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3127-3151

  • He gave me gold, but Thou the hand that counts gold; he gave me the beast for riding, but Thou the mind that rides it.
  • او زرم داد و تو دست زرشمار  ** او ستورم داد و تو عقل سوار 

  • The Khwája gave me the candle, but Thou the cool (bright and cheerful) eye; the Khwája gave me the dessert, but Thou the food-receiving (stomach).
  • خواجه شمعم دادو تو چشم قریر  ** خواجه نقلم داد و تو طعمه‌پذیر 

  • He gave me the stipend, but Thou life and animate existence; his promise was gold, but Thy promise the pure things (of the spirit).
  • او وظیفه داد و تو عمر و حیات  ** وعده‌اش زر وعده‌ی تو طیبات 

  • He gave me a house, but Thou the sky and the earth: in Thy house he and a hundred like him (grow) fat. 3130
  • او وثاقم داد و تو چرخ و زمین  ** در وثاقت او و صد چون او سمین 

  • Gold is Thine: he did not create gold. Bread is Thine: bread came to him from Thee.
  • زر از آن تست زر او نافرید  ** نان از آن تست نان از تش رسید 

  • Thou also gavest him generosity and pity, and his joy was increased by (showing) that generosity.
  • آن سخا و رحم هم تو دادیش  ** کز سخاوت می‌فزودی شادیش 

  • I made him my qibla (object of desire): I let the original qibla-Maker fall (into neglect).”
  • من مرورا قبله‌ی خود ساختم  ** قبله‌ساز اصل را انداختم 

  • Where were we when the Judge of Judgement (Day) was sowing reason in the water and clay (of Adam)?—
  • ما کجا بودیم کان دیان دین  ** عقل می‌کارید اندر آب و طین 

  • Since (’twas for us that) He was producing the sky from non-existence and spreading this carpet of earth, 3135
  • چون همی کرد از عدم گردون پدید  ** وین بساط خاک را می‌گسترید 

  • And making lamps of the stars, and of the (four) natural properties a lock together with the keys (to open it).
  • ز اختران می‌ساخت او مصباح‌ها  ** وز طبایع قفل با مفتاح‌ها 

  • Oh, how many structures hidden (from sight) and plain to see has He enclosed in this roof (heaven) and this carpet (earth)!
  • ای بسا بنیادها پنهان و فاش  ** مضمر این سقف کرد و این فراش 

  • Adam is the astrolabe of the attributes of (Divine) Sublimity: the nature of Adam is the theatre for His revelations.
  • آدم اصطرلاب اوصاف علوست  ** وصف آدم مظهر آیات اوست 

  • Whatever appears in him (Adam) is the reflexion of Him, just as the moon is reflected in the water of the river.
  • هرچه در وی می‌نماید عکس اوست  ** هم‌چو عکس ماه اندر آب جوست 

  • The figures (cut) on the “spider” (uppermost tablet) on his astrolabe are there for the sake of (typifying) the Eternal Attributes, 3140
  • بر صطرلابش نقوش عنکبوت  ** بهر اوصاف ازل دارد ثبوت 

  • In order that its “spider” may give lessons in exposition of the sky of the Unseen and the sun of the Spirit.
  • تا ز چرخ غیب وز خورشید روح  ** عنکبوتش درس گوید از شروح 

  • Without a (spiritual) astronomer (to explain their significance), the “spider” and this astrolabe which guides aright fall (uselessly) into the hands of the vulgar.
  • عنکبوت و این صطرلاب رشاد  ** بی‌منجم در کف عام اوفتاد 

  • God bestowed (knowledge of) this (spiritual) astronomy on the prophets: for (the mysteries of) the Unseen an eye that observes the Unseen is necessary.
  • انبیا را داد حق تنجیم این  ** غیب را چشمی بباید غیب‌بین 

  • These (worldly) generations fell into the well of the present world: every one saw in the well his own reflexion.
  • در چه دنیا فتادند این قرون  ** عکس خود را دید هر یک چه درون 

  • Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned). 3145
  • از برون دان آنچ در چاهت نمود  ** ورنه آن شیری که در چه شد فرود 

  • A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well.
  • برد خرگوشیش از ره کای فلان  ** در تگ چاهست آن شیر ژیان 

  • Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”
  • در رو اندر چاه کین از وی بکش  ** چون ازو غالب‌تری سر بر کنش 

  • That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy.
  • آن مقلد سخره‌ی خرگوش شد  ** از خیال خویشتن پر جوش شد 

  • He did not say, “This image is not produced by the water: this is not (produced) by anything except the changing activity of the (Divine) Changer.”
  • او نگفت این نقش داد آب نیست  ** این به جز تقلیب آن قلاب نیست 

  • So when you, O slave to the six (directions), wreak vengeance on your enemy you are in error concerning all the six. 3150
  • تو هم از دشمن چو کینی می‌کشی  ** ای زبون شش غلط در هر ششی 

  • That enmity in him (your enemy) is reflected from God, for it is derived from the (Divine) attributes of Wrath (which are manifested) there;
  • آن عداوت اندرو عکس حقست  ** کز صفات قهر آنجا مشتقست