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  • 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

  • Thou hast seen the power of that (Jewish) cur: come in, that thou mayst see the power and the grace of God.
  • قدرت آن سگ بدیدی اندر آ ** تا ببینی قدرت و لطف خدا

  • ’Tis (only) out of pity that I am drawing thy feet (hither), for indeed such is my rapture that I have no care for thee.
  • من ز رحمت می‌‌کشانم پای تو ** کز طرب خود نیستم پروای تو

  • Come in and call the others also, for the King has spread a (festal) table within the fire. 800
  • اندر آ و دیگران را هم بخوان ** کاندر آتش شاه بنهاده ست خوان‌‌

  • O true believers, come in, all of you: except the sweetness (‘adhbí) of (the true) religion all is torment (‘adháb).
  • اندر آیید ای مسلمانان همه ** غیر عذب دین عذاب است آن همه‌‌

  • Oh, come in, all of you, like moths; (come) into this fortune which hath a hundred springtimes.”
  • اندر آیید ای همه پروانه‌‌وار ** اندر این بهره که دارد صد بهار

  • (Thus) he was crying amidst that multitude: the souls of the people were filled with awe.
  • بانگ می‌‌زد در میان آن گروه ** پر همی‌‌شد جان خلقان از شکوه‌‌

  • After that, the folk, men and women (alike), cast themselves unwittingly into the fire—
  • خلق خود را بعد از آن بی‌‌خویشتن ** می‌‌فگندند اندر آتش مرد و زن‌‌

  • Without custodian, without being dragged, for love of the Friend, because from Him is the sweetening of every bitterness— 805
  • بی‌‌موکل بی‌‌کشش از عشق دوست ** ز آن که شیرین کردن هر تلخ از اوست‌‌

  • Until it came to pass that the (king's) myrmidons were holding back the people, saying, “Do not enter the fire!”
  • تا چنان شد کان عوانان خلق را ** منع می‌‌کردند کاتش در میا

  • The Jew became black-faced (covered with shame) and dismayed; he became sorry and sick at heart,
  • آن یهودی شد سیه رو و خجل ** شد پشیمان زین سبب بیمار دل‌‌

  • Because the people grew more loving (ardent) in their Faith and more firm in mortification (faná) of the body.
  • کاندر ایمان خلق عاشق‌‌تر شدند ** در فنای جسم صادق‌‌تر شدند

  • Thanks (be to God), the Devil's plot caught him in its toils; thanks (be to God), the Devil saw himself disgraced.
  • مکر شیطان هم در او پیچید شکر ** دیو هم خود را سیه رو دید شکر

  • That which he was rubbing (the shame he was inflicting) on the faces of those persons (the Christians) was all accumulated on the visage of that vile wretch. 810
  • آن چه می‌‌مالید در روی کسان ** جمع شد در چهره‌‌ی آن ناکس آن‌‌

  • He who was busy rending the garment (honour and integrity) of the people—his own (garment) was rent, (while) they were unhurt.
  • آن که می‌‌درید جامه‌‌ی خلق چست ** شد دریده آن او ایشان درست‌‌

  • How the mouth remained awry of a man who pronounced the name of Mohammed, on whom be peace, derisively.
  • کج ماندن دهان آن مرد که نام محمد را علیه السلام به تسخر خواند

  • He made his mouth wry and called (the name of) Mohammed in derision: his mouth remained awry.
  • آن دهان کژ کرد و از تسخر بخواند ** مر محمد را دهانش کژ بماند

  • He came back, saying, “Pardon me, O Mohammed, O thou to whom belong the (Divine) favours and knowledge (derived) immediately from God.
  • باز آمد کای محمد عفو کن ** ای ترا الطاف و علم من لدن‌‌

  • In my folly I was ridiculing thee, (but) I myself was related to ridicule and deserving it.”
  • من ترا افسوس می‌‌کردم ز جهل ** من بدم افسوس را منسوب و اهل‌‌

  • When God wishes to rend the veil of any one (expose him to shame), He turns his inclination towards reviling holy men. 815
  • چون خدا خواهد که پرده‌‌ی کس درد ** میلش اندر طعنه‌‌ی پاکان برد

  • And if God wishes to hide the blame of any one, he (that person) does not breathe a word of blame against the blameworthy.
  • چون خدا خواهد که پوشد عیب کس ** کم زند در عیب معیوبان نفس‌‌

  • When God wishes to help us, He turns our inclination towards humble lament.
  • چون خدا خواهد که‌‌مان یاری کند ** میل ما را جانب زاری کند

  • Oh, happy the eye that is weeping for His sake! Oh, fortunate the heart that is seared for His sake!
  • ای خنک چشمی که آن گریان اوست ** وی همایون دل که آن بریان اوست‌‌

  • The end of every weeping is laughter at last; the man who foresees the end is a blessed servant (of God).
  • آخر هر گریه آخر خنده‌‌ای است ** مرد آخر بین مبارک بنده‌‌ای است‌‌

  • Wherever is flowing water, there is greenery: wherever are running tears, (the Divine) mercy is shown. 820
  • هر کجا آب روان سبزه بود ** هر کجا اشک روان رحمت شود

  • Be moaning and moist-eyed like the water-wheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul.
  • باش چون دولاب نالان چشم تر ** تا ز صحن جانت بر روید خضر