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3424-3448

  • Although the (bodily) house is full of pictures, demolish it: seek the treasure, and with the treasure put it (the house) into good repair.
  • گرچه پر نقش است خانه بر کنش  ** گنج جو و از گنج آبادان کنش 

  • ’Tis a house filled with pictures of imagination and fancy, and these forms (ideas) are as a veil over the treasure of union (with God). 3425
  • خانه‌ی پر نقش تصویر و خیال  ** وین صور چون پرده بر گنج وصال 

  • ’Tis the radiance of the Treasure and the splendours of the (spiritual) gold that cause the forms (ideas) to surge up in this breast.
  • پرتو گنجست و تابش‌های زر  ** که درین سینه همی‌جوشد صور 

  • ’Tis from the purity and translucence of the noble Water that the particles of foam have veiled the face of the Water.
  • هم ز لطف و عکس آب با شرف  ** پرده شد بر روی آب اجزای کف 

  • ’Tis from the purity and (ceaseless) agitation of the precious Spirit that the bodily figure has veiled the face of the Spirit.
  • هم ز لطف و جوش جان با ثمن  ** پرده‌ای بر روی جان شد شخص تن 

  • Hearken, then, to the adage that issued from the mouths (of men)—“this which is (cast) upon us, O brother, is (derived) from us.”
  • پس مثل بشنو که در افواه خاست  ** که اینچ بر ماست ای برادر هم ز ماست 

  • Because of this veil, these thirsty ones who are (so) fond of the foam have got out of reach of the pure Water. 3430
  • زین حجاب این تشنگان کف‌پرست  ** ز آب صافی اوفتاده دوردست 

  • “O (Divine) Sun, notwithstanding (that we have) a qibla (object of adoration) and Imám like Thee, we worship the night and behave in the manner of bats.
  • آفتابا با چو تو قبله و امام  ** شب‌پرستی و خفاشی می‌کنیم 

  • Make these bats to fly towards Thee and redeem them from this bat-like disposition, O Thou whose protection is implored!
  • سوی خود کن این خفاشان را مطار  ** زین خفاشیشان بخر ای مستجار 

  • This youth (the Amír), by (committing) this sin, has gone astray and trespassed (against Thee), for he came to me (for help); but do not chastise him.”
  • این جوان زین جرم ضالست و مغیر  ** که بمن آمد ولی او را مگیر 

  • In the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk these thoughts were raging like a lion (rushing) through the jungles.
  • در عماد الملک این اندیشه‌ها  ** گشته جوشان چون اسد در بیشه‌ها 

  • His exterior (person) stood before the Sultan, (but) his soaring spirit was in the meadows of the Unseen. 3435
  • ایستاده پیش سلطان ظاهرش  ** در ریاض غیب جان طایرش 

  • Like the angels, he was momently being intoxicated with fresh draughts (of spiritual wine) in the realm of Alast;
  • چون ملایک او به اقلیم الست  ** هر دمی می‌شد به شرب تازه مست 

  • Inwardly (merry as) a wedding-feast, but outwardly like a man filled with sorrow; a delectable world (concealed) in a tomb-like body.
  • اندرون سور و برون چون پر غمی  ** در تن هم‌چون لحد خوش عالمی 

  • He was in this (state of) bewilderment and waiting to see what would appear from the (world of) things occult and mysterious,
  • او درین حیرت بد و در انتظار  ** تا چه پیدا آید از غیب و سرار 

  • (When) at that time the officers brought the horse along into the presence of the Khwárizmsháh.
  • اسپ را اندر کشیدند آن زمان  ** پیش خوارمشاه سرهنگان کشان 

  • Verily beneath this azure sky there was no (other) colt like that in (tallness and comeliness of) figure and in fleetness. 3440
  • الحق اندر زیر این چرخ کبود  ** آن‌چنان کره به قد و تگ نبود 

  • Its colour (splendid appearance) dazzled every eye: (all would exclaim), “Hail to the (steed) born of the lightning and the moon!”
  • می‌ربودی رنگ او هر دیده را  ** مرحب آن از برق و مه زاییده را 

  • It moved as swiftly as the moon and Mercury: you might say that its fodder was the sarsar wind, not barley.
  • هم‌چو مه هم‌چون عطارد تیزرو  ** گوییی صرصر علف بودش نه جو 

  • The moon traverses the expanse of heaven in one night during a single journey and course.
  • ماه عرصه‌ی آسمان را در شبی  ** می‌برد اندر مسیر و مذهبی 

  • Since the moon traversed the signs of the zodiac in one night, wherefore wilt thou disbelieve the Ascension (of the Prophet)?
  • چون به یک شب مه برید ابراج را  ** از چه منکر می‌شوی معراج را 

  • That wondrous orphan Pearl is as a hundred moons, for at a nod from him the moon became (split in) two halves. 3445
  • صد چو ماهست آن عجب در یتیم  ** که به یک ایماء او شد مه دو نیم 

  • (Even) the marvel which he displayed in splitting the moon was only according to the measure of the weakness of the perception possessed by the (common) people.
  • آن عجب کو در شکاف مه نمود  ** هم به قدر ضعف حس خلق بود 

  • The work and business of the prophets and (Divine) messengers is beyond the skies and the stars.
  • کار و بار انبیا و مرسلون  ** هست از افلاک و اخترها برون 

  • Do thou also go beyond (transcend) the skies and the revolving (orb), and then contemplate that work and business.
  • تو برون رو هم ز افلاک و دوار  ** وانگهان نظاره کن آن کار و بار