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748-797

  • If you will consider, the supplications of the seekers (of God) are rays (proceeding) from the substance of prophethood.
  • شد نیاز طالبان ار بنگری ** شعله‌‌ها از گوهر پیغمبری‌‌

  • The rays are circling with the substances (whence they spring): the ray goes (ultimately) in the direction where that (substance) is.
  • شعله‌‌ها با گوهران گردان بود ** شعله آن جانب رود هم کان بود

  • The window-gleam runs round the house, because the sun goes from sign to sign of the zodiac. 750
  • نور روزن گرد خانه می‌‌دود ** ز آنکه خور برجی به برجی می‌‌رود

  • Any one who has affinity with a star (planet) has a concurrence (of qualities) with his star.
  • هر که را با اختری پیوستگی است ** مر و را با اختر خود هم تگی است‌‌

  • If his ascendant star be Venus, his whole inclination and love and desire is for joy;
  • طالعش گر زهره باشد در طرب ** میل کلی دارد و عشق و طلب‌‌

  • And if he be one born under Mars, one whose nature is to shed blood, he seeks war and malignity and enmity.
  • ور بود مریخی خون‌‌ریز خو ** جنگ و بهتان و خصومت جوید او

  • Beyond the (material) stars are stars in which is no conflagration or sinister aspect,
  • اخترانند از ورای اختران ** که احتراق و نحس نبود اندر آن‌‌

  • (Stars) moving in other heavens, not these seven heavens (which are) held in high regard, 755
  • سایران در آسمانهای دگر ** غیر این هفت آسمان معتبر

  • (Stars) immanent in the radiance of the light of God, neither joined to each other nor separate from each other.
  • راسخان در تاب انوار خدا ** نی بهم پیوسته نی از هم جدا

  • When any one's ascendant (fortune) is from those stars, his soul burns the infidels in driving (them) off.
  • هر که باشد طالع او ز آن نجوم ** نفس او کفار سوزد در رجوم‌‌

  • His anger is not (like) the anger of the man born under Mars—going upside down, and of such nature that it is (now) dominant and (now) dominated.
  • خشم مریخی نباشد خشم او ** منقلب رو غالب و مغلوب خو

  • The dominant light (of the saints) is secure from defect and dimness between the two fingers of the Light of God.
  • نور غالب ایمن از نقص و غسق ** در میان اصبعین نور حق‌‌

  • God hath scattered that light over (all) spirits, (but only) the fortunate have held up their skirts (to receive it); 760
  • حق فشاند آن نور را بر جانها ** مقبلان برداشته دامانها

  • And he (that is fortunate), having gained that strown largesse of light, has turned his face away from all except God.
  • و آن نثار نور را وایافته ** روی از غیر خدا بر تافته‌‌

  • Whosoever has lacked (such) a skirt of love is left without share in that strown largesse of light.
  • هر که را دامان عشقی نابده ** ز آن نثار نور بی‌‌بهره شده‌‌

  • The faces of particulars are set towards the universal: nightingales are in love with the face of the rose.
  • جزوها را رویها سوی کل است ** بلبلان را عشق با روی گل است‌‌

  • The ox has his colour outside, but in the case of a man seek the red and yellow hues within.
  • گاو را رنگ از برون و مرد را ** از درون جو رنگ سرخ و زرد را

  • The good colours are from the vat of purity; the colour of the wicked is from the black water of iniquity. 765
  • رنگهای نیک از خم صفاست ** رنگ زشتان از سیاه‌‌آبه‌‌ی جفاست‌‌

  • The baptism of God is the name of that subtle colour; the curse of God is the smell of this gross colour.
  • صبغة الله نام آن رنگ لطیف ** لعنة الله بوی این رنگ کثیف‌‌

  • That which is of the sea is going to the sea: it is going to the same place whence it came—
  • آن چه از دریا به دریا می‌‌رود ** از همانجا کامد آن جا می‌‌رود

  • From the mountain-top the swift-rushing torrents, and from our body the soul whose motion is mingled with love.
  • از سر که سیلهای تیز رو ** وز تن ما جان عشق آمیز رو

  • How the Jewish king made a fire and placed an idol beside it, saying, “Whoever bows down to this idol shall escape the fire.”
  • آتش کردن پادشاه جهود و بت نهادن پهلوی آتش که هر که این بت را سجود کند از آتش برست

  • Now see what a plan this currish Jew contrived! He set up an idol beside the fire,
  • آن جهود سگ ببین چه رای کرد ** پهلوی آتش بتی بر پای کرد

  • Saying, “He that bows down to this idol is saved, and if he bow not, he shall sit in the heart of the fire.” 770
  • کان که این بت را سجود آرد برست ** ور نیارد در دل آتش نشست‌‌

  • Inasmuch as he did not give due punishment to this idol of self, from the idol of his self the other idol was born.
  • چون سزای این بت نفس او نداد ** از بت نفسش بتی دیگر بزاد

  • The idol of your self is the mother of (all) idols, because that (material) idol is (only) a snake, while this (spiritual) idol is a dragon.
  • مادر بتها بت نفس شماست ** ز آن که آن بت مار و این بت اژدهاست‌‌

  • The self is (as) iron and stone (whence fire is produced), while the (material) idol is (as) the sparks: those sparks are quieted (quenched) by water.
  • آهن و سنگ است نفس و بت شرار ** آن شرار از آب می‌‌گیرد قرار

  • (But) how should the stone and iron be allayed by water? How should a man, having these twain, be secure?
  • سنگ و آهن ز آب کی ساکن‌‌شود ** آدمی با این دو کی ایمن شود

  • The idol is the black water hidden in the jug; know that the self is the fountain. 775
  • بت سیاه‌‌آبه‌‌ست در کوزه نهان ** نفس مر آب سیه را چشمه دان‌‌

  • That sculptured idol is like the black torrent; the idol-making self is a fountain (jetting muddy water) on the Water-way (the Way that leads to the Water of Life).
  • آن بت منحوت چون سیل سیاه ** نفس بتگر چشمه‌‌ای بر آب راه‌‌

  • A single piece of stone will break a hundred pitchers, but the fountain-water is making jets incessantly.
  • صد سبو را بشکند یک پاره سنگ ** و آب چشمه می‌‌زهاند بی‌‌درنگ‌‌

  • ’Tis easy to break an idol, very easy; to regard the self as easy (to subdue) is folly, folly.
  • بت شکستن سهل باشد نیک سهل ** سهل دیدن نفس را جهل است جهل‌‌

  • O son, if you seek (to know) the form of the self, read the story of Hell with its seven gates.
  • صورت نفس ار بجویی ای پسر ** قصه‌‌ی دوزخ بخوان با هفت در

  • Every moment (there proceeds from the self) an act of deceit, and in every one of those deceits a hundred Pharaohs are drowned together with their followers. 780
  • هر نفس مکری و در هر مکر ز آن ** غرقه صد فرعون با فرعونیان‌‌

  • Flee to the God of Moses and to Moses, do not from Pharaoh's quality (rebellious insolence) spill the water of the Faith.
  • در خدای موسی و موسی گریز ** آب ایمان را ز فرعونی مریز

  • Lay your hand on (cleave to) the One (God) and Ahmad (Mohammed)! O brother, escape from the Bú Jahl of the body!
  • دست را اندر احد و احمد بزن ** ای برادر واره از بو جهل تن‌‌

  • How a child began to speak amidst the fire and urged the people to throw themselves into the fire.
  • به سخن آمدن طفل در میان آتش و تحریض کردن خلق را در افتادن به آتش‌‌

  • That Jew brought to that idol a woman with her child, and the fire was blazing.
  • یک زنی با طفل آورد آن جهود ** پیش آن بت و آتش اندر شعله بود

  • He took the child from her and cast it into the fire: the woman was affrighted and withdrew her heart from (abandoned) her faith.
  • طفل از او بستد در آتش در فکند ** زن بترسید و دل از ایمان بکند

  • She was about to bow down before the idol (when) the child cried, “Verily, I am not dead. 785
  • خواست تا او سجده آرد پیش بت ** بانگ زد آن طفل إنی لم أمت‌‌

  • Come in, O mother: I am happy here, although in appearance I am amidst the fire.
  • اندر آ ای مادر اینجا من خوشم ** گر چه در صورت میان آتشم‌‌

  • The fire is a spell that binds the eye for the sake of screening (the truth); this is (in reality) a Divine mercy which has raised its head from the collar (has been manifested from the Unseen).
  • چشم بند است آتش از بهر حجاب ** رحمت است این سر بر آورده ز جیب‌‌

  • Come in, mother, and see the evidence of God, that thou mayst behold the delight of God's elect.
  • اندر آ مادر ببین برهان حق ** تا ببینی عشرت خاصان حق‌‌

  • Come in, and see water that has the semblance of fire; (come away) from a world which is (really) fire and (only) has the semblance of water.
  • اندر آ و آب بین آتش مثال ** از جهانی کاتش است آبش مثال‌‌

  • Come in, and see the mysteries of Abraham, who in the fire found cypress and jessamine. 790
  • اندر آ اسرار ابراهیم بین ** کاو در آتش یافت سرو و یاسمین‌‌

  • I was seeing death at the time of birth from thee: sore was my dread of falling from thee;
  • مرگ می‌‌دیدم گه زادن ز تو ** سخت خوفم بود افتادن ز تو

  • (But) when I was born, I escaped from the narrow prison (of the womb) into a world of pleasant air and beautiful colour.
  • چون بزادم رستم از زندان تنگ ** در جهان خوش هوای خوب رنگ‌‌

  • Now I deem the (earthly) world to be like the womb, since in this fire I have seen such rest:
  • من جهان را چون رحم دیدم کنون ** چون در این آتش بدیدم این سکون‌‌

  • In this fire I have seen a world wherein every atom possesses the (life-giving) breath of Jesus.
  • اندر این آتش بدیدم عالمی ** ذره ذره اندر او عیسی دمی‌‌

  • Lo, (it is) a world apparently non-existent (but) essentially existent, while that (other) world is apparently existent (but) has no permanence. 795
  • نک جهان نیست شکل هست ذات ** و آن جهان هست شکل بی‌‌ثبات‌‌

  • Come in, mother, (I beseech thee) by the right of motherhood: see this fire, how it hath no fieriness.
  • اندر آ مادر به حق مادری ** بین که این آذر ندارد آذری‌‌

  • Come in, mother, for felicity is come; come in, mother, do not let fortune slip from thy hand.
  • اندر آ مادر که اقبال آمده ست ** اندر آ مادر مده دولت ز دست‌‌