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  • The (real) madman is he that has not gone mad, he that has seen this night patrol and has not gone home.
  • اوست دیوانه که دیوانه نشد ** این عسس را دید و در خانه نشد

  • My knowledge is substantial, not accidental; and this precious (thing) is not for (the purpose of gaining) every (worldly) interest.
  • دانش من جوهر آمد نه عرض ** این بهایی نیست بهر هر غرض‏

  • I am a mine of candy, I am a plantation of sugar-canes: it is growing from me, and at the same time I am eating (of it).
  • کان قندم نیستان شکرم ** هم ز من می‏روید و من می‏خورم‏

  • Knowledge is conventional and acquired (not real), when he (its owner) laments because the hearer is averse to (hearing) it.
  • علم تقلیدی و تعلیمی است آن ** کز نفورش مستمع دارد فغان‏

  • Since it is (learned) as a bait (for popularity), not for the sake of (spiritual) enlightenment, he (the seeker of religious knowledge) is just as (bad) as the seeker of vile worldly knowledge; 2430
  • چون پی دانه نه بهر روشنی است ** همچو طالب علم دنیای دنی است‏

  • (For) he is seeking knowledge on account of the vulgar and the noble, not in order that he may win release from this world.
  • طالب علم است بهر عام و خاص ** نی که تا یابد از این عالم خلاص‏

  • Like a mouse, he has burrowed in every direction, since the light drove him (back) from the door (the entrance to the hole) and said, ‘Away!’
  • همچو موشی هر طرف سوراخ کرد ** چون که نورش راند از در گشت سرد

  • Inasmuch as he had no way (of getting out) to the open country and the light, he continued to make (such) an exertion even in that darkness.
  • چون که سوی دشت و نورش ره نبود ** هم در آن ظلمات جهدی می‏نمود

  • If God give him wings, the wings of Wisdom, he will escape from mousiness and will fly like the birds;
  • گر خدایش پر دهد پر خرد ** برهد از موشی و چون مرغان پرد

  • But if he seek not wings, he will remain underground with no hope of traversing the path to Simák. 2435
  • ور نجوید پر بماند زیر خاک ** ناامید از رفتن راه سماک‏

  • Dialectic knowledge, which is soulless, is in love with (eager for) the countenance of customers;
  • علم گفتاری که آن بی‏جان بود ** عاشق روی خریداران بود

  • (But) though it is robust at the time of disputation, it is dead and gone when it has no customer.
  • گر چه باشد وقت بحث علم زفت ** چون خریدارش نباشد مرد و رفت‏

  • My purchaser is God: He is drawing me aloft, for God hath purchased.
  • مشتری من خدای است او مرا ** می‏کشد بالا که الله اشتری‏

  • My bloodwit (the reward of my self-sacrifice) is the beauty of the Glorious One: I enjoy my bloodwit (as) lawful earnings.
  • خونبهای من جمال ذو الجلال ** خونبهای خود خورم کسب حلال‏

  • Abandon these insolvent customers: what purchase can be made by a handful of (worthless) clay? 2440
  • این خریداران مفلس را بهل ** چه خریداری کند یک مشت گل‏

  • Do not eat clay, do not buy clay, do not seek clay, because the eater of clay is always pale-faced.
  • گل مخور گل را مخر گل را مجو ** ز انکه گل خوار است دایم زرد رو

  • Eat your heart (in love of God), that you may be young always, (and that) your visage (may be rosy) with Divine illumination, like the arghawán.”
  • دل بخور تا دایما باشی جوان ** از تجلی چهره‏ات چون ارغوان‏

  • O Lord, this gift is not (within) the compass of our work (achievement): verily, (the gift of) Thy grace is (not according to our work, but) according to Thy mysterious grace.
  • یا رب این بخشش نه حد کار ماست ** لطف تو لطف خفی را خود سزاست‏

  • Take our hands (help us); buy (redeem) us from our hands (self-existence); lift the veil (between Thee and us), and do not tear our veil (do not expose us to shame).
  • دست گیر از دست ما ما را بخر ** پرده را بردار و پرده‏ی ما مدر

  • Redeem us from this filthy self (nafs): its knife has reached our bones. 2445
  • باز خر ما را از این نفس پلید ** کاردش تا استخوان ما رسید

  • Who will loose these strong chains from helpless ones like us, O king uncrowned and unthroned?
  • از چو ما بی‏چارگان این بند سخت ** کی گشاید ای شه بی‏تاج و تخت‏

  • Who except (Thee in) Thy bounty, O Loving One, can loose such a heavy lock?
  • این چنین قفل گران را ای ودود ** کی تواند جز که فضل تو گشود

  • Let us turn our heads from ourselves towards Thee, inasmuch as Thou art nigher unto us than we (unto ourselves).
  • ما ز خود سوی که گردانیم سر ** چون تویی از ما به ما نزدیکتر

  • Even this prayer is Thy gift and lesson (to us); else, wherefore has a rose-bed grown in an ash-pit?
  • این دعا هم بخشش و تعلیم تست ** گر نه در گلخن گلستان از چه رست‏

  • Save through Thy munificence, ’tis impossible to convey understanding and reason into the midst of blood and entrails. 2450
  • در میان خون و روده فهم و عقل ** جز ز اکرام تو نتوان کرد نقل‏

  • This flowing light (proceeds) from two pieces of fat (the two eyeballs): their waves of light reach up to the sky.
  • از دو پاره‏ی پیه این نور روان ** موج نورش می‏زند بر آسمان‏

  • The piece of flesh which is the tongue—from it the flood of Wisdom is flowing, like a stream,
  • گوشت پاره که زبان آمد از او ** می‏رود سیلاب حکمت همچو جو

  • Towards a cavity, whereof the name is “ears,” up to the orchard of the (rational) soul, whereof the fruit is intellections.
  • سوی سوراخی که نامش گوشهاست ** تا بباغ جان که میوه‏اش هوشهاست‏

  • Its main course is the highway of the orchard of souls; the orchards and gardens of the world are its branches.
  • شاه راه باغ جانها شرع اوست ** باغ و بستانهای عالم فرع اوست‏

  • That, that, is the source and fountainhead of joy: quick, recite (the text), (gardens) beneath which flow the rivers. 2455
  • اصل و سرچشمه‏ی خوشی آن است آن ** زود تجری تحتها الأنهار خوان‏

  • Conclusion of the admonishment given by the Prophet, God bless and save him, to the sick man.
  • تتمه‌ای نصیحت رسول صلی الله علیه و آله بیمار را

  • The Prophet said to the sick man, when he visited (his) suffering friend,
  • گفت پیغمبر مر آن بیمار را ** چون عیادت کرد یار زار را

  • “Maybe you have made a prayer of some (peculiar) sort, and from ignorance have (as it were) eaten some poisoned food.
  • که مگر نوعی دعایی کرده‏ای ** از جهالت زهربایی خورده‏ای‏

  • Bring to mind what (sort of) a prayer you said when you were being vexed by the guile of the fleshly soul.”
  • یاد آور چه دعا می‏گفته‏ای ** چون ز مکر نفس می‏آشفته‏ای‏

  • He answered, “I do not remember; but direct a (spiritual) influence towards me, and it (the prayer) will come to my memory in a moment.”
  • گفت یادم نیست الا همتی ** دار با من یادم آید ساعتی‏

  • Through the light-giving presence of Mustafá (Mohammed), that prayer came into his mind; 2460
  • از حضور نور بخش مصطفا ** پیش خاطر آمد او را آن دعا

  • (From) the aspiration of the Prophet who dwells in light there came into his mind that which had been lost;
  • همت پیغمبر روشن‏کده ** پیش خاطر آمدش آن گم شده‏

  • Through the window which is between heart and heart flashed the light that separates truth and falsehood.
  • تافت ز آن روزن که از دل تا دل است ** روشنی که فرق حق و باطل است‏

  • He said, “Look now, I have remembered, O Prophet, the prayer which I, impertinent fool, spoke.
  • گفت اینک یادم آمد ای رسول ** آن دعا که گفته‏ام من بو الفضول‏

  • When I was being caught in (the toils of) sin, and drowning (therein) was clutching at straws––
  • چون گرفتار گنه می‏آمدم ** غرقه دست اندر حشایش می‏زدم‏

  • (Whilst) there was coming from thee to sinners a threat and menace of punishment exceedingly severe–– 2465
  • از تو تهدید و وعیدی می‏رسید ** مجرمان را از عذاب بس شدید

  • (And) I was becoming agitated, and there was no help (for me), (since) there were chains made fast and a lock not (to be) opened:
  • مضطرب می‏گشتم و چاره نبود ** بند محکم بود و قفل ناگشود

  • Neither room for patience nor means of flight, neither hope of repenting nor opportunity for rebelling
  • نی مقام صبر و نه راه گریز ** نی امید توبه نه جای ستیز

  • I, like Hárút and Márút was crying in sorrow, ‘Alas!’ and saying, ‘O my Creator!’”
  • من چو هاروت و چو ماروت از حزن ** آه می‏کردم که ای خلاق من‏

  • Because of the dangers (of the Last Judgement) Hárút and Márút openly chose the pit of Babylon,
  • از خطر هاروت و ماروت آشکار ** چاه بابل را بکردند اختیار

  • So that they might suffer here (in this world) the punishment of the world to come; and they are cunning and intelligent and magician-like. 2470
  • تا عذاب آخرت اینجا کشند ** گربزند و عاقل و ساحروش‏اند

  • They acted well, and ‘twas fitly done: the pain of smoke is lighter than (that of) fire.
  • نیک کردند و بجای خویش بود ** سهلتر باشد ز آتش رنج دود

  • The pain of that (future) world is beyond description; light is the pain of this world beside it.
  • حد ندارد وصف رنج آن جهان ** سهل باشد رنج دنیا پیش آن‏

  • Oh, happy he that wages a holy war (of self-mortification), and puts a restraint upon the body and deals justice (against it),
  • ای خنک آن کاو جهادی می‏کند ** بر بدن زجری و دادی می‏کند

  • And, in order that he may be delivered from the pain of that world, lays upon himself this pain of serving God.
  • تا ز رنج آن جهانی وارهد ** بر خود این رنج عبادت می‏نهد

  • “I was saying, ‘O Lord, quickly inflict on me in this world that punishment, 2475
  • من همی‏گفتم که یا رب آن عذاب ** هم در این عالم بران بر من شتاب‏