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1938-1962

  • Thou hast ever been adding skins to thy skin: necessarily thou art (black) as a skin (enveloped) in (layers of) soot.
  • پوستها بر پوست می‌افزوده‌ای  ** لاجرم چون پوست اندر دوده‌ای 

  • Since the Fire hath no fodder (fuel) except the skin, the vengeance of God will tear the skin off that pride (of thine).
  • زانک آتش را علف جز پوست نیست  ** قهر حق آن کبر را پوستین کنیست 

  • This arrogance is a product of the skin; hence power and riches are friends to that pride. 1940
  • این تکبر از نتیجه‌ی پوستست  ** جاه و مال آن کبر را زان دوستست 

  • What is this arrogance? (It consists in) being oblivious to the essential principle and frozen (insensible)—like the oblivion of ice to the sun.
  • این تکبر چیست غفلت از لباب  ** منجمد چون غفلت یخ ز آفتاب 

  • When it (the ice) becomes conscious of the sun, the ice does not endure: it becomes soft and warm and moves on rapidly.
  • چون خبر شد ز آفتابش یخ نماند  ** نرم گشت و گرم گشت و تیز راند 

  • From seeing the kernel (essential principle) the whole body becomes (filled with) desire: it becomes miserable and passionately in love, for “Wretched is he who desires.”
  • شد ز دید لب جمله‌ی تن طمع  ** خوار و عاشق شد که ذل من طمع 

  • When it does not see the kernel, it is content with the skin: (then) the bondage of “Glorious is he who is content” is its prison.
  • چون نبیند مغز قانع شد به پوست  ** بند عز من قنع زندان اوست 

  • Here glory is infidelity, and wretchedness is (true) religion: until the stone became naughted, when did it become the gem set in a ring? 1945
  • عزت اینجا گبریست و ذل دین  ** سنگ تا فانی نشد کی شد نگین 

  • (To remain) in the state of stoniness and then (to say) “I” (is absurd): ’tis time for thee to become lowly and naughted (dead to self).
  • در مقام سنگی آنگاهی انا  ** وقت مسکین گشتن تست وفنا 

  • Pride always seeks power and riches because the bath-furnace derives its perfection from dung;
  • کبر زان جوید همیشه جاه و مال  ** که ز سرگینست گلحن را کمال 

  • For these two nurses increase (foster) the skin: they stuff it with fat and flesh and pride and arrogance.
  • کین دو دایه پوست را افزون کنند  ** شحم و لحم و کبر و نخوت آکنند 

  • They have not raised their eyes to the kernel of the kernel: on that account they have deemed the skin to be the kernel.
  • دیده را بر لب لب نفراشتند  ** پوست را زان روی لب پنداشتند 

  • Iblís was the leader on this way, for he fell a prey to the net (temptation) of power (eminence). 1950
  • پیش‌وا ابلیس بود این راه را  ** کو شکار آمد شبیکه‌ی جاه را 

  • Riches are like a snake, and power is a dragon: the shadow (protection and guidance) of (holy) men is the emerald (which is fatal) to them both.
  • مال چون مارست و آن جاه اژدها  ** سایه‌ی مردان زمرد این دو را 

  • At (the sight of) that emerald the snake's eye jumps (out of its head): the snake is blinded and the traveller is delivered (from death).
  • زان زمرد مار را دیده جهد  ** کور گردد مار و ره‌رو وا رهد 

  • When that Prince (Iblís) had laid thorns on this road, every one that was wounded (by them) cried, “Curse Iblís!”
  • چون برین ره خار بنهاد آن رئیس  ** هر که خست او گفته لعنت بر بلیس 

  • Meaning to say, “This pain is (fallen) upon me through his treachery”: he (Iblís) who is taken as a model (by the wicked) was the first to tread the path of treason.
  • یعنی این غم بر من از غدر ویست  ** غدر را آن مقتدا سابق‌پیست 

  • Truly, generation on generation came (into being) after him, and all set their feet on his way (followed his practice). 1955
  • بعد ازو خود قرن بر قرن آمدند  ** جملگان بر سنت او پا زدند 

  • Whosoever institutes an evil practice, O youth, in order that people may blindly fall in after him,
  • هر که بنهد سنت بد ای فتا  ** تا در افتد بعد او خلق از عمی 

  • All their guilt is collected (and piled) on him, for he has been (as) a head (to them), while they are (like) the root of the tail.
  • جمع گردد بر وی آن جمله بزه  ** کو سری بودست و ایشان دم‌غزه 

  • But Adam brought forward (and kept in view) the rustic shoon and sheepskin jacket, saying, “I am of clay.”
  • لیک آدم چارق و آن پوستین  ** پیش می‌آورد که هستم ز طین 

  • By him, as by Ayáz, those shoon were (often) visited: consequently he was lauded in the end.
  • چون ایاز آن چارقش مورود بود  ** لاجرم او عاقبت محمود بود 

  • The Absolute Being is a worker in non-existence: what but non-existence is the workshop (working material) of the Maker of existence? 1960
  • هست مطلق کارساز نیستیست  ** کارگاه هست‌کن جز نیست چیست 

  • Does one write anything on what is (already) written over, or plant a sapling in a place (already) planted?
  • بر نوشته هیچ بنویسد کسی  ** یا نهاله کارد اندر مغرسی 

  • (No); he seeks a sheet of paper that has not been written on and sows the seed in a place that has not been sown.
  • کاغذی جوید که آن بنوشته نیست  ** تخم کارد موضعی که کشته نیست