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4
440-464

  • 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

  • If you demand a citation from the Qur’án, O recalcitrant, recite all of them shall be brought into Our presence.
  • گر ز قرآن نقل خواهی ای حرون ** خوان جمیع هم لدینا محضرون

  • (The person denoted by the word) muhdarún (brought into the presence) is not non-existent (ma‘dúm). Consider (this) well, that you may gain certain knowledge of the everlasting life (baqá) of the spirits. 445
  • محضرون معدوم نبود نیک بین ** تا بقای روحها دانی یقین

  • The spirit debarred from everlasting life is exceedingly tormented; the spirit united (with God) in everlasting life is free from (every) barrier.
  • روح محجوب از بقا بس در عذاب ** روح واصل در بقا پاک از حجاب

  • I have told you the purpose of this lamp of animal sense-perception. Beware of seeking to become one (with it in spirit).
  • زین چراغ حس حیوان المراد ** گفتمت هان تا نجویی اتحاد

  • Make your spirit, O such-and-such, to be united speedily with the holy spirits of the Travellers (on the mystic Way).
  • روح خود را متصل کن ای فلان ** زود با ارواح قدس سالکان

  • Your hundred lamps, then, whether they die (are extinguished) or whether they stand (and burn), are separate (from each other) and are not single.
  • صد چراغت ار مرند ار بیستند ** پس جدا اند و یگانه نیستند

  • On that account these companions of ours are all at war, (but) no one (ever) heard of war amongst the prophets, 450
  • زان همه جنگند این اصحاب ما ** جنگ کس نشنید اندر انبیا

  • Because the light of the prophets was the Sun, (while) the light of our senses is lamp and candle and smoke.
  • زانک نور انبیا خورشید بود ** نور حس ما چراغ و شمع و دود

  • One (of these lamps) dies, one lasts till daybreak; one is dim, another bright.
  • یک بمیرد یک بماند تا به روز ** یک بود پژمرده دیگر با فروز

  • The animal soul is (kept) alive by nutriment; however good or bad its state may be, it dies all the same.
  • جان حیوانی بود حی از غذا ** هم بمیرد او بهر نیک و بذی

  • If this lamp dies and is extinguished, (yet) how should the neighbour's house become dark?
  • گر بمیرد این چراغ و طی شود ** خانه‌ی همسایه مظلم کی شود

  • Inasmuch as without this (lamp) the light in that house is still maintained, hence (it follows that) the lamp of sense-perception is different in every house. 455
  • نور آن خانه چو بی این هم به پاست ** پس چراغ حس هر خانه جداست

  • This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.
  • این مثال جان حیوانی بود ** نه مثال جان ربانی بود

  • Again, when the moon is born from the Hindú, Night, a light falls upon every window.
  • باز از هندوی شب چون ماه زاد ** در سر هر روزنی نوری فتاد

  • Count the light of those hundred houses as one, for the light of this (house) does not remain (in existence) without (the light of) the other.
  • نور آن صد خانه را تو یک شمر ** که نماند نور این بی آن دگر

  • So long as the sun is shining on the horizon, its light is a guest in every house;
  • تا بود خورشید تابان بر افق ** هست در هر خانه نور او قنق

  • Again, when the spiritual Sun sets, the light in all the houses disappears. 460
  • باز چون خورشید جان آفل شود ** نور جمله خانه‌ها زایل شود

  • This is (only) a parable of the Light, not a (complete) similitude; for you (it is) a true guide, for the enemy (of the Light) a highwayman.
  • این مثال نور آمد مثل نی ** مر ترا هادی عدو را ره‌زنی

  • That evil-natured person resembles the spider: he weaves stinking veils (cobwebs).
  • بر مثال عنکبوت آن زشت‌خو ** پرده‌های گنده را بر بافد او

  • Of his own gossamer he made a veil over the Light: he made the eye of his apprehension blind.
  • از لعاب خویش پرده‌ی نور کرد ** دیده‌ی ادراک خود را کور کرد

  • If one takes hold of a horse's neck, he gains advantage; and if he takes hold of its leg, he receives a kick.
  • گردن اسپ ار بگیرد بر خورد ** ور بگیرد پاش بستاند لگد