If it (the picture) has known and experienced any trial, is it not the case that the Artist brought that (trial) upon it?
امتحانی گر بدانست و بدید ** نی که هم نقاش آن بر وی کشید
Indeed, this form that He fashioned—what is it worth in comparison with the forms which are in His knowledge?
چه قدر باشد خود این صورت که بست ** پیش صورتها که در علم ویست
When the temptation to make this trial has come to you, know that ill fortune has come and smitten your neck.
وسوسه‌ی این امتحان چون آمدت ** بخت بد دان کمد و گردن زدت
When you feel such a temptation, at once, at once turn unto God and begin the prostration (in prayer).385
چون چنین وسواس دیدی زود زود ** با خدا گرد و در آ اندر سجود
Make the place of prostration wet with flowing tears and say, “O God, do Thou deliver me from this doubt!”
سجده گه را تر کن از اشک روان ** کای خدا تو وا رهانم زین گمان
At the time when it is your object to make trial (of God), the mosque, namely, your religion, becomes filled with kharrúb (carob).
آن زمان کت امتحان مطلوب شد ** مسجد دین تو پر خروب شد
Story of the Farther Mosque and the carob and how, before (the reign of) Solomon, on whom be peace, David, on whom be peace, resolved on building that Mosque.
قصه‌ی مسجد اقصی و خروب و عزم کردن داود علیه‌السلام پیش از سلیمان علیه‌السلام بر بنای آن مسجد
When David's resolve that he would build the Farther Mosque with stone came to sore straits,
چون درآمد عزم داودی به تنگ ** که بسازد مسجد اقصی به سنگ
God made a Revelation to him, saying, “Proclaim the abandonment of this (enterprise), for (the building of) this place will not be achieved by thy hand.
وحی کردش حق که ترک این بخوان ** که ز دستت برنیاید این مکان
’Tis not in Our fore-ordainment that thou shouldst raise this Farther Mosque, O chosen one.”390
نیست در تقدیر ما آنک تو این ** مسجد اقصی بر آری ای گزین
He said, “O Knower of the secret, what is my crime, that Thou forbiddest me to construct the Mosque?”
گفت جرمم چیست ای دانای راز ** که مرا گویی که مسجد را مساز
He (God) said, “Without (committing) a crime, thou hast wrought much bloodshed: thou hast taken upon thy neck (art responsible for) the blood of (many) persons who have suffered injustice;
گفت بی‌جرمی تو خونها کرده‌ای ** خون مظلومان بگردن برده‌ای
For from (hearing) thy voice a countless multitude gave up the ghost and fell a prey to it (thy voice).
که ز آواز تو خلقی بی‌شمار ** جان بدادند و شدند آن را شکار
Much blood has gone to the score of (is chargeable to) thy voice, to thy beautiful soul-ravishing song.”
خون بسی رفتست بر آواز تو ** بر صدای خوب جان‌پرداز تو
He (David) said, “I was overpowered by Thee, drunken with Thee: my hand (power) was tied up by Thy hand.395
گفت مغلوب تو بودم مست تو ** دست من بر بسته بود از دست تو
Was not every one that was overpowered by the King the object of (His) mercy? Was not he (excused on the ground that) ‘The overpowered is like the non-existent’?”
نه که هر مغلوب شه مرحوم بود ** نه که المغلوب کالمعدوم بود
He (God) said, “This overpowered man is that non-existent one who is only relatively non-existent. Have sure faith!
گفت این مغلوب معدومیست کو ** جز به نسبت نیست معدوم ایقنوا
Such a non-existent one who hath gone from himself (become selfless) is the best of beings, and the great (one among them).
این چنین معدوم کو از خویش رفت ** بهترین هستها افتاد و زفت
He hath passed away (faná) in relation to (the passing away of his attributes in) the Divine attributes, (but) in passing away (from selfhood) he really hath the life everlasting (baqá).
او به نسبت با صفات حق فناست ** در حقیقت در فنا او را بقاست
All spirits are under his governance; all bodies too are in his control.400
جمله‌ی ارواح در تدبیر اوست ** جمله‌ی اشباح هم در تیر اوست
He that is overpowered (overwhelmed) in Our grace is not compelled; nay, he is one who freely chooses devotion (to Us).”
In sooth the end of free-will is that his free-will should be lost here.
منتهای اختیار آنست خود ** که اختیارش گردد اینجا مفتقد
The free agent would feel no savour (spiritual delight) if at last he did not become entirely purged of egoism.
اختیاری را نبودی چاشنی ** گر نگشتی آخر او محو از منی
If there is delicious food and drink in the world, (yet) his pleasure (in them) is (only) a branch of (derived from) the extinction of (worldly) pleasure.
در جهان گر لقمه و گر شربتست ** لذت او فرع محو لذتست
Although he was unaffected by (worldly) pleasures, (yet) he was a man of (spiritual) pleasure and became the recipient of (that) pleasure.405
گرچه از لذات بی‌تاثیر شد ** لذتی بود او و لذت‌گیر شد
Explanation of "Verily, the Faithful are brothers, and the ‘ulamá (divines) are as one soul"; in particular, the oneness of David, Solomon, and all the other prophets, on whom be peace: if you disbelieve in one of them, (your) faith in any prophet will not be perfect; and this is the sign of (their) oneness, that if you destroy a single one of those thousands of houses, all the rest will be destroyed, and not a single wall will be left standing; for "We make no distinction between any of them (the prophets)." Indication is sufficient for him that hath intelligence: this goes even beyond indication.
شرح انما المؤمنون اخوة والعلماء کنفس واحدة خاصه اتحاد داود و سلیمان و سایر انبیا علیهم‌السلام کی اگر یکی ازیشان را منکر شوی ایمان به هیچ نبی درست نباشد و این علامت اتحادست کی یک خانه از هزاران خانه ویران کنی آن همه ویران شود و یک دیوار قایم نماند کی لانفرق بین احد منهم و العاقل یکفیه الاشارة این خود از اشارت گذشت
(God said to David), “Although it will not be accomplished by thy labour and strength, yet the Mosque will be erected by thy son.
گرچه بر ناید به جهد و زور تو ** لیک مسجد را برآرد پور تو