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3750-3774

  • And if you derive no advantage (comfort) except from form, (then) the form that comes to birth within you involuntarily is the best. 3750
  • ور ز غیر صورتت نبود فره  ** صورتی کان بی‌تو زاید در تو به 

  • (Suppose it is) the form of a city to which you are going: you are drawn (thither) by a formless feeling of pleasure, O dependent one;
  • صورت شهری که آنجا می‌روی  ** ذوق بی‌صورت کشیدت ای روی 

  • Therefore you are really going to that which has no locality, for pleasure is (something) different from place and time.
  • پس به معنی می‌روی تا لامکان  ** که خوشی غیر مکانست و زمان 

  • (Suppose it is) the form of a friend to whom you would go: you are going for the sake of enjoying his society;
  • صورت یاری که سوی او شوی  ** از برای مونسی‌اش می‌روی 

  • Therefore in reality you go to the formless (world), though you are unaware of that (being the) object (of your journey).
  • پس بمعنی سوی بی‌صورت شدی  ** گرچه زان مقصود غافل آمدی 

  • In truth, then, God is worshipped by all, since (all) wayfaring is for the sake of the pleasure (of which He is the source). 3755
  • پس حقیقت حق بود معبود کل  ** کز پی ذوقست سیران سبل 

  • But some have set their face towards the tail and have lost the Head, although the Head is the principal;
  • لیک بعضی رو سوی دم کرده‌اند  ** گرچه سر اصلست سر گم کرده‌اند 

  • But (nevertheless) that Head is bestowing on these lost and erring ones the bounty proper to Headship by way of the tail.
  • لیک آن سر پیش این ضالان گم  ** می‌دهد داد سری از راه دم 

  • That one obtains the bounty from the Head, this one from the tail; another company (of mystics) have lost (both) foot and head.
  • آن ز سر می‌یابد آن داد این ز دم  ** قوم دیگر پا و سر کردند گم 

  • Since all has been lost, they have gained all: through dwindling away (to naught) they have sped towards the Whole.
  • چونک گم شد جمله جمله یافتند  ** از کم آمد سوی کل بشتافتند 

  • How in the pavilion of the fortress adorned with pictures they (the princes) saw a portrait of the daughter of the King of China and how all three lost their senses and fell into distraction and made inquiries, asking, “Whose portrait is this?”
  • دیدن ایشان در قصر این قلعه‌ی ذات الصور نقش روی دختر شاه چین را و بیهوش شدن هر سه و در فتنه افتادن و تفحص کردن کی این صورت کیست 

  • This topic is endless. The company (of three) espied a beauteous and majestic portrait. 3760
  • این سخن پایان ندارد آن گروه  ** صورتی دیدند با حسن و شکوه 

  • The (travelling) party had seen (pictures) more beautiful than that, but at (the sight of) this one they were plunged in the deep sea,
  • خوب‌تر زان دیده بودند آن فریق  ** لیک زین رفتند در بحر عمیق 

  • Because opium came to them in this cup: the cups are visible, but the opium is unseen.
  • زانک افیونشان درین کاسه رسید  ** کاسه‌ها محسوس و افیون ناپدید 

  • The fortress, (named) the destroyer of reason, wrought its work: it cast them, all three, into the pit of tribulation.
  • کرد فعل خویش قلعه‌ی هش‌ربا  ** هر سه را انداخت در چاه بلا 

  • Without a bow the arrow-like glances (of Love) pierce the heart—mercy, mercy, O merciless one!
  • تیر غمزه دوخت دل را بی‌کمان  ** الامان و الامان ای بی‌امان 

  • (Adoration of) a stone image consumed the (past) generations and kindled a fire (of love for it) in their religion and their hearts. 3765
  • قرنها را صورت سنگین بسوخت  ** آتشی در دین و دلشان بر فروخت 

  • When it (the image) is spiritual, how (ravishing) must it be! Its fascination changes at every moment.
  • چونک روحانی بود خود چون بود  ** فتنه‌اش هر لحظه دیگرگون بود 

  • Since love of the pictured form was stabbing the hearts of the princes like a spear-point,
  • عشق صورت در دل شه‌زادگان  ** چون خلش می‌کرد مانند سنان 

  • Each (of them) was shedding tears, like a cloud, and gnawing his hands and crying, “Oh, alas!
  • اشک می‌بارید هر یک هم‌چو میغ  ** دست می‌خایید و می‌گفت ای دریغ 

  • Now we see (what) the King saw at the beginning. How often did that peerless one adjure us!”
  • ما کنون دیدیم شه ز آغاز دید  ** چندمان سوگند داد آن بی‌ندید 

  • The prophets have conferred a great obligation (on us) because they have made us aware of the end, 3770
  • انبیا را حق بسیارست از آن  ** که خبر کردند از پایانمان 

  • Saying, “That which thou art sowing will produce naught but thorns; and (if) thou fly in this (worldly) direction thou wilt find there no room to fly (beyond).
  • کاینچ می‌کاری نروید جز که خار  ** وین طرف پری نیابی زو مطار 

  • Get the seed from me, that it may yield a (good) crop; fly with my wings, that the arrow may speed Yonder.
  • تخم از من بر که تا ریعی دهد  ** با پر من پر که تیر آن سو جهد 

  • (If) thou dost not recognise the necessity and (real) existence of that (flight to God), yet in the end thou wilt confess that it was necessary.”
  • تو ندانی واجبی آن و هست  ** هم تو گویی آخر آن واجب بدست 

  • He (the prophet) is thou, but not this (unreal) “thou”: (he is) that “thou” which in the end is conscious of escape (from the world of illusion).
  • او توست اما نه این تو آن توست  ** که در آخر واقف بیرون‌شوست