- (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
- No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.” 605
- نه ز خاک و نه ز گل بر وی اثر ** نه از خراش خار و آسیب حجر
- God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).
- مغربی را مشرقی کرده خدای ** کرده مغرب را چو مشرق نورزای
- The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.
- نور این شمس شموسی فارس است ** روز خاص و عام را او حارس است
- How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?
- چون نباشد حارس آن نور مجید ** که هزاران آفتاب آرد پدید
- By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.
- تو به نور او همی رو در امان ** در میان اژدها و کزدمان
- That holy light is going in front of thee and tearing every highwayman to pieces. 610
- پیش پیشت میرود آن نور پاک ** میکند هر رهزنی را چاکچاک
- Know aright (the meaning of the text) on the Day when He (God) will not put the Prophet to shame; read (their) light shall run before them.
- یوم لا یخزی النبی راست دان ** نور یسعی بین ایدیهم بخوان