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  • 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

  • If you spit (at it), you spit at your own face; and if you strike at the mirror, you strike at yourself;
  • گر کنی تف سوی روی خود کنی ** ور زنی بر آینه بر خود زنی

  • And if you see an ugly face (in that mirror), ’tis you; and if you see Jesus and Mary, ’tis you.
  • ور ببینی روی زشت آن هم توی ** ور ببینی عیسی و مریم توی

  • He is neither this nor that: he is simple (pure and free from attributes of self): he has placed your image before you.
  • او نه اینست و نه آن او ساده است ** نقش تو در پیش تو بنهاده است

  • When the discourse reached this point, it closed its lips; when the pen reached this point, it broke to pieces.
  • چون رسید اینجا سخن لب در ببست ** چون رسید اینجا قلم درهم شکست

  • Close thy lips (O my soul): though eloquence is at thy command, do not breathe a word—and God best knoweth the right way. 2145
  • لب ببند ار چه فصاحت دست داد ** دم مزن والله اعلم بالرشاد

  • O you who are drunken with the wine (of love), you are on the edge of the roof: sit down or (else) descend, and peace be with you!
  • برکنار بامی ای مست مدام ** پست بنشین یا فرود آ والسلام

  • Every moment when you enjoy (union with the Beloved), deem that delightful moment to be the edge of the roof.
  • هر زمانی که شدی تو کامران ** آن دم خوش را کنار بام دان

  • Be trembling for (fear of losing) the delightful moment: conceal it like a treasure, do not divulge it.
  • بر زمان خوش هراسان باش تو ** هم‌چو گنجش خفیه کن نه فاش تو

  • Lest calamity suddenly befall (your) plighted love, take heed, go very fearfully into that place of ambush.
  • تا نیاید بر ولا ناگه بلا ** ترس ترسان رو در آن مکمن هلا

  • The spirit's fear of loss at the moment of enjoyment is (the sign of its) departure (descent) from the hidden roof-edge. 2150
  • ترس جان در وقت شادی از زوال ** زان کنار بام غیبست ارتحال

  • If you do not see the mysterious roof-edge, (yet) the spirit is seeing, for it is shuddering (with fear).
  • گر نمی‌بینی کنار بام راز ** روح می‌بیند که هستش اهتزاز

  • Every sudden chastisement that has come to pass has taken place on the edge of the turret of enjoyment.
  • هر نکالی ناگهان کان آمدست ** بر کنار کنگره‌ی شادی بدست

  • Indeed there is no fall except (on) the edge of the roof: (take) warning from (the fate of) the people of Noah and the people of Lot.
  • جز کنار بام خود نبود سقوط ** اعتبار از قوم نوح و قوم لوط

  • Explaining the cause of the eloquence and loquacity of that impertinent man in the presence of the Prophet, on whom be peace.
  • بیان سبب فصاحت و بسیارگویی آن فضول به خدمت رسول علیه‌السلام

  • When the ray (reflexion) of the Prophet's boundless intoxication struck (the objector), that stupid fellow also became drunken and merry.
  • پرتو مستی بی‌حد نبی ** چون بزد هم مست و خوش گشت آن غبی

  • Of course, in consequence of (drunken) glee he became loquacious: the intoxicated man neglected (to observe) respect and began to rave. 2155
  • لاجرم بسیارگو شد از نشاط ** مست ادب بگذاشت آمد در خباط

  • Not on every occasion does selflessness (intoxication) work mischief, (but) wine makes the unmannerly person more so.
  • نه همه جا بی‌خودی شر می‌کند ** بی‌ادب را می چنان‌تر می‌کند

  • If he (the wine-drinker) be intelligent, he becomes decorous (displays goodly qualities when beside himself); and if he be evil-natured, he becomes worse.
  • گر بود عاقل نکو فر می‌شود ** ور بود بدخوی بتر می‌شود