- When he reaches the spot, he sees wolves and lions, his life lost, the road far off, and the day late.
- چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر ** عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
- Prithee say, what is the ghoul's cry like? (It is) “I desire riches, I desire position and renown.”
- چون بود آن بانگ غول آخر بگو ** مال خواهم جاه خواهم و آبرو
- Prevent these voices from (entering) your heart, so that (spiritual) mysteries may be revealed.
- از درون خویش این آوازها ** منع کن تا کشف گردد رازها
- Repeat (in prayer) the name of God, drown the cry of the ghouls, close your narcissus eye to this vulture.
- ذکر حق کن بانگ غولان را بسوز ** چشم نرگس را از این کرکس بدوز
- Know the difference between the false dawn and the true, distinguish the colour of the wine from the colour of the cup, 755
- صبح کاذب را ز صادق واشناس ** رنگ می را باز دان از رنگ کاس
- That, perchance, from the eyes which see the seven colours patience and waiting may produce a (spiritual) eye,
- تا بود کز دیدهگان هفت رنگ ** دیدهای پیدا کند صبر و درنگ
- (With which) you may behold colours other than these, and may behold pearls instead of stones.
- رنگها بینی بجز این رنگها ** گوهران بینی به جای سنگها
- What pearl? Nay, you will become an ocean, you will become a sun traversing the sky.
- گوهر چه بلکه دریایی شوی ** آفتاب چرخ پیمایی شوی
- The Worker is hidden in the workshop: go you and in the workshop see Him plain.
- کار کن در کارگه باشد نهان ** تو برو در کارگه بینش عیان
- Inasmuch as the work has woven a veil over the Worker, you cannot see Him outside of that work. 760
- کار چون بر کار کن پرده تنید ** خارج آن کار نتوانیش دید
- Since the workshop is the dwelling-place of the Worker, he that is outside is unaware of Him.
- کارگه چون جای باش عامل است ** آن که بیرون است از وی غافل است
- Come, then, into the workshop, that is to say, non-existence, that you may see the work and the Worker together.
- پس در آ در کارگه یعنی عدم ** تا ببینی صنع و صانع را بهم
- As the workshop is the place of clairvoyance, then outside of the workshop there is (only) blindfold ness.
- کارگه چون جای روشن دیدهگی است ** پس برون کارگه پوشیدگی است
- The rebellious Pharaoh kept his face towards existence, consequently he was blind to His (God's) workshop.
- رو به هستی داشت فرعون عنود ** لاجرم از کارگاهش کور بود
- Consequently he was wishing to alter the (Divine) predestination, that he might turn back the (Divine) destiny from his door. 765
- لاجرم میخواست تبدیل قدر ** تا قضا را باز گرداند ز در
- Truly the (Divine) destiny every moment was laughing derisively under its lip at the moustache (arrogance) of that cunning plotter.
- خود قضا بر سبلت آن حیلهمند ** زیر لب میکرد هر دم ریشخند
- He killed hundreds of thousands of innocent babes, in order that the ordainment and predestination of God might be averted.
- صد هزاران طفل کشت او بیگناه ** تا بگردد حکم و تقدیر اله
- In order that the prophet Moses might not come forth, he laid on his neck (made himself responsible for) thousands of iniquities and murders.
- تا که موسای نبی ناید برون ** کرد در گردن هزاران ظلم و خون
- He wrought all that bloodshed, and (yet) Moses was born and was made ready for his chastisement.
- آن همه خون کرد و موسی زاده شد ** و ز برای قهر او آماده شد
- Had he seen the workshop of the Everlasting (God), he would have ceased to move hand or foot in plotting. 770
- گر بدیدی کارگاه لا یزال ** دست و پایش خشک گشتی ز احتیال
- Moses (lay) safe within his (Pharaoh's) house, while outside he was killing the infants in vain,
- اندرون خانهاش موسی معاف ** و ز برون میکشت طفلان را گزاف
- Even as the sensual man who pampers his body and suspects some one else of a bitter hatred (against him),
- همچو صاحب نفس کاو تن پرورد ** بر دگر کس ظن حقدی میبرد
- Saying, “This one is a foe, and that one is envious and an enemy,” (though) in truth his envier and enemy is that body (of his).
- کاین عدو و آن حسود و دشمن است ** خود حسود و دشمن او آن تن است
- He is like Moses, and his body is his Pharaoh: he keeps running (to and fro) outside, asking, “Where is my enemy?”
- او چو موسی و تنش فرعون او ** او به بیرون میدود که کو عدو
- His fleshly soul (is) luxuriating in the house, which is his body, (while) he gnaws his hand in rancour against some one else. 775
- نفسش اندر خانهی تن نازنین ** بر دگر کس دست میخاید به کین
- How men blamed a person who killed his mother because he suspected her (of adultery).
- ملامت کردن مردم شخصی را که مادرش را کشت به تهمت