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
Everything good or evil that thou seest in thy sleep will be made manifest, one by one, on the Day of the (Last) Congregation.
هر چه تو در خواب بینی نیک و بد ** روز محشر یک به یک پیدا شود
That which thou didst in this sleep in the (present) world will become evident to thee at the time of awaking.
آنچ کردی اندرین خواب جهان ** گرددت هنگام بیداری عیان
Take care not to imagine that this (which thou hast done) is (only) an evil action committed in this (state of) sleep and that there is no interpretation (thereof) for thee.
تا نپنداری که این بد کردنیست ** اندرین خواب و ترا تعبیر نیست
Nay, this laughter (of thine) will be tears and moans on the Day of interpretation, O oppressor of the captive!3660
بلک این خنده بود گریه و زفیر ** روز تعبیر ای ستمگر بر اسیر