When the spirit is lying at rest amidst roses and eglantines, what does it matter if the body is (buried) in that dung?
جان چو خفته در گل و نسرین بود ** چه غمست ار تن در آن سرگین بود
What should the spirit (thus) laid asleep know of the body, (or care) whether it (the body) is in a rose-garden or an ashpit?
جان خفته چه خبر دارد ز تن ** کو به گلشن خفت یا در گولخن
(For) in the bright (celestial) world the spirit is crying, “Oh, would that my people knew!”1740
می‌زند جان در جهان آبگون ** نعره یا لیت قومی یعلمون
If the spirit shall not live without this body, then for whom shall Heaven be the palace (of everlasting abode)?
گر نخواهد زیست جان بی این بدن ** پس فلک ایوان کی خواهد بدن
If thy spirit shall not live without the body, for whom is the blessing (promised in the words) in Heaven is your provision?
گر نخواهد بی بدن جان تو زیست ** فی السماء رزقکم روزی کیست
Explaining the banefulness of the fat and sweet things of the World and how they hinder one from (receiving) the Food of God, as he (the Prophet) hath said—“Hunger is the Food of God with which He revives the bodies of the true (witnesses to Him),” i.e. in hunger the Food of God is (forthcoming); and he hath said, “I pass the night with my Lord and He gives me food and drink”; and God hath said, “being provided for, rejoicing.”
در بیان وخامت چرب و شیرین دنیا و مانع شدن او از طعام الله چنانک فرمود الجوع طعام الله یحیی به ابدان الصدیقین ای فی الجوع طعام الله و قوله ابیت عند ربی یطعمنی و یسقینی و قوله یرزقون فرحین
(If) you are delivered from this provision of gross scraps, you will fall to (eating) dainty viands and noble food.
وا رهی زین روزی ریزه‌ی کثیف ** در فتی در لوت و در قوت شریف
(Even) if you are eating a hundred pounds' weight of His viands, you will depart pure and light as a peri;
گر هزاران رطل لوتش می‌خوری ** می‌روی پاک و سبک هم‌چون پری
For they will not make you a prisoner of (incapacitated by) wind and dysentery and crucify you with gripes.1745
که نه حبس باد و قولنجت کند ** چارمیخ معده آهنجت کند
(In the case of material food) if you eat (too) little, you will remain hungry like the crow; and if you eat your fill, you will suffer from eructation.
گر خوری کم گرسنه مانی چو زاغ ** ور خوری پر گیرد آروغت دماغ
If you eat (too) little, (the result will be) ill-temper and anaemia and consumption; if you eat your fill, your body will incur (the penalty of) indigestion.
کم خوری خوی بد و خشکی و دق ** پر خوری شد تخمه را تن مستحق
Through (partaking of) the Food of God and the easily digested (delicious) nutriment, ride like a ship on such a (spiritual) ocean.
از طعام الله و قوت خوش‌گوار ** بر چنان دریا چو کشتی شو سوار
Be patient and persistent in fasting: (be) always expecting the Food of God;
باش در روزه شکیبا و مصر ** دم به دم قوت خدا را منتظر
For God, who acts with goodness and is long-suffering, bestows (His) gifts (on them that are) in expectation.1750
که آن خدای خوب‌کار بردبار ** هدیه‌ها را می‌دهد در انتظار
The full-fed man does not wait expectantly for bread, (wondering) whether his allowance will come soon or late;
انتظار نان ندارد مرد سیر ** که سبک آید وظیفه یا که دیر
(But) the foodless man is always asking, “Where (is it)?” and expecting it hungrily and seeking and searching (for it).
بی‌نوا هر دم همی گوید که کو ** در مجاعت منتظر در جست و جو
Unless you are expectant, that bounty of manifold felicity will not come to you.
چون نباشی منتظر ناید به تو ** آن نواله‌ی دولت هفتاد تو
(Practise) expectation, O father, expectation, like a (true) man, for the sake of the dishes from above.
ای پدر الانتظار الانتظار ** از برای خوان بالا مردوار
Every hungry man obtained some food at last: the sun of (spiritual) fortune shone upon him.1755
هر گرسنه عاقبت قوتی بیافت ** آفتاب دولتی بر وی بتافت
When a magnanimous guest will not eat some (inferior) food, the host brings better food,
ضیف با همت چو ز آشی کم خورد ** صاحب خوان آش بهتر آورد
Unless he be a poor host and a mean one. Do not think (so) ill of the generous Provider!
جز که صاحب خوان درویشی لیم ** ظن بد کم بر به رزاق کریم
Lift up your head like a mountain, O man of authority, in order that the first rays of the Sun may strike upon you;
سر برآور هم‌چو کوهی ای سند ** تا نخستین نور خور بر تو زند
For the lofty firm-based mountain-peak is expecting the sun of dawn.
که آن سر کوه بلند مستقر ** هست خورشید سحر را منتظر
Reply to the simpleton who has said that this world would be delightful if there were no death and that the possessions of the present life would be delightful if they were not fleeting, and (has uttered) other absurdities in the same style.
جواب آن مغفل کی گفته است کی خوش بودی این جهان اگر مرگ نبودی وخوش بودی ملک دنیا اگر زوالش نبودی و علی هذه الوتیرة من الفشارات
A certain man was saying, “The world would be delightful, were it not for the intervention of death.”1760
آن یکی می‌گفت خوش بودی جهان ** گر نبودی پای مرگ اندر میان
The other said, “If there were no death, the tangled world would not be worth a straw.
آن دگر گفت ار نبودی مرگ هیچ ** که نیرزیدی جهان پیچ‌پیچ
It would be (like) a stack heaped up in the field and neglected and left unthreshed.
خرمنی بودی به دشت افراشته ** مهمل و ناکوفته بگذاشته