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690-714

  • The cloud is our mortal enemy and adversary because it hides the Moon from our eyes. 690
  • ابر ما را شد عدو و خصم جان  ** که کند مه را ز چشم ما نهان 

  • This veil makes the houri (to appear as) a hag: it makes the full-moon less than a new moon.
  • حور را این پرده زالی می‌کند  ** بدر را کم از هلالی می‌کند 

  • The Moon hath seated us in the lap of glory: He hath called our foe His enemy.
  • ماه ما را در کنار عز نشاند  ** دشمن ما را عدوی خویش خواند 

  • The splendour and beauty of the cloud is (derived) from the Moon, (but) whoever calls the cloud the Moon is much astray.
  • تاب ابر و آب او خود زین مهست  ** هر که مه خواند ابر را بس گمرهست 

  • Since the light of the Moon has been poured down upon the cloud, its (the cloud's) dark face has been transfigured by the Moon.
  • نور مه بر ابر چون منزل شدست  ** روی تاریکش ز مه مبدل شدست 

  • Although it is of the same colour as the Moon and is associated with (the Moon's) empire, (yet) in the cloud the light of the Moon is (only) borrowed (impermanent). 695
  • گرچه همرنگ مهست و دولتیست  ** اندر ابر آن نور مه عاریتیست 

  • At the Resurrection the sun and moon are discharged (from their office): the eye is occupied in (contemplating) the Source of (their) radiance,
  • در قیامت شمس و مه معزول شد  ** چشم در اصل ضیا مشغول شد 

  • In order that it may know (distinguish) the (permanent) possession from the (temporary) loan, and this perishable caravanseray from the everlasting abode.
  • تا بداند ملک را از مستعار  ** وین رباط فانی از دارالقرار 

  • The nurse is borrowed for three or four days: do thou, O Mother, take us into thy bosom!
  • دایه عاریه بود روزی سه چار  ** مادرا ما را تو گیر اندر کنار 

  • My feathers are (like) the cloud and are a veil and gross: (only) by the reflexion of God's loveliness are they made lovely.
  • پر من ابرست و پرده‌ست و کثیف  ** ز انعکاس لطف حق شد او لطیف 

  • I will pluck my feathers and their beauty from the Way (to God), that I may behold the Moon's beauty (by immediate illumination) from the Moon. 700
  • بر کنم پر را و حسنش را ز راه  ** تا ببینم حسن مه را هم ز ماه 

  • I do not want the nurse; (my) Mother is fairer. I am (like) Moses: (my) Mother (herself) is my nurse.
  • من نخواهم دایه مادر خوشترست  ** موسی‌ام من دایه‌ی من مادرست 

  • I do not want (to enjoy) the loveliness of the Moon through an intermediary, for this link is perdition to the people;
  • من نخواهم لطف مه از واسطه  ** که هلاک قوم شد این رابطه 

  • Unless (the intermediary be) a cloud (that) becomes naughted in the Way (to God) in order that it may not be a veil to the face of the Moon.
  • یا مگر ابری شود فانی راه  ** تا نگردد او حجاب روی ماه 

  • In the aspect of lá (self-negation) it (such a cloud) displays His (the Moon's) form, like the bodies of the prophets and saints.
  • صورتش بنماید او در وصف لا  ** هم‌چو جسم انبیا و اولیا 

  • Such a cloud is not veil-tying; it is in reality veil-tearing (and) salutary. 705
  • آنچنان ابری نباشد پرده‌بند  ** پرده‌در باشد به معنی سودمند 

  • ’Tis as when, on a bright morning, drops of rain were falling though there was no cloud above (in the sky).
  • آن‌چنان که اندر صباح روشنی  ** قطره می‌بارید و بالا ابر نی 

  • That water-skin was a miracle of the Prophet: from self-effacement the cloud (which replenished it) had become of the same colour as the sky.
  • معجزه‌ی پیغامبری بود آن سقا  ** گشته ابر از محو هم‌رنگ سما 

  • The cloud was (there), but the cloud-nature had gone from it: the body of the lover (of God) becomes like this by means of renunciation.
  • بود ابر و رفته از وی خوی ابر  ** این چنین گردد تن عاشق به صبر 

  • It is body, but corporeality has vanished from it: it has been transfigured, colour and perfume have gone from it.
  • تن بود اما تنی گم گشته زو  ** گشته مبدل رفته از وی رنگ و بو 

  • (My) feathers are for the sake of others, while (my) head is for my own sake: (the head which is) the abode of hearing and sight is the pillar (support) of the body. 710
  • پر پی غیرست و سر از بهر من  ** خانه‌ی سمع و بصر استون تن 

  • Know that to sacrifice the spirit for the sake of catching others is absolute infidelity and despair of good.
  • جان فدا کردن برای صید غیر  ** کفر مطلق دان و نومیدی ز خیر 

  • Beware! Do not be like sugar before parrots; nay, be a poison, be secure from loss;
  • هین مشو چون قند پیش طوطیان  ** بلک زهری شو شو آمن از زیان 

  • Or (otherwise), for the sake of having a ‘Bravo’ addressed to thee, make thyself (as) a carcase in the presence of dogs!
  • یا برای شادباشی در خطاب  ** خویش چون مردار کن پی کلاب 

  • Therefore Khadir scuttled the boat for this purpose, (namely), that the boat might be delivered from him who would have seized it by force.
  • پس خضر کشتی برای این شکست  ** تا که آن کشتی ز غاصب باز رست