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  • I am a lame ant. How should I know the elephant? How should a gnat know Isráfíl?”—
  • مور لنگم من چه دانم فیل را ** پشه‌ای کی داند اسرافیل را

  • This saying (answer) is also true in regard to the fact that you do not know him in his quiddity, O so-and-so.
  • این سخن هم راستست از روی آن ** که بماهیت ندانیش ای فلان

  • To be unable to perceive the quiddity, uncle, is the condition of common men: do not say it absolutely, 3650
  • عجز از ادراک ماهیت عمو ** حالت عامه بود مطلق مگو

  • Inasmuch as quiddities and their inmost secret are clearly visible to the eyes of the Perfect.
  • زانک ماهیات و سر سر آن ** پیش چشم کاملان باشد عیان

  • Where in existence is (anything) more remote from understanding and mental perception than the consciousness and essence of God?
  • در وجود از سر حق و ذات او ** دورتر از فهم و استبصار کو

  • Since that does not remain hidden from (His) familiars, what is the essence and attribute that should remain concealed?
  • چونک آن مخفی نماند از محرمان ** ذات و وصفی چیست کان ماند نهان

  • The intellect of the scholastic theologian says, “This is far (from reasonable) and deeply involved (in error): do not listen to an absurdity without some explanation.”
  • عقل بحثی گوید این دورست و گو ** بی ز تاویل محالی کم شنو

  • The Qutb (the Head of the Saints) replies, “To thee, O infirm one, that which is above thy (spiritual) state seems absurd.” 3655
  • قطب گوید مر ترا ای سست‌حال ** آنچ فوق حال تست آید محال

  • The visions which are now revealed to you, is it not the case that at first they seemed absurd to you?
  • واقعاتی که کنونت بر گشود ** نه که اول هم محالت می‌نمود

  • Inasmuch as the (Divine) Bounty has released you from ten prisons, do not make the (wide) desert an oppressive prison to yourself.
  • چون رهانیدت ز ده زندان کرم ** تیه را بر خود مکن حبس ستم

  • How the negation and affirmation of one (and the same) thing may be combined and reconciled from the standpoint of relativity and difference of aspect.
  • جمع و توفیق میان نفی و اثبات یک چیز از روی نسبت و اختلاف جهت

  • It is possible to deny and affirm the same thing: when the point of view is different, the relation is twofold.
  • نفی آن یک چیز و اثباتش رواست ** چون جهت شد مختلف نسبت دوتاست

  • (The text) thou didst not throw when thou threwest is relative: it is negation and affirmation: both are authorised.
  • ما رمیت اذ رمیت از نسبتست ** نفی و اثباتست و هر دو مثبتست

  • Thou threwest that (gravel), since it was on thy hand; thou didst not throw, for God manifested (His) power. 3660
  • آن تو افکندی چو بر دست تو بود ** تو نه افکندی که قوت حق نمود

  • The strength of one born of Adam has a limit: how should a handful of earth become (the cause of) the rout of an army?
  • زور آدم‌زاد را حدی بود ** مشت خاک اشکست لشکر کی شود

  • “(O Mohammed), the handful is thy handful, and the throwing is from Me”: on account of these two relations (both) the denial and the affirmation of it (the throwing) are right.
  • مشت مشت تست و افکندن ز ماست ** زین دو نسبت نفی و اثباتش رواست

  • The prophets are known by their enemies, just as their (the enemies') children are not doubtful (to their parents).
  • یعرفون الانبیا اضدادهم ** مثل ما لا یشتبه اولادهم

  • The unbelievers know them (the prophets) as (they know) their children by a hundred indications and a hundred signs,
  • همچو فرزندان خود دانندشان ** منکران با صد دلیل و صد نشان

  • But, from jealousy and envy, they conceal (their knowledge) and attach themselves to (become addicted to saying) “I do not know.” 3665
  • لیک از رشک و حسد پنهان کنند ** خویشتن را بر ندانم می‌زنند

  • Then, since He (God) hath said, “He (the unbeliever) knows,” how hath He said in another place?—“None knoweth them except Me, so leave off (seeking to know them);
  • پس چو یعرف گفت چون جای دگر ** گفت لایعرفهم غیری فذر

  • Verily, they are hidden beneath My tents.” None knows them by (immediate) experience except God.
  • انهم تحت قبابی کامنون ** جز که یزدانشان نداند ز آزمون

  • Regard also as (explicable) by means of relation this (subject) which was opened (above), (namely) that you know and do not know Noah.
  • هم بنسبت گیر این مفتوح را ** که بدانی و ندانی نوح را

  • The question of the faná and baqá of the dervish.
  • مسله‌ی فنا و بقای درویش

  • The speaker said, “There is no dervish in the world; and if there be a dervish, that dervish is (really) non-existent.”
  • گفت قایل در جهان درویش نیست ** ور بود درویش آن درویش نیست

  • He exists in respect of the survival of his essence, (but) his attributes have become non-existent in the attributes of Him (God). 3670
  • هست از روی بقای ذات او ** نیست گشته وصف او در وصف هو

  • Like the flame of a candle in the presence of the sun, he is (really) non-existent, (though he is) existent in (formal) calculation.
  • چون زبانه‌ی شمع پیش آفتاب ** نیست باشد هست باشد در حساب

  • Its (the flame's) essence is existent, so that, if you put cotton upon it, it (the cotton) will be consumed by the sparks;
  • هست باشد ذات او تا تو اگر ** بر نهی پنبه بسوزد زان شرر