Pray, what (harm) did that poor fellow do to the night-patrol that he should punish and torment him in revenge?
آن عوان را آن ضعیف آخر چه کرد ** که دهد او را به کینه زجر و درد
How long (wilt thou follow) the glittering phantom reflected (from another)?Strive to make this (experience) actual for thyself,
تا بکی عکس خیال لامعه ** جهد کن تا گرددت این واقعه
So that thy words will be (prompted) by thy immediate feelings, and thy flight will be made with thine own wings and pinions.4665
تا که گفتارت ز حال تو بود ** سیر تو با پر و بال تو بود
’Tis with alien feathers that the arrow captures its prey; consequently it gets no share of the bird's flesh;
صید گیرد تیر هم با پر غیر ** لاجرم بیبهره است از لحم طیر
(But) the falcon brings its quarry from the mountains itself; consequently the king lets it eat partridge and starling.
باز صید آرد به خود از کوهسار ** لاجرم شاهش خوراند کبک و سار
The speech that is not (derived) from (Divine) inspiration springs from self-will: it is like dust (floating) in the air and among the motes (in the sunbeams).
منطقی کز وحی نبود از هواست ** همچو خاکی در هوا و در هباست
If this saying appear to the Khwája to be erroneous, recite a few lines at the beginning of (the Súra) Wa’l-Najm.
گر نماید خواجه را این دم غلط ** ز اول والنجم بر خوان چند خط
Down to (the words), Mohammed does not speak from self-will: ’tis only (a speech) gained by inspiration.4670
تا که ما ینطق محمد عن هوی ** ان هو الا بوحی احتوی
O Ahmad (Mohammed), since thou despairest not of (receiving) inspiration, leave investigation and conjecture to the corporealists;
احمدا چون نیستت از وحی یاس ** جسمیان را ده تحری و قیاس
For in case of necessity a carcase is lawful (food), but there is no need to investigate (when one is) in the Ka‘ba of union.
کز ضرورت هست مرداری حلال ** که تحری نیست در کعبهی وصال
Whosoever wilfully adopts a heresy without investigation and the utmost efforts to discover the right way,
بیتحری و اجتهادات هدی ** هر که بدعت پیشه گیرد از هوی
The wind (of self-will) will lift him up and kill him, like (the people of) ‘Ád: he is no Solomon that it should waft his throne along.
همچو عادش بر برد باد و کشد ** نه سلیمانست تا تختش کشد
For ‘Ád (and those like them) the wind is a treacherous carrier: (they are) as a lamb in the hands of a glutton,4675
عاد را با دست حمال خذول ** همچو بره در کف مردی اکول
Which he lays in his lap as though it were his own child and carries away to slaughter like a butcher.
همچو فرزندش نهاده بر کنار ** میبرد تا بکشدش قصابوار
That wind was (the punishment) for ‘Ád because of their pride: they indeed deemed it a friend, (but) it was (really) a stranger (foe).
عاد را آن باد ز استکبار بود ** یار خود پنداشتند اغیار بود
When of a sudden it turned its coat, that evil comrade shattered them piecemeal.
چون بگردانید ناگه پوستین ** خردشان بشکست آن بس القرین
Shatter (destroy) the wind—for the wind (of self-will) is a great temptation— ere it shatter thee, like ‘Ád.
باد را بشکن که بس فتنهست باد ** پیش از آن کت بشکند او همچو عاد
Húd admonished them, saying, “O prideful folk, this wind will tear out of your hands the skirt (to which ye are clinging).4680
هود دادی پند که ای پر کبر خیل ** بر کند از دستتان این باد ذیل
The wind is God's army, and (only) in hypocrisy (deceit) has it embraced you for a few days.
لشکر حق است باد و از نفاق ** چند روزی با شما کرد اعتناق
Secretly it is loyal to its Creator: when the appointed term arrives, the wind will throw up its hands (and desert you).”
او به سر با خالق خود راستست ** چون اجل آید بر آرد باد دست
See how the wind passes through the mouth, coming and going at every moment in advance and retreat.
باد را اندر دهن بین رهگذر ** هر نفس آیان روان در کر و فر
The throat and teeth are in no danger from it; (but) when God commands, it attacks the teeth;
حلق و دندانها ازو آمن بود ** حق چو فرماید به دندان در فتد
(And then) a (mere) atom of wind becomes (like) a mountain and heavy, and toothache keeps him (the sufferer) miserable and ill.4685
کوه گردد ذرهای باد و ثقیل ** درد دندان داردش زار و علیل
This is the same wind that used to pass by harmlessly: it was the life of the crops and it became the death of the crops.
این همان بادست که امن میگذشت ** بود جان کشت و گشت او مرگ کشت
The hand of the person who (formerly) kissed thy hand—in the moment of anger that hand becomes a mace.
دست آن کس که بکردت دستبوس ** وقت خشم آن دست میگردد دبوس