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  • A wooden sword is better suited to children (young boys), since they have not the strength and power (that comes) from manhood.
  • چون ندارند از فتوت زور و دست  ** کودکان را تیغ چوبین بهترست 

  • Infidels are content with the figures of the prophets which are painted (and kept) in churches;
  • کافران قانع بنقش انبیا  ** که نگاریده‌ست اندر دیرها 

  • (But) as we have (enjoy) a bright period (of inward illumination) from those moons, we have no care for a shadow-figure. 3600
  • زان مهان ما را چو دور روشنیست  ** هیچ‌مان پروای نقش سایه نیست 

  • The one figure of him (the prophet) is seated in the (sublunary) world, while his other figure is in heaven, like the moon.
  • این یکی نقشش نشسته در جهان  ** وآن دگر نقشش چو مه در آسمان 

  • This mouth of him is speaking on subtle points (of religion) to those sitting beside him, while the other (mouth) is (engaged) in discourse with God and intimate (with Him).
  • این دهانش نکته‌گویان با جلیس  ** و آن دگر با حق به گفتار و انیس 

  • His outward ear is apprehending these (external) words, while his spiritual ear is drawing (into itself) the mysteries of (the Creative Word) Be.
  • گوش ظاهر این سخن را ضبط کن  ** گوش جانش جاذب اسرار کن 

  • His outward eye is apprehending human forms and features, while his inward eye is dazzled in (the glory of) the eye did not stray.
  • چشم ظاهر ضابط حلیه‌ی بشر  ** چشم سر حیران مازاغ البصر 

  • His outward feet stand evenly in the row (of worshippers) in the mosque, while his spiritual feet are (engaged) in circumambulation above the sky. 3605
  • پای ظاهر در صف مسجد صواف  ** پای معنی فوق گردون در طواف 

  • Reckon up every member of him (and judge of it) in like fashion: this (bodily part) is within Time, while that (spiritual part) is beyond Time.
  • جزو جزوش را تو بشمر هم‌چنین  ** این درون وقت و آن بیرون حین 

  • This which is in Time endures till death, while the other is the associate of everlastingness and the peer of eternity.
  • این که در وقتست باشد تا اجل  ** وان دگر یار ابد قرن ازل 

  • One name of him is “owner of the two empires”; one description of him is “Imám of the two qiblas.”
  • هست یک نامش ولی الدولتین  ** هست یک نعتش امام القبلتین 

  • The religious seclusion and the forty days' fast are no longer incumbent on him: no cloud is overclouding him any more.
  • خلوت و چله برو لازم نماند  ** هیچ غیمی مر ورا غایم نماند 

  • His solitary cell is (resplendent as) the sun's orb: how should alien night throw a veil over it? 3610
  • قرص خورشیدست خلوت‌خانه‌اش  ** کی حجاب آرد شب بیگانه‌اش 

  • Sickness and abstinence are gone, the crisis is past: his infidelity has become faith, and disbelief is no more.
  • علت و پرهیز شد بحران نماند  ** کفر او ایمان شد و کفران نماند 

  • Like (the letter) alif, he has taken the foremost place because of his straightness (rectitude): he retains nothing of his own qualities.
  • چون الف از استقامت شد به پیش  ** او ندارد هیچ از اوصاف خویش 

  • He has become separated from the garment of his own dispositions: his spirit has gone, naked, to Him who gives it increase of spirituality.
  • گشت فرد از کسوه‌ی خوهای خویش  ** شد برهنه جان به جان‌افزای خویش 

  • Inasmuch as it went naked into the presence of the incomparable King, the King made for it a raiment of holy qualities.
  • چون برهنه رفت پیش شاه فرد  ** شاهش از اوصاف قدسی جامه کرد 

  • It put on a robe of the King's qualities: it flew up from the pit to the palace of majesty. 3615
  • خلعتی پوشید از اوصاف شاه  ** بر پرید از چاه بر ایوان جاه 

  • Such is the case: when dregs become pure, they rise from the bottom of the bowl to the top.
  • این چنین باشد چو دردی صاف گشت  ** از بن طشت آمد او بالای طشت 

  • Although it (the spirit) remained like dregs at the bottom of the bowl owing to the ill-luck of mixing with particles of earth, (this was not in accordance with its nature).
  • در بن طشت از چه بود او دردناک  ** شومی آمیزش اجزای خاک 

  • Its disagreeable companion had tied its wings and plumes; else (it would have risen, for) originally it was very soaring.
  • یار ناخوش پر و بالش بسته بود  ** ورنه او در اصل بس برجسته بود 

  • When they uttered the rebuke Get ye down, they suspended it, head first, like Hárút.
  • چون عتاب اهبطوا انگیختند  ** هم‌چو هاروتش نگون آویختند 

  • Hárút was one of the angels of Heaven: on account of a (Divine) rebuke he was suspended thus. 3620
  • بود هاروت از ملاک آسمان  ** از عتابی شد معلق هم‌چنان 

  • He was (suspended), head downwards, because he remained far aloof from the Head and made himself the head and advanced alone.
  • سرنگون زان شد که از سر دور ماند  ** خویش را سر ساخت و تنها پیش راند 

  • When the basket saw itself to be full of water, it behaved with independence and parted from the sea.
  • آن سپد خود را چو پر از آب دید  ** کر استغنا و از دریا برید