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1680-1729

  • This (which follows) is the sign that you will gain from God the (spiritual) kingdom and power that you are seeking— 1680
  • این نشان آن بود کان ملک و جاه ** که همی‏جویی بیابی از اله‏

  • That you weep continually in the long nights, and that you are always ardent in supplication at the hour of dawn;
  • آن که می‏گریی به شبهای دراز ** و انکه می‏سوزی سحرگه در نیاز

  • That, in the absence of that (which you seek), your day has become dark; (that) your neck has become thin as a spindle;
  • آن که بی‏آن روز تو تاریک شد ** همچو دوکی گردنت باریک شد

  • And what you have given in alms (is) all that you possess, (so that) your belongings (are entirely bestowed in charity) like the alms of those who gamble all away;
  • و آن چه دادی هر چه داری در زکات ** چون زکات پاک بازان رختهات‏

  • (That) you have given up your belongings and sleep and the (healthy) colour of your face, and sacrificed your head (life) and become as (thin as) a hair;
  • رختها دادی و خواب و رنگ رو ** سر فدا کردی و گشتی همچو مو

  • (That) you have sat—how often!—in the fire, like aloes-wood; that you have gone—how often!—to meet the sword, like a helmet. 1685
  • چند در آتش نشستی همچو عود ** چند پیش تیغ رفتی همچو خود

  • A hundred thousand such acts of helplessness are habitual to lovers (of God), and (their number) cannot be reckoned.
  • زین چنین بی‏چارگیها صد هزار ** خوی عشاق است و ناید در شمار

  • After you have had this dream at night, the day breaks; through hope thereof your day becomes triumphant.
  • چون که شب این خواب دیدی روز شد ** از امیدش روز تو پیروز شد

  • You have turned your eye to left and right, (wondering) where is that sign and those tokens.
  • چشم گردان کرده‏ای بر چپ و راست ** کان نشان و آن علامتها کجاست‏

  • You are trembling like a leaf (and saying), “Alas, if the day depart and the sign come not to pass!”
  • بر مثال برگ می‏لرزی که وای ** گر رود روز و نشان ناید به جای‏

  • You are running in street and market and into houses, like one that should lose a calf. 1690
  • می‏دوی در کوی و بازار و سرا ** چون کسی کاو گم کند گوساله را

  • (Somebody asks), “Is it good (news), Sir? Why are you running to and fro? Who belonging to you is it that you have lost here?”
  • خواجه خیر است این دوادو چیستت ** گم شده اینجا که داری کیستت‏

  • “It is good (news),” you tell him, “but none may know my good (news) except myself.
  • گویی‏اش خیر است لیکن خیر من ** کس نشاید که بداند غیر من‏

  • If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”
  • گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد

  • You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”
  • بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانه‏وار

  • You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him. 1695
  • گویی‏اش من صاحبی گم کرده‏ام ** رو به جستجوی او آورده‏ام‏

  • May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”
  • دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار

  • When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—
  • چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر

  • Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.
  • ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت‏

  • You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”
  • تو شدی بی‏هوش و افتادی به طاق ** بی‏خبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق‏

  • How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union. 1700
  • او چه می‏بیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست‏

  • This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?
  • این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید

  • Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.
  • هر زمان کز وی نشانی می‏رسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی می‏رسید

  • Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.
  • ماهی بی‏چاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب‏

  • Hence the signs which are in the prophets are peculiar to (known exclusively by) him who is a friend (knower and lover of God).
  • پس نشانیها که اندر انبیاست ** خاص آن جان را بود کاو آشناست‏

  • This discourse remains imperfect and unsettled; I have no heart (understanding), I am out of my mind: excuse me. 1705
  • این سخن ناقص بماند و بی‏قرار ** دل ندارم بی‏دلم معذور دار

  • How can any one number the motes, especially that one whose understanding has been transported by Love?
  • ذره‏ها را کی تواند کس شمرد ** خاصه آن کاو عشق عقل او ببرد

  • Shall I number the leaves of the garden? Shall I number the cries of the partridge and the crow?
  • می‏شمارم برگهای باغ را ** می‏شمارم بانگ کبک و زاغ را

  • They come not into computation, but I enumerate them for the guidance of him that is put to trial.
  • در شمار اندر نیاید لیک من ** می‏شمارم بهر رشد ممتحن‏

  • The sinister influence of Saturn and the auspicious influence of Jupiter come not into computation, though you may enumerate;
  • نحس کیوان یا که سعد مشتری ** ناید اندر حصر گر چه بشمری‏

  • But still, some of these two (diverse) effects must be explained—that is, the benefit and injury (which they involve)— 1710
  • لیک هم بعضی از این هر دو اثر ** شرح باید کرد یعنی نفع و ضر

  • In order that some little part of the effects of the (Divine) decree may be made known to the good-fortuned and the ill-starred.
  • تا شود معلوم آثار قضا ** شمه ای مر اهل سعد و نحس را

  • He whose ascendant (ruling planet) is Jupiter will be rejoiced by vivacity (of disposition) and eminence;
  • طالع آن کس که باشد مشتری ** شاد گردد از نشاط و سروری‏

  • And it will be necessary for him whose ascendant is Saturn to take precautions against every (kind of) mischief in his affairs.
  • و انکه را طالع زحل از هر شرور ** احتیاطش لازم آید در امور

  • If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.
  • گر بگویم آن زحل استاره را ** ز آتشش سوزد مر آن بی‏چاره را

  • Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light. 1715
  • اذکروا الله شاه ما دستور داد ** اندر آتش دید ما را نور داد

  • He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,
  • گفت اگر چه پاکم از ذکر شما ** نیست لایق مر مرا تصویرها

  • Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”
  • لیک هرگز مست تصویر و خیال ** در نیابد ذات ما را بی‏مثال‏

  • Bodily commemoration is an imperfect fancy: the Kingly attributes are remote from those (forms of speech).
  • ذکر جسمانه خیال ناقص است ** وصف شاهانه از آنها خالص است‏

  • If any one say of a king, “He is not a weaver,” what praise is this? He (that person) is surely ignorant.
  • شاه را گوید کسی جولاه نیست ** این چه مدح است این مگر آگاه نیست‏

  • How Moses, on whom be peace, took offence at the prayer of the shepherd.
  • انکار کردن موسی علیه السلام بر مناجات شبان‏

  • Moses saw a shepherd on the way, who was saying, “O God who choosest (whom Thou wilt), 1720
  • دید موسی یک شبانی را به راه ** کاو همی‏گفت ای خدا و ای اله‏

  • Where art Thou, that I may become Thy servant and sew Thy shoes and comb Thy head?
  • تو کجایی تا شوم من چاکرت ** چارقت دوزم کنم شانه سرت‏

  • That I may wash Thy clothes and kill Thy lice and bring milk to Thee, O worshipful One;
  • جامه‏ات شویم شپشهایت کشم ** شیر پیشت آورم ای محتشم‏

  • That I may kiss Thy little hand and rub Thy little foot, (and when) bedtime comes I may sweep Thy little room,
  • دستکت بوسم بمالم پایکت ** وقت خواب آید بروبم جایکت‏

  • O Thou to whom all my goats be a sacrifice, O Thou in remembrance of whom are my cries of ay and ah!”
  • ای فدای تو همه بزهای من ** ای به یادت هیهی و هیهای من‏

  • The shepherd was speaking foolish words in this wise. Moses said, “Man, to whom is this (addressed)?” 1725
  • این نمط بی‏هوده می‏گفت آن شبان ** گفت موسی با کی است این ای فلان‏

  • He answered, “To that One who created us; by whom this earth and sky were brought to sight.”
  • گفت با آن کس که ما را آفرید ** این زمین و چرخ از او آمد پدید

  • “Hark!” said Moses, “you have become very backsliding (depraved); indeed you have not become a Moslem, you have become an infidel.
  • گفت موسی های خیره‏سر شدی ** خود مسلمان ناشده کافر شدی‏

  • What babble is this? what blasphemy and raving? Stuff some cotton into your mouth!
  • این چه ژاژست و چه کفر است و فشار ** پنبه‏ای اندر دهان خود فشار

  • The stench of your blasphemy has made the (whole) world stinking: your blasphemy has turned the silk robe of religion into rags.
  • گند کفر تو جهان را گنده کرد ** کفر تو دیبای دین را ژنده کرد