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1168-1217

  • I am the owner of the (spiritual) kingdom, I am not a lickspittle: the King is beating the falcon-drum for me from the shore.
  • مالک ملکم نیم من طبل خوار ** طبل بازم می‏زند شه از کنار

  • My falcon-drum is the call, ‘Return!’ God is my witness in despite of adversary.
  • طبل باز من ندای ارجعی ** حق گواه من به رغم مدعی‏

  • I am not a congener of the King of kings—far be it from Him!—but I have light from Him in (His) self-manifestation. 1170
  • من نیم جنس شهنشه دور از او ** لیک دارم در تجلی نور از او

  • Homogeneity is not in respect of form and essence: water becomes homogeneous with earth in the plant.
  • نیست جنسیت ز روی شکل و ذات ** آب جنس خاک آمد در نبات‏

  • Wind (air) becomes homogeneous with fire in consistency; wine at last becomes homogeneous with the constitution (of the body).
  • باد جنس آتش آمد در قوام ** طبع را جنس آمده ست آخر مدام‏

  • Since my genus is not the genus of my King, my ego has passed away (faná) for the sake of His ego.
  • جنس ما چون نیست جنس شاه ما ** مای ما شد بهر مای او فنا

  • Inasmuch as my ego passed away, He remained alone: I roll at the feet of His horse, like dust.
  • چون فنا شد مای ما او ماند فرد ** پیش پای اسب او گردم چو گرد

  • The (individual) soul (self) became dust, and the (only) signs of it are the mark of His feet on its dust. 1175
  • خاک شد جان و نشانیهای او ** هست بر خاکش نشان پای او

  • Become dust at His feet for the sake of this mark, in order that you may become the crown on the head of the lofty.
  • خاک پایش شو برای این نشان ** تا شوی تاج سر گردن کشان‏

  • Let not my form beguile you: partake of my dessert before my departure.”
  • تا که نفریبد شما را شکل من ** نقل من نوشید پیش از نقل من‏

  • Oh, (there is) many a one whom the form waylaid: he aimed at the form (of the holy man) and (in reality) struck at God.
  • ای بسا کس را که صورت راه زد ** قصد صورت کرد و بر الله زد

  • After all, this soul is joined to the body, (but) has this soul any likeness to the body?
  • آخر این جان با بدن پیوسته است ** هیچ این جان با بدن مانند هست‏

  • The sparkle of the eye's light is paired with the fat; the light of the heart is hidden in a drop of blood; 1180
  • تاب نور چشم با پیه است جفت ** نور دل در قطره‏ی خونی نهفت‏

  • Joy (has its seat) in the kidneys, grief in the liver; intellect, (bright) as a candle, inside the brain in the head.
  • شادی اندر گرده و غم در جگر ** عقل چون شمعی درون مغز سر

  • These connexions are not without a how and a why, (but) as regards knowledge of the why (our) minds are impotent.
  • این تعلقها نه بی‏کیف است و چون ** عقلها در دانش چونی زبون‏

  • The Universal Soul came into contact with the partial (individual) soul, and the (latter) soul received from it a pearl and put it into its bosom.
  • جان کل با جان جزو آسیب کرد ** جان از او دری ستد در جیب کرد

  • Through that touch on its bosom the (individual) soul became pregnant, like Mary, with a heart-beguiling Messiah,
  • همچو مریم جان از آن آسیب جیب ** حامله شد از مسیح دل فریب‏

  • Not the Messiah who is (a traveller) on land and water, (but) the Messiah who is beyond (the limitation of) measuring (space). 1185
  • آن مسیحی نه که بر خشک و تر است ** آن مسیحی کز مساحت برتر است‏

  • So when the soul has been impregnated by the Soul of soul, by such a soul the world is impregnated.
  • پس ز جان جان چو حامل گشت جان ** از چنین جانی شود حامل جهان‏

  • Then the world gives birth to another world, and displays to this congregated people a place of congregation (for the realities which are raised to life).
  • پس جهان زاید جهان دیگری ** این حشر را وا نماید محشری‏

  • Though I should speak and recount till the Resurrection, I lack the power to describe this (spiritual) resurrection.
  • تا قیامت گر بگویم بشمرم ** من ز شرح این قیامت قاصرم‏

  • These sayings (of mine), indeed, are really an “O Lord” (a prayer addressed to God); the words are the lure for the breath of a sweet-lipped One.
  • این سخنها خود به معنی یا ربی است ** حرفها دام دم شیرین لبی است‏

  • How, then, should he (that seeks the answer) fail (to pray)? How should he be silent, inasmuch as “Here am I” is (always) coming in response to his “O Lord”? 1190
  • چون کند تقصیر پس چون تن زند ** چون که لبیکش به یا رب می‏رسد

  • It is a “Here am I” that you cannot hear, but can taste (feel and enjoy) from head to foot.
  • هست لبیکی که نتوانی شنید ** لیک سر تا پای بتوانی چشید

  • How the thirsty man threw bricks from the top of the wall into the stream of water.
  • کلوخ انداختن تشنه از سر دیوار در جوی آب

  • On the bank of the stream there was a high wall, and on the top of the wall a sorrowful thirsty man.
  • بر لب جو بود دیواری بلند ** بر سر دیوار تشنه‏ی دردمند

  • The wall hindered him from (reaching) the water; he was in distress for the water, like a fish.
  • مانعش از آب آن دیوار بود ** از پی آب او چو ماهی زار بود

  • Suddenly he threw a brick into the water: the noise of the water came to his ear like spoken words,
  • ناگهان انداخت او خشتی در آب ** بانگ آب آمد به گوشش چون خطاب‏

  • Like words spoken by a sweet and delicious friend: the noise of the water made him drunken as (though it were) wine. 1195
  • چون خطاب یار شیرین لذیذ ** مست کرد آن بانگ آبش چون نبیذ

  • From the pleasure of (hearing) the noise of the water, that sorely tried man began to hurl and tear off bricks from that place.
  • از صفای بانگ آب آن ممتحن ** گشت خشت انداز ز آن جا خشت‏کن‏

  • The water was making a noise, that is to say, (it was crying), “Hey, what is the advantage to you of this hurling a brick at me?”
  • آب می‏زد بانگ یعنی هی ترا ** فایده چه زین زدن خشتی مرا

  • The thirsty man said, “O water, I have two advantages: I will nowise refrain from this work.
  • تشنه گفت آیا مرا دو فایده است ** من از این صنعت ندارم هیچ دست‏

  • The first advantage is (my) hearing the noise of the water, which to thirsty men is (melodious) as a rebeck.
  • فایده‏ی اول سماع بانگ آب ** کاو بود مر تشنگان را چون رباب‏

  • The noise thereof has become (to me) like the noise of (the trumpet of) Isráfíl: by this (noise) life has been transferred (restored) to one (that was) dead; 1200
  • بانگ او چون بانگ اسرافیل شد ** مرده را زین زندگی تحویل شد

  • Or (it is) like the noise of thunder in days of spring—from it (the thunder) the garden obtains so many (lovely) ornaments;
  • یا چو بانگ رعد ایام بهار ** باغ می‏یابد از او چندین نگار

  • Or like the days of alms to a poor man, or like the message of deliverance to a prisoner.
  • یا چو بر درویش ایام زکات ** یا چو بر محبوس پیغام نجات‏

  • ’Tis like the breath of the Merciful (God) which, without mouth, comes to Mohammed from Yemen;
  • چون دم رحمان بود کان از یمن ** می‏رسد سوی محمد بی‏دهن‏

  • Or ’tis like the scent of Ahmad (Mohammed), the Apostle (of God), which in intercession comes to the sinner;
  • یا چو بوی احمد مرسل بود ** کان به عاصی در شفاعت می‏رسد

  • Or like the scent of beauteous, graceful Joseph, (which) strikes upon the soul of lean Jacob. 1205
  • یا چو بوی یوسف خوب لطیف ** می‏زند بر جان یعقوب نحیف‏

  • The other advantage is that, (with) every brick I tear off this (wall), I come (nearer) to running water,
  • فایده‏ی دیگر که هر خشتی کز این ** بر کنم آیم سوی ماء معین‏

  • Since by diminution of the bricks the high wall becomes lower every time that one is removed.
  • کز کمی خشت دیوار بلند ** پست‏تر گردد به هر دفعه که کند

  • The lowness (destruction) of the wall becomes a means of access (to the water); separation from it is the remedy bringing about a union (with the water).”
  • پستی دیوار قربی می‏شود ** فصل او درمان وصلی می‏بود

  • The tearing away of the adhesive (firmly joined) bricks is (analogous to) prostration (in prayer): (it is) the cause of nearness (to God), for (God has said), ‘And prostrate thyself and draw near (to Me).’
  • سجده آمد کندن خشت لزب ** موجب قربی که و اسجد و اقترب‏

  • So long as this wall is high-necked (lofty and proud), it is an obstacle to this bowing of the head (in prayer). 1210
  • تا که این دیوار عالی گردن است ** مانع این سر فرود آوردن است‏

  • ’Tis impossible to perform the prostration on the Water of Life, until I gain deliverance from this earthly body.
  • سجده نتوان کرد بر آب حیات ** تا نیابم زین تن خاکی نجات‏

  • The more thirsty any one on the top of the wall is, the more quickly does he tear off the bricks and turfs.
  • بر سر دیوار هر کاو تشنه‏تر ** زودتر بر می‏کند خشت و مدر

  • The more any one is in love with the noise of the water, the bigger clods does he tear away from the barrier.
  • هر که عاشق تر بود بر بانگ آب ** او کلوخ زفت تر کند از حجاب‏

  • He, at the noise of the water, is filled with wine (ecstasy) up to the neck, (while) the stranger (to love) hears nothing but the sound of the splash.
  • او ز بانگ آب پر می تا عنق ** نشنود بیگانه جز بانگ بلق‏

  • Oh, blest is he that deems his early days an opportunity to be seized, and pays his debt— 1215
  • ای خنک آن را که او ایام پیش ** مغتنم دارد گزارد وام خویش‏

  • In the days when he has the power, (when) he has health and strength of heart and vigour,
  • اندر آن ایام کش قدرت بود ** صحت و زور دل و قوت بود

  • And (when) that season of youth, like a garden green and fresh, is bringing (to ripeness) produce and fruit without any stint;
  • و آن جوانی همچو باغ سبز و تر ** می‏رساند بی‏دریغی بار و بر