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  • God said, “Thou seest them looking,” (but) they are (like) the pictures in a bathhouse: they do not see.
  • گفت یزدان که تراهم ینظرون ** نقش حمامند هم لا یبصرون

  • The form appears, O worshipper of form, as though its two dead eyes were looking. 3480
  • می‌نماید صورت ای صورت‌پرست ** که آن دو چشم مرده‌ی او ناظرست

  • Thou art showing reverence before the eye of the image, saying, “I wonder why it pays no regard to me.
  • پیش چشم نقش می‌آری ادب ** کو چرا پاسم نمی‌دارد عجب

  • Wherefore is this goodly image (so) very irresponsive that it does not say ‘alayk (on thee be peace!) in reply to my salaam?
  • از چه پس بی‌پاسخست این نقش نیک ** که نمی‌گوید سلامم را علیک

  • It does not nod its head and moustache generously in regard for my having made a hundred prostrations before it.”
  • می‌نجنباند سر و سبلت ز جود ** پاس آنک کردمش من صد سجود

  • God, though He does not nod the head outwardly, (yet) in regard for that (worship of Him) bestows an inward delight,
  • حق اگر چه سر نجنباند برون ** پاس آن ذوقی دهد در اندرون

  • Which is worth two hundred noddings of the head: in this fashion, after all, do Intellect and Spirit nod the head. 3485
  • که دو صد جنبیدن سر ارزد آن ** سر چنین جنباند آخر عقل و جان

  • (If) thou serve Intellect in earnest, the regard of Intellect (for thee) is (shown by this), that it increases (thy) righteousness.
  • عقل را خدمت کنی در اجتهاد ** پاس عقل آنست که افزاید رشاد

  • God does not nod the head to thee outwardly, but He makes thee a prince over the princes (of the world).
  • حق نجنباند به ظاهر سر ترا ** لیک سازد بر سران سرور ترا

  • To thee God gives secretly something (of such power) that the people of the world bow down before thee,
  • مر ترا چیزی دهد یزدان نهان ** که سجود تو کنند اهل جهان

  • Just as He gave to a stone such virtue that it was honoured by His creatures: that is to say, (it became) gold.
  • آنچنان که داد سنگی را هنر ** تا عزیز خلق شد یعنی که زر

  • (If) a drop of water gain the favour of God, it becomes a pearl and bears away the palm from gold. 3490
  • قطره‌ی آبی بیابد لطف حق ** گوهری گردد برد از زر سبق

  • The body is earth; and when God gave it a spark (of His Light) it became adept, like the moon, in taking possession of the world.
  • جسم خاکست و چو حق تابیش داد ** در جهان‌گیری چو مه شد اوستاد

  • Beware! this (worldly empire) is a talisman and a dead image: its eye hath led the foolish astray from the (right) path.
  • هین طلسمست این و نقش مرده است ** احمقان را چشمش از ره برده است

  • It appears to wink: the foolish have made it their support (have put their trust in it).
  • می‌نماید او که چشمی می‌زند ** ابلهان سازیده‌اند او را سند

  • How the Egyptian besought blessing and guidance from the Israelite, and how the Israelite prayed for the Egyptian and received a favourable answer to his prayer from the Most Gracious and Merciful (God).
  • در خواستن قبطی دعای خیر و هدایت از سبطی و دعا کردن سبطی قبطی را به خیر و مستجاب شدن از اکرم الاکرمین وارحم الراحمین

  • The Egyptian said, “Do thou offer a prayer (for me), since from blackness of heart I have not the mouth (fit for offering an acceptable prayer),
  • گفت قبطی تو دعایی کن که من ** از سیاهی دل ندارم آن دهن

  • For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous. 3495
  • که بود که قفل این دل وا شود ** زشت را در بزم خوبان جا شود

  • Through thee the deformed may become endowed with beauty, or an Iblís may again become one of the Cherubim;
  • مسخی از تو صاحب خوبی شود ** یا بلیسی باز کروبی شود

  • Or, by the august influence of Mary's hand, the withered bough may acquire the fragrance of musk and freshness and fruit.”
  • یا بفر دست مریم بوی مشک ** یابد و تری و میوه شاخ خشک

  • Thereupon the Israelite fell to worship and said, “O God who knowest the manifest and the hidden,
  • سبطی آن دم در سجود افتاد و گفت ** کای خدای عالم جهر و نهفت

  • To whom but Thee should Thy servant lift his hand? Both the prayer and the answer (to prayer) are from Thee.
  • جز تو پیش کی بر آرد بنده دست ** هم دعا و هم اجابت از توست

  • Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers. 3500
  • هم ز اول تو دهی میل دعا ** تو دهی آخر دعاها را جزا

  • Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.”
  • اول و آخر توی ما در میان ** هیچ هیچی که نیاید در بیان

  • He was speaking in this wise, till he fell into ecstasy and his heart became senseless.
  • این چنین می‌گفت تا افتاد طشت ** از سر بام و دلش بیهوش گشت

  • (Whilst engaged) in prayer, he came back to his senses (and witnessed the effect of his prayer): Man shall have nothing but what he hath wrought.
  • باز آمد او به هوش اندر دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی