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2879-2903

  • He never reflects that, wherever there is anything external, that (object) gives information of hidden wise purposes.
  • هیچ نندیشد که هر جا ظاهریست ** آن ز حکمتهای پنهان مخبریست

  • The usefulness of every external object is, indeed, internal: it is latent, like the beneficial quality in medicines. 2880
  • فایده‌ی هر ظاهری خود باطنیست ** هم‌چو نفع اندر دواها کامنست

  • Commentary on the Verse, "And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them save with real ground": (i.e.) "I did not create them for the sake of just this which ye see; nay, but for the sake of the essential meaning and everlasting providence which ye see not."
  • تفسیر این آیت کی و ما خلقنا السموات والارض و ما بینهما الا بالحق نیافریدمشان بهر همین کی شما می‌بینید بلک بهر معنی و حکمت باقیه کی شما نمی‌بینید آن را

  • Does any painter paint a beautiful picture for the sake of the picture itself, without hope of conferring benefit?
  • هیچ نقاشی نگارد زین نقش ** بی امید نفع بهر عین نقش

  • Nay, (he paints it) for the sake of guests and young people who by diverting themselves (with it) may be relieved from cares.
  • بلک بهر میهمانان و کهان ** که به فرجه وارهند از اندهان

  • From his picture (arises) the joy of children and the remembering of departed friend's by their friends.
  • شادی بچگان و یاد دوستان ** دوستان رفته را از نقش آن

  • Does any potter make a pot in haste for the sake of the pot itself and not in hope of the water?
  • هیچ کوزه‌گر کند کوزه شتاب ** بهر عین کوزه نه بر بوی آب

  • Does any bowl-maker make a finished bowl for the sake of the bowl itself and not for the sake of the food? 2885
  • هیچ کاسه گر کند کاسه تمام ** بهر عین کاسه نه بهر طعام

  • Does any calligrapher write artistically for the sake of the writing itself and not for the sake of the reading?
  • هیچ خطاطی نویسد خط به فن ** بهر عین خط نه بهر خواندن

  • The external form is for the sake of the unseen form; and that took shape for the sake of another unseen (form).
  • نقش ظاهر بهر نقش غایبست ** وان برای غایب دیگر ببست

  • Count up these corollaries to the third, fourth, or tenth in proportion to (your) insight.
  • تا سوم چارم دهم بر می‌شمر ** این فواید را به مقدار نظر

  • As (for example) the moves in chess, O son: behold the result of each move in the next one.
  • هم‌چو بازیهای شطرنج ای پسر ** فایده‌ی هر لعب در تالی نگر

  • They made this (move) for the sake of that concealed move, and that for the next, and that (again) for such and such. 2890
  • این نهادند بهر آن لعب نهان ** وان برای آن و آن بهر فلان

  • Even so (proceed), having perceived reasons within reasons, one after the other, in order that you may arrive at victory and checkmate.
  • هم‌چنین دیده جهات اندر جهات ** در پی هم تا رسی در برد و مات

  • The first is for the sake of the second, like mounting on the steps of a ladder;
  • اول از بهر دوم باشد چنان ** که شدن بر پایه‌های نردبان

  • And deem the second to be for the sake of the third, (and so on) to the end, in order that you may arrive, step by step, at the roof.
  • و آن دوم بهر سوم می‌دان تمام ** تا رسی تو پایه پایه تا به بام

  • The desire to eat is for the sake of the semen: that semen is for the sake of procreation and the light (which glows in the eyes of parents).
  • شهوت خوردن ز بهر آن منی ** آن منی از بهر نسل و روشنی

  • The man of dull sight sees naught but this: his intelligence is without motion, like the plants of the earth. 2895
  • کندبینش می‌نبیند غیر این ** عقل او بی‌سیر چون نبت زمین

  • Whether the plant is summoned (to move) or not summoned, its foot remains stuck fast in the mud.
  • نبت را چه خوانده چه ناخوانده ** هست پای او به گل در مانده

  • If its head move with the motion of the wind, go, be not deceived by its moving its head.
  • گر سرش جنبد پیر باد رو ** تو به سر جنبانیش غره مشو

  • Its head says, “We obey, O zephyr!” Its foot says, “We refuse to obey: let us alone!”
  • آن سرش گوید سمعنا ای صبا ** پای او گوید عصینا خلنا

  • Since he (the man of dull sight) does not know how to move (on the Way to God), he advances like the vulgar, stepping (forward) on trust, like a blind man.
  • چون ندارد سیر می‌راند چون عام ** بر توکل می‌نهد چون کور گام

  • Consider what comes of acting on trust in warfare: (it is vain) like the trust of dice-players. 2900
  • بر توکل تا چه آید در نبرد ** چون توکل کردن اصحاب نرد

  • But those insights that are not frozen (dense and dull) are nothing if not piercing and veil-rending.
  • وآن نظرهایی که آن افسرده نیست ** جز رونده و جز درنده‌ی پرده نیست

  • He (such a one) sees with his own eye at the present moment that which will come to pass in ten years.
  • آنچ در ده سال خواهد آمدن ** این زمان بیند به چشم خویشتن

  • Similarly, every one sees the unseen and the future, (both) good and evil, according to the measure of his insight.
  • هم‌چنین هر کس به اندازه‌ی نظر ** غیب و مستقبل ببیند خیر وشر