In this quest thy slave (at last) arrived at thy dwelling-place, (as) the pains (of childbirth) drew Mary to the palm-tree.
زین طلب بنده به کوی تو رسید ** درد مریم را به خرما بن کشید
When thine eye became an eye for my heart, my blind heart went and became drowned in vision.
دیدهی تو چون دلم را دیده شد ** این دل نادیده غرق دیده شد
I saw that thou art the Universal Mirror unto everlasting: I saw my own image in thine eye.100
آینهی کلی ترا دیدم ابد ** دیدم اندر چشم تو من نقش خود
I said, “At last I have found myself: in his eyes I have found the shining Way.”
گفتم آخر خویش را من یافتم ** در دو چشمش راه روشن یافتم
My false instinct said, “Beware! That (image) is (only) thy phantom: distinguish thy essence from thy phantom”;
گفت وهمم کان خیال تست هان ** ذات خود را از خیال خود بدان
(But) my image gave voice (spoke) from thine eye (and said), “I am thou and thou art I in (perfect) oneness;
نقش من از چشم تو آواز داد ** که منم تو تو منی در اتحاد
For how should a phantom find the way into this illumined eye which never ceases from (contemplating) the (Divine) realities?”
کاندر این چشم منیر بیزوال ** از حقایق راه کی یابد خیال
(Thou saidst), “If you behold your image in the eyes of any other than me, know that ’tis a phantom and reprobate,105
در دو چشم غیر من تو نقش خود ** گر ببینی آن خیالی دان و رد
Because he (every one except me) is applying (to his eye) the collyrium of nonexistence (unreality) and is imbibing the wine of Satan's illusion-making.
ز آن که سرمهی نیستی در میکشد ** باده از تصویر شیطان میچشد
Their eye is the home of phantasy and non-existence: necessarily it sees as existent the things which are non-existent;
چشمشان خانهی خیال است و عدم ** نیستها را هست بیند لاجرم
(But) since my eye saw (got) collyrium from the Glorious (God), it is the home of (real) existence, not the home of phantasy.”
چشم من چون سرمه دید از ذو الجلال ** خانهی هستی است نه خانهی خیال
So long as a single hair of you is before your eye, in your phantasy a pearl will be as jasper.
تا یکی مو باشد از تو پیش چشم ** در خیالت گوهری باشد چو یشم
You will know jasper from pearls (only) at the time when you pass away from (abandon) your phantasy entirely.110
یشم را آن گه شناسی از گهر ** کز خیال خود کنی کلی عبر
O connoisseur of pearls, listen to a story, that you may distinguish actual seeing from (mere) inference.
یک حکایت بشنو ای گوهر شناس ** تا بدانی تو عیان را از قیاس
How in the time of ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, a certain person imagined that what he saw was the new moon.
هلال پنداشتن آن شخص خیال را در عهد عمر
The Fasting-month (Ramadán) came round in ‘Umar's time. Some people ran to the top of a hill,
ماه روزه گشت در عهد عمر ** بر سر کوهی دویدند آن نفر
In order to take (the appearance of) the new moon as a good omen, and one of them said, “Look, O ‘Umar, here is the new moon!”
تا هلال روزه را گیرند فال ** آن یکی گفت ای عمر اینک هلال
As ‘Umar did not see the moon in the sky, he said, “This moon has risen from thy phantasy.
چون عمر بر آسمان مه را ندید ** گفت کاین مه از خیال تو دمید
Otherwise, (since) I am a better seer of the heavens (than thou), how is it that I do not see the pure crescent?115
ور نه من بیناترم افلاک را ** چون نمیبینم هلال پاک را
Wet thy hand,” said he, “and rub it on thine eyebrow, and then look up towards the new moon.”
گفت تر کن دست و بر ابرو بمال ** آن گهان تو بر نگر سوی هلال
When he wetted his eyebrow, he did not see the moon. “O King,” he said, “there is no moon; it has disappeared.”
چون که او تر کرد ابرو مه ندید ** گفت ای شه نیست مه شد ناپدید
“Yes,” said ‘Umar, “the hair of thine eyebrow had become (curved) like a bow and shot at thee an arrow of opinion.”
گفت آری موی ابرو شد کمان ** سوی تو افکند تیری از گمان
When one hair became crooked, it waylaid him (hindered him from seeing truly), so that, making a false claim, he boasted to have seen the moon.
چون یکی مو کج شد او را راه زد ** تا به دعوی لاف دید ماه زد
Inasmuch as a crooked hair veils the sky, how will it be when all your members are crooked?120
موی کج چون پردهی گردون بود ** چون همه اجزات کج شد چون بود
Straighten your members by (the help of) the straight (the righteous). O you who (would) go straight, turn not your head aside from that threshold (where the righteous dwell).
راست کن اجزات را از راستان ** سر مکش ای راست رو ز آن آستان
Balance makes balance correct; balance also makes balance defective.
هم ترازو را ترازو راست کرد ** هم ترازو را ترازو کاست کرد