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580-604

  • Wilt not thou bring thy headache (trouble and pain) to the court of God, saying, ‘Take the blackness away, give back the radiance!’ 580
  • نه به درگاه خدا آری صداع ** که سیاهی را ببر وا ده شعاع
  • If they would kill thee at midnight, where is the sun, that thou shouldst wail (in supplication) and beg protection of it?
  • گر کشندت نیم‌شب خورشید کو ** تا بنالی یا امان خواهی ازو
  • Calamities, for the most part, happen in the night; and at that time the object of thy worship is absent.
  • حادثات اغلب به شب واقع شود ** وان زمان معبود تو غایب بود
  • If thou sincerely bow (in prayer) to God, thou wilt be delivered from the stars: thou wilt become intimate (with God).
  • سوی حق گر راستانه خم شوی ** وا رهی از اختران محرم شوی
  • When thou becomest intimate, I will open my lips (to speak) with thee, that thou may’st behold a Sun at midnight.
  • چون شوی محرم گشایم با تو لب ** تا ببینی آفتابی نیم‌شب
  • It hath no Orient but the pure spirit: in (respect of) its rising, there is no difference between day and night. 585
  • جز روان پاک او را شرق نه ** در طلوعش روز و شب را فرق نه
  • ’Tis day when it (the Sun) rises; when it begins to shine, night is night no more.
  • روز آن باشد که او شارق شود ** شب نماند شب چو او بارق شود
  • (Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).
  • چون نماید ذره پیش آفتاب ** هم‌چنانست آفتاب اندر لباب
  • The sun that becomes resplendent, and before which the (keenest) sight is blunted and dazzled—
  • آفتابی را که رخشان می‌شود ** دیده پیشش کند و حیران می‌شود
  • Thou wilt see it as a mote in the light of the Divine Throne, (a mote) beside the illimitable abounding light of the Divine Throne.
  • هم‌چو ذره بینیش در نور عرش ** پیش نور بی حد موفور عرش
  • Thou wilt deem it base and lowly and impermanent, (when) strength has come to thine (inward) eye from the Creator.” 590
  • خوار و مسکین بینی او را بی‌قرار ** دیده را قوت شده از کردگار
  • (The Divine Light is) the Philosophers' Stone from which a single impression fell on the (primal) vapour, and it (the vapour) became a star;
  • کیمیایی که ازو یک ماثری ** بر دخان افتاد گشت آن اختری
  • The unique elixir of which half a gleam struck upon a (region of) darkness and made it the sun;
  • نادر اکسیری که از وی نیم تاب ** بر ظلامی زد به گردش آفتاب
  • The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.
  • بوالعجب میناگری کز یک عمل ** بست چندین خاصیت را بر زحل
  • Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.
  • باقی اخترها و گوهرهای جان ** هم برین مقیاس ای طالب بدان
  • The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye, 595
  • دیده‌ی حسی زبون آفتاب ** دیده‌ی ربانیی جو و بیاب
  • In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;
  • تا زبون گردد به پیش آن نظر ** شعشعات آفتاب با شرر
  • For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.
  • که آن نظر نوری و این ناری بود ** نار پیش نور بس تاری بود
  • The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.
  • کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره
  • Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.
  • گفت عبدالله شیخ مغربی ** شصت سال از شب ندیدم من شبی
  • During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”
  • من ندیدم ظلمتی در شصت سال ** نه به روز و نه به شب نه ز اعتلال
  • The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him 600
  • صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همی‌رفتیم در دنبال او
  • Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.
  • در بیابانهای پر از خار و گو ** او چو ماه بدر ما را پیش‌رو
  • Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’
  • روی پس ناکرده می‌گفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ
  • Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’
  • باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست
  • Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,
  • روز گشتی پاش را ما پای‌بوس ** گشته و پایش چو پاهای عروس