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  • (Being occupied) with causes you are forgetful of the Causer: hence you are inclining towards these veils.
  • با سببها از مسبب غافلی ** سوی این روپوشها زان مایلی

  • When (all secondary) causes are gone, you will beat your head and cry many a time, “O our Lord! O our Lord!” 3155
  • چون سببها رفت بر سر می‌زنی ** ربنا و ربناها می‌کنی

  • The Lord will say, “Betake thyself to the (secondary) cause! How hast thou remembered My work? Oh, wonderful!”
  • رب می‌گوید برو سوی سبب ** چون ز صنعم یاد کردی ای عجب

  • He (the believer in secondary causes) says, “Henceforth I will behold Thee entirely: I will not look towards the cause and that deception (by which I was led astray).”
  • گفت زین پس من ترا بینم همه ** ننگرم سوی سبب و آن دمدمه

  • He (God) will reply to him, “Thy case is (described in the text), ‘(If) they were sent back (to the world), they would surely return (to what they were forbidden to do),’ O thou who art weak in thy repentance and covenant;
  • گویدش ردوا لعادوا کار تست ** ای تو اندر توبه و میثاق سست

  • But I will not regard that, I will show mercy: My mercy is abounding, I will be intent on mercy.
  • لیک من آن ننگرم رحمت کنم ** رحمتم پرست بر رحمت تنم

  • I will not regard thy bad promise, I from loving kindness will bestow the gift at this (very) moment, since thou art calling unto Me.” 3160
  • ننگرم عهد بدت بدهم عطا ** از کرم این دم چو می‌خوانی مرا

  • The (people of the) caravan were amazed at his (the Prophet's) deed. (They cried), “O Mohammed, O thou that hast the nature of the Sea, what is this?
  • قافله حیران شد اندر کار او ** یا محمد چیست این ای بحر خو

  • Thou hast made a small water-skin a veil (a means of disguise): thou hast drowned (abundantly satisfied the thirst of) both Arabs and Kurds.”
  • کرده‌ای روپوش مشک خرد را ** غرقه کردی هم عرب هم کرد را

  • How he (the Prophet) miraculously filled the slave's water-skin with water from the Unseen World and made the face of that negro slave white by permission of God most High.
  • مشک آن غلام ازغیب پر آب کردن بمعجزه و آن غلام سیاه را سپیدرو کردن باذن الله تعالی

  • “O slave, now behold thy water-skin full (of water), that thou mayst not say (anything) good or bad in complaint.”
  • ای غلام اکنون تو پر بین مشک خود ** تا نگویی درشکایت نیک و بد

  • The negro was astounded at his (the Prophet's) evidentiary miracle: his faith was dawning from (the world of) non-spatiality.
  • آن سیه حیران شد از برهان او ** می‌دمید از لامکان ایمان او

  • He saw that a fountain had begun to pour from the air (of yonder world) and that his water-skin had become a veil to the emanation of that (fountain). 3165
  • چشمه‌ای دید از هوا ریزان شده ** مشک او روپوش فیض آن شده

  • The veils also were rent by that (illumined) sight (of his), so that he distinctly beheld the fountain of the Unseen.
  • زان نظر روپوشها هم بر درید ** تا معین چشمه‌ی غیبی بدید

  • Thereupon the slave's eyes were filled with tears: he forgot his master and his dwelling-place.
  • چشمها پر آب کرد آن دم غلام ** شد فراموشش ز خواجه وز مقام

  • Strength failed him to go on his way: God cast a mighty commotion into his soul.
  • دست و پایش ماند از رفتن به راه ** زلزله افکند در جانش اله

  • Then again he (the Prophet) drew him back for (his) good, saying, “Come to thyself; return, O thou who wilt gain advantage (by doing so).
  • باز بهر مصلحت بازش کشید ** که به خویش آ باز رو ای مستفید

  • ’Tis not the time for bewilderment: bewilderment is in front of thee; just now advance on thy way briskly and speedily.” 3170
  • وقت حیرت نیست حیرت پیش تست ** این زمان در ره در آ چالاک و چست

  • He (the slave) laid the hands of Mustafá (Mohammed) on his face and gave (them) many loving kisses.
  • دستهای مصطفی بر رو نهاد ** بوسه‌های عاشقانه بس بداد

  • Then Mustafá rubbed his blessed hand on his (the slave's) face and made it fortunate.
  • مصطفی دست مبارک بر رخش ** آن زمان مالید و کرد او فرخش

  • That Abyssinian negro became white as the full moon, and his night turned into bright day.
  • شد سپید آن زنگی و زاده‌ی حبش ** همچو بدر و روز روشن شد شبش

  • He became a Joseph in beauty and in coquetry: he (the Prophet) said to him, “Now go home and relate what has befallen thee.”
  • یوسفی شد در جمال و در دلال ** گفتش اکنون رو بده وا گوی حال

  • He was going along, without head or foot, intoxicated (with ecstasy): in going he knew not foot from hand. 3175
  • او همی‌شد بی سر و بی پای مست ** پای می‌نشناخت در رفتن ز دست

  • Then from the neighbourhood of the caravan he came hastening with two full water-skins to his master.
  • پس بیامد با دو مشک پر روان ** سوی خواجه از نواحی کاروان

  • How the master saw his slave white and did not recognise him and said, “Thou hast killed my slave: the murder hath found thee out, and God hath thrown thee into my hands.”
  • دیدن خواجه غلام خود را سپید و ناشناختن کی اوست و گفتن کی غلام مرا تو کشته‌ای خونت گرفت و خدا ترا به دست من انداخت

  • The master espied him from afar and remained bewildered: from amazement he called (to his presence) the people of the village.
  • خواجه از دورش بدید و خیره ماند ** از تحیر اهل آن ده را بخواند

  • “This,” said he, “is my water-skin and my camel: where, then, is my swart-browed slave gone?
  • راویه‌ی ما اشتر ما هست این ** پس کجا شد بنده‌ی زنگی‌جبین