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1057-1081

  • Seek the pearl in the oyster-shell, my brother, and seek technical skill from the craftsmen.
  • اطلب الدر اخی وسط الصدف  ** واطلب الفن من ارباب الحرف 

  • If ye see sincere (spiritual) advisers, deal fairly (with them) and be eager to learn: do not show disdain.
  • ان رایتم ناصحین انصفوا  ** بادروا التعلیم لا تستنکفوا 

  • If the man (engaged) in tanning wore a threadbare garment, that did not diminish the master's mastery (of his trade);
  • در دباغی گر خلق پوشید مرد  ** خواجگی خواجه را آن کم نکرد 

  • If the ironsmith wore a patched frock when blowing the bellows, his reputation was not impaired in the eyes of the people. 1060
  • وقت دم آهنگر ار پوشید دلق  ** احتشام او نشد کم پیش خلق 

  • Therefore strip the raiment of pride from thy body: in learning, put on the garment of humility.
  • پس لباس کبر بیرون کن ز تن  ** ملبس ذل پوش در آموختن 

  • If thou wouldst learn (theoretical) knowledge, the way of (acquiring) it is oral; if thou wouldst learn a craft, the way of (acquiring) it is practical (by practice).
  • علم آموزی طریقش قولی است  ** حرفت آموزی طریقش فعلی است 

  • If thou desire (spiritual) poverty, that depends on companionship (with a Shaykh): neither thy tongue nor thy hand avails.
  • فقر خواهی آن به صحبت قایمست  ** نه زبانت کار می‌آید نه دست 

  • Soul receives from soul the knowledge thereof, not by way of book nor from tongue.
  • دانش آن را ستاند جان ز جان  ** نه ز راه دفتر و نه از زبان 

  • If those mysteries (of spiritual poverty) are in the traveller's heart, knowledge of the mystery is not yet possessed by the traveller. 1065
  • در دل سالک اگر هست آن رموز  ** رمزدانی نیست سالک را هنوز 

  • (Let him wait) until the expansion (illumination) of his heart shall make it (full of) the Light: then God saith, “Did not We expand …?
  • تا دلش را شرح آن سازد ضیا  ** پس الم نشرح بفرماید خدا 

  • For We have given thee the expansion (illumination) within thy breast, We have put the expansion into thy breast.”
  • که درون سینه شرحت داده‌ایم  ** شرح اندر سینه‌ات بنهاده‌ایم 

  • Thou art still seeking it from outside; thou art a source of milk: how art thou a milker of others?
  • تو هنوز از خارج آن را طالبی  ** محلبی از دیگران چون حالبی 

  • There is an illimitable fountain of milk within thee: why art thou seeking milk from the pail?
  • چشمه‌ی شیرست در تو بی‌کنار  ** تو چرا می‌شیر جویی از تغار 

  • O lake, thou hast a channel to the Sea: be ashamed to seek water from the pool; 1070
  • منفذی داری به بحر ای آبگیر  ** ننگ دار از آب جستن از غدیر 

  • For did not We expand…? Again, hast not thou the expansion? How art thou become a seeker of the expansion and a mendicant?
  • که الم نشرح نه شرحت هست باز  ** چون شدی تو شرح‌جو و کدیه‌ساز 

  • Contemplate the expansion of the heart within (thee), lest there come the reproach, Do not ye see?
  • در نگر در شرح دل در اندرون  ** تا نیاید طعنه‌ی لا تبصرون 

  • Commentary on “And He is with you.”
  • تفسیر و هو معکم 

  • There is a basket full of loaves on the crown of thy head, and thou art begging a crust of bread from door to door.
  • یک سپد پر نان ترا بی‌فرق سر  ** تو همی خواهی لب نان در به در 

  • Attend to thine own head, abandon giddy-headedness; go, knock at the door of thy heart: why art thou (knocking) at every door?
  • در سر خود پیچ هل خیره‌سری  ** رو در دل زن چرا بر هر دری 

  • Whilst thou art up to the knee in the river-water, thou art heedless of thyself and art seeking water from this one and that one. 1075
  • تا بزانویی میان آب‌جو  ** غافل از خود زین و آن تو آب جو 

  • Water in front; and behind, too, an unfailing supply of water; (but) before thine eyes is a barrier and behind them a barrier.
  • پیش آب و پس هم آب با مدد  ** چشمها را پیش سد و خلف سد 

  • The horse is under the (rider's) thigh, and the rider is seeking the horse. (When asked), “What is this?” he says, “A horse, but where is the horse?”
  • اسپ زیر ران و فارس اسپ‌جو  ** چیست این گفت اسپ لیکن اسپ کو 

  • “Eh, is not this a horse under thee, plain to see?” “Yes,” says he, “but who ever saw a horse?”
  • هی نه اسپست این به زیر تو پدید  ** گفت آری لیک خود اسپی که دید 

  • He (such a one) is mad with thirst for the water, and it (the water) is before his face: he is in the water and unconscious of the running water.
  • مست آب و پیش روی اوست آن  ** اندر آب و بی‌خبر ز آب روان 

  • Like the pearl in the sea, he says, “Where is the sea?” and that shell-like phantasy is his wall. 1080
  • چون گهر در بحر گوید بحر کو  ** وآن خیال چون صدف دیوار او 

  • His saying “Where?” becomes for him a screen: it becomes for him a cloud over the radiance of the sun.
  • گفتن آن کو حجابش می‌شود  ** ابر تاب آفتابش می‌شود