Even so every lust in the world, whether it be (for) riches or power or bread—
همچنین هر شهوتی اندر جهان ** خواه مال و خواه جاه و خواه نان
Each of these things produces an intoxication (ardent desire) in you, and when you gain it not, it inflicts a headache upon you.
هر یکی زینها ترا مستی کند ** چون نیابی آن خمارت میزند
This headache of grief has become a proof that your intoxication was caused by that missed object (of desire).
این خمار غم دلیل آن شدست ** که بدان مفقود مستیات بدست
Do not partake of these (objects) but according to the measure of (your) necessity, lest they grow predominant and become rulers over you.2260
جز به اندازهی ضرورت زین مگیر ** تا نگردد غالب و بر تو امیر
You scornfully refused (help), saying, “I am the owner of a (purified) heart: I have no need of any one else, I am united (with God).”
سر کشیدی تو که من صاحبدلم ** حاجت غیری ندارم واصلم
That is as though the water in the earth should scornfully refuse, saying, “I am the water, and why should I seek aid?”
آنچنانک آب در گل سر کشد ** که منم آب و چرا جویم مدد
You fancied this polluted (heart) was the (pure) heart; consequently you averted your heart from those possessed of (purified) hearts.
دل تو این آلوده را پنداشتی ** لاجرم دل ز اهل دل برداشتی
Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?
خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین
The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.2265
لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست
Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?
پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایهی دل چون بود دل را غرض
Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),
آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه
Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?
یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** میپرستدشان برای گفت و گو
The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?
دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور
The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which?2270
نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام
Leave (what is only) a fragment of the heart and seek the (perfect) heart, in order that by means of it that fragment may become as a mountain.
ریزهی دل را بهل دل را بجو ** تا شود آن ریزه چون کوهی ازو
The (perfect) heart is encompassing (the whole of) this realm of existence and scattering gold in beneficence and bounty.
دل محیطست اندرین خطهی وجود ** زر همیافشاند از احسان و جود
It chooses to lavish blessings derived from the Blessedness of God upon the people of the world.
از سلام حق سلامیها نثار ** میکند بر اهل عالم اختیار
Whosoever's skirt is right and ready, the largesse of the heart comes to that person.
هر که را دامن درستست و معد ** آن نثار دل بر آنکس میرسد
Your skirt (to catch that largesse) is supplication and presence (with God): beware, do not put in your skirt the stone of iniquity,2275
دامن تو آن نیازست و حضور ** هین منه در دامن آن سنگ فجور
In order that your skirt may not be torn by those stones and that you may distinguish the sterling coin (of truth) from the colours (of falsehood).
تا ندرد دامنت زان سنگها ** تا بدانی نقد را از رنگها
You have filled your skirt with stones (of iniquity) from this world, and also with stones of silver and gold, as children (do).
سنگ پر کردی تو دامن از جهان ** هم ز سنگ سیم و زر چون کودکان
Inasmuch as from that fancy of silver and gold there was no (real) gold, the skirt of your sincerity was rent and your sorrow increased.
از خیال سیم و زر چون زر نبود ** دامن صدقت درید و غم فزود
How should the (coloured) stone appear to the children as stone, till Reason lays hold of their skirts?
کی نماید کودکان را سنگ سنگ ** تا نگیرد عقل دامنشان به چنگ
The Elder (Pír) is Reason, not that white hair (of eld): hair is not contained in (has nothing to do with) this fortune and hope (which is bestowed by Reason).2280
پیر عقل آمد نه آن موی سپید ** مو نمیگنجد درین بخت و امید
How the company (of the Seven) took offence at Daqúqí's invocation and intercession, and flew away and disappeared in the Veil of the Unseen World; and how Daqúqí was bewildered (and did not know) whether they had gone into the air or on the earth.
انکار کردن آن جماعت بر دعا و شفاعت دقوقی و پریدن ایشان و ناپیدا شدن در پردهی غیب و حیران شدن دقوقی کی در هوا رفتند یا در زمین
“When the ship was saved and (the voyagers) attained to their desire, simultaneously the (ritual) prayer of that company was finished.
چون رهید آن کشتی و آمد بکام ** شد نماز آن جماعت هم تمام