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  • Without hunger the body makes no movement (towards God): ‘tis cold iron thou art beating. Know (this for sure)!
  • بی‌مجاعت نیست تن جنبش‌کنان ** آهن سردیست می‌کوبی بدان

  • Though it weep and wail most piteously, it will never become a true believer. Take heed!
  • گر بگرید ور بنالد زار زار ** او نخواهد شد مسلمان هوش دار

  • It is like Pharaoh: in (the time of) famine it lays its head before Moses, as he (Pharaoh) did, making supplication; 3625
  • او چو فرعونست در قحط آنچنان ** پیش موسی سر نهد لابه‌کنان

  • (But) when it has been freed from want, it rebels (once more) when the donkey has cast off his load, he kicks.
  • چونک مستغنی شد او طاغی شود ** خر چو بار انداخت اسکیزه زند

  • So, when its business has gone forward (prosperously), it (the carnal soul) forgets its sighs and lamentations.
  • پس فراموشش شود چون رفت پیش ** کار او زان آه و زاریهای خویش

  • The man who lives in a city (many) years, as soon as his eye goes asleep,
  • سالها مردی که در شهری بود ** یک زمان که چشم در خوابی رود

  • Beholds another city full of good and evil, and his own city comes not into his memory at all,
  • شهر دیگر بیند او پر نیک و بد ** هیچ در یادش نیاید شهر خود

  • So that (he should say), “I have lived there (so many years); this new city is not mine: here I am (only) in pawn.” 3630
  • که من آنجا بوده‌ام این شهر نو ** نیست آن من درینجاام گرو

  • Nay, he thinks that in sooth he has always lived in this very city and has been born and bred in it.
  • بل چنان داند که خود پیوسته او ** هم درین شهرش به دست ابداع و خو

  • What wonder (then) if the spirit does not remember its (ancient) abodes, which have been its dwelling-place and birthplace aforetime,
  • چه عجب گر روح موطنهای خویش ** که بدستش مسکن و میلاد پیش

  • Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars? —
  • می‌نیارد یاد کین دنیا چو خواب ** می‌فرو پوشد چو اختر را سحاب

  • Especially as it has trodden so many cities, and the dust has not (yet) been swept from its perceptive faculty,
  • خاصه چندین شهرها را کوفته ** گردها از درک او ناروفته

  • Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past; 3635
  • اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا

  • That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.
  • سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز

  • The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.
  • اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا

  • First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.
  • آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد

  • (Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);
  • سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد

  • And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,
  • وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد

  • Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs— 3640
  • جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران

  • Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;
  • هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان

  • (Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).
  • هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید

  • The particular intelligence of this (disciple) is derived from that Universal Intelligence: the motion of this shadow is derived from that Rose-bough.
  • جزو عقل این از آن عقل کلست ** جنبش این سایه زان شاخ گلست

  • His (the disciple's) shadow disappears at last in him (the Master); then he knows the secret of his inclination and search and seeking.
  • سایه‌اش فانی شود آخر درو ** پس بداند سر میل و جست و جو

  • How should the shadow of the other's (the disciple's) bough move, O fortunate one, if this Tree move not? 3645
  • سایه‌ی شاخ دگر ای نیکبخت ** کی بجنبد گر نجنبد این درخت

  • Again, the Creator, whom thou knowest, was leading him (Man) from the animal (state) towards humanity.
  • باز از حیوان سوی انسانیش ** می‌کشید آن خالقی که دانیش

  • Thus did he advance from clime to clime (from one world of being to another), till he has now become intelligent and wise and mighty.
  • هم‌چنین اقلیم تا اقلیم رفت ** تا شد اکنون عاقل و دانا و زفت