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360-384

  • The dregs are difficulty and their pure (essence) is their ease: the pure (essence) is like the ripe date, and the dregs (are like) the date in its immature stage. 360
  • درد عسر افتاد و صافش یسر او  ** صاف چون خرما و دردی بسر او 

  • Ease is accompanied by difficulty; come, do not despair: through this death thou hast the way into Life.
  • یسر با عسرست هین آیس مباش  ** راه داری زین ممات اندر معاش 

  • (If) thou desirest (spiritual) peace, rend thy jubba, O son, that immediately thou mayst emerge pure.
  • روح خواهی جبه بشکاف ای پسر  ** تا از آن صفوت برآری زود سر 

  • The (true) Súfí is he who has become a seeker of purity: (it is) not from (wearing) the garment of wool and patching (it) and (committing) sodomy.
  • هست صوفی آنک شد صفوت‌طلب  ** نه از لباس صوف و خیاطی و دب 

  • With these base scoundrels Súfism has become patching and sodomy, and that is all.
  • صوفیی گشته به پیش این لام  ** الخیاطه واللواطه والسلام 

  • To wear colours (coloured garments) with the fancy of (attaining to) that purity and good name is good (commendable), but 365
  • بر خیال آن صفا و نام نیک  ** رنگ پوشیدن نکو باشد ولیک 

  • (Only) if, with the fancy thereof, you go on (till you attain) to its (essential) principle; not like those who worship (worldly) fancies manifold.
  • بر خیالش گر روی تا اصل او  ** نی چو عباد خیال تو به تو 

  • Your fancy is the baton of (Divine) jealousy (which prevents you from prowling) round about the curtained pavilion of (Divine) Beauty;
  • دور باش غیرتت آمد خیال  ** گرد بر گرد سراپرده‌ی جمال 

  • It (fancy) bars every seeker, saying, “There is no way (admission)”: every fancy confronts him (the seeker) and says “Stop!”—
  • بسته هر جوینده را که راه نیست  ** هر خیالش پیش می‌آید بیست 

  • Except, indeed, that person of sharp hearing and keen intelligence who possesses enthusiasm (derived) from the host of His (God's) helps (to victory).
  • جز مگر آن تیزکوش تیزهوش  ** کش بود از جیش نصرتهاش جوش 

  • He does not recoil from the fancies (which bar the way) nor is he checked: he shows the King's arrow (token); then way is made (for him to enter). 370
  • نجهد از تخییلها نی شه شود  ** تیر شه بنماید آنگه ره شود 

  • (O God), bestow forethought on this bewildered heart, and bestow the arrow (of resolution) on these bows bent double.
  • این دل سرگشته را تدبیر بخش  ** وین کمانهای دوتو را تیر بخش 

  • From that hidden goblet (of Thine) Thou hast poured out of the cup of the noble (prophets and saints) a draught over the dusty earth.
  • جرعه‌ای بر ریختی زان خفیه جام  ** بر زمین خاک من کاس الکرام 

  • From the draught thereof there is a trace on the locks and cheeks (of the fair): hence kings lick the earth (of which the bodies of the fair are made).
  • هست بر زلف و رخ از جرعه‌ش نشان  ** خاک را شاهان همی‌لیسند از آن 

  • ’Tis the draught of (Divine) beauty—(mingled) in the lovely earth—that thou art kissing with a hundred hearts day and night.
  • جرعه حسنست اندر خاک گش  ** که به صد دل روز و شب می‌بوسیش 

  • Since the draught, when mingled with dust, makes thee mad, think how its pure essence would affect thee! 375
  • جرعه خاک آمیز چون مجنون کند  ** مر ترا تا صاف او خود چون کند 

  • Every one is tattered (torn with emotion) in the presence of a clod that has received a draught of Beauty.
  • هر کسی پیش کلوخی جامه‌چاک  ** که آن کلوخ از حسن آمد جرعه‌ناک 

  • (There is) a draught (poured) on the moon and the sun and Aries; (there is) a draught (poured) on the Throne and the Footstool and Saturn.
  • جرعه‌ای بر ماه و خورشید و حمل  ** جرعه‌ای بر عرش و کرسی و زحل 

  • Oh, I wonder, wilt thou call it a draught or an elixir, since from contact with it so many splendours arise?
  • جرعه گوییش ای عجب یا کیمیا  ** که ز اسیبش بود چندین بها 

  • Earnestly seek contact with it, O accomplished man: none shall touch it except the purified.
  • جد طلب آسیب او ای ذوفنون  ** لا یمس ذاک الا المطهرون 

  • One draught (is poured) on gold and rubies and pearls; one draught (is poured) on wine and dessert and fruits; 380
  • جرعه‌ای بر زر و بر لعل و درر  ** جرعه‌ای بر خمر و بر نقل و ثمر 

  • One draught on the faces of the charming fair: (consider, then,) how (marvellous) must be that pure wine!
  • جرعه‌ای بر روی خوبان لطاف  ** تا چگونه باشد آن راواق صاف 

  • Inasmuch as thou rubbest thy tongue (even) on this (earthly draught), how (enamoured of it) wilt thou be when thou seest (tastest) it without the clay!
  • چون همی مالی زبان را اندرین  ** چون شوی چون بینی آن را بی ز طین 

  • When at the hour of death that pure draught is separated from the bodily clod by dying,
  • چونک وقت مرگ آن جرعه‌ی صفا  ** زین کلوخ تن به مردن شد جدا 

  • Thou quickly buriest that which remains, since it had been made such an ugly thing by that (separation).
  • آنچ می‌ماند کنی دفنش تو زود  ** این چنین زشتی بدان چون گشته بود