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522-546

  • Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.
  • ظاهر آن شاخ اصل میوه است ** باطنا بهر ثمر شد شاخ هست

  • If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?
  • گر نبودی میل و اومید ثمر ** کی نشاندی باغبان بیخ شجر

  • Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.
  • پس به معنی آن شجر از میوه زاد ** گر به صورت از شجر بودش ولاد

  • Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Adam and the (other) prophets are (following) behind me under (my) banner.” 525
  • مصطفی زین گفت که آدم و انبیا ** خلف من باشند در زیر لوا

  • For this reason that master of (all) sorts of knowledge has uttered the allegorical saying, “We are the last and the foremost.”
  • بهر این فرموده است آن ذو فنون ** رمز نحن اخرون السابقون

  • (That is to say), “If in appearance I am born of Adam, in reality I am the forefather of (every) forefather,
  • گر بصورت من ز آدم زاده‌ام ** من به معنی جد جد افتاده‌ام

  • Since the worship of the angels was (rendered) to him for my sake, and he ascended to the Seventh Heaven on my account.
  • کز برای من بدش سجده‌ی ملک ** وز پی من رفت بر هفتم فلک

  • Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”
  • پس ز من زایید در معنی پدر ** پس ز میوه زاد در معنی شجر

  • The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal. 530
  • اول فکر آخر آمد در عمل ** خاصه فکری کو بود وصف ازل

  • To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.
  • حاصل اندر یک زمان از آسمان ** می‌رود می‌آید ایدر کاروان

  • This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?
  • نیست بر این کاروان این ره دراز ** کی مفازه زفت آید با مفاز

  • The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.
  • دل به کعبه می‌رود در هر زمان ** جسم طبع دل بگیرد ز امتنان

  • This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?
  • این دراز و کوتهی مر جسم راست ** چه دراز و کوته آنجا که خداست

  • When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile. 535
  • چون خدا مر جسم را تبدیل کرد ** رفتنش بی‌فرسخ و بی‌میل کرد

  • There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.
  • صد امیدست این زمان بردار گام ** عاشقانه ای فتی خل الکلام

  • Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).
  • گرچه پله‌ی چشم بر هم می‌زنی ** در سفینه خفته‌ای ره می‌کنی

  • Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."
  • تفسیر این حدیث کی مثل امتی کمثل سفینة نوح من تمسک بها نجا و من تخلف عنها غرق

  • On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.
  • بهر این فرمود پیغامبر که من ** هم‌چو کشتی‌ام به طوفان زمن

  • I and my Companions are as the Ship of Noah: whoso clings (to us) will gain (spiritual) graces.”
  • ما و اصحابم چو آن کشتی نوح ** هر که دست اندر زند یابد فتوح

  • When you are with the Shaykh you are far removed from wickedness: day and night you are a traveller and in a ship. 540
  • چونک با شیخی تو دور از زشتیی ** روز و شب سیاری و در کشتیی

  • You are under the protection of a life-giving spirit: you are asleep in the ship, you are going on the way.
  • در پناه جان جان‌بخشی توی ** کشتی اندر خفته‌ای ره می‌روی

  • Do not break with the prophet of your days: do not rely on your own skill and footsteps.
  • مسکل از پیغامبر ایام خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر فن و بر کام خویش

  • Lion though you are, you are self-conceited and in error and contemptible when you go on the way without a guide.
  • گرچه شیری چون روی ره بی‌دلیل ** خویش‌بین و در ضلالی و ذلیل

  • Beware! Do not fly but with the wings of the Shaykh, that you may see (receive) the aid of the armies of the Shaykh.
  • هین مپر الا که با پرهای شیخ ** تا ببینی عون و لشکرهای شیخ

  • At one time the wave of his mercy is your pinion, at another moment the fire of his wrath is your carrier. 545
  • یک زمانی موج لطفش بال تست ** آتش قهرش دمی حمال تست

  • Do not reckon his wrath to be the contrary of his mercy: behold the oneness of both (these qualities) in the effect.
  • قهر او را ضد لطفش کم شمر ** اتحاد هر دو بین اندر اثر