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2720-2744

  • Earth and gold were alike in his eyes. What of gold? (Even) his life had no value (for him). 2720
  • پیش او یکسان شده بد خاک و زر  ** زر چه باشد که نبد جان را خطر 

  • Lions and wolves and wild beasts were acquainted with him and gathered round him like kinsfolk,
  • شیر و گرگ و دد ازو واقف شده  ** هم‌چو خویشان گرد او گرد آمده 

  • (Knowing) that this man had become entirely purged of animality and filled with love, and that his flesh and fat were poisonous (to them).
  • کین شدست از خوی حیوان پاک پاک  ** پر ز عشق و لحم و شحمش زهرناک 

  • The sweets scattered by Reason are poison to the wild beast, because the good of (that which is) good is antagonistic to (that which is) evil.
  • زهر دد باشد شکرریز خرد  ** زانک نیک نیک باشد ضد بد 

  • The wild beast dare not devour the flesh of the lover: Love is known both to the good and the evil;
  • لحم عاشق را نیارد خورد دد  ** عشق معروفست پیش نیک و بد 

  • And if the wild beast devour him even parabolically, the lover's flesh will become poison and kill him. 2725
  • ور خورد خود فی‌المثل دام و ددش  ** گوشت عاشق زهر گردد بکشدش 

  • Everything except love is devoured by Love: to the beak of Love the two worlds are (but) a single grain.
  • هر چه جز عشقست شد ماکول عشق  ** دو جهان یک دانه پیش نول عشق 

  • Does a grain ever devour the bird? Does the manger ever feed on the horse?
  • دانه‌ای مر مرغ را هرگز خورد  ** کاهدان مر اسپ را هرگز چرد 

  • Do service (to God), that perchance thou mayst become a lover: (devotional) service is a means of gaining (Love): it comes into action (produces an effect).
  • بندگی کن تا شوی عاشق لعل  ** بندگی کسبیست آید در عمل 

  • The servant (of God) desires to be freed from Fortune; the lover (of God) nevermore desires to be free.
  • بنده آزادی طمع دارد ز جد  ** عاشق آزادی نخواهد تا ابد 

  • The servant is always seeking a robe of honour and a stipend; all the lover's robe of honour is his vision of the Beloved. 2730
  • بنده دایم خلعت و ادرارجوست  ** خلعت عاشق همه دیدار دوست 

  • Love is not contained in speech and hearing: Love is an ocean whereof the depth is invisible.
  • در نگنجد عشق در گفت و شنید  ** عشق دریاییست قعرش ناپدید 

  • The drops of the sea cannot be numbered: the Seven Seas are petty in comparison with that Ocean.
  • قطره‌های بحر را نتوان شمرد  ** هفت دریا پیش آن بحرست خرد 

  • This discourse hath no end. Return, O reader, to the story of the Shaykh of the time.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای فلان  ** باز رو در قصه‌ی شیخ زمان 

  • On the meaning of “But for thee, I would not have created the heavens.”
  • در معنی لولاک لما خلقت الافلاک 

  • A Shaykh like this became a beggar (going) from street to street. Love is reckless: beware!
  • شد چنین شیخی گدای کو به کو  ** عشق آمد لاابالی اتقوا 

  • Love makes the sea boil like a kettle; Love crumbles the mountain like sand; 2735
  • عشق جوشد بحر را مانند دیگ  ** عشق ساید کوه را مانند ریگ 

  • Love cleaves the sky with a hundred clefts; Love unconscionably makes the earth to tremble.
  • عشق‌بشکافد فلک را صد شکاف  ** عشق لرزاند زمین را از گزاف 

  • The pure Love was united with Mohammed: for Love's sake God said to him, “But for thee.”
  • با محمد بود عشق پاک جفت  ** بهر عشق او را خدا لولاک گفت 

  • Since he alone was the ultimate goal in Love, therefore God singled him out from the (other) prophets,
  • منتهی در عشق چون او بود فرد  ** پس مر او را ز انبیا تخصیص کرد 

  • (Saying), “Had it not been for pure Love's sake, how should I have bestowed an existence on the heavens?
  • گر نبودی بهر عشق پاک را  ** کی وجودی دادمی افلاک را 

  • I have raised up the lofty celestial sphere, that thou mayst apprehend the sublimity of Love. 2740
  • من بدان افراشتم چرخ سنی  ** تا علو عشق را فهمی کنی 

  • Other benefits come from the celestial sphere: it is like the egg, (while) these (benefits) are consequential, like the chick.
  • منفعتهای دیگر آید ز چرخ  ** آن چو بیضه تابع آید این چو فرخ 

  • I have made the earth altogether lowly, that thou mayst gain some notion of the lowliness of lovers.
  • خاک را من خوار کردم یک سری  ** تا ز خواری عاشقان بویی بری 

  • We have given greenness and freshness to the earth, that thou mayst become acquainted with the (spiritual) transmutation of the dervish.”
  • خاک را دادیم سبزی و نوی  ** تا ز تبدیل فقیر آگه شوی 

  • These firm-set mountains describe (represent) to thee the state of lovers in steadfastness,
  • با تو گویند این جبال راسیات  ** وصف حال عاشقان اندر ثبات