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419-443

  • Differences and difficulties arise from this saying, because this is not a (complete) similitude: it is (only) a comparison.
  • فرق و اشکالات آید زین مقال ** زانک نبود مثل این باشد مثال

  • Endless are the differences between the corporeal figure of a lion and the figure of a courageous son of man; 420
  • فرقها بی‌حد بود از شخص شیر ** تا به شخص آدمی‌زاد دلیر

  • But at the moment of (making) the comparison consider, O thou who hast good insight, their oneness in respect of hazarding their lives;
  • لیک در وقت مثال ای خوش‌نظر ** اتحاد از روی جانبازی نگر

  • For, after all, the courageous man did resemble the lion, (though) he is not like the lion in all points of the definition.
  • کان دلیر آخر مثال شیر بود ** نیست مثل شیر در جمله‌ی حدود

  • This abode (the world) does not contain any form (that is) one (with any other form), so that I might show forth to thee a (complete) similitude.
  • متحد نقشی ندارد این سرا ** تا که مثلی وا نمایم من ترا

  • Still, I will bring to hand an imperfect comparison, that I may redeem thy mind from confusion.
  • هم مثال ناقصی دست آورم ** تا ز حیرانی خرد را وا خرم

  • At night a lamp is placed in every house, in order that by its light they (the inmates) may be delivered from darkness. 425
  • شب بهر خانه چراغی می‌نهند ** تا به نور آن ز ظلمت می‌رهند

  • That lamp is (like) this body, its light like the (animal) soul; it requires a wick and this and that.
  • آن چراغ این تن بود نورش چو جان ** هست محتاج فتیل و این و آن

  • That lamp with six wicks, namely, these senses, is based entirely upon sleep and food.
  • آن چراغ شش فتیله‌ی این حواس ** جملگی بر خواب و خور دارد اساس

  • Without food and sleep it would not live half a moment; nor even with food and sleep does it live either.
  • بی‌خور و بی‌خواب نزید نیم دم ** با خور و با خواب نزید نیز هم

  • Without wick and oil it has no duration, and with wick and oil it is also faithless (transient),
  • بی‌فتیل و روغنش نبود بقا ** با فتیل و روغن او هم بی‌وفا

  • Inasmuch as its light, (being) related to (secondary) causes, is seeking death: how should it live when bright day is the death of it? 430
  • زانک نور علتی‌اش مرگ‌جوست ** چون زید که روز روشن مرگ اوست

  • Likewise all the human senses are impermanent, because they are naught in the presence of the Day of Resurrection.
  • جمله حسهای بشر هم بی‌بقاست ** زانک پیش نور روز حشر لاست

  • The light of the senses and spirits of our fathers is not wholly perishable and naught, like the grass;
  • نور حس و جان بابایان ما ** نیست کلی فانی و لا چون گیا

  • But, like the stars and moonbeams, they all vanish in the radiance of the Sun.
  • لیک مانند ستاره و ماهتاب ** جمله محوند از شعاع آفتاب

  • ’Tis just as the smart and pain of the flea's bite disappears when the snake comes in to you (and bites you).
  • آنچنان که سوز و درد زخم کیک ** محو گردد چون در آید مار الیک

  • ’Tis just as the naked man jumped into the water, that in the water he might escape from the sting of the hornets: 435
  • آنچنان که عور اندر آب جست ** تا در آب از زخم زنبوران برست

  • The hornets circle above (him), and when he puts out his head they do not spare him.
  • می‌کند زنبور بر بالا طواف ** چون بر آرد سر ندارندش معاف

  • The water is recollection (dhikr) of God, and the hornet is the remembrance, during this time, of such-and-such a woman or such-and-such a man.
  • آب ذکر حق و زنبور این زمان ** هست یاد آن فلانه وان فلان

  • Swallow (hold) your breath in the water of recollection and show fortitude, that you may be freed from the old thought and temptation.
  • دم بخور در آب ذکر و صبر کن ** تا رهی از فکر و وسواس کهن

  • After that, you yourself will assume the nature of that pure water entirely from head to foot.
  • بعد از آن تو طبع آن آب صفا ** خود بگیری جملگی سر تا به پا

  • As the noxious hornet flees from the water, so will it be afraid of (approaching) you. 440
  • آنچنان که از آب آن زنبور شر ** می‌گریزد از تو هم گیرد حذر

  • After that, be far from the water, if you wish; for in your inmost soul you are of the same nature as the water, O fellow-servant.
  • بعد از آن خواهی تو دور از آب باش ** که بسر هم‌طبع آبی خواجه‌تاش

  • Those persons, then, who have passed from the world are not naught (nonexistent), but they are steeped in the (Divine) Attributes.
  • بس کسانی کز جهان بگذشته‌اند ** لا نیند و در صفات آغشته‌اند

  • All their attributes are (absorbed) in the Attributes of God, even as the star is (left) without trace in the presence of the sun.
  • در صفات حق صفات جمله‌شان ** هم‌چو اختر پیش آن خور بی‌نشان