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15-39

  • Thy dignity hath transcended intellectual apprehension: in describing thee the intellect has become an idle fool. 15
  • قدر تو بگذشت از درک عقول  ** عقل اندر شرح تو شد بوالفضول 

  • (Yet), although this intellect is too weak to declare (what thou art), one must weakly make a movement (attempt) in that (direction).
  • گر چه عاجز آمد این عقل از بیان  ** عاجزانه جنبشی باید در آن 

  • Know that when the whole of a thing is unattainable the whole of it is not (therefore to be) relinquished.
  • ان شیا کله لا یدرک  ** اعلموا ان کله لا یترک 

  • If you cannot drink (all) the flood-rain of the clouds, (yet) how can you give up water-drinking?
  • گر نتانی خورد طوفان سحاب  ** کی توان کردن بترک خورد آب 

  • If thou wilt not communicate the mystery, (at least) refresh (our) apprehensions with the husk thereof.
  • راز را گر می‌نیاری در میان  ** درکها را تازه کن از قشر آن 

  • (My) spoken words are (only) a husk in relation to thee, but they are a good kernel for other understandings. 20
  • نطقها نسبت به تو قشرست لیک  ** پیش دیگر فهمها مغزست نیک 

  • The sky is low in relation to the empyrean; else, in respect of the earth-mound, it is exceedingly high.
  • آسمان نسبت به عرش آمد فرود  ** ورنه بس عالیست سوی خاک‌تود 

  • I will tell thy description in order that they (my hearers) may take their way (towards thee) ere they grieve at the loss of that (opportunity).
  • من بگویم وصف تو تا ره برند  ** پیش از آن کز فوت آن حسرت خورند 

  • Thou art the Light of God and a mighty drawer of the soul to God. His creatures are in the darkness of vain imagination and opinion.
  • نور حقی و به حق جذاب جان  ** خلق در ظلمات وهم‌اند و گمان 

  • Reverence is the necessary condition for this goodly Light to bestow a salve on these sightless ones.
  • شرط تعظیمست تا این نور خوش  ** گردد این بی‌دیدگان را سرمه‌کش 

  • The ready sharp-eared man gains the Light—he who is not in love with darkness like a mouse. 25
  • نور یابد مستعد تیزگوش  ** کو نباشد عاشق ظلمت چو موش 

  • The weak-eyed (bat-like) ones that go about at night, how shall they make a circuit round the Cresset of the Faith?
  • سست‌چشمانی که شب جولان کنند  ** کی طواف مشعله‌ی ایمان کنند 

  • Difficult subtle points of disputation are the chains of (hold in bondage) the nature that has become dark (blind) to the (true) Religion.
  • نکته‌های مشکل باریک شد  ** بند طبعی که ز دین تاریک شد 

  • So long as he (such an one) decks out the warp and woof of (his own) cleverness, he cannot open his eyes to the Sun.
  • تا بر آراید هنر را تار و پود  ** چشم در خورشید نتواند گشود 

  • He does not lift up branches (to the sky) like a date-palm: he has bored holes in the earth after the fashion of mice.
  • هم‌چو نخلی برنیارد شاخها  ** کرده موشانه زمین سوراخها 

  • This humankind have four heart-oppressing qualities: these four have become the gibbet of Reason. 30
  • چار وصفست این بشر را دل‌فشار  ** چارمیخ عقل گشته این چهار 

  • Commenting on “Take four birds and turn them towards thee.”
  • تفسیر خذ اربعة من الطیر فصرهن الیک 

  • O thou whose intelligence is (resplendent) as the Sun, thou art the Khalíl (Abraham) of the time: kill these four birds that infest the Way,
  • تو خلیل وقتی ای خورشیدهش  ** این چهار اطیار ره‌زن را بکش 

  • Because each of them, crow-like, is plucking the eye from the intellect of the intelligent.
  • زانک هر مرغی ازینها زاغ‌وش  ** هست عقل عاقلان را دیده‌کش 

  • The four bodily qualities resemble the birds of Khalíl: their slaughter makes way for the soul (to ascend).
  • چار وصف تن چو مرغان خلیل  ** بسمل ایشان دهد جان را سبیل 

  • O Khalíl, in (accomplishing) the deliverance of good and bad (alike), cut off their heads that the feet (of the people) may escape from the barrier (which confines them).
  • ای خلیل اندر خلاص نیک و بد  ** سر ببرشان تا رهد پاها ز سد 

  • Thou art all, and they all are parts of thee: open (the prison), for their feet are thy feet. 35
  • کل توی و جملگان اجزای تو  ** بر گشا که هست پاشان پای تو 

  • By thee the (whole) world is made a place abounding in spirit: a single cavalier becomes the support of a hundred armies.
  • از تو عالم روح زاری می‌شود  ** پشت صد لشکر سواری می‌شود 

  • Inasmuch as this body is the abode (nest) of (these) four dispositions, they are named the four mischief-seeking birds.
  • زانک این تن شد مقام چار خو  ** نامشان شد چار مرغ فتنه‌جو 

  • If thou wish the people to have everlasting life, cut off the heads of these four foul and evil birds,
  • خلق را گر زندگی خواهی ابد  ** سر ببر زین چار مرغ شوم بد 

  • (And then) revive them again in another sort, so that afterwards no harm will be done by them.
  • بازشان زنده کن از نوعی دگر  ** که نباشد بعد از آن زیشان ضرر