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 him600
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
Although that (light) will be increased at the Resurrection, (yet) beg of God (to grant thee) trial (of it) here;
گرچه گردد در قیامت آن فزون ** از خدا اینجا بخواهید آزمون
For He bestows spiritual light both on cloud and mist, and God best knoweth how to impart (it).
کو ببخشد هم به میغ و هم به ماغ ** نور جان والله اعلم بالبلاغ
How Solomon, on whom be peace, bade the envoys of Bilqís return to her with the gifts which they had brought; and how he called Bilqís to (accept) the Faith and to abandon sun-worship.
بازگردانیدن سلیمان علیهالسلام رسولان بلقیس را به آن هدیهها کی آورده بودند سوی بلقیس و دعوت کردن بلقیس را به ایمان و ترک آفتابپرستی
“O shamefaced envoys, turn back! The gold is yours: bring unto me the heart, the (pure) heart!
باز گردید ای رسولان خجل ** زر شما را دل به من آرید دل
Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): date corporis caecitatem pudendo mulae.” [Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): give the body’s blindness (its blind desire for gold) to a (female) mule’s private part.”]615
این زر من بر سر آن زر نهید ** کوری تن فرج استر را دهید
Annulo aureo pudendum mulae idoneum est; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance; [A mule’s private part is suitable (as a hiding place) for a ring of gold; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance;]
For that (countenance) is the object of the Lord’s regard, while the mine (of gold) results from the sun’s casting looks (of favour).
که نظرگاه خداوندست آن ** کز نظرانداز خورشیدست کان
How can (that which is) the sunbeams’ object of regard be compared with (that which is) an object of regard to the Lord of the quintessence’?
کو نظرگاه شعاع آفتاب ** کو نظرگاه خداوند لباب
“Make of your souls a shield against my taking (you) captive, though (in truth) ye are my captives even now.”
از گرفت من ز جان اسپر کنید ** گرچه اکنون هم گرفتار منید
The bird tempted by the bait is (still) on the roof: with wings outspread, it is (nevertheless) imprisoned in the trap.620
مرغ فتنه دانه بر بامست او ** پر گشاده بستهی دامست او
Inasmuch as with (all) its soul it has given its heart to (has become enamoured of) the bait, deem it caught, (though apparently it is still) uncaught.
چون به دانه داد او دل را به جان ** ناگرفته مر ورا بگرفته دان