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1976-2000

  • Do not regard these feet (that walk) on the earth, for assuredly the lover (of God) walks on his heart;
  • تو مبین این پایها را بر زمین ** زانک بر دل می‌رود عاشق یقین

  • (And) the heart that is intoxicated with the Sweetheart, what should it know of road and stage or of short (distance) and long?
  • از ره و منزل ز کوتاه و دراز ** دل چه داند کوست مست دل‌نواز

  • That “long” and “short” are attributes of the body: the faring of spirits is another (kind of) faring.
  • آن دراز و کوته اوصاف تنست ** رفتن ارواح دیگر رفتنست

  • You have journeyed from the seed to rationality: ’twas not by (taking) a step or (travelling from stage to) stage or moving from one place to another.
  • تو سفرکردی ز نطفه تا بعقل ** نه بگامی بود نه منزل نه نقل

  • The journey of the spirit is unconditioned in respect of Time and Space: our body learned from the spirit how to journey. 1980
  • سیر جان بی چون بود در دور و دیر ** جسم ما از جان بیاموزید سیر

  • Now it has relinquished the bodily manner of journeying: it moves unconditioned, (though) masked in the form of conditionedness.
  • سیر جسمانه رها کرد او کنون ** می‌رود بی‌چون نهان در شکل چون

  • He (Daqúqí) said, “One day I was going along like him that yearns, that I might behold in man the radiance of the Beloved,
  • گفت روزی می‌شدم مشتاق‌وار ** تا ببینم در بشر انوار یار

  • That I might behold an ocean in a drop of water, a sun enclosed in a mote.
  • تا ببینم قلزمی در قطره‌ای ** آفتابی درج اندر ذره‌ای

  • When I came on foot to a certain shore, the day had turned late, and ’twas eventide.
  • چون رسیدم سوی یک ساحل بگام ** بود بیگه گشته روز و وقت شام

  • The apparition of what seemed like seven candles in the direction of the shore.
  • نمودن مثال هفت شمع سوی ساحل

  • Of a sudden I beheld from afar seven candles and hastened along the shore towards them. 1985
  • هفت شمع از دور دیدم ناگهان ** اندر آن ساحل شتابیدم بدان

  • The light of the flame of each candle thereof ascended beauteously to the loft of the sky.
  • نور شعله‌ی هر یکی شمعی از آن ** بر شده خوش تا عنان آسمان

  • I became amazed, (so that) even amazement (itself) became amazed: the waves of bewilderment passed over the head of my understanding.
  • خیره گشتم خیرگی هم خیره گشت ** موج حیرت عقل را از سر گذشت

  • (I thought), ‘What kind of candles are these (that) He hath lighted, so that the eyes of His creatures are screened from them?’
  • این چگونه شمعها افروختست ** کین دو دیده‌ی خلق ازینها دوختست

  • The people had gone to seek a lamp in the presence of that (sevenfold) candle which was surpassing the moon (in splendour).
  • خلق جویان چراغی گشته بود ** پیش آن شمعی که بر مه می‌فزود

  • Wonderful! There was a bandage over their eyes: they were bound by (the Divine destiny implied in the text) He guideth aright those whom He will. 1990
  • چشم‌بندی بد عجب بر دیده‌ها ** بندشان می‌کرد یهدی من یشا

  • How the seven candles became what seemed like one candle.
  • شدن آن هفت شمع بر مثال یک شمع

  • Then I saw the seven (candles) become one, its light cleaving the bosom (rim) of the sky.
  • باز می‌دیدم که می‌شد هفت یک ** می‌شکافد نور او جیب فلک

  • Then again that one became seven once more: my intoxication and bewilderment waxed mighty.
  • باز آن یک بار دیگر هفت شد ** مستی و حیرانی من زفت شد

  • (There were) such connexions between the candles as may not come (may not be uttered) on my tongue and (in) my speech.
  • اتصالاتی میان شمعها ** که نیاید بر زبان و گفت ما

  • That which one look perceives, ’tis impossible during years to show it forth by the tongue.
  • آنک یک دیدن کند ادارک آن ** سالها نتوان نمودن از زبان

  • That which intellectual apprehension sees in one moment, ’tis impossible during years to hear it by the ear. 1995
  • آنک یک دم بیندش ادراک هوش ** سالها نتوان شنودن آن بگوش

  • Since it hath no end, go (back) to thyself, for (as the Prophet aid), ‘I cannot reckon (worthy) any praise of Thee.’
  • چونک پایانی ندارد رو الیک ** زانک لا احصی ثناء ما علیک

  • I advanced farther, running (and marvelling) what thing those candles are (which are one) of the signs of the Divine Majesty.
  • پیشتر رفتم دوان کان شمعها ** تا چه چیزست از نشان کبریا

  • (Thus) I was going, beside myself and dumbfounded and deranged, till I fell down from making haste and speed.
  • می‌شدم بی خویش و مدهوش و خراب ** تا بیفتادم ز تعجیل و شتاب

  • In this (state), senseless and witless, I lay fallen awhile upon the dust of the earth.
  • ساعتی بی‌هوش و بی‌عقل اندرین ** اوفتادم بر سر خاک زمین

  • Then I came back to my senses and rose up: you would say that in my faring I had neither head nor foot. 2000
  • باز با هوش آمدم برخاستم ** در روش گویی نه سر نه پاستم

  • How those candles appeared to the eye as seven men.
  • نمودن آن شمعها در نظر هفت مرد