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2535-2559

  • Even as the worth of the body is (derived) from the soul, (so) the worth of the soul is (derived) from the radiance of the Soul of souls. 2535
  • همچنانک قدر تن از جان بود ** قدر جان از پرتو جانان بود

  • If the soul were now alive without (that) radiance, would He (God) ever have called the infidels “dead”
  • گر بدی جان زنده بی پرتو کنون ** هیچ گفتی کافران را میتون

  • Come, speak (O my soul)! for the Logos is digging a channel to the end that some water may reach a generation after us.
  • هین بگو که ناطقه جو می‌کند ** تا به قرنی بعد ما آبی رسد

  • Although (in) every generation there is one who brings the word (of God), yet the sayings of them that have gone before are helpful
  • گرچه هر قرنی سخن‌آری بود ** لیک گفت سالفان یاری بود

  • Is it not (the case) that the Pentateuch and the Gospel and the Psalms have borne witness to the truth of theQur’an, O thankful one?
  • نه که هم توریت و انجیل و زبور ** شد گواه صدق قرآن ای شکور

  • Seek a (spiritual) livelihood (won) without toil and without reckoning, so that Gabriel may bring you apples from Paradise; 2540
  • روزی بی‌رنج جو و بی‌حساب ** کز بهشتت آورد جبریل سیب

  • Nay, (that there may come to you) a livelihood from the Lord of Paradise, without headache (trouble) on the part of the gardener and without the toil of sowing.
  • بلک رزقی از خداوند بهشت ** بی‌صداع باغبان بی رنج کشت

  • Inasmuch as in that (spiritual) bread the benefit of (conferred by) the bread is His (God’s) gift, He gives you that benefit (directly), without making the husk a means (of imparting it to you).
  • زانک نفع نان در آن نان داد اوست ** بدهدت آن نفع بی توسیط پوست

  • The savour is hidden; the outward form of the bread is (visible) like a table-cloth: the bread that is without table-cloth is a portion (reserved) for the saint.
  • ذوق پنهان نقش نان چون سفره‌ایست ** نان بی سفره ولی را بهره‌ایست

  • How will you, notwithstanding (all your) endeavour and search, gain the spiritual livelihood except through ‘the justice of the Shaykh who is your David?
  • رزق جانی کی بری با سعی و جست ** جز به عدل شیخ کو داود تست

  • ‘When the fleshly soul sees your steps (joined) with (those of) the Shaykh, willy-nilly it becomes submissive to you. 2545
  • نفس چون با شیخ بیند کام تو ** از بن دندان شود او رام تو

  • Then (and then only) did the owner of the cow become sub missive, when he was made aware of the (inspired) words of David.
  • صاحب آن گاو رام آنگاه شد ** کز دم داود او آگاه شد

  • The intellect, in chase (of spiritual truth), prevails over your currish fleshly soul (only) at the time when the Shaykh is its helper.
  • عقل گاهی غالب آید در شکار ** برسگ نفست که باشد شیخ یار

  • The fleshly soul is a dragon with hundredfold strength and cunning: the face of the Shaykh is the emerald that plucks out its eye
  • نفس اژدرهاست با صد زور و فن ** روی شیخ او را زمرد دیده کن

  • If you wish the owner of the cows to be abased, goad him in that direction as (you would goad) asses, O contumacious man!
  • گر تو صاحب گاو را خواهی زبون ** چون خران سیخش کن آن سو ای حرون

  • When he approaches him (the saint) who is nigh unto God, his tongue, a hundred ells long, is shortened. 2550
  • چون به نزدیک ولی الله شود ** آن زبان صد گزش کوته شود

  • (He hath) a hundred tongues, and each tongue of him (hath) a hundred languages: his fraud and guile come not into (the bounds of) description.
  • صد زبان و هر زبانش صد لغت ** زرق و دستانش نیاید در صفت

  • The claimant for the cow, the fleshly soul, is eloquent and brings forward hundreds of thousands of unsound pleas.
  • مدعی گاو نفس آمد فصیح ** صد هزاران حجت آرد ناصحیح

  • He deceives (all in) the city except the king: he cannot waylay the sagacious king.
  • شهر را بفریبد الا شاه را ** ره نتاند زد شه آگاه را

  • The fleshly soul hath glorification of God (on its tongue), and the Qur’án in its right hand; (but) in its sleeve (it hath) dagger and sword.
  • نفس را تسبیح و مصحف در یمین ** خنجر و شمشیر اندر آستین

  • Do not believe its Qur’án and hypocritical ostentation, do not make yourself its confidant and comrade; 2555
  • مصحف و سالوس او باور مکن ** خویش با او هم‌سر و هم‌سر مکن

  • (For) it will take you to the tank to perform the ritual ablution, and will cast you to the bottom thereof.
  • سوی حوضت آورد بهر وضو ** واندر اندازد ترا در قعر او

  • The intellect is luminous and a seeker of good: how (then) does the dark fleshly soul prevail over it?
  • عقل نورانی و نیکو طالبست ** نفس ظلمانی برو چون غالبست

  • (It prevails) because it is at home, (while) your intellect is a stranger: the dog at his own door is (like) a terrible lion.
  • زانک او در خانه عقل تو غریب ** بر در خود سگ بود شیر مهیب

  • Wait till the lions go (back) to the jungle and these blind dogs’ will believe (in them) there.
  • باش تا شیران سوی بیشه روند ** وین سگان کور آنجا بگروند