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1335-1359

  • If its faultiness and disgrace were made visible to thee, thy soul would flee from it (as far as) the distance between east and west. 1335
  • بر تو گر پیدا شدی زو عیب و شین ** زو رمیدی جانت بعد المشرقین

  • The state (of mind) in which at last thou repentest of it (of a faulty action)—if this should be thy state (of mind) at first, how wouldst thou run (for the sake of that action)?
  • حال که آخر زو پشیمان می‌شوی ** گر بود این حال اول کی دوی

  • Therefore He (God) at first veiled (the real nature of) that from our souls, in order that we might perform that action in accordance with the Divine destiny.
  • پس بپوشید اول آن بر جان ما ** تا کنیم آن کار بر وفق قضا

  • When the Divine destiny brought its ordainment into view, the eye was opened, so that repentance arrived.
  • چون قضا آورد حکم خود پدید ** چشم وا شد تا پشیمانی رسید

  • This repentance is another (manifestation of the) Divine destiny: abandon this repentance, worship God!
  • این پشیمانی قضای دیگرست ** این پشیمانی بهل حق را پرست

  • And if thou make (it) a habit and become addicted to repentance, because of this (habitual) repentance thou wilt become more repentant. 1340
  • ور کنی عادت پشیمان خور شوی ** زین پشیمانی پشیمان‌تر شوی

  • One half of thy life will pass in distraction and the other half will pass in repentance.
  • نیم عمرت در پریشانی رود ** نیم دیگر در پشیمانی رود

  • Take leave of this (anxious) thought and repentance: seek a better (spiritual) state and friend and work.
  • ترک این فکر و پریشانی بگو ** حال و یار و کار نیکوتر بجو

  • And if thou hast no better work in hand, then for the omission of what (work) is thy repentance?
  • ور نداری کار نیکوتر به دست ** پس پشیمانیت بر فوت چه است

  • If thou knowest the good way, worship (God); and if thou dost not know (it), how dost thou know that this way (in which thou art going) is evil?
  • گر همی دانی ره نیکو پرست ** ور ندانی چون بدانی کین به دست

  • Thou dost not know evil till thou knowest good: (only) from (one) contrary is it possible to discern (the other) contrary, O youth. 1345
  • بد ندانی تا ندانی نیک را ** ضد را از ضد توان دید ای فتی

  • Since (as thou sayest) thou wert rendered impotent to abandon the thought of this (repentance), at that time thou wert also impotent to commit sin.
  • چون ز ترک فکر این عاجز شدی ** از گناه آنگاه هم عاجز بدی

  • Since thou wert impotent (to commit sin), on account of what is thy repentance? Inquire concerning impotence, by whose pull (exertion of power) is it (produced)?
  • چون بدی عاجز پشیمانی ز چیست ** عاجزی را باز جو کز جذب کیست

  • No one has seen impotence in the world without power, nor will it (ever) be (so). Know this (for sure).
  • عاجزی بی‌قادری اندر جهان ** کس ندیدست و نباشد این بدان

  • Similarly, (with) every desire that thou cherishest, thou art debarred from (perceiving) its faultiness;
  • همچنین هر آرزو که می‌بری ** تو ز عیب آن حجابی اندری

  • And if the viciousness of that desire had been shown, thy soul of its own accord would have recoiled from seeking (to gratify it). 1350
  • ور نمودی علت آن آرزو ** خود رمیدی جان تو زان جست و جو

  • If He (God) had shown unto thee the faultiness of that work, no one, dragging (thee) along (by force), would have taken thee in that direction;
  • گر نمودی عیب آن کار او ترا ** کس نبردی کش کشان آن سو ترا

  • And (as regards) that other work from which thou art exceedingly averse, the reason is that its faultiness has come into clear view.
  • وان دگر کار کز آن هستی نفور ** زان بود که عیبش آمد در ظهور

  • O God who knowest the secret and who art gracious in speech, do not hide from us the faultiness of the evil work;
  • ای خدای رازدان خوش‌سخن ** عیب کار بد ز ما پنهان مکن

  • (And) do not show unto us the faultiness of the good work, lest we become cold (disgusted) and distracted from journeying (in the Way).
  • عیب کار نیک را منما به ما ** تا نگردیم از روش سرد و هبا

  • According to that (aforesaid) habit, the exalted Solomon went into the Mosque in the brightness (of dawn). 1355
  • هم بر آن عادت سلیمان سنی ** رفت در مسجد میان روشنی

  • The king was seeking (to observe) the daily rule of seeing the new plants in the Mosque.
  • قاعده‌ی هر روز را می‌جست شاه ** که ببیند مسجد اندر نو گیاه

  • The heart with that pure eye (which it possesses) sees occultly the (spiritual) herbs that are invisible to the vulgar.
  • دل ببیند سر بدان چشم صفی ** آن حشایش که شد از عامه خفی

  • Story of the Súfí who, head on knee, was engaged in (spiritual) meditation in the garden: his friends said to him, "Lift up thy head and enjoy the garden and the sweet herbs and the birds and the marks of the mercy of God most High."
  • قصه‌ی صوفی کی در میان گلستان سر به زانو مراقب بود یارانش گفتند سر برآور تفرج کن بر گلستان و ریاحین و مرغان و آثار رحمةالله تعالی

  • In the orchard a certain Súfí laid his face in Súfí fashion upon his knee for the sake of (mystical) revelation;
  • صوفیی در باغ از بهر گشاد ** صوفیانه روی بر زانو نهاد

  • Then he sank deep down into himself. An impertinent fellow was annoyed by his semblance of slumber.
  • پس فرو رفت او به خود اندر نغول ** شد ملول از صورت خوابش فضول