God's seal lies upon the hearing and sight: within the veils is many a form and many a sound.
هست بر سمع و بصر مهر خدا ** در حجب بس صورت است و بس صدا
He communicates to the eye that which He wills of beauty and of perfection and of amorous looks;680
آن چه او خواهد رساند آن به چشم ** از جمال و از کمال و از کرشم
And He communicates to the ear that which He wills of music and glad tidings and cries (of rapture).
و انچه او خواهد رساند آن به گوش ** از سماع و از بشارت وز خروش
The world is full of remedies, but you have no remedy till God opens a window for you.
کون پر چاره ست و هیچت چاره نی ** تا که نگشاید خدایت روزنی
Though you are unaware of that (remedy) just now, God will make it plain in the hour of need.
گر چه تو هستی کنون غافل از آن ** وقت حاجت حق کند آن را عیان
The Prophet said that the glorious God has created a remedy for every pain;
گفت پیغمبر که یزدان مجید ** از پی هر درد درمان آفرید
But of that remedy for your pain you will not see (even) the colour or scent without His command.685
لیک ز آن درمان نبینی رنگ و بو ** بهر درد خویش بیفرمان او
Come, O you that seek the remedy, set your eye on non-spatiality, as the eye of one (about to be) killed (turns) towards the spirit.
چشم را ای چاره جو در لامکان ** هین بنه چون چشم کشته سوی جان
This (spatial) world has been produced from that which is without spatial relations, for the world has received (the relation of) place from placelessness.
این جهان از بیجهت پیدا شده ست ** که ز بیجایی جهان را جا شده ست
Turn back from existence towards non-existence, (if) you seek the Lord and belong to the Lord.
باز گرد از هست سوی نیستی ** طالب ربی و ربانیستی
This non-existence is the place of income: do not flee from it; this existence of more and less is the place of expenditure.
جای دخل است این عدم از وی مرم ** جای خرج است این وجود بیش و کم
Since God's workshop is non-existence, in the world of (phenomenal) existence who is (to be found) except the idle?690
کارگاه صنع حق چون نیستی است ** پس برون کارگه بیقیمتی است
Put into our heart subtle words which may move Thee to mercy, O Gracious One!
یاد ده ما را سخنهای دقیق ** که ترا رحم آورد آن ای رفیق
From Thee (come) both the prayer and the answer; from Thee safety, from Thee also dread.
هم دعا از تو اجابت هم ز تو ** ایمنی از تو مهابت هم ز تو
If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.
گر خطا گفتیم اصلاحش تو کن ** مصلحی تو ای تو سلطان سخن
Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.
کیمیا داری که تبدیلش کنی ** گر چه جوی خون بود نیلش کنی
Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets.695
این چنین میناگریها کار تست ** این چنین اکسیرها اسرار تست
Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.
آب را و خاک را بر هم زدی ** ز آب و گل نقش تن آدم زدی
Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.
نسبتش دادی و جفت و خال و عم ** با هزار اندیشه و شادی و غم
Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;
باز بعضی را رهایی دادهای ** زین غم و شادی جدایی دادهای
Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.
بردهای از خویش و پیوند و سرشت ** کردهای در چشم او هر خوب زشت
He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible.700
هر چه محسوس است او رد میکند ** و انچه ناپیداست مسند میکند
His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.
عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنهی او در جهان
Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.
این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی
That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.
آن چه معشوق است صورت نیست آن ** خواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان