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  • 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

  • He hath no remembrance of his former intelligences (souls); from this (human) intelligence also there is a migration to be made by him,
  • عقلهای اولینش یاد نیست ** هم ازین عقلش تحول کردنیست

  • That he may escape from this intelligence full of greed and self-seeking and may behold a hundred thousand intelligences most marvellous.
  • تا رهد زین عقل پر حرص و طلب ** صد هزاران عقل بیند بوالعجب

  • Though he fell asleep and became oblivious of the past, how should they leave him in that self-forgetfulness? 3650
  • گر چو خفته گشت و شد ناسی ز پیش ** کی گذارندش در آن نسیان خویش

  • From that sleep they will bring him back again to wakefulness, that he may mock at his (present) state,
  • باز از آن خوابش به بیداری کشند ** که کند بر حالت خود ریش‌خند

  • Saying, “What was that sorrow I was suffering in my sleep? How did I forget the states of truth (the real experiences)?
  • که چه غم بود آنک می‌خوردم به خواب ** چون فراموشم شد احوال صواب

  • How did not I know that that sorrow and disease is the effect of sleep and is illusion and phantasy?”
  • چون ندانستم که آن غم و اعتلال ** فعل خوابست و فریبست و خیال

  • Even so this world, which is the sleeper's dream: the sleeper fancies that it is really enduring,
  • هم‌چنان دنیا که حلم نایمست ** خفته پندارد که این خود دایمست

  • Till on a sudden there shall rise the dawn of Death and he shall be delivered from the darkness of opinion and falsehood. 3655
  • تا بر آید ناگهان صبح اجل ** وا رهد از ظلمت ظن و دغل

  • (Then) laughter at those sorrows of his will take possession of him when he sees his permanent abode and dwelling-place.
  • خنده‌اش گیرد از آن غمهای خویش ** چون ببیند مستقر و جای خویش