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  • He (an old man) cannot endure two words, he cries out thereat; he cannot retain one draught, he vomits (it)—
  • بر نتابد دو سخن زو هی کند ** تاب یک جرعه ندارد قی کند

  • Except, to be sure, the Ancient (Pír) that is drunken with God, and in whose inward being there is “a goodly life.” 3100
  • جز مگر پیری که از حق است مست ** در درون او حیات طیبه است‏

  • Outwardly he is old, but within he is young. What thing, verily, is he? He is the saint and the prophet.
  • از برون پیر است و در باطن صبی ** خود چه چیز است آن ولی و آن نبی‏

  • If they are not manifest to the good and the evil (alike), what is this envy which the worthless bear against them?
  • گر نه پیدایند پیش نیک و بد ** چیست با ایشان خسان را این حسد

  • And if they do not know them with certain knowledge, what is this hatred and hatching of plots and enmity?
  • ور نمی‏دانندشان علم الیقین ** چیست این بغض و حیل سازی و کین‏

  • And (again), if they know the retribution (which shall take place) at the Resurrection and rising from the dead, how should they dash themselves against a sharp sword?
  • ور نمی‏دانند بعث و رستخیز ** چون زنندی خویش بر شمشیر تیز

  • He (the prophet or saint) smiles upon you, (but) do not deem him to be such (as he appears): in his inward consciousness are hidden a hundred Resurrections. 3105
  • بر تو می‏خندد مبین او را چنان ** صد قیامت در درون استش نهان‏

  • Hell and Paradise are entirely parts of him: he is beyond any thought that you may conceive (of him).
  • دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوست ** هر چه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست‏

  • All that you may think of is liable to pass away; he that comes not into thought is God.
  • هر چه اندیشی پذیرای فناست ** آن که در اندیشه ناید آن خداست‏

  • Wherefore (then do they behave with) presumption at the door of this house, if they know who is within the house?
  • بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیست ** گر همی‏دانند کاندر خانه کیست‏

  • Fools venerate the mosque and exert themselves in maltreating them that have the heart (in which God dwells).
  • ابلهان تعظیم مسجد می‏کنند ** در جفای اهل دل جد می‏کنند

  • That (mosque) is phenomenal, this (heart) is real, O asses! The (true) mosque is naught but the hearts of the (spiritual) captains. 3110
  • آن مجاز است این حقیقت ای خران ** نیست مسجد جز درون سروران‏

  • The mosque that is the inward (consciousness) of the saints is the place of worship for all: God is there.
  • مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاست ** سجده‏گاه جمله است آن جا خداست‏

  • Until the heart of the man of God was grieved, never did God put any generation to shame.
  • تا دل مرد خدا نامد به درد ** هیچ قومی را خدا رسوا نکرد

  • They were going to make war on the prophets: they saw the body (of the prophet), they supposed he was a man.
  • قصد جنگ انبیا می‏داشتند ** جسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند

  • In thee are the moral natures of those peoples of yore: how art not thou afraid lest thou be the same (as they)?
  • در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیان ** چون نمی‏ترسی که تو باشی همان‏

  • Forasmuch as all those marks are in thee, and thou art (one) of them, how wilt thou be saved? 3115
  • آن نشانیها همه چون در تو هست ** چون تو زیشانی کجا خواهی برست‏

  • The story of Júhí and the child who cried lamentably beside his father's bier.
  • قصه‏ی جوحی و آن کودک که پیش جنازه‏ی پدر خویش نوحه می‏کرد

  • A child was crying bitterly and beating his head beside his father's coffin,
  • کودکی در پیش تابوت پدر ** زار می‏نالید و بر می‏کوفت سر

  • Saying, “Why, father, where are they taking you to put you under some earth?
  • کای پدر آخر کجایت می‏برند ** تا ترا در زیر خاکی بسپرند

  • They are taking you to a narrow and noisome house: there is no carpet in it, nor any mat;
  • می‏برندت خانه‏ی تنگ و زحیر ** نی در او قالی و نه در وی حصیر

  • No lamp at night and no bread by day; neither smell nor sign of food is there.
  • نی چراغی در شب و نه روز نان ** نی در او بوی طعام و نه نشان‏

  • No door in good repair, no way to the roof; not one neighbour to be (your) refuge. 3120
  • نی درش معمور و نی در بام راه ** نی یکی همسایه کاو باشد پناه‏

  • Your eye, which was a place for the people's kisses—how should it go into a blind and murky house?—
  • چشم تو که بوسه گاه خلق بود ** چون رود در خانه‏ی کور و کبود

  • A pitiless house and narrow room, where neither (your) face will be lasting nor (your) colour.”
  • خانه‏ی بی‏زینهار و جای تنگ ** که در او نه روی می‏ماند نه رنگ‏

  • In this manner was he enumerating the qualities of the house, whilst he wrung tears of blood from his two eyes.
  • زین نسق اوصاف خانه می‏شمرد ** وز دو دیده اشک خونین می‏فشرد

  • Júhí said to his father, “O worthy (sir), by God they are taking this (corpse) to our house.”
  • گفت جوحی را پدر ای ارجمند ** و الله این را خانه‏ی ما می‏برند

  • The father said to Júhí, “Don't be a fool!” “O papa,” said he, “hear the marks (of identity). 3125
  • گفت جوحی را پدر ابله مشو ** گفت ای بابا نشانیها شنو

  • These marks which he mentioned one by one—our house has them (all), without uncertainty or doubt.
  • این نشانیها که گفت او یک به یک ** خانه‏ی ما راست بی‏تردید و شک‏

  • (It has) neither mat nor lamp nor food; neither its door is in good repair, nor its court nor its roof.”
  • نی حصیر و نه چراغ و نه طعام ** نه درش معمور و نه صحن و نه بام‏

  • In this wise the disobedient have a hundred marks upon themselves, but how should they see them?
  • زین نمط دارند بر خود صد نشان ** لیک کی بینند آن را طاغیان‏

  • The house, namely, the heart that remains unlighted by the beams of the sun of (Divine) Majesty,
  • خانه‏ی آن دل که ماند بی‏ضیا ** از شعاع آفتاب کبریا

  • Is narrow and dark as the souls of Jews, (being) destitute of (spiritual) savour of the loving King. 3130
  • تنگ و تاریک است چون جان جهود ** بی‏نوا از ذوق سلطان ودود

  • Neither has the light of the Sun shone into that heart, nor is there (in it any) spaciousness or opening of the door.
  • نی در آن دل تافت نور آفتاب ** نی گشاد عرصه و نه فتح باب‏

  • The tomb is better for thee than a heart like this. Come now, arise from the tomb which is thy heart!
  • گور خوشتر از چنین دل مر ترا ** آخر از گور دل خود برتر آ

  • Thou art living and born of the living. O gay and winsome one, art not thou choked by this narrow tomb?
  • زنده‏ای و زنده زاد ای شوخ و شنگ ** دم نمی‏گیرد ترا زین گور تنگ‏

  • Thou art the Joseph of the time and the sun of heaven: arise from this pit and prison, and show thy face!
  • یوسف وقتی و خورشید سما ** زین چه و زندان بر آ و رو نما

  • Thy Jonah has been cooked in the fish's belly: for his deliverance there is no means but glorification of God. 3135
  • یونست در بطن ماهی پخته شد ** مخلصش را نیست از تسبیح بد

  • If he had not glorified (God), the fish's belly would have been his gaol and prison until they shall be raised (from the dead).
  • گر نبودی او مسیح بطن نون ** حبس و زندانش بدی تا یبعثون‏

  • Through glorification he escaped from the body of the fish. What is glorification? The sign (and token) of the Day of Alast.
  • او به تسبیح از تن ماهی بجست ** چیست تسبیح آیت روز أ لست

  • If thou hast forgotten that glorification (rendered to God) by thy spirit, hearken to the glorifications of (uttered by) those Fishes (the prophets and saints).
  • گر فراموشت شد آن تسبیح جان ** بشنو این تسبیحهای ماهیان‏

  • Whosoever hath seen God is of God: whosoever hath seen that Sea is that Fish.
  • هر که دید الله را اللهی است ** هر که دید آن بحر را آن ماهی است‏

  • This world is a sea, and the body a fish, and the spirit is the Jonah debarred from the light of the dawn. 3140
  • این جهان دریاست و تن ماهی و روح ** یونس محجوب از نور صبوح‏

  • If it be a glorifier (of God), it is delivered from the fish; otherwise, it becomes digested therein and vanishes.
  • گر مسبح باشد از ماهی رهید ** ور نه در وی هضم گشت و ناپدید

  • The spiritual Fishes abound in this sea (the world), (but) thou seest them not, for thou art blind, O miserable wretch.
  • ماهیان جان در این دریا پرند ** تو نمی‏بینی که کوری ای نژند

  • Those Fishes are darting at thee: open thine eye, that thou mayst see them clearly.
  • بر تو خود را می‏زنند آن ماهیان ** چشم بگشا تا ببینی‏شان عیان‏

  • If thou art not seeing the Fishes plain—after all, thine ear hath heard their glorification (of God).
  • ماهیان را گر نمی‏بینی پدید ** گوش تو تسبیحشان آخر شنید

  • To practise patience is the soul of thy glorifications: have patience, for that is the true glorification. 3145
  • صبر کردن جان تسبیحات تست ** صبر کن کان است تسبیح درست‏

  • No glorification hath such a (high) degree (as patience hath); have patience: patience is the key to relief (from pain).
  • هیچ تسبیحی ندارد آن درج ** صبر کن الصبر مفتاح الفرج‏

  • Patience is like the bridge Sirát, (with) Paradise on the other side: with every fair (boy) there is an ugly pedagogue.
  • صبر چون پول صراط آن سو بهشت ** هست با هر خوب یک لالای زشت‏

  • So long as you flee from the pedagogue, there is no meeting (with the boy), because there is no parting of the handsome boy from the pedagogue.
  • تا ز لالا می‏گریزی وصل نیست ** ز انکه لالا را ز شاهد فصل نیست‏