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2116-2140

  • 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

  • Thousands of men and women came to him (Báyazíd), saying, “O thou in whose single shirt the two worlds are contained, 2135
  • پیش او آمد هزاران مرد و زن ** کای دو عالم درج در یک پیرهن

  • If this body of thine were a human body, it would have been destroyed, like a human body, by the daggers.”
  • این تن تو گر تن مردم بدی ** چون تن مردم ز خنجر گم شدی

  • A self-existent one encountered a selfless one in combat: the self-existent one drove a thorn into his own eye (hurt himself).
  • با خودی با بی‌خودی دوچار زد ** با خود اندر دیده‌ی خود خار زد

  • O you who stab the selfless ones with the sword, you are stabbing your own body with it. Beware!
  • ای زده بر بی‌خودان تو ذوالفقار ** بر تن خود می‌زنی آن هوش دار

  • For the selfless one has passed away (in God) and is safe: he is dwelling in safety for ever.
  • زانک بی‌خود فانی است و آمنست ** تا ابد در آمنی او ساکنست

  • His form has passed away and he has become a mirror: naught is there but the form (image) of the face of another. 2140
  • نقش او فانی و او شد آینه ** غیر نقش روی غیر آن جای نه