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107-131

  • Since its pearl-scattering radiance is such (as has been mentioned), the sun of the present world may be described as its bat.
  • آنچنان که لمعه‌ی درپاش اوست  ** شمس دنیا در صفت خفاش اوست 

  • The seven blue (celestial) spheres are in servitude to it; the courier moon is fevered and wasted away by it.
  • هفت چرخ ازرقی در رق اوست  ** پیک ماه اندر تب و در دق اوست 

  • Venus lays her hand upon it to beseech (its favour); Jupiter comes forward to offer to it the ready money of his soul.
  • زهره چنگ مسله در وی زده  ** مشتری با نقد جان پیش آمده 

  • Saturn is eager to kiss its hand, but he does not regard himself as worthy of that honour. 110
  • در هوای دستبوس او زحل  ** لیک خود را می‌نبیند از محل 

  • On account of it, Mars has inflicted so many wounds on his hands and feet; and on account of it Mercury has broken a hundred pens.
  • دست و پا مریخ چندین خست ازو  ** وآن عطارد صد قلم بشکست ازو 

  • All these stars (planets) are at war with the astronomer, saying, “O thou who hast let the spirit go and hast preferred colour (vanity),
  • با منجم این همه انجم به جنگ  ** کای رها کرده تو جان بگزیده رنگ 

  • It is the spirit, and we all are (mere) colour and designs: the star (spark) of every thought in it is the soul of the (material) stars.”
  • جان ویست و ما همه رنگ و رقوم  ** کوکب هر فکر او جان نجوم 

  • Where is thought (in relation to it)? There all is pure light: this word “thought” is (used only) for thy sake, O thinker.
  • فکر کو آنجا همه نورست پاک  ** بهر تست این لفظ فکر ای فکرناک 

  • Every (material) star hath its house on high: our star is not contained in any house. 115
  • هر ستاره خانه دارد در علا  ** هیچ خانه در نگنجد نجم ما 

  • How should that which burns (transcends) place (spatial relations) enter into space? How should there be a limit for the illimitable light?
  • جای سوز اندر مکان کی در رود  ** نور نامحدود را حد کی بود 

  • But they (the mystics) use a comparison and illustration, in order that a loving feeble-minded man may apprehend (the truth).
  • لیک تمثیلی و تصویری کنند  ** تا که در یابد ضعیفی عشقمند 

  • ’Tis not a simile, but ’tis a parable for the purpose of releasing (melting) the frozen intellect.
  • مثل نبود لیک باشد آن مثال  ** تا کند عقل مجمد را گسیل 

  • The intellect is strong in the head but weak in the legs, because it is sick of heart (spiritually decayed) though sound of body (materially flourishing).
  • عقل سر تیزست لیکن پای سست  ** زانک دل ویران شدست و تن درست 

  • Their (the unspiritual men's) intellect is deeply involved in the dessert (pleasures) of this world: never, never do they think of abandoning sensuality. 120
  • عقلشان در نقل دنیا پیچ پیچ  ** فکرشان در ترک شهوت هیچ هیچ 

  • In the hour of pretension their breasts are (glowing) like the orient sun, (but) in the hour of pious devotion their endurance is (brief) as the lightning.
  • صدرشان در وقت دعوی هم‌چو شرق  ** صبرشان در وقت تقوی هم‌چو برق 

  • A learned man who shows self-conceit in (displaying) his talents is faithless as the world at the time for keeping faith.
  • عالمی اندر هنرها خودنما  ** هم‌چو عالم بی‌وفا وقت وفا 

  • At the time when he regards himself (with pride) he is not contained in the world: he has become lost in the gullet and belly, like bread.
  • وقت خودبینی نگنجد در جهان  ** در گلو و معده گم گشته چو نان 

  • (Yet) all these (evil) qualities of theirs may become good: evil does not remain when it turns to seeking good.
  • این همه اوصافشان نیکو شود  ** بد نماند چونک نیکوجو شود 

  • If egoism is foul-smelling like semen, (yet) when it attains unto the spirit (spirituality) it gains light. 125
  • گر منی گنده بود هم‌چون منی  ** چون به جان پیوست یابد روشنی 

  • Every mineral that sets its face towards (aspires to evolve into) the plant (the vegetative state)—life grows from the tree of its fortune.
  • هر جمادی که کند رو در نبات  ** از درخت بخت او روید حیات 

  • Every plant that turns its face towards the (animal) spirit drinks, like Khizr, from the Fountain of Life.
  • هر نباتی کان به جان رو آورد  ** خضروار از چشمه‌ی حیوان خورد 

  • Once more, when the (animal) spirit sets its face towards the (Divine) Beloved, it lays down its baggage (and passes) into the life without end.
  • باز جان چون رو سوی جانان نهد  ** رخت را در عمر بی‌پایان نهد 

  • How an inquirer asked (a preacher) about a bird that was supposed to have settled on the wall of a city—“Is its head more excellent and estimable and noble and honourable or its tail?”—and how the preacher gave him a reply suited to the measure of his understanding.
  • سال سایل از مرغی کی بر سر ربض شهری نشسته باشد سر او فاضل‌ترست و عزیزتر و شریف‌تر و مکرم‌تر یا دم او و جواب دادن واعظ سایل را به قدر فهم او 

  • One day an inquirer said to a preacher, “O thou who art the pulpit's most eminent expounder,
  • واعظی را گفت روزی سایلی  ** کای تو منبر را سنی‌تر قایلی 

  • I have a question to ask. Answer my question in this assembly-place, O possessor of the marrow (of wisdom). 130
  • یک سالستم بگو ای ذو لباب  ** اندرین مجلس سالم را جواب 

  • A bird has settled on the city-wall: which is better—its head or its tail?”
  • بر سر بارو یکی مرغی نشست  ** از سر و از دم کدامینش بهست