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780-804

  • O Thou who hast transmuted one clod of earth into gold, and another clod into the Father of mankind, 780
  • ای مبدل کرده خاکی را به زر  ** خاک دیگر را بکرده بوالبشر 

  • Thy work is the transmutation of essences and (the showing of) munificence; my work is mistake and forgetfulness and error.
  • کار تو تبدیل اعیان و عطا  ** کار من سهوست و نسیان و خطا 

  • Transmute mistake and forgetfulness into knowledge: I am all choler, make me patience and forbearance.
  • سهو و نسیان را مبدل کن به علم  ** من همه خلمم مرا کن صبر و حلم 

  • O Thou who makest nitrous earth to be bread, and O Thou who makest dead bread to be life,
  • ای که خاک شوره را تو نان کنی  ** وی که نان مرده را تو جان کنی 

  • O Thou who makest the distracted soul to be a Guide, and O Thou who makest the wayless wanderer to be a Prophet,
  • ای که جان خیره را رهبر کنی  ** وی که بی‌ره را تو پیغمبر کنی 

  • Thou makest a piece of earth to be heaven, Thou givest increase in the earth from the stars. 785
  • می‌کنی جزو زمین را آسمان  ** می‌فزایی در زمین از اختران 

  • Whosoever makes the Water of Life to consist of (the pleasures of) this world, death comes to him sooner than to the others.
  • هر که سازد زین جهان آب حیات  ** زوترش از دیگران آید ممات 

  • The eye of the heart (the inward eye) that contemplated the (spiritual) firmament perceived that here (in the sensible world) is a continual alchemy.
  • دیده‌ی دل کو به گردون بنگریست  ** دید که اینجا هر دمی میناگریست 

  • The harmonious cohesion of the patched garment, (which is) the body, without being stitched (together), is (owing to) the transmutation of essences and (to) an all-embracing elixir.
  • قلب اعیانست و اکسیری محیط  ** ایتلاف خرقه‌ی تن بی‌مخیط 

  • From the day when thou camest into existence, thou wert fire or air or earth.
  • تو از آن روزی که در هست آمدی  ** آتشی یا بادی یا خاکی بدی 

  • If thou hadst remained in that condition, how should this (present) height have been reached by thee? 790
  • گر بر آن حالت ترا بودی بقا  ** کی رسیدی مر ترا این ارتقا 

  • The Transmuter did not leave thee in thy first (state of) existence: He established a better (state of) existence in the place of that (former one);
  • از مبدل هستی اول نماند  ** هستی بهتر به جای آن نشاند 

  • And so on till (He gave thee) a hundred thousand states of existence, one after the other, the second (always) better than the beginning.
  • هم‌چنین تا صد هزاران هستها  ** بعد یکدیگر دوم به ز ابتدا 

  • Regard (all change as derived) from the Transmuter, leave (ignore) the intermediaries, for by (regarding) the intermediaries thou wilt be come far from their Origin.
  • از مبدل بین وسایط را بمان  ** کز وسایط دور گردی ز اصل آن 

  • Wherever the intermediaries increase, union (with the Origin) is removed: (in proportion as) the intermediaries are less, the delight of (attaining to) union is greater.
  • واسطه هر جا فزون شد وصل جست  ** واسطه کم ذوق وصل افزونترست 

  • By knowing the intermediaries thy bewilderment (in God) is diminished: thy bewilderment gives thee admission to the (Divine) Presence. 795
  • از سبب‌دانی شود کم حیرتت  ** حیرت تو ره دهد در حضرتت 

  • Thou hast gained these (successive) lives from (successive) deaths: why hast thou averted thy face from dying in Him?
  • این بقاها از فناها یافتی  ** از فنااش رو چرا برتافتی 

  • What loss was thine (what loss didst thou suffer) from those deaths, that thou hast clung (so tenaciously) to (this earthly) life, O rat?
  • زان فناها چه زیان بودت که تا  ** بر بقا چفسیده‌ای ای نافقا 

  • Since thy second (life) is better than thy first, therefore seek to die (to the world), and worship the Transmuter.
  • چون دوم از اولینت بهترست  ** پس فنا جو و مبدل را پرست 

  • O contumacious man, thou hast experienced a hundred thousand resurrections at every moment from the beginning of thy existence until now:
  • صد هزاران حشر دیدی ای عنود  ** تاکنون هر لحظه از بدو وجود 

  • From inanimateness (thou didst move) unconsciously towards (vegetal) growth, and from (vegetal) growth towards (animal) life and tribulation; 800
  • از جماد بی‌خبر سوی نما  ** وز نما سوی حیات و ابتلا 

  • Again, towards reason and goodly discernments; again, towards (what lies) outside of these five (senses) and six (directions).
  • باز سوی عقل و تمییزات خوش  ** باز سوی خارج این پنج و شش 

  • These footprints are (extend) as far as the shore of the Ocean; then the footprints disappear in the Ocean;
  • تا لب بحر این نشان پایهاست  ** پس نشان پا درون بحر لاست 

  • Because, from (Divine) precaution, the resting-places (appointed for the traveller) on the dry land are (like) villages and dwellings and caravanserays,
  • زانک منزلهای خشکی ز احتیاط  ** هست دهها و وطنها و رباط 

  • (While) on the contrary the resting-places of the Ocean, when its billows swell, have no floor or roof (to shelter the traveller) during (his) stay and detention.
  • باز منزلهای دریا در وقوف  ** وقت موج و حبس بی‌عرصه و سقوف