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2759-2783

  • ’Tis no wonder that a blind man should fall into a pit, (but) the falling of one who can see the way is beyond all wonder.
  • این عجب نبود که کور افتد به چاه  ** بوالعجب افتادن بینای راه 

  • This Destiny employs diverse shifts: its eye-binding spell is God doeth what He pleaseth. 2760
  • این قضا را گونه گون تصریفهاست  ** چشم‌بندش یفعل‌الله ما یشاست 

  • The heart knows and yet knows not its (Destiny's) artfulness: its (hard) iron becomes (soft) as wax for the seal.
  • هم بداند هم نداند دل فنش  ** موم گردد بهر آن مهر آهنش 

  • ’Tis as though the heart should say (to itself), “Since its (Destiny's) inclination is turned to (bringing) this (to pass), whatever may happen, let it come!”
  • گوییی دل گویدی که میل او  ** چون درین شد هرچه افتد باش گو 

  • Accordingly it makes itself heedless of this (happening) and binds its soul fast in the shackle thereof.
  • خویش را زین هم مغفل می‌کند  ** در عقالش جان معقل می‌کند 

  • If that exalted one (the prophet or saint) is checkmated (worsted) in this (matter), ’tis not (really) checkmate, ’tis tribulation.
  • گر شود مات اندرین آن بوالعلا  ** آن نباشد مات باشد ابتلا 

  • A single tribulation redeems him from a hundred tribulations, a single fall takes him (high) up on the ladders (of spiritual ascent). 2765
  • یک بلا از صد بلااش وا خرد  ** یک هبوطش بر معارجها برد 

  • The half-baked saucy fellow, whom the wine (of Love) has relieved from the surfeit of intoxication with a hundred thousand wicked half-baked (persons like himself),
  • خام شوخی که رهانیدش مدام  ** از خمار صد هزاران زشت خام 

  • Finally becomes mature and adept: he escapes from enslavement to this world and is made free.
  • عاقبت او پخته و استاد شد  ** جست از رق جهان و آزاد شد 

  • He is made drunken with the everlasting wine, he becomes (spiritually) discerning, and is delivered from created beings,
  • از شراب لایزالی گشت مست  ** شد ممیز از خلایق باز رست 

  • From their weak conventional faith and from the illusions of their unseeing eyes.
  • ز اعتقاد سست پر تقلیدشان  ** وز خیال دیده‌ی بی‌دیدشان 

  • Oh, what device can their mental perception employ, I wonder, against the ebb and flow of the trackless Sea? 2770
  • ای عجب چه فن زند ادراکشان  ** پیش جزر و مد بحر بی‌نشان 

  • From that Desert came (all) these signs of cultivation and prosperity; (thence) came (all) empires and kingships and vizierates.
  • زان بیابان این عمارت‌ها رسید  ** ملک و شاهی و وزارتها رسید 

  • Yearning with desire they (phenomenal ideas) come in troops from the Desert of Non-existence into the visible (material) world.
  • زان بیابان عدم مشتاق شوق  ** می‌رسند اندر شهادت جوق جوق 

  • Caravan on caravan, they arrive from this Desert every evening and morning.
  • کاروان بر کاروان زین بادیه  ** می‌رسد در هر مسا و غادیه 

  • They come and seize our houses in distraint, (each one) saying, “I have arrived, ’tis my turn, do thou begone!”
  • آید و گیرد وثاق ما گرو  ** که رسیدم نوبت ما شد تو رو 

  • When the son has opened the eye of reason (attained to years of discretion), the father at once puts his (own) baggage in the cart. 2775
  • چون پسر چشم خرد را بر گشاد  ** زود بابا رخت بر گردون نهاد 

  • ’Tis (like) the King's highway—(travellers) departing and arriving, one going in this direction, another in that direction.
  • جاده‌ی شاهست آن زین سو روان  ** وآن از آن سو صادران و واردان 

  • Consider well! We, (though apparently) sitting still, are (really) marching: don't you see that we are bound for a new place (of abode)?
  • نیک بنگر ما نشسته می‌رویم  ** می‌نبینی قاصد جای نویم 

  • You do not get (and spend) your capital for any present need; nay, but (you keep it) for your ultimate purposes.
  • بهر حالی می‌نگیری راس مال  ** بلک از بهر غرض‌ها در مل 

  • The traveller, then, O devotee of the Way, is he whose march and face are towards the future,
  • پس مسافر این بود ای ره‌پرست  ** که مسیر و روش در مستقبلست 

  • Even as the troops of Phantasy are at every moment arriving (and passing) unweariedly through the curtains of the heart. 2780
  • هم‌چنانک از پرده‌ی دل بی‌کلال  ** دم به دم در می‌رسد خیل خیال 

  • If (these) ideas are not (sprung) from one (and the same) Plantation, how are they coming to the heart on each other's heels?
  • گر نه تصویرات از یک مغرس‌اند  ** در پی هم سوی دل چون می‌رسند 

  • Company after company, the army of our ideas, (impelled) by thirst, is speeding towards the fountain of the heart.
  • جوق جوق اسپاه تصویرات ما  ** سوی چشمه‌ی دل شتابان از ظما 

  • They fill their jars and go: they are continually appearing and vanishing.
  • جره‌ها پر می‌کنند و می‌روند  ** دایما پیدا و پنهان می‌شوند