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1267-1316

  • Devote this (small) amount of seed that you have remaining, in order that long life may grow from these (one or) two moments.
  • این قدر تخمی که مانده ستت بباز ** تا بروید زین دو دم عمر دراز

  • Whilst this jewelled lamp is not (yet) extinguished, see you trim its wick and (supply it with) oil immediately.
  • تا نمرده ست این چراغ با گهر ** هین فتیله‏اش ساز و روغن زودتر

  • Beware! Do not say “To-morrow”—for (many) to-morrows have passed. Let not the days of sowing pass away altogether.
  • هین مگو فردا که فرداها گذشت ** تا به کلی نگذرد ایام کشت‏

  • Listen to my admonition that the body is a strong bond: put off the old, if you have desire for newness. 1270
  • پند من بشنو که تن بند قوی است ** کهنه بیرون کن گرت میل نوی است‏

  • Shut the lips and open the palm filled with gold: leave off being a miser with the body, exhibit munificence.
  • لب ببند و کف پر زر بر گشا ** بخل تن بگذار و پیش آور سخا

  • Munificence is the abandonment of lusts and pleasures; no one who is sunken in lust rises up (again).
  • ترک شهوتها و لذتها سخاست ** هر که در شهوت فرو شد بر نخاست‏

  • This munificence is a branch of the cypress of Paradise: woe to him that lets such a branch go from his hand!
  • این سخا شاخی است از سرو بهشت ** وای او کز کف چنین شاخی بهشت‏

  • This abandonment of sensuality is the firmest handle: this branch draws the spirit up to Heaven.
  • عروة الوثقی است این ترک هوا ** بر کشد این شاخ جان را بر سما

  • (So act) that the branch of munificence, O righteous man, drawing you aloft may bear you to its origin. 1275
  • تا برد شاخ سخا ای خوب کیش ** مر ترا بالا کشان تا اصل خویش‏

  • You are Joseph (full) of beauty, and this world is as the well, and this rope (to draw you forth) is patience with (submission to) the command of God.
  • یوسف حسنی و این عالم چو چاه ** وین رسن صبر است بر امر اله‏

  • O Joseph, the rope is come: put your two hands upon it. Do not neglect the rope, (for) it has grown late.
  • یوسفا آمد رسن در زن دو دست ** از رسن غافل مشو بی‏گه شده ست‏

  • Praise be to God, that this rope has been dangled, (and that) grace and mercy have been blended together,
  • حمد لله کین رسن آویختند ** فضل و رحمت را بهم آمیختند

  • So that you may behold the world of the new spirit, a world very manifest, (though) invisible.
  • تا ببینی عالم جان جدید ** عالم بس آشکار ناپدید

  • This (phenomenal) world of non-existence has become like (real) existence, while that world of (real) existence has become very hidden. 1280
  • این جهان نیست چون هستان شده ** و آن جهان هست بس پنهان شده‏

  • The dust is on the wind: it is playing, it is making a false show and forming a veil.
  • خاک بر باد است و بازی می‏کند ** کژنمایی پرده سازی می‏کند

  • This, which is busy (in appearance), is (really) idle and (superficial, like) a husk; and that which is hidden is its core and origin.
  • اینکه بر کار است بی‏کار است و پوست ** و انکه پنهان است مغز و اصل اوست‏

  • The dust is as a tool in the hand of the wind: deem the wind high and of high descent.
  • خاک همچون آلتی در دست باد ** باد را دان عالی و عالی نژاد

  • The gaze of the eye of dust falls on the dust; an eye that sees the wind is of another sort.
  • چشم خاکی را به خاک افتد نظر ** باد بین چشمی بود نوعی دگر

  • A horse knows a horse, because it (one horse) is associated (homogeneous with other horses); likewise (only) a rider knows the things appertaining to a rider. 1285
  • اسب داند اسب را کاو هست یار ** هم سواری داند احوال سوار

  • The sensuous eye is the horse, and the Light of God is the rider: without the rider the horse itself is useless.
  • چشم حس اسب است و نور حق سوار ** بی‏سواره اسب خود ناید به کار

  • Therefore train the horse (so as to cure it) of bad habits; else the horse will be rejected before the King.
  • پس ادب کن اسب را از خوی بد ** ور نه پیش شاه باشد اسب رد

  • The horse's eye finds the way from the King's eye: without the King's eye its eye is in desperate plight.
  • چشم اسب از چشم شه رهبر بود ** چشم او بی‏چشم شه مضطر بود

  • The eye of horses, whithersoever you call it except to grass and pasture, says, “Nay, why (should we go)?”
  • چشم اسبان جز گیاه و جز چرا ** هر کجا خوانی بگوید نه چرا

  • The Light of God mounts (as a rider) on the sensuous eye, and then the soul yearns after God. 1290
  • نور حق بر نور حس راکب شود ** آن گهی جان سوی حق راغب شود

  • How should the riderless horse know the marks of the road? The King is needed (to ride it) in order that it may know the King's road.
  • اسب بی‏راکب چه داند رسم راه ** شاه باید تا بداند شاه راه‏

  • Go towards a sense on which the Light is riding: that Light is a good companion for the sense.
  • سوی حسی رو که نورش راکب است ** حس را آن نور نیکو صاحب است‏

  • The Light of God is an ornament to the light of sense: this is the meaning of light upon light.
  • نور حس را نور حق تزیین بود ** معنی نور علی‏ نور این بود

  • The light of sense draws (a man) towards earth; the Light of God bears him aloft,
  • نور حسی می‏کشد سوی ثری ** نور حقش می‏برد سوی علی‏

  • Because sensible things are a lower world: the Light of God is (as) the sea, and the sense as a dew-drop. 1295
  • ز انکه محسوسات دونتر عالمی است ** نور حق دریا و حس چون شبنمی است‏

  • But that which rides on it (on the sense) is not manifested save by good effects and words.
  • لیک پیدا نیست آن راکب بر او ** جز به آثار و به گفتار نکو

  • The sensuous light, which is gross and heavy, is hidden in the black of the eyes.
  • نور حسی کاو غلیظ است و گران ** هست پنهان در سواد دیده‏گان‏

  • Inasmuch as you are not seeing the light of sense with (your) eye, how should you see the light of that religious one (the saint) with (your) eye?
  • چون که نور حس نمی‏بینی ز چشم ** چون ببینی نور آن دینی ز چشم‏

  • The light of sense is hidden notwithstanding this grossness: how (then) should not that radiance be hidden which is pure (and subtle)?
  • نور حس با این غلیظی مختفی است ** چون خفی نبود ضیایی کان صفی است‏

  • This world, like straws in the hand (control) of the wind (which is) the (world) unseen, is a helpless object before the power and sway of the Unseen 1300
  • این جهان چون خس به دست باد غیب ** عاجزی پیش گرفت و داد غیب‏

  • It (this control) makes it now lofty, now low; makes it now sound (and whole), now broken;
  • گه بلندش می‏کند گاهیش پست ** گه درستش می‏کند گاهی شکست‏

  • Now carries it to the right, now to the left; now makes it roses, now thorns.
  • گه یمینش می‏برد گاهی یسار ** گه گلستانش کند گاهیش خار

  • See (how) the Hand (is) hidden, while the pen is writing; the horse careering, while the Rider is invisible.
  • دست پنهان و قلم بین خط گزار ** اسب در جولان و ناپیدا سوار

  • See the arrow flying, and the Bow not in sight; the (individual) souls manifest, and the Soul of souls hidden.
  • تیر پران بین و ناپیدا کمان ** جانها پیدا و پنهان جان جان‏

  • Do not break the arrow, for it is the arrow of a King; it is not shot at long range (at random), it is from the thumb-stall of One who knows (how to hit the target). 1305
  • تیر را مشکن که این تیر شهی است ** تیر پرتابی ز شصت آگهی است‏

  • God said, “Thou didst not throw when thou threwest”: the action of God has precedence over (our) actions.
  • ما رمیت إذ رمیت گفت حق ** کار حق بر کارها دارد سبق‏

  • Break your own anger, do not break the arrow: the eye of your anger reckons milk (to be) blood.
  • خشم خود بشکن تو مشکن تیر را ** چشم خشمت خون شمارد شیر را

  • Give the arrow a kiss and bring it to the King—the blood-stained arrow, wet with your blood.
  • بوسه ده بر تیر و پیش شاه بر ** تیر خون آلود از خون تو تر

  • That which is seen is helpless and confined and feeble; and that which is unseen is so fierce and uncontrollable.
  • آن چه پیدا عاجز و بسته و زبون ** و آن چه ناپیدا چنان تند و حرون‏

  • We are the (hunted) prey: to whom belongs such a (fearful) snare? We are the ball (for the blows) of the polo-bat—and where is the Batsman? 1310
  • ما شکاریم این چنین دامی کراست ** گوی چوگانیم چوگانی کجاست‏

  • He tears, He sews: where is this Tailor? He blows, He burns: where is this Fire-kindler?
  • می‏درد می‏دوزد این خیاط کو ** می‏دمد می‏سوزد این نفاط کو

  • At one hour He makes the true saint an unbeliever; at another hour He makes the (impious) deist an (orthodox) ascetic;
  • ساعتی کافر کند صدیق را ** ساعتی زاهد کند زندیق را

  • For the mukhlis (sincere worshipper) is in danger of the snare until he becomes entirely purged of self,
  • ز انکه مخلص در خطر باشد ز دام ** تا ز خود خالص نگردد او تمام‏

  • Because he is (still) on the Way, and the brigands are numberless: (only) he escapes who is under God's safeguard.
  • ز انکه در راهست و ره زن بی‏حد است ** آن رهد کاو در امان ایزد است‏

  • (If) he has not become (selfless, like) a pure mirror, he is (no more than) mukhlis: (if) he has not caught the bird, he is (still) hunting; 1315
  • آینه‏ی خالص نگشت او مخلص است ** مرغ را نگرفته است او مقنص است‏

  • (But) when the mukhlis has become mukhlas, he is delivered: he has reached the place of safety and has won the victory.
  • چون که مخلص گشت مخلص باز رست ** در مقام امن رفت و برد دست‏