English    Türkçe    فارسی   

4
2110-2134

  • Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner. 2110
  • عقل چون شحنه‌ست چون سلطان رسید ** شحنه‌ی بیچاره در کنجی خزید

  • Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?
  • عقل سایه‌ی حق بود حق آفتاب ** سایه را با آفتاب او چه تاب

  • When a genie prevails over (gains possession of) a man, the attributes of humanity disappear from the man.
  • چون پری غالب شود بر آدمی ** گم شود از مرد وصف مردمی

  • Whatsoever he says, that genie will (really) have said it: the one who belongs to this side will have spoken from (the control of) the one who belongs to yonder side.
  • هر چه گوید آن پری گفته بود ** زین سری زان آن سری گفته بود

  • Since a genie hath this influence and rule, how (much more powerful) indeed must be the Creator of that genie!
  • چون پری را این دم و قانون بود ** کردگار آن پری خود چون بود

  • His (the possessed man's) “he” (personality) is gone: he has in sooth become the genie: the Turk, without (receiving) Divine inspiration, has become a speaker of Arabic. 2115
  • اوی او رفته پری خود او شده ** ترک بی‌الهام تازی‌گو شده

  • When he comes to himself, he does not know a word (of Arabic). Inasmuch as a genie hath this essence and quality,
  • چون به خود آید نداند یک لغت ** چون پری را هست این ذات و صفت

  • Then how, pray, should the Lord of genie and man have inferiority to the genie?
  • پس خداوند پری و آدمی ** از پری کی باشدش آخر کمی

  • If a pot-valiant fellow has drunk the blood of a fierce lion, you will say that the wine did it, not he;
  • شیرگیر ار خون نره شیر خورد ** تو بگویی او نکرد آن باده کرد

  • And if he fashion words of old (pure) gold, you will say that the wine has spoken those words.
  • ور سخن پردازد از زر کهن ** تو بگویی باده گفتست آن سخن

  • A wine hath this (power to excite) disturbance and commotion: hath not the Light of God that virtue and potency 2120
  • باده‌ای را می‌بود این شر و شور ** نور حق را نیست آن فرهنگ و زور

  • To make you entirely empty of self, (so that) you should be laid low and He should make the Word lofty (within you)?
  • که ترا از تو به کل خالی کند ** تو شوی پست او سخن عالی کند

  • Though the Qur’án is (dictated) from the lips of the Prophet —if any one says God did not speak it, he is an infidel.
  • گر چه قرآن از لب پیغامبرست ** هر که گوید حق نگفت او کافرست

  • When the humá of selflessness took wing (and soared), Báyazíd began (to repeat) those words.
  • چون همای بی‌خودی پرواز کرد ** آن سخن را بایزید آغاز کرد

  • The flood of bewilderment swept away his reason: he spoke more strongly than he had spoken at first,
  • عقل را سیل تحیر در ربود ** زان قوی‌تر گفت که اول گفته بود

  • (Saying), “Within my mantle there is naught but God: how long wilt thou seek on the earth and in heaven?” 2125
  • نیست اندر جبه‌ام الا خدا ** چند جویی بر زمین و بر سما

  • All the disciples became frenzied and dashed their knives at his holy body.
  • آن مریدان جمله دیوانه شدند ** کاردها در جسم پاکش می‌زدند

  • Like the heretics of Girdakúh, every one was ruthlessly stabbing his spiritual Director.
  • هر یکی چون ملحدان گرده کوه ** کارد می‌زد پیر خود را بی ستوه

  • Every one who plunged a dagger into the Shaykh was reversely making a gash in his own body.
  • هر که اندر شیخ تیغی می‌خلید ** بازگونه از تن خود می‌درید

  • There was no mark (of a wound) on the body of that possessor of the (mystic) sciences, while those disciples were wounded and drowned in blood.
  • یک اثر نه بر تن آن ذوفنون ** وان مریدان خسته و غرقاب خون

  • Whoever aimed a blow at his throat saw his own throat cut, and died miserably; 2130
  • هر که او سویی گلویش زخم برد ** حلق خود ببریده دید و زار مرد

  • And whoever inflicted a blow on his breast, his (own) breast was riven, and he became dead for ever;
  • وآنک او را زخم اندر سینه زد ** سینه‌اش بشکافت و شد مرده‌ی ابد

  • And he that was acquainted with that (spiritual) emperor of high fortune, (and) his heart (courage) did not consent to strike a heavy blow,
  • وآنک آگه بود از آن صاحب‌قران ** دل ندادش که زند زخم گران

  • Half-knowledge tied his hand, (so that) he saved his life and only wounded himself.
  • نیم‌دانش دست او را بسته کرد ** جان ببرد الا که خود را خسته کرد

  • Day broke, and the disciples were thinned: wails of lamentation arose from their house.
  • روز گشت و آن مریدان کاسته ** نوحه‌ها از خانه‌شان برخاسته