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340-364

  • Think this evil thought against the place where you cringe before one like yourself. 340
  • این گمان بد بر آنجا بر که تو ** می‌شوی در پیش همچون خود دوتو

  • You got many powerful friends and companions: if I ask you, ‘Where (is so and- so)?’ you will say, ‘He is gone.’
  • بس گرفتی یار و همراهان زفت ** گر ترا پرسم که کو گویی که زفت

  • Your good friend is gone up to the highest Heaven, your wicked friend is gone to the bottom of the earth.
  • یار نیکت رفت بر چرخ برین ** یار فسقت رفت در قعر زمین

  • You are left in the middle (between them) so helpless (as you are), like a fire (left behind) from a caravan.”
  • تو بماندی در میانه آنچنان ** بی‌مدد چون آتشی از کاروان

  • O valiant friend, lay hold of the skirt of Him who is exempt from “above” and “below.”
  • دامن او گیر ای یار دلیر ** کو منزه باشد از بالا و زیر

  • Neither doth He ascend to Heaven, like Jesus, nor go (down) into the earth, like Qárún (Korah). 345
  • نه چو عیسی سوی گردون بر شود ** نه چو قارون در زمین اندر رود

  • He is with you in space and in the spaceless (world) when you leave house and shop behind.
  • با تو باشد در مکان و بی‌مکان ** چون بمانی از سرا و از دکان

  • He brings forth purity from defilements, He takes your acts of wrong as faithful performance (of duty).
  • او بر آرد از کدورتها صفا ** مر جفاهای ترا گیرد وفا

  • When you commit wrong, He sends chastisement, to the end that you may go back from imperfection towards perfection.
  • چون جفا آری فرستد گوشمال ** تا ز نقصان وا روی سوی کمال

  • When you have neglected a part of your orisons in the Way, there comes over you a painful and hot feeling of contraction.
  • چون تو وردی ترک کردی در روش ** بر تو قبضی آید از رنج و تبش

  • That is the corrective act (of God), meaning, “Do not make any change in the ancient covenant 350
  • آن ادب کردن بود یعنی مکن ** هیچ تحویلی از آن عهد کهن

  • Before (the day when) this contraction shall become a chain, (and when) this which (now) grips the heart shall become a fetter gripping the foot.”
  • پیش از آن کین قبض زنجیری شود ** این که دلگیریست پاگیری شود

  • Your mental pain shall become perceptible to the senses and manifest. See (therefore) that you do not hold this indication as naught.
  • رنج معقولت شود محسوس و فاش ** تا نگیری این اشارت را بلاش

  • The (spiritual) contractions (which occur) in (the case of) sins affect (only) the heart; after death (these) contractions become (actual) chains.
  • در معاصی قبضها دلگیر شد ** قبضها بعد از اجل زنجیر شد

  • “Whosoever here (in this world) shall turn his back upon Our commemoration, We shall give him a straitened life (hereafter) and reward him with blindness.”
  • نعط من اعرض هنا عن ذکرنا ** عیشة ضنک و نجزی بالعمی

  • When a thief is carrying off people's property, contraction and straitness of heart prick his heart (conscience), 355
  • دزد چون مال کسان را می‌برد ** قبض و دلتنگی دلش را می‌خلد

  • (And) he says, “I wonder what this contraction is”: (say), “The contraction (distress) of the injured person who wept at thy wickedness.”
  • او همی‌گوید عجب این قبض چیست ** قبض آن مظلوم کز شرت گریست

  • When he pays no regard to this contraction, the wind of perseverance (in evil) blows (fans) its (the evil's) fire.
  • چون بدین قبض التفاتی کم کند ** باد اصرار آتشش را دم کند

  • The contraction that grips the heart turns into the grip of the policeman: inevitably those ideas become sensible (materialised) and display themselves.
  • قبض دل قبض عوان شد لاجرم ** گشت محسوس آن معانی زد علم

  • The pangs have become prison and the cross (crucifixion): the pang is (as) the root, and the root produces boughs.
  • غصه‌ها زندان شدست و چارمیخ ** غصه بیخست و بروید شاخ بیخ

  • The root was hidden, it is (now) revealed. Consider (your) inward contraction and expansion as a root. 360
  • بیخ پنهان بود هم شد آشکار ** قبض و بسط اندرون بیخی شمار

  • When it is a bad root, smite it quickly, so that an ugly thorn may not grow in the garden.
  • چونک بیخ بد بود زودش بزن ** تا نروید زشت‌خاری در چمن

  • You have felt the contraction: seek a remedy for it, because all heads (excrescences) grow from the bottom (root).
  • قبض دیدی چاره‌ی آن قبض کن ** زانک سرها جمله می‌روید ز بن

  • You have felt the expansion: water your expansion, and when the fruit appears, give it to your friends.
  • بسط دیدی بسط خود را آب ده ** چون بر آید میوه با اصحاب ده

  • The remainder of the Story of the people of Saba.
  • باقی قصه‌ی اهل سبا

  • Saba were folk given over to dalliance and foolish; ‘twas their practice to show ingratitude to the generous.
  • آن سبا ز اهل صبا بودند و خام ** کارشان کفران نعمت با کرام