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  • I do not boil you because you are hateful to me: nay, ’tis that you may get taste and savour,
  • زان نجوشانم که مکروه منی ** بلک تا گیری تو ذوق و چاشنی

  • So that you may become nutriment and mingle with the (vital) spirit: this affliction of yours is not on account of (your) being despised.
  • تا غذی گردی بیامیزی بجان ** بهرخواری نیستت این امتحان

  • You, when green and fresh, were drinking water in the garden: that water-drinking was for the sake of this fire.” 4165
  • آب می‌خوردی به بستان سبز و تر ** بهراین آتش بدست آن آب خور

  • His (God's) mercy is prior to His wrath, to the end that by (God's) mercy he (the afflicted person) may suffer affliction.
  • رحمتش سابق بدست از قهر زان ** تا ز رحمت گردد اهل امتحان

  • His (God's) mercy (eternally) preceded His wrath in order that the stock-in-trade, (which is) existence, should come to hand (be acquired);
  • رحمتش بر قهر از آن سابق شدست ** تا که سرمایه‌ی وجود آید بدست

  • For, without pleasure, flesh and skin do not grow; and unless they grow, what shall the love of the Friend consume?
  • زانک بی‌لذت نروید لحم و پوست ** چون نروید چه گدازد عشق دوست

  • If, because of that requirement, acts of wrath come to pass, to the end that you may give up that stock-in-trade,
  • زان تقاضا گر بیاید قهرها ** تا کنی ایثار آن سرمایه را

  • (Yet) again (afterwards) the Grace (of God) will come in order to excuse it (the act of wrath), saying, “(Now) thou hast washed thyself (clean) and hast leaped forth from the river (of tribulation).” 4170
  • باز لطف آید برای عذر او ** که بکردی غسل و بر جستی ز جو

  • She (the housewife) says, “O chickpea, thou didst feed in the springtime: (now) Pain has become thy guest: entertain him well,
  • گوید ای نخود چریدی در بهار ** رنج مهمان تو شد نیکوش دار

  • That the guest may return (home), giving thanks (for his entertainment), and may relate thy generosity in the presence of the King,
  • تا که مهمان باز گردد شکر ساز ** پیش شه گوید ز ایثار تو باز

  • So that the Bestower of favour may come to thee instead of the favour, and that all favours may envy thee.
  • تا به جای نعمتت منعم رسد ** جمله نعمتها برد بر تو حسد

  • I am Khalíl (Abraham), and thou art my son: lay thy head before the knife:lo, I see (in a dream) that I shall sacrifice thee.
  • من خلیلم تو پسر پیش بچک ** سر بنه انی ارانی اذبحک

  • Lay thy head before (my) wrath, with heart unmoved, that I may cut thy throat, like (that of) Ismá‘íl (Ishmael). 4175
  • سر به پیش قهر نه دل بر قرار ** تا ببرم حلقت اسمعیل‌وار

  • I will cut off thy head, but this head is the head that is immune from being cut off and (from) dying;
  • سر ببرم لیک این سر آن سریست ** کز بریده گشتن و مردن بریست

  • Yet thy giving thyself up is the object of (God's) eternal purpose: O Moslem, thou must seek to give thyself up.
  • لیک مقصود ازل تسلیم تست ** ای مسلمان بایدت تسلیم جست

  • Continue, O chickpea, to boil in tribulation, that neither existence nor self may remain to thee.
  • ای نخود می‌جوش اندر ابتلا ** تا نه هستی و نه خود ماند ترا

  • If thou hast (formerly) laughed in that (earthly) garden, (yet) thou art the rose of the garden of the spirit and the (spiritual) eye.
  • اندر آن بستان اگر خندیده‌ای ** تو گل بستان جان و دیده‌ای

  • If thou hast been parted from the garden of water and earth, (yet) thou hast become food in the mouth and hast entered into the living. 4180
  • گر جدا از باغ آب و گل شدی ** لقمه گشتی اندر احیا آمدی

  • Become nutriment and strength and thoughts! (Formerly) thou wert milk (sap): (now) be a lion in the jungles!
  • شو غذی و قوت و اندیشه‌ها ** شیر بودی شیر شو در بیشه‌ها

  • By God, thou grewest from His (God's) attributes in the beginning: go back nimbly and fleetly into His attributes.
  • از صفاتش رسته‌ای والله نخست ** در صفاتش باز رو چالاک و چست

  • Thou camest from the cloud and the sun and the sky; then didst thou become (diverse) attributes and ascend to heaven.
  • ز ابر و خورشید و ز گردون آمدی ** پس شدی اوصاف و گردون بر شدی

  • Thou camest in the form of rain and heat: thou wilt go into the goodly (Divine) attributes.
  • آمدی در صورت باران و تاب ** می‌روی اندر صفات مستطاب

  • Thou wert a part of the sun and the cloud and the stars: thou becamest soul and action and speech and thoughts.” 4185
  • جزو شید و ابر و انجمها بدی ** نفس و فعل و قول و فکرتها شدی

  • The existence of the animal arose from the death of the plant: (hence the command) “slay me, O trusty friends” is right.
  • هستی حیوان شد از مرگ نبات ** راست آمد اقتلونی یا ثقات

  • Since there is such a victory for us after the checkmate (of death), (the words) “verily, in my being slain there is a life” are true.
  • چون چنین بردیست ما را بعد مات ** راست آمد ان فی قتلی حیات