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2767-2791

  • 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 

  • Regard (your) thoughts as stars of the sky (which are) revolving in the sphere of another heaven.
  • فکرها را اختران چرخ دان  ** دایر اندر چرخ دیگر آسمان 

  • (If) you have experienced good fortune (spiritual thoughts), give thanks (to God) and do works of charity; (if) you have experienced bad fortune (sensual thoughts), give alms and ask pardon (of God). 2785
  • سعد دیدی شکر کن ایثار کن  ** نحس دیدی صدقه و استغفار کن 

  • Who am I in relation to this? Come, O my King, make my ruling star auspicious and wheel once (towards me).
  • ما کییم این را بیا ای شاه من  ** طالعم مقبل کن و چرخی بزن 

  • Illumine my spirit with moonbeams, for my soul is blackened (eclipsed) by contact with the (Dragon's) Tail.
  • روح را تابان کن از انوار ماه  ** که ز آسیب ذنب جان شد سیاه 

  • Deliver it from fancy and vain imagination and opinion, deliver it from the well and the tyranny of the rope,
  • از خیال و وهم و ظن بازش رهان  ** از چه و جور رسن بازش رهان 

  • In order that through Thy goodly lovingkindness a heart (such as mine) may lift its wings and soar up from a (body of) water and earth.
  • تا ز دلداری خوب تو دلی  ** پر بر آرد بر پرد ز آب و گلی 

  • O Prince of Egypt and faithful keeper of thy promise, the wronged Joseph is in thy prison. 2790
  • ای عزیز مصر و در پیمان درست  ** یوسف مظلوم در زندان تست 

  • Quickly dream a dream of his release, for God loveth the beneficent.
  • در خلاص او یکی خوابی ببین  ** زود که الله یحب المحسنین