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  • ‘Umar, in his reign, (sat) on the third step in order to show reverence for Islam and the (true) Religion.
  • بر سوم پایه عمر در دور خویش ** از برای حرمت اسلام و کیش

  • (When) the reign of ‘Uthmán arrived, he, that man of praised (blessed) fortune, went up on to the top of the throne (pulpit) and seated himself. 490
  • دور عثمان آمد او بالای تخت ** بر شد و بنشست آن محمودبخت

  • Then a person given to idle meddling questioned him, saying, “Those two did not sit in the Prophet's place:
  • پس سالش کرد شخصی بوالفضول ** که آن دو ننشستند بر جای رسول

  • How, then, hast thou sought to be higher than they, when thou art inferior to them in rank?”
  • پس تو چون جستی ازیشان برتری ** چون برتبت تو ازیشان کمتری

  • He replied, “If I tread on the third step, it will be imagined that I resemble ‘Umar;
  • گفت اگر پایه‌ی سوم را بسپرم ** وهم آید که مثال عمرم

  • (And if) I seek a seat on the second step, thou wilt say, ‘’Tis (the seat of) Abú Bakr, and (therefore) this one too is like him.’
  • بر دوم پایه شوم من جای‌جو ** گویی بوبکرست و این هم مثل او

  • This top (of the pulpit) is the place of Mustafá (Mohammed): no one will imagine that I am like that (spiritual) King.” 495
  • هست این بالا مقام مصطفی ** وهم مثلی نیست با آن شه مرا

  • Afterwards, (seated) in the preaching-place, that loving man kept silence till near the (time of the) afternoon-prayer.
  • بعد از آن بر جای خطبه آن ودود ** تا به قرب عصر لب‌خاموش بود

  • None dared to say “Come now, preach!” or to go forth from the mosque during that time.
  • زهره نه کس را که گوید هین بخوان ** یا برون آید ز مسجد آن زمان

  • An awe had settled (descended) on high and low (alike): the court and roof (of the mosque) had become filled with the Light of God.
  • هیبتی بنشسته بد بر خاص و عام ** پر شده نور خدا آن صحن و بام

  • Whoever possessed vision was beholding His Light; the blind man too was being heated by that Sun.
  • هر که بینا ناظر نورش بدی ** کور زان خورشید هم گرم آمدی

  • Hence, by reason of the heat, the blind man's eye was perceiving that there had arisen a Sun whose strength faileth not. 500
  • پس ز گرمی فهم کردی چشم کور ** که بر آمد آفتابی بی‌فتور

  • But this heat (unlike the heat of the terrestrial sun) opens the (inward) eye, that it may see the very substance of everything heard.
  • لیک این گرمی گشاید دیده را ** تا ببیند عین هر بشنیده را

  • Its heat has (as effect) a grievous agitation and emotion, (but) from that glow there comes to the heart a joyous (sense of) freedom, an expansion.
  • گرمیش را ضجرتی و حالتی ** زان تبش دل را گشادی فسحتی

  • When the blind man is heated by the Light of Eternity, from gladness he says, “I have become seeing.”
  • کور چون شد گرم از نور قدم ** از فرح گوید که من بینا شدم

  • Thou art mightily well drunken, but, O Bu ’l-Hasan, there is a bit of way (to be traversed ere thou attain) to seeing.
  • سخت خوش مستی ولی ای بوالحسن ** پاره‌ای راهست تا بینا شدن

  • This is the blind man's portion from the Sun, (and) a hundred such (portions); and God best knoweth what is right. 505
  • این نصیب کور باشد ز آفتاب ** صد چنین والله اعلم بالصواب

  • And he that hath vision of that Light—how should the explanation of him (his state) be a task (within the capacity) of Bú Síná?
  • وآنک او آن نور را بینا بود ** شرح او کی کار بوسینا بود

  • (Even) if it be hundredfold, who (what) is this tongue that it should move with its hand the veil of (mystical) clairvoyance?
  • ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان ** که بجنباند به کف پرده‌ی عیان

  • Woe to it if it touch the veil! The Divine sword severs its hand.
  • وای بر وی گر بساید پرده را ** تیغ اللهی کند دستش جدا

  • What of the hand? It (the sword) rends off even its (the tongue's) head—the head that from ignorance puts forth many a head (of pride and self-conceit).
  • دست چه بود خود سرش را بر کند ** آن سری کز جهل سرها می‌کند

  • I have said this to you, speaking hypothetically; otherwise, indeed, how far is its hand from being able to do that! 510
  • این به تقدیر سخن گفتم ترا ** ورنه خود دستش کجا و آن کجا

  • Materterae si testiculi essent, ea avunculus esset: this is hypothetical—“if there were.” [(If) in regard to a maternal aunt there were testicles, she would would be a maternal uncle: this is hypothetical—“if there were.”]
  • خاله را خایه بدی خالو شدی ** این به تقدیر آمدست ار او بدی

  • (If) I say that between the tongue and the eye that is free from doubt there is a hundred thousand years' (journey), ’tis little (in comparison with the reality).
  • از زبان تا چشم کو پاک از شکست ** صد هزاران ساله گویم اندکست

  • Now come, do not despair! When God wills, light arrives from heaven in a single moment.
  • هین مشو نومید نور از آسمان ** حق چو خواهد می‌رسد در یک زمان