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4111-4135

  • Like Joseph, thou art fleeing from one sorrow to fall into a well (of woe) through (being beguiled by) “let us frolic and play.”
  • می‌گریزی هم‌چو یوسف ز اندهی  ** تا ز نرتع نلعب افتی در چهی 

  • Because of this pastime thou fallest into a well, like him; but where is the (Divine) favour to help thee (as it helped him)?
  • در چه افتی زین تفرج هم‌چو او  ** مر ترا لیک آن عنایت یار کو 

  • Had it not been (done) by his father's leave, he would never have emerged from the well till the Resurrection;
  • گر نبودی آن به دستوری پدر  ** برنیاوردی ز چه تا حشر سر 

  • (But) in order to please him his father gave the permission and said, “Since this is thy desire, may good come (of it)!”
  • آن پدر بهر دل او اذن داد  ** گفت چون اینست میلت خیر باد 

  • Any blind man who turns away in scorn from a Messiah will be left, like the Jews, without guidance; 4115
  • هر ضریری کز مسیحی سر کشد  ** او جهودانه بماند از رشد 

  • (For) though he was blind, he was capable of receiving light; (but) from showing this aversion he becomes blind and blue (miserably lost).
  • قابل ضو بود اگر چه کور بود  ** شد ازین اعراض او کور و کبود 

  • Jesus says to him, “O blind man, cling to me with both hands: I have a precious collyrium.
  • گویدش عیسی بزن در من دو دست  ** ای عمی کحل عزیزی با منست 

  • If thou art blind, thou wilt obtain light from me and lay hold of the (sweet-scented) Joseph's shirt of the spirit.”
  • از من ار کوری بیابی روشنی  ** بر قمیص یوسف جان بر زنی 

  • The (real) fortune and highway (of success) lies in the business that comes to thee after utter defeat (self-abasement).
  • کار و باری کت رسد بعد شکست  ** اندر آن اقبال و منهاج رهست 

  • Give up the business that hath no foot or head (permanence): hark, old donkey, get for thyself a Pír! 4120
  • کار و باری که ندارد پا و سر  ** ترک کن هی پیر خر ای پیر خر 

  • May none but the Pír be (thy) master and captain!—not the Pír (old man) of the rolling sky, but the Pír of right guidance.
  • غیر پیر استاد و سرلشکر مباد  ** پیر گردون نی ولی پیر رشاد 

  • The devotee of darkness sees the light immediately as soon as he becomes subject to (the authority of) the Pír.
  • در زمان چون پیر را شد زیردست  ** روشنایی دید آن ظلمت‌پرست 

  • What is required is self-surrender, not long toil: ’tis useless to rush about in error.
  • شرط تسلیم است نه کار دراز  ** سود نبود در ضلالت ترک‌تاز 

  • Henceforth I will not seek the way to the Ether (the highest celestial sphere): I will seek the Pír, I will seek the Pír, the Pír, the Pír!
  • من نجویم زین سپس راه اثیر  ** پیر جویم پیر جویم پیر پیر 

  • The Pír is the ladder to Heaven: by whom (what) is the arrow made to fly? By the bow. 4125
  • پیر باشد نردبان آسمان  ** تیر پران از که گردد از کمان 

  • Was it not Abraham that caused the gross Nimrod to (attempt the) journey to heaven by means of the vulture?
  • نه ز ابراهیم نمرود گران  ** کرد با کرکس سفر بر آسمان 

  • (Impelled) by self-will, he often went upward; but no vulture can fly to heaven.
  • از هوا شد سوی بالا او بسی  ** لیک بر گردون نپرد کرکسی 

  • Abraham said to him, “O traveller, I will be thy vulture: this is more seemly for thee.
  • گفتش ابراهیم ای مرد سفر  ** کرکست من باشم اینت خوب‌تر 

  • When thou makest of me a ladder to go aloft, thou wilt ascend to heaven without flying”—
  • چون ز من سازی به بالا نردبان  ** بی پریدن بر روی بر آسمان 

  • As the heart (spirit), without provisions or riding-camel, travels (swiftly) as lightning to west and east; 4130
  • آنچنان که می‌رود تا غرب و شرق  ** بی ز زاد و راحله دل هم‌چو برق 

  • As man's consciousness, wandering abroad whilst he is asleep, travels during the night to (remote) cities;
  • آنچنان که می‌رود شب ز اغتراب  ** حس مردم شهرها در وقت خواب 

  • As the gnostic, sitting quietly (in one place), travels by a hidden track through a hundred worlds.
  • آنچنان که عارف از راه نهان  ** خوش نشسته می‌رود در صد جهان 

  • If he has not been endowed with power to travel like this, (then) from whom are (derived) these reports concerning that (spiritual) country?
  • گر ندادستش چنین رفتار دست  ** این خبرها زان ولایت از کیست 

  • Hundreds of thousands of Pírs are agreed upon (the truth of) these reports and these veracious narratives.
  • این خبرها وین روایات محق  ** صد هزاران پیر بر وی متفق 

  • Amongst these sources (authorities) there is no dispute, such as there is in (the case of) knowledge based on opinions. 4135
  • یک خلافی نی میان این عیون  ** آنچنان که هست در علم ظنون