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  • He (God) hath said ‘Spend’: therefore earn something, since there can be no expenditure without an old (previously acquired) income.
  • انفقوا گفتست پس کسپی بکن  ** زانک نبود خرج بی‌دخل کهن 

  • Although He used (the word) Spend absolutely, (yet) read (it as meaning) ‘Earn, then spend.’ 580
  • گر چه آورد انفقوا را مطلق او  ** تو بخوان که اکسبوا ثم انفقوا 

  • Similarly, since the King (God) has given the command ‘Refrain yourselves,’ there must be some desire from which thou shouldst avert thy face.
  • هم‌چنان چون شاه فرمود اصبروا  ** رغبتی باید کزان تابی تو رو 

  • Hence (the command) ‘Eat ye’ is for the sake of the snare (temptation) of appetite; after that (comes) ‘Do not exceed’: that is temperance.
  • پس کلوا از بهر دام شهوتست  ** بعد از آن لاتسرفوا آن عفتست 

  • When there is no ‘predicate’ (relative quality) in him (any one), the existence of the ‘subject’ (the correlative term) is impossible.
  • چونک محمول به نبود لدیه  ** نیست ممکن بود محمول علیه 

  • When thou hast not the pain of self-restraint, there is no protasis: therefore the apodosis (recompense) does not follow.
  • چونک رنج صبر نبود مر ترا  ** شرط نبود پس فرو ناید جزا 

  • How admirable is that protasis and how joyful is that apodosis (recompense), a recompense that charms the heart and increases the life of the spirit! 585
  • حبذا آن شرط و شادا آن جزا  ** آن جزای دل‌نواز جان‌فزا 

  • Explaining that God (Himself) is the reward bestowed by Him for the (devotional) work of the lover.
  • در بیان آنک ثواب عمل عاشق از حق هم حق است 

  • For (His) lovers He (alone) is (all their) joy and sorrow; He (alone) is their wages and hire for service.
  • عاشقان را شادمانی و غم اوست  ** دست‌مزد و اجرت خدمت هم اوست 

  • If there be any spectacle (object of regard for them) except the Beloved, ’tis not love: ’tis an idle passion.
  • غیر معشوق ار تماشایی بود  ** عشق نبود هرزه سودایی بود 

  • Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved.
  • عشق آن شعله‌ست کو چون بر فروخت  ** هرچه جز معشوق باقی جمله سوخت 

  • He (the lover) drives home the sword of Not in order to kill all other than God: thereupon consider what remains after Not.
  • تیغ لا در قتل غیر حق براند  ** در نگر زان پس که بعد لا چه ماند 

  • There remains except God: all the rest is gone. Hail, O mighty Love, destroyer of polytheism! 590
  • ماند الا الله باقی جمله رفت  ** شاد باش ای عشق شرکت‌سوز زفت 

  • Verily, He is the First and the Last: do not regard polytheism as arising from aught except the eye that sees double.
  • خود همو بود آخرین و اولین  ** شرک جز از دیده‌ی احول مبین 

  • Oh, wonderful! Is there any beauty but from the reflexion of Him? The (human) body hath no movement but from the spirit.
  • ای عجب حسنی بود جز عکس آن  ** نیست تن را جنبشی از غیر جان 

  • The body that hath defect in its spirit will never become sweet, (even) if you smear it with honey.
  • آن تنی را که بود در جان خلل  ** خوش نگردد گر بگیری در عسل 

  • This he knows who one day was (spiritually) alive and received a cup from this Soul of the soul;
  • این کسی داند که روزی زنده بود  ** از کف این جان جان جامی ربود 

  • While to him whose eye has not beheld those (beauteous) cheeks this smoky heat is (appears to be) the spirit. 595
  • وانک چشم او ندیدست آن رخان  ** پیش او جانست این تف دخان 

  • Inasmuch as he never saw ‘Umar (ibn) ‘Abdu ’l-‘Azíz, to him even Hajjáj seems just.
  • چون ندید او عمر عبدالعزیز  ** پیش او عادل بود حجاج نیز 

  • Inasmuch as he never saw the firmness (unshakable strength) of the dragon of Moses, he fancies (there is) life in the magic cords.
  • چون ندید او مار موسی را ثبات  ** در حبال سحر پندارد حیات 

  • The bird that has never drunk the limpid water keeps its wings and feathers in the briny water.
  • مرغ کو ناخورده است آب زلال  ** اندر آب شور دارد پر و بال 

  • No opposite can be known except through its opposite: (only) when he (any one) suffers blows will he know (the value of) kindness.
  • جز به ضد ضد را همی نتوان شناخت  ** چون ببیند زخم بشناسد نواخت 

  • Consequently the present life has come in front (first), in order that you may appreciate the realm of Alast. 600
  • لاجرم دنیا مقدم آمدست  ** تا بدانی قدر اقلیم الست 

  • When you are delivered from this place and go to that place, you will give thanks (to God) in the sugar-shop of everlastingness.
  • چون ازینجا وا رهی آنجا روی  ** در شکرخانه‌ی ابد شاکر شوی 

  • You will say, ‘There (in the world below) I was sifting dust, I was fleeing from this pure world.
  • گویی آنجا خاک را می‌بیختم  ** زین جهان پاک می‌بگریختم 

  • Alas, would that I had died ere now, so that my (time of) being tormented in the mud might have been less!’
  • ای دریغا پیش ازین بودیم اجل  ** تا عذابم کم بدی اندر وجل 

  • Commentary on the saying of the Prophet, on whom be peace, “None ever died without wishing, if he was a righteous man, that he had died before he (actually) died, in order that he might sooner attain unto felicity; and if he was a wicked man, in order that his wickedness might be less.”
  • در تفسیر قول رسول علیه‌السلام ما مات من مات الا و تمنی ان یموت قبل ما مات ان کان برا لیکون الی وصول البر اعجل و ان کان فاجرا لیقل فجوره