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1840-1864

  • For years this prayer was frequently uttered by him, and at last his supplication took effect, 1840
  • سالها زو این دعا بسیار شد  ** عاقبت زاری او بر کار شد 

  • As (in the case of) the person who used to beg God to grant him a lawful livelihood without labour and fatigue,
  • هم‌چو آن شخصی که روزی حلال  ** از خدا می‌خواست بی‌کسب و کلال 

  • (Till) at length the cow brought him happiness: (’twas in) the epoch of David whose justice was divinely inspired.
  • گاو آوردش سعادت عاقبت  ** عهد داود لدنی معدلت 

  • This thrall of love, too, made piteous entreaties, and he likewise carried off the ball from the field of (favourable) response.
  • این متیم نیز زاریها نمود  ** هم ز میدان اجابت گو ربود 

  • (Yet) while praying he would at times become distrustful on account of the postponement of the recompense and reward;
  • گاه بدظن می‌شدی اندر دعا  ** از پی تاخیر پاداش و جزا 

  • (And then) again the gracious Lord's deferment (of his hopes) would bring a message of joy to his heart and become a surety (for their fulfilment). 1845
  • باز ارجاء خداوند کریم  ** در دلش بشار گشتی و زعیم 

  • Whenever in (the course of his) earnest supplication weariness caused him to despair, he would hear from the Presence of God (the call) “Come!”
  • چون شدی نومید در جهد از کلال  ** از جناب حق شنیدی که تعال 

  • This (Divine) Maker is He who abaseth and exalteth: without these two (attributes) no work is accomplished.
  • خافضست و رافعست این کردگار  ** بی ازین دو بر نیاید هیچ کار 

  • Consider the lowness of the earth and the loftiness of the sky: without these two (attributes) its (the sky's) revolution is not (possible), O such-and-such.
  • خفض ارضی بین و رفع آسمان  ** بی ازین دو نیست دورانش ای فلان 

  • The lowness and loftiness of this earth are of another sort: for one half of the year it is barren and for (the other) half (it is) green and fresh.
  • خفض و رفع این زمین نوعی دگر  ** نیم سالی شوره نیمی سبز و تر 

  • The lowness and loftiness of distressful Time are of another sort: one half day and (the other) half night. 1850
  • خفض و رفع روزگار با کرب  ** نوع دیگر نیم روز و نیم شب 

  • The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).
  • خفض و رفع این مزاج ممترج  ** گاه صحت گاه رنجوری مضج 

  • Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.
  • هم‌چنین دان جمله احوال جهان  ** قحط و جدب و صلح و جنگ از افتتان 

  • By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,
  • این جهان با این دو پر اندر هواست  ** زین دو جانها موطن خوف و رجاست 

  • To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,
  • تا جهان لرزان بود مانند برگ  ** در شمال و در سموم بعث و مرگ 

  • (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes; 1855
  • تا خم یک‌رنگی عیسی ما  ** بشکند نرخ خم صدرنگ را 

  • For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).
  • کان جهان هم‌چون نمکسار آمدست  ** هر چه آنجا رفت بی‌تلوین شدست 

  • Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.
  • خاک را بین خلق رنگارنگ را  ** می‌کند یک رنگ اندر گورها 

  • This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.
  • این نمکسار جسوم ظاهرست  ** خود نمکسار معانی دیگرست 

  • The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.
  • آن نمکسار معانی معنویست  ** از ازل آن تا ابد اندر نویست 

  • This (earthly) newness has oldness as its opposite, but that newness (belonging to the world of Reality) is without opposite or like or number. 1860
  • این نوی را کهنگی ضدش بود  ** آن نوی بی ضد و بی ند و عدد 

  • ’Tis (even) as by the polishing action of the Light of Mustafá (Mohammed) a hundred thousand sorts of darkness became radiant.
  • آنچنان که از صقل نور مصطفی  ** صد هزاران نوع ظلمت شد ضیا 

  • Jew and polytheist and Christian and Magian—all were made of one colour by that Alp Ulugh (great hero).
  • از جهود و مشرک و ترسا و مغ  ** جملگی یک‌رنگ شد زان الپ الغ 

  • A hundred thousand shadows short and long became one in the light of that Sun of mystery.
  • صد هزاران سایه کوتاه و دراز  ** شد یکی در نور آن خورشید راز 

  • Neither a long (shadow) remained nor a short nor a wide: shadows of every kind were given in pawn to (absorbed in) the Sun.
  • نه درازی ماند نه کوته نه پهن  ** گونه گونه سایه در خورشید رهن