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2260-2284

  • At even moment he is bowing down (in worship) to himself: the bowing is (performed) in front of the mirror for the sake of (beholding) the face. 2260
  • سجده خود را می‌کند هر لحظه او  ** سجده پیش آینه‌ست از بهر رو 

  • If he saw in the mirror a single mite without any phantasy, nothing would be left of him.
  • گر بدیدی ز آینه او یک پشیز  ** بی‌خیالی زو نماندی هیچ چیز 

  • Both his phantasies and he (himself) would vanish: his knowledge would be obliterated in nescience.
  • هم خیالاتش هم او فانی شدی  ** دانش او محو نادانی شدی 

  • From our nescience another knowledge would rise into clear view, saying, “Lo, I am (God.”
  • دانشی دیگر ز نادانی ما  ** سر برآوردی عیان که انی انا 

  • The (Divine) call was coming (to the angels)—”Bow down to Adam, for ye are (essentially) Adam, and for a moment see yourselves to be (identical with) him.”
  • اسجدوا لادم ندا آمد همی  ** که آدمید و خویش بینیدش دمی 

  • He (God) removed strabism from their eyes, so that the earth became identical with the azure heavens. 2265
  • احولی از چشم ایشان دور کرد  ** تا زمین شد عین چرخ لاژورد 

  • He said, “There is no god,” and He said, “except God”: not (any god) became except God, and Unity blossomed forth (was revealed).
  • لا اله گفت و الا الله گفت  ** گشت لا الا الله و وحدت شکفت 

  • The time has come for that righteous beloved and dear friend (of God) to pull my ear (and lead me)
  • آن حبیب و آن خلیل با رشد  ** وقت آن آمد که گوش ما کشد 

  • Towards the fountain (of Unity), saying, “Wash thy mouth clean of these things: do not tell that which we have concealed from the people.
  • سوی چشمه که دهان زینها بشو  ** آنچ پوشیدیم از خلقان مگو 

  • And if thou tell (it), it will not become manifest, (yet) thou wilt be guilty of attempting to reveal it.
  • ور بگویی خود نگردد آشکار  ** تو به قصد کشف گردی جرم‌دار 

  • But, mark, I am compassing them about: I am at once the speaker and the hearer of this (mystery). 2270
  • لیک من اینک بریشان می‌تنم  ** قایل این سامع این هم منم 

  • Tell (only) of the (outward) form of the dervish and the picture (external description) of the treasure. These folk are addicted to (worldly) trouble: tell (them) of trouble.
  • صورت درویش و نقش گنج گو  ** رنج کیش‌اند این گروه از رنج گو 

  • The fountain of Mercy has become unlawful to them: they are drinking cup after cup of deadly poison.
  • چشمه‌ی راحت بریشان شد حرام  ** می‌خورند از زهر قاتل جام‌جام 

  • Having filled their skirts with clods, they are taking them along in order to make a dam for these fountains.
  • خاکها پر کرده دامن می‌کشند  ** تا کنند این چشمه‌ها را خشک‌بند 

  • How should this fountain, which is replenished by the Sea, be stopped up by this good or bad folk’s handful of earth?
  • کی شود این چشمه‌ی دریامدد  ** مکتنس زین مشت خاک نیک و بد 

  • But it (the fountain) says, ‘With you, I am closed; Without you, I continue (to flow) unto everlasting.’ ” 2275
  • لیک گوید با شما من بسته‌ام  ** بی‌شما من تا ابد پیوسته‌ام 

  • The (worldly) folk are perverted in their appetites: (they are) eating earth and have left the water (untasted).
  • قوم معکوس‌اند اندر مشتها  ** خاک‌خوار و آب را کرده رها 

  • The people (of the world) have a nature opposite to that of the prophets: the people deem the dragon (the world) an object of reliance.
  • ضد طبع انبیا دارند خلق  ** اژدها را متکا دارند خلق 

  • Inasmuch as you have known (from the Qur’an) the eye-bandage whereby God steals (the sight) do you know at all to what you have shut your eyes?
  • چشم‌بند ختم چون دانسته‌ای  ** هیچ دانی از چه دیده بسته‌ای 

  • To what instead have you opened these eyes (of yours)? (Whatever it be), know that in every respect it is a bad exchange for you.
  • بر چه بگشادی بدل این دیده‌ها  ** یک به یک بس البدل دان آن ترا 

  • But (nevertheless) the sun of (Divine) favour has shone (forth) and has graciously succoured them that despair. 2280
  • لیک خورشید عنایت تافته‌ست  ** آیسان را از کرم در یافته‌ست 

  • He (God) in His mercy has played a very marvellous game of backgammon: He has made the essence of ingratitude to be a turning in repentance (towards Him).
  • نرد بس نادر ز رحمت باخته  ** عین کفران را انابت ساخته 

  • Even from this ill-fatedness (unrighteousness) of the people (of the world) that Bounteous One has caused two hundred fountains of love to burst.
  • هم ازین بدبختی خلق آن جواد  ** منفجر کرده دو صد چشمه‌ی وداد 

  • He gives to the rose-bud a source (of growth) in the thorn; He gives to the snake-stone, (though obtained) from the snake, an ornamental quality.
  • غنچه را از خار سرمایه دهد  ** مهره را از مار پیرایه دهد 

  • He brings forth day from the blackness of night and makes ease (opulence) to grow (flow) from the hand of him who suffers hardship (penury).
  • از سواد شب برون آرد نهار  ** وز کف معسر برویاند یسار