But though it (the flame) be not (there), (yet) when this (spiritual Sun) is (present) in perfection, it (the Sun) maintains itself intact without night and day,3060
ور نباشد آن چو این باشد تمام ** بی‌شب و بی روز دارد انتظام
Just as the eye, without moon and sun, sees moon and sun in dream.
هم‌چنانک چشم می‌بیند به خواب ** بی‌مه و خورشید ماه و آفتاب
Since our sleep is the brother of death, O such and such, know (the difference of) that brother from this brother.
نوم ما چون شد اخ الموت ای فلان ** زین برادر آن برادر را بدان
And if they tell thee that that is the branch (derivative) of this, do not hear (believe) it, O follower of authority, without (having) certain knowledge.
ور بگویندت که هست آن فرع این ** مشنو آن را ای مقلد بی‌یقین
During sleep thy spirit is beholding the representation of a state (of things) which thou wilt not behold, whilst thou art awake, in twenty years,
می‌بیند خواب جانت وصف حال ** که به بیداری نبینی بیست سال
And thou art running, for (whole) lifetimes, to the sagacious (spiritual) kings in quest of the interpretation thereof,3065
در پی تعبیر آن تو عمرها ** می‌دوی سوی شهان با دها
Saying, “Tell (me), what is the interpretation of that dream?” To call such a mystery a “branch” is currishness.
که بگو آن خواب را تعبیر چیست ** فرع گفتن این چنین سر را سگیست
This is the sleep of the vulgar; but truly the sleep of the elect is the root of (their) privilege and election.
خواب عامست این و خود خواب خواص ** باشد اصل اجتبا و اختصاص
There must needs be the elephant, in order that, when he sleeps supinely, he may dream of the land of Hindustán.
پیل باید تا چو خسپد او ستان ** خواب بیند خطه‌ی هندوستان
The ass does not dream of Hindustán at all: the ass has never journeyed from Hindustán to a foreign country.
خر نبیند هیچ هندستان به خواب ** خر ز هندستان نکردست اغتراب
There is need of the elephant-like and very robust spirit, that in sleep it may be able to go speedily to Hindustán.3070
جان هم‌چون پیل باید نیک زفت ** تا به خواب او هند داند رفت تفت
Because of desire the elephant remembers Hindustán; then by night that remembrance of his takes form.
ذکر هندستان کند پیل از طلب ** پس مصور گردد آن ذکرش به شب
(The worship commanded in the text) Remember ye Allah is not a (devotional) work (that is within the reach) of every rascal; (the command) Return thou is not (a fetter) on the foot of every reprobate.
اذکروا الله کار هر اوباش نیست ** ارجعی بر پای هر قلاش نیست
But still do not thou despair, be an elephant; and if thou art not an elephant, be in quest of transmutation.
لیک تو آیس مشو هم پیل باش ** ور نه پیلی در پی تبدیل باش
Behold the alchemists of Heaven; hear at every moment the sound (of the words that come) from the (spiritual) makers of the philosophers' stone.
کیمیاسازان گردون را ببین ** بشنو از میناگران هر دم طنین
They are designers in the celestial atmosphere; they are workers for me and thee.3075
نقش‌بندانند در جو فلک ** کارسازانند بهر لی و لک
If thou dost not see the musky-bosomed people, behold this touch (laid upon thee), O night-blind (purblind) one.
گر نبینی خلق مشکین جیب را ** بنگر ای شب‌کور این آسیب را
At every moment the touch is (laid) upon thy apprehension: behold the plants ever springing up anew from thy earth!
هر دم آسیبست بر ادراک تو ** نبت نو نو رسته بین از خاک تو
Of this (sort) was Ibráhím son of Adham, who beheld in sleep, without veil, the unfolding of the spiritual Hindustán.
زین بد ابراهیم ادهم دیده خواب ** بسط هندستان دل را بی‌حجاب
(Therefore), of necessity, he burst the (worldly) chains asunder and dashed his kingdom to pieces and disappeared.
لاجرم زنجیرها را بر درید ** مملکت بر هم زد و شد ناپدید
The sign of beholding Hindustán is that he (who beholds it) starts up from sleep and becomes mad.3080
آن نشان دید هندستان بود ** که جهد از خواب و دیوانه شود
He will scatter dust upon (worldly) plans and will burst the links of the chains (that bind him),
می‌فشاند خاک بر تدبیرها ** می‌دراند حلقه‌ی زنجیرها
Even as the Prophet said of the (Divine) light, that the sign thereof in (men's) breasts
آنچنان که گفت پیغامبر ز نور ** که نشانش آن بود اندر صدور
Is that he (who hath the light) withdraws from the abode of delusion and also turns back from the abode of joy.
که تجافی آرد از دار الغرور ** هم انابت آرد از دار السرور
For the exposition of this hadíth of Mustafá (Mohammed), hearken to a tale, O sincere friend.
بهر شرح این حدیث مصطفی ** داستانی بشنو ای یار صفا
Story of the prince to whom the true kingdom displayed itself, (so that the realities of) "on the Day when a man shall flee from his brother and his mother and his father" became the object of his immediate experience; (and he saw that) the kingdom of this earth-heap of the childish (is like the game) called "castle-taking," (in which) the child that gains the victory mounts upon the earth-heap and says boastfully, "The castle belongs to me," while the other children envy him; for (to play with) earth is the pastime of boys. When the prince was delivered from the bondage of colours, he said, "I say that these coloured pieces of earth (earthly gauds) are just the same vile earth; I do not call them gold and satin and brocade: I have been delivered from this brocade (aksún) and have gone to that which is simple (yaksún)." (God hath said), "And We bestowed wisdom upon him whilst he was yet a boy"; it needeth not the passing of (many) years for (any one to receive) the guidance of God: none speaks of the capacity to receive in (connexion with) the Power of Be, and it is.
حکایت آن پادشاه‌زاده کی پادشاهی حقیقی بوی روی نمود یوم یفرالمرء من اخیه و امه و ابیه نقد وقت او شد پادشاهی این خاک توده‌ی کودک طبعان کی قلعه گیری نام کنند آن کودک کی چیره آید بر سر خاک توده برآید و لاف زندگی قلعه مراست کودکان دیگر بر وی رشک برند کی التراب ربیع الصبیان آن پادشاه‌زاده چو از قید رنگها برست گفت من این خاکهای رنگین را همان خاک دون می‌گویم زر و اطلس و اکسون نمی‌گویم من ازین اکسون رستم یکسون رفتم و آتیناه الحکم صبیا ارشاد حق را مرور سالها حاجت نیست در قدرت کن فیکون هیچ کس سخن قابلیت نگوید