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1299-1323

  • Since you are far from (knowing) the Essence of God, you may recognise the description of the Essence in the Prophet and (his) evidentiary miracles.
  • چون ز ذات حق بعیدی وصف ذات  ** باز دانی از رسول و معجزات 

  • Certain secret miracles and graces (proceeding) from the elect (Súfí) Elders impress the heart (of the disciple); 1300
  • معجزاتی و کراماتی خفی  ** بر زند بر دل ز پیران صفی 

  • For within them (those Elders) there are a hundred immediate (spiritual) resurrections, (of which) the least is this, that their neighbour becomes intoxicated;
  • که درونشان صد قیامت نقد هست  ** کمترین آنک شود همسایه مست 

  • Hence that fortunate (disciple) who has devoted himself to a blessed (saint) has become the companion of God.
  • پس جلیس الله گشت آن نیک‌بخت  ** کو به پهلوی سعیدی برد رخت 

  • The evidentiary miracle that produced an effect upon something inanimate (is) either (like) the rod (of Moses) or (the passage of) the sea (by the Israelites) or the splitting of the moon.
  • معجزه کان بر جمادی زد اثر  ** یا عصا با بحر یا شق‌القمر 

  • If it (the evidentiary miracle) produces an immediate effect upon the soul, (the reason is that) it (the soul) is brought into connexion (with the producer of the effect) by means of a hidden link.
  • گر ترا بر جان زند بی‌واسطه  ** متصل گردد به پنهان رابطه 

  • The effects produced upon inanimate objects are (only) accessory: they are (really) for the sake of the fair invisible spirit, 1305
  • بر جمادات آن اثرها عاریه‌ست  ** از پی روح خوش متواریه‌ست 

  • In order that the inmost heart may be affected by means of that inanimate object. (But) how (much more) excellent is bread (produced) without the substance (of bread), (namely), dough!
  • تا از آن جامد اثر گیرد ضمیر  ** حبذا نان بی‌هیولای خمیر 

  • How excellent is the Messiah's table of food without stint! How excellent is Mary's fruit (that was produced) without an orchard!
  • حبذا خوان مسیحی بی‌کمی  ** حبذا بی‌باغ میوه‌ی مریمی 

  • Miracles (proceeding) from the spirit of the perfect (saint) affect the soul of the seeker as life (bestowed on the dead).
  • بر زند از جان کامل معجزات  ** بر ضمیر جان طالب چون حیات 

  • The miracle is (like) the sea, and the deficient (heedless) man is (like) the land-bird (which perishes in the sea); (but) the water-bird is safe from destruction there.
  • معجزه بحرست و ناقص مرغ خاک  ** مرغ آبی در وی آمن از هلاک 

  • It (the miracle) bestows infirmity on any one that is uninitiated, but it bestows power on the spirit of an intimate. 1310
  • عجزبخش جان هر نامحرمی  ** لیک قدرت‌بخش جان هم‌دمی 

  • Since you do not feel this bliss in your inmost heart, then continually seek the clue to it from outside,
  • چون نیابی این سعادت در ضمیر  ** پس ز ظاهر هر دم استدلال گیر 

  • For effects are apparent to the senses, and these effects give information concerning their producer.
  • که اثرها بر مشاعر ظاهرست  ** وین اثرها از مثر مخبرست 

  • The virtue of every drug is hidden like magic and the art of any sorcerer;
  • هست پنهان معنی هر داروی  ** هم‌چو سحر و صنعت هر جادوی 

  • (But) when you regard its action and effects, you bring it to light (even) though it is hidden.
  • چون نظر در فعل و آثارش کنی  ** گرچه پنهانست اظهارش کنی 

  • The potency that is concealed within it is clearly seen and made manifest when it comes into action. 1315
  • قوتی کان اندرونش مضمرست  ** چون به فعل آید عیان و مظهرست 

  • Since all these things are revealed to you by means of effects, how is not God revealed to you by the production of effects?
  • چون به آثار این همه پیدا شدت  ** چون نشد پیدا ز تاثیر ایزدت 

  • Causes and effects, (both) kernel and husk—are not the whole (of them), when you investigate, effects produced by Him?
  • نه سببها و اثرها مغز و پوست  ** چون بجویی جملگی آثار اوست 

  • You make friends with things because of the effect (which they produce): why, then, are you ignorant of Him who produces (all) effects?
  • دوست گیری چیزها را از اثر  ** پس چرا ز آثاربخشی بی‌خبر 

  • You make friends with people on the ground of a phantasy: why do not you make friends with the King of west and east?
  • از خیالی دوست گیری خلق را  ** چون نگیری شاه غرب و شرق را 

  • This topic hath no end. O (spiritual) emperor, may there be no end to our desire for this (mystic knowledge)! 1320
  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای قباد  ** حرص ما را اندرین پایان مباد 

  • Returning to the Story of the sick man.
  • رجوع به قصه‌ی رنجور 

  • Return (from the digression) and tell the story of the sick man and the wise physician whose nature was to palliate.
  • باز گرد و قصه‌ی رنجور گو  ** با طبیب آگه ستارخو 

  • He felt his pulse and ascertained his state (of health): (he saw) that it was absurd to hope for his recovery.
  • نبض او بگرفت و واقف شد ز حال  ** که امید صحت او بد محال 

  • He said, “Do whatever your heart desires, in order that this old malady may quit your body.
  • گفت هر چت دل بخواهد آن بکن  ** تا رود از جسمت این رنج کهن