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4116-4140

  • (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 

  • That (knowledge based on opinion) is (like) searching (for the direction of the Ka‘ba) in the dark night, while this (mystic knowledge) is (like) the presence of the Ka‘ba and midday.
  • آن تحری آمد اندر لیل تار  ** وین حضور کعبه و وسط نهار 

  • Arise, O (thou who resemblest) Nimrod, and seek wings from (holy) personages: thou wilt not get any ladder from these vultures.
  • خیز ای نمرود پر جوی از کسان  ** نردبانی نایدت زین کرکسان 

  • The vulture is the particular (discursive) reason, O poor (-spirited) one: its wings are connected with the eating of carrion;
  • عقل جزوی کرکس آمد ای مقل  ** پر او با جیفه‌خواری متصل 

  • (But) the reason of the Abdál (exalted saints) is like the wings of Gabriel: it soars, mile by mile, up to the shade of the lote-tree (in Paradise).
  • عقل ابدالان چو پر جبرئیل  ** می‌پرد تا ظل سدره میل میل 

  • (It says), “I am a royal falcon, I am fair and auspicious, I have nothing to do with carrion: I am not a vulture. 4140
  • باز سلطانم گشم نیکوپیم  ** فارغ از مردارم و کرکس نیم