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  • I will beg (forgiveness for) my people from him, for he never averts his face from the knower.
  • امت خود را بخواهم من ازو  ** کو نگرداند ز عارف هیچ رو 

  • Deem the eye of the knower to be the salvation of the two worlds, whereby every Bahrám (sovereign) obtained help. 2860
  • چشم عارف دان امان هر دو کون  ** که بدو یابید هر بهرام عون 

  • Mohammed was the intercessor for every brand (of disgrace) because his eye did not swerve for aught except God.
  • زان محمد شافع هر داغ بود  ** که ز جز شه چشم او مازاغ بود 

  • In the night of this world, where the sun (of Reality) is veiled, he was beholding God, and (all) his hope was in Him.
  • در شب دنیا که محجوبست شید  ** ناظر حق بود و زو بودش امید 

  • His eyes received collyrium from Did not We expand (thy breast)? He saw that which Gabriel could not endure.
  • از الم نشرح دو چشمش سرمه یافت  ** دید آنچ جبرئیل آن بر نتافت 

  • The orphan to whom (to whose eyes) God applies collyrium becomes the orphan (unique) pearl endowed with (Divine) guidance.
  • مر یتیمی را که سرمه حق کشد  ** گردد او در یتیم با رشد 

  • Its light overpowers (that of all other) pearls, (because) it desires such an (exalted) object of desire. 2865
  • نور او بر ذره‌ها غالب شود  ** آن‌چنان مطلوب را طالب شود 

  • (All) the (spiritual) stations (attainments) of God's servants were visible to him (the Prophet): consequently God named him ‘The Witness.’
  • در نظر بودش مقامات العباد  ** لاجرم نامش خدا شاهد نهاد 

  • The weapons of the Witness are a trenchant (veracious) tongue and a keen eye, whose nightly vigil no secret can elude.
  • آلت شاهد زبان و چشم تیز  ** که ز شب‌خیزش ندارد سر گریز 

  • Though a thousand pretenders (false witnesses) may raise their heads, the Judge turns his ear towards the Witness.
  • گر هزاران مدعی سر بر زند  ** گوش قاضی جانب شاهد کند 

  • This is the practice of judges in dealing justice: to them the (truthful) witness is (like) two clear eyes.
  • قاضیان را در حکومت این فنست  ** شاهد ایشان را دو چشم روشنست 

  • The words (testimony) of the Witness are equivalent to the eye because he has seen the secret (of Reality) with a disinterested eye. 2870
  • گفت شاهد زان به جای دیده است  ** کو بدیده‌ی بی‌غرض سر دیده است 

  • The pretender (false witness) has seen it (too), but with self-interest: self-interest is a veil upon the eye of the heart.
  • مدعی دیده‌ست اما با غرض  ** پرده باشد دیده‌ی دل را غرض 

  • God desires that you should become an ascetic (záhid) in order that you may abandon self-interest and become a Witness (sháhid);
  • حق همی‌خواهد که تو زاهد شوی  ** تا غرض بگذاری و شاهد شوی 

  • For these motives of self-interest are a veil upon the eye: they enfold (muffle) the sight, like a veil.
  • کین غرضها پرده‌ی دیده بود  ** بر نظر چون پرده پیچیده بود 

  • Therefore he (the self-interested man) does not see the whole in (all its) various aspects: your love of (created) things makes you blind and deaf.
  • پس نبیند جمله را با طم و رم  ** حبک الاشیاء یعمی و یصم 

  • Since the (Divine) Sun caused a light to dwell in his (the Witness's) heart, the stars no longer had any values for him. 2875
  • در دلش خورشید چون نوری نشاند  ** پیشش اختر را مقادیری نماند 

  • Therefore he beheld the mysteries without veil: (he beheld) the journey of the spirit of the true believers and the infidels.
  • پس بدید او بی‌حجاب اسرار را  ** سیر روح مومن و کفار را 

  • God hath not (created) in the earth or in the lofty heaven anything more occult than the spirit of Man.
  • در زمین حق را و در چرخ سمی  ** نیست پنهان‌تر ز روح آدمی 

  • God hath unfolded (the mystery of all things) moist or dry, (but) He hath sealed (the mystery of) the spirit: ‘(it is) of the amr of my Lord.’
  • باز کرد از رطب و یابس حق نورد  ** روح را من امر ربی مهر کرد 

  • Therefore, since the august eye (of the Witness) beheld that spirit, nothing remains hidden from him.
  • پس چو دید آن روح را چشم عزیز  ** پس برو پنهان نماند هیچ چیز 

  • He is the absolute witness in every dispute: his word crushes the crop-sickness (which is the cause) of every headache. 2880
  • شاهد مطلق بود در هر نزاع  ** بشکند گفتش خمار هر صداع 

  • God is named ‘the Just,’ and the Witness belongs to Him: for this reason the just Witness is the eye of the Beloved.
  • نام حق عدلست و شاهد آن اوست  ** شاهد عدلست زین رو چشم دوست 

  • The object of God's regard in both worlds is the (pure) heart, for the king's gaze is fixed upon the favourite.
  • منظر حق دل بود در دو سرا  ** که نظر در شاهد آید شاه را 

  • God's love and the mystery of His dallying with His favourite were the origin of all His veil-making (creation of phenomena).
  • عشق حق و سر شاهدبازیش  ** بود مایه‌ی جمله پرده‌سازیش