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2886-2910

  • 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

  • When the barrier in front and the barrier behind are removed, the eye penetrates and reads the tablet of the Unseen.
  • چونک سد پیش و سد پس نماند ** شد گذاره چشم و لوح غیب خواند

  • When he (such a one) looks back to the origin of existence, the past circumstances and beginning of existence display themselves (to him)— 2905
  • چون نظر پس کرد تا بدو وجود ** ماجرا و آغاز هستی رو نمود

  • (Namely), the disputation of the terrestrial angels with the (Divine) Majesty as to making our Father (Adam) the Vicegerent.
  • بحث املاک زمین با کبریا ** در خلیفه کردن بابای ما

  • When he casts his eye forward he sees plainly that which shall be (all that shall come to pass) till the (Last) Congregation.
  • چون نظر در پیش افکند او بدید ** آنچ خواهد بود تا محشر پدید

  • Therefore he sees back to the root of the root (the primal origin), and he sees forward clairvoyantly to the Day of Decision.
  • پس ز پس می‌بیند او تا اصل اصل ** پیش می‌بیند عیان تا روز فصل

  • Every one, according to the measure of his spiritual enlightenment, sees the things unseen in proportion to the polishing (of the heart's mirror).
  • هر کسی اندازه‌ی روشن‌دلی ** غیب را بیند به قدر صیقلی

  • The more he polishes, the more he sees and the more visible does the form (of things unseen) become to him. 2910
  • هر که صیقل بیش کرد او بیش دید ** بیشتر آمد برو صورت پدید