thunder gives the thirsty man headache, when he does not know that it (the thunder) brings on the rain-clouds of felicity.
  • تشنه را درد سر آرد بانگ رعد ** چون نداند کاو کشاند ابر سعد

  • His eye remains (fixed) upon the running stream, unaware of the delicious taste of the Water of Heaven. 3785
  • چشم او مانده است در جوی روان ** بی‏خبر از ذوق آب آسمان‏

  • He has urged the steed of (his) attention towards (secondary) causes: consequently he remains debarred from the Causer.
  • مرکب همت سوی اسباب راند ** از مسبب لاجرم محجوب ماند

  • (But) one that sees the Causer plainly—how should he set his mind upon the (secondary) causes in the world?
  • آن که بیند او مسبب را عیان ** کی نهد دل بر سببهای جهان‏

  • How the pilgrims were amazed at the miracles of the ascetic whom they found (living) alone in the desert.
  • حیران شدن حاجیان در کرامات آن زاهد که در بادیه تنهاش یافتند

  • Amidst the desert lived an ascetic, absorbed in devotion like the people of ‘Abbádán.
  • زاهدی بد در میان بادیه ** در عبادت غرق چون عبادیه‏

  • The pilgrims from (different) countries arrived there: their eyes fell upon the parched ascetic.
  • حاجیان آن جا رسیدند از بلاد ** دیده‏شان بر زاهد خشک اوفتاد

  • The dwelling-place of the ascetic was dry, (but) he was moist in temperament: in the simoom of the desert he had a remedy (for his moistness). 3790
  • جای زاهد خشک بود او تر مزاج ** از سموم بادیه بودش علاج‏

  • The pilgrims were amazed at his solitude and his welfare in the midst of bane.
  • حاجیان حیران شدند از وحدتش ** و آن سلامت در میان آفتش‏

  • He stood on the sand, (engaged) in the ritual prayer—sand from the heat whereof the water in a pot would boil.
  • در نماز استاده بد بر روی ریگ ** ریگ کز تفش بجوشد آب دیگ‏

  • You would have said he was (standing) enraptured amongst herbs and flowers, or mounted on Buráq or Duldul;
  • گفتیی سر مست در سبزه و گل است ** یا سواره بر براق و دلدل است‏

  • Or that his feet were on silk and broidered cloths; or that to him the simoom was more pleasant than the zephyr.
  • یا که پایش بر حریر و حله‏هاست ** یا سموم او را به از باد صباست‏

  • Then that company remained in need (unsatisfied) till the dervish should finish the (ritual) prayer. 3795
  • پس بماندند آن جماعت با نیاز ** تا شود درویش فارغ از نماز

  • When the dervish came back (to himself) from (his state of) absorption (in God), one of that company, a man (spiritually) alive and of enlightened mind,
  • چون ز استغراق باز آمد فقیر ** ز آن جماعت زنده‏ای روشن ضمیر

  • Observed that water was trickling from his hands and face, (and that) his garment was wet with the traces of ablution;
  • دید کابش می‏چکید از دست و رو ** جامه‏اش تر بود از آثار وضو

  • So he asked him, “Whence hast thou water?” He lifted his hand, (indicating) that it came from heaven.
  • پس بپرسیدش که آبت از کجاست ** دست را برداشت کز سوی شماست‏

  • He (the pilgrim) said, “Does it come whenever thou wilt, without (any) well and without (any) rope of palm-fibre?
  • گفت هر گاهی که خواهی می‏رسد ** بی‏ز جاه و بی‏ز حبل من مسد

  • Solve our difficulty, O Sultan of the Religion, in order that thy (spiritual) experience may give us certain faith. 3800
  • مشکل ما حل کن ای سلطان دین ** تا ببخشد حال تو ما را یقین‏

  • Reveal to us one of thy mysteries, that we may cut from our waists the cords (of infidelity).”
  • وانما سری ز اسرارت به ما ** تا ببریم از میان زنارها

  • He (the ascetic) opened his eyes towards heaven, saying, “(O God), answer the prayer of the pilgrims!
  • چشم را بگشود سوی آسمان ** که اجابت کن دعای حاجیان‏

  • I am accustomed to seeking daily bread from above: Thou hast opened to me the door from above,
  • رزق جویی را ز بالا خو گرم ** تو ز بالا بر گشودستی درم‏

  • O Thou who from non-spatiality hast brought space into view, and hast made manifest (the fact that) in heaven is your daily bread.”
  • ای نموده تو مکان از لامکان ** فی السماء رزقکم کرده عیان‏

  • In the midst of this orison a fair cloud suddenly appeared, like a water bearing elephant, 3805
  • در میان این مناجات ابر خوش ** زود پیدا شد چو پیل آب کش‏

  • And began to pour down rain, like water from a water-skin: the rain-water settled in the ditch and in the hollows.
  • همچو آب از مشک باریدن گرفت ** در گو و در غارها مسکن گرفت‏

  • The cloud kept raining tears, like a water-skin, and the pilgrims all opened their water-skins.
  • ابر می‏بارید چون مشک اشکها ** حاجیان جمله گشاده مشکها