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4114-4138

  • Thou art speaking of separation and banishment: do what I thou wilt but do not this.
  • از فراق و هجر می‌گویی سخن  ** هر چه خواهی کن ولیکن این مکن 

  • A hundred thousand bitter sixtyfold deaths are not like (comparable) to separation from thy face. 4115
  • صد هزاران مرگ تلخ شصت تو  ** نیست مانند فراق روی تو 

  • Keep the bitterness of banishment aloof from males and females, O thou whose help is besought by sinners!
  • تلخی هجر از ذکور و از اناث  ** دور دار ای مجرمان را مستغاث 

  • ‘Tis sweet to die in hope of union with thee; the bitterness of banishment from thee is worse than fire.”
  • بر امید وصل تو مردن خوشست  ** تلخی هجر تو فوق آتشست 

  • Amidst Hell-fire the infidel is saying, “What pain should I feel if He (God) were to look on me (with favour)?”
  • گبر می‌گوید میان آن سقر  ** چه غمم بودی گرم کردی نظر 

  • For that look makes (all) pains sweet: it is the blood-price (paid) to the magicians (of Pharaoh) for (the amputation of) their hands and feet.
  • کان نظر شیرین کننده‌ی رنجهاست  ** ساحران را خونبهای دست و پاست 

  • Commentary on the Saying of Pharaoh's magicians in the hour of their punishment, “’Tis no harm, for lo, we shall return unto our Lord.”
  • تفسیر گفتن ساحران فرعون را در وقت سیاست با او کی لا ضیر انا الی ربنا منقلبون 

  • Heaven heard the cry, “’Tis no harm”: the celestial sphere became a ball for that bat. 4120
  • نعره‌ی لا ضیر بشنید آسمان  ** چرخ گویی شد پی آن صولجان 

  • (The magicians said), “The punishment inflicted by Pharaoh is no harm to us: the grace of God prevails over the violence of (all) others.
  • ضربت فرعون ما را نیست ضیر  ** لطف حق غالب بود بر قهر غیر 

  • If thou shouldst (come to) know our secret, O misleader, (thou wouldst see that) thou art delivering us from pain, O man whose heart is blind.
  • گر بدانی سر ما را ای مضل  ** می‌رهانیمان ز رنج ای کوردل 

  • Hark, come and from this quarter behold this organ pealing ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’
  • هین بیا زین سو ببین کین ارغنون  ** می‌زند یا لیت قومی یعلمون 

  • God's bounty hath bestowed on us a Pharaohship, (but) not a perishable one like thy Pharaohship and kingdom.
  • داد ما را داد حق فرعونیی  ** نه چو فرعونیت و ملکت فانیی 

  • Lift up thy head and behold the living and majestic kingdom, O thou who hast been deluded by Egypt and the river Nile. 4125
  • سر بر آر و ملک بین زنده و جلیل  ** ای شده غره به مصر و رود نیل 

  • If thou wilt take leave of this filthy tattered cloak, thou wilt drown the (bodily) Nile in the Nile of the spirit.
  • گر تو ترک این نجس خرقه کنی  ** نیل را در نیل جان غرقه کنی 

  • Hark, O Pharaoh, hold thy hand from (renounce) Egypt: there are a hundred Egypts within the Egypt of the Spirit.
  • هین بدار از مصر ای فرعون دست  ** در میان مصر جان صد مصر هست 

  • Thou sayest to the vulgar, ‘I am a Lord,’ being unaware of the essential natures of both these names.
  • تو انا رب همی‌گویی به عام  ** غافل از ماهیت این هر دو نام 

  • How should a Lord be trembling (with hope or fear) for that which is lorded over? How should one who knows ‘I’ be in bondage to body and soul?
  • رب بر مربوب کی لرزان بود  ** کی انادان بند جسم و جان بود 

  • Lo, we are (the real) ‘I,’ having been freed from (the unreal) ‘I,’ from the ‘I’ that is full of tribulation and trouble. 4130
  • نک انا ماییم رسته از انا  ** از انای پر بلای پر عنا 

  • To thee, O cur, that ‘I’-hood was baleful, (but) in regard to us it was irreversibly ordained felicity.
  • آن انایی بر تو ای سگ شوم بود  ** در حق ما دولت محتوم بود 

  • Unless thou hadst had this vindictive ‘I’-hood, how should such fortune have bidden us welcome?
  • گر نبودیت این انایی کینه‌کش  ** کی زدی بر ما چنین اقبال خوش 

  • In thanksgiving for our deliverance from the perishable abode we are (now) admonishing thee on this gallows.
  • شکر آنک از دار فانی می‌رهیم  ** بر سر این دار پندت می‌دهیم 

  • The gallows (dár) on which we are killed is the Buráq on which we ride (to Heaven); the abode (dár) possessed by thee is delusion and heedlessness.
  • دار قتل ما براق رحلتست  ** دار ملک تو غرور و غفلتست 

  • This (gallows) is a life concealed in the form of death, while that (abode) is a death concealed in the husk of life. 4135
  • این حیاتی خفیه در نقش ممات  ** وان مماتی خفیه در قشر حیات 

  • (Here) light seems as fire, and fire as light: else, how should this world have been the abode of delusion?”
  • می‌نماید نور نار و نار نور  ** ورنه دنیا کی بدی دارالغرور 

  • Beware, do not make (too much) haste: first become naught, and when you sink (into non-existence) rise from the radiant East!
  • هین مکن تعجیل اول نیست شو  ** چون غروب آری بر آ از شرق ضو 

  • The heart was dumbfounded by the eternal “I”-hood: this (unreal) “I”-hood became insipid and opprobrious (in its sight).
  • از انایی ازل دل دنگ شد  ** این انایی سرد گشت و ننگ شد