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
His bad (sensual) eye is a bandage on his (inward) eye: his very (awareness of) removing the barrier has become a barrier for him.
بند چشم اوست هم چشم بدش ** عین رفع سد او گشته سدش
His (self-)consciousness has become the plug of his (inward) ear: keep thy consciousness (directed) towards God (alone), O thou who art bewildered in Him.
بند گوش او شده هم هوش او ** هوش با حق دار ای مدهوش او
Commentary on the saying of Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, “Whosoever shall make his cares one care, God will relieve him of all his cares; and whosoever is distracted by his cares, God will not care in what valley He destroys him.”
در تفسیر قول مصطفی علیهالسلام من جعل الهموم هما واحدا کفاه الله سائر همومه و من تفرقت به الهموم لا یبالی الله فی ای واد اهلکه
Thou hast distributed thy consciousness in (all) directions: those vanities are not worth a cress.
هوش را توزیع کردی بر جهات ** مینیرزد ترهای آن ترهات
Every thorn-root draws the water of thy consciousness (towards itself): how should the water of thy consciousness reach the fruit?1085
آب هش را میکشد هر بیخ خار ** آب هوشت چون رسد سوی ثمار
Hark, smite that evil bough, lop it off: water this goodly bough, refresh it.
هین بزن آن شاخ بد را خو کنش ** آب ده این شاخ خوش را نو کنش
Both are green at this (present) time, (but) look to the end (and see) that this one will come to naught, (while) fruit will grow from that one.
هر دو سبزند این زمان آخر نگر ** کین شود باطل از آن روید ثمر
To this one the water in the orchard is lawful, to that one (it is) unlawful. In the end thou wilt see the difference, and (so) farewell.
آب باغ این را حلال آن را حرام ** فرق را آخر ببینی والسلام
What is justice? Giving water to trees. What is injustice? To give water to thorns.
عدل چه بود آب ده اشجار را ** ظلم چه بود آب دادن خار را
Justice is (consists in) bestowing a bounty in its proper place, not on every root that will absorb water.1090
عدل وضع نعمتی در موضعش ** نه بهر بیخی که باشد آبکش
What is injustice? To bestow (it) in an improper place that can only be a source of calamity.
ظلم چه بود وضع در ناموضعی ** که نباشد جز بلا را منبعی
Bestow the bounty of God on the spirit and reason, not on the (carnal) nature full of disease and complications.
نعمت حق را به جان و عقل ده ** نه به طبع پر زحیر پر گره
Load the conflict of (worldly) cares upon thy body: do not lay thy anxiety upon the heart and spirit.
بار کن بیگار غم را بر تنت ** بر دل و جان کم نه آن جان کندنت
The pack is laid upon the head of Jesus, (while) the ass is frisking in the meadow.
بر سر عیسی نهاده تنگ بار ** خر سکیزه میزند در مرغزار
’Tis not right to put collyrium in the ear: ’tis not right to demand from the body the work of the heart (spirit).1095
سرمه را در گوش کردن شرط نیست ** کار دل را جستن از تن شرط نیست
If thou art a (devotee of the) heart, go, scorn (the world), do not suffer contumely (from it); and if thou art a (devotee of the) body, do not eat sugar but taste poison.
گر دلی رو ناز کن خواری مکش ** ور تنی شکر منوش و زهر چش
Poison is beneficial to the body, and sugar noxious: ’tis better that the body should be deprived of supplies.
زهر تن را نافعست و قند بد ** تن همان بهتر که باشد بیمدد
The body is fuel for Hell, do thou weaken it; and if it produce a (new) growth of fuel, go, destroy it.
هیزم دوزخ تنست و کم کنش ** ور بروید هیزمی رو بر کنش
Else, O (thou who art) firewood, thou wilt be a carrier of firewood in both worlds, like the wife of Bú Lahab.
ورنه حمال حطب باشی حطب ** در دو عالم همچو جفت بولهب
Know (discriminate) the bough of the Sidra from the firewood, though both are green, O youth.1100
از حطب بشناس شاخ سدره را ** گرچه هر دو سبز باشند ای فتی
The origin of that bough is the Seventh Heaven, the origin of this bough is from fire and smoke.
اصل آن شاخست هفتم آسمان ** اصل این شاخست از نار و دخان
To sense-perception they are similar in appearance, for the eye and habit of sense-perception is seeing falsely;
هست مانندا به صورت پیش حس ** که غلطبینست چشم و کیش حس
(But) that (difference) is manifest to the eye of the heart (spirit): exert thyself, advance towards the heart (spirit) with the exertion of one whose means are small.
هست آن پیدا به پیش چشم دل ** جهد کن سوی دل آ جهد المقل
And if thou hast no foot (means), (yet) bestir thyself that thou mayst behold every less and more.
ور نداری پا بجنبان خویش را ** تا ببینی هر کم و هر بیش را
On the meaning of this verse: “If thou fare on the Way, the Way will be revealed to thee; and if thou become nonexistent, (real) existence will be conferred on thee.”
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