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2017-2041

  • Children, though they are at one (the same) school, surpass each other in (their) lessons.
  • کودکان گرچه به یک مکتب درند ** در سبق هر یک ز یک بالاترند

  • Sense-perceptions are possessed by Easterner and Westerner, (but) the function of sight belongs to the ocular sense (alone).
  • مشرقی و مغربی را حسهاست ** منصب دیدار حس چشم‌راست

  • Though a hundred thousand ears be arrayed in rank, they all are in need of the clear eye.
  • صد هزاران گوشها گر صف زنند ** جمله محتاجان چشم روشن‌اند

  • Again, the ranks of ears have a (special) function in respect of hearing the (words of the) Spirit and the Traditions (of the Prophet) and the Revelation. 2020
  • باز صف گوشها را منصبی ** در سماع جان و اخبار و نبی

  • A hundred thousand eyes do not possess that avenue (faculty): no eye is acquainted with hearing.
  • صد هزاران چشم را آن راه نیست ** هیچ چشمی از سماع آگاه نیست

  • Similarly, enumerate each sense, one by one: each one is removed from (incapable of doing) the work of another.
  • هم‌چنین هر حس یک یک می‌شمر ** هر یکی معزول از آن کار دگر

  • The five external and the five internal senses are (arrayed) in ten ranks in the standing posture of the (angels) ranked (for worship of God).
  • پنج حس ظاهر و پنج اندرون ** ده صف‌اند اندر قیام الصافون

  • Any one who (disobediently) draws back from the rank of (the true) religion will go into the rank that is behind.
  • هر کسی کو از صف دین سرکشست ** می‌رود سوی صفی کان واپسست

  • Do not make little of the (Divine) Word ta‘álaw (come ye): this Word is an exceedingly great elixir. 2025
  • تو ز گفتار تعالوا کم مکن ** کیمیای بس شگرفست این سخن

  • If a copper (a base person) turn away in repugnance from your saying (this Word), by no means withhold the elixir from him.
  • گر مسی گردد ز گفتارت نفیر ** کیمیا را هیچ از وی وام گیر

  • If his magician-like soul has bound (cast a spell upon) him at the present time, (yet) your saying will profit him in his latter end.
  • این زمان گر بست نفس ساحرش ** گفت تو سودش کند در آخرش

  • O slave (of God), say, Come ye, say, Come ye: take heed, for verily God inviteth unto the (Abode of) Peace.
  • قل تعالوا قل تعالوا ای غلام ** هین که ان الله یدعوا للسلام

  • Then come back, sire, from egoism and headship: seek a leader, do not desire leadership.
  • خواجه باز آ از منی و از سری ** سروری جو کم طلب کن سروری

  • How an objector objected to the Prophet's—on whom be peace— appointing the man of Hudhayl to be commander.
  • اعتراض کردن معترضی بر رسول علیه‌السلام بر امیر کردن آن هذیلی

  • When the Prophet appointed a leader from (the tribe of) Hudhayl for the army whose troops were Divinely aided, 2030
  • چون پیمبر سروری کرد از هذیل ** از برای لشکر منصور خیل

  • An insolent fellow, through envy, could not endure (to keep silence): he raised objection and opposition.
  • بوالفضولی از حسد طاقت نداشت ** اعتراض و لانسلم بر فراشت

  • Behold humankind, how dark (unenlightened) they are, and how they are perishing in (desire for) a perishable piece of goods.
  • خلق را بنگر که چون ظلمانی‌اند ** در متاع فانیی چون فانی‌اند

  • On account of pride they all are in separation (from God), dead to the spirit, living in deception.
  • از تکبر جمله اندر تفرقه ** مرده از جان زنده‌اند از مخرقه

  • ’Tis wonderful that the spirit is in prison, and then (all that time) the key of the prison is in its hand!
  • این عجب که جان به زندان اندرست ** وانگهی مفتاح زندانش به دست

  • That youth (the spirit) is plunged in dung from head to foot, (whilst) the flowing river is (almost) touching his skirt! 2035
  • پای تا سر غرق سرگین آن جوان ** می‌زند بر دامنش جوی روان

  • (He is) always moving restlessly from side to side beside the place of repose and the couch where he might recline!
  • دایما پهلو به پهلو بی‌قرار ** پهلوی آرامگاه و پشت‌دار

  • The (Divine) light is hidden, and search is the evidence (of its existence), for the heart (spirit) does not seek shelter in vain.
  • نور پنهانست و جست و جو گواه ** کز گزافه دل نمی‌جوید پناه

  • If this world's prison had no refuge, neither would there be any feeling of aversion nor would the heart seek release.
  • گر نبودی حبس دنیا را مناص ** نه بدی وحشت نه دل جستی خلاص

  • Thy aversion is dragging thee along, like a custodian, saying, “O man astray, seek the path of righteousness.”
  • وحشتت هم‌چون موکل می‌کشد ** که بجو ای ضال منهاج رشد

  • The path is there, but it is hidden in a secret place: its discovery is in pawn to (involves) seeking in vain (before it can be found). 2040
  • هست منهاج و نهان در مکمنست ** یافتش رهن گزافه جستنست

  • Separation is secretly in quest of union: in this seeker do thou discern the face of the sought.
  • تفرقه‌جویان جمع اندر کمین ** تو درین طالب رخ مطلوب بین