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  • Is it not (the case) that the Pentateuch and the Gospel and the Psalms have borne witness to the truth of theQur’an, O thankful one?
  • نه که هم توریت و انجیل و زبور ** شد گواه صدق قرآن ای شکور

  • Seek a (spiritual) livelihood (won) without toil and without reckoning, so that Gabriel may bring you apples from Paradise; 2540
  • روزی بی‌رنج جو و بی‌حساب ** کز بهشتت آورد جبریل سیب

  • Nay, (that there may come to you) a livelihood from the Lord of Paradise, without headache (trouble) on the part of the gardener and without the toil of sowing.
  • بلک رزقی از خداوند بهشت ** بی‌صداع باغبان بی رنج کشت

  • Inasmuch as in that (spiritual) bread the benefit of (conferred by) the bread is His (God’s) gift, He gives you that benefit (directly), without making the husk a means (of imparting it to you).
  • زانک نفع نان در آن نان داد اوست ** بدهدت آن نفع بی توسیط پوست

  • The savour is hidden; the outward form of the bread is (visible) like a table-cloth: the bread that is without table-cloth is a portion (reserved) for the saint.
  • ذوق پنهان نقش نان چون سفره‌ایست ** نان بی سفره ولی را بهره‌ایست

  • How will you, notwithstanding (all your) endeavour and search, gain the spiritual livelihood except through ‘the justice of the Shaykh who is your David?
  • رزق جانی کی بری با سعی و جست ** جز به عدل شیخ کو داود تست

  • ‘When the fleshly soul sees your steps (joined) with (those of) the Shaykh, willy-nilly it becomes submissive to you. 2545
  • نفس چون با شیخ بیند کام تو ** از بن دندان شود او رام تو

  • Then (and then only) did the owner of the cow become sub missive, when he was made aware of the (inspired) words of David.
  • صاحب آن گاو رام آنگاه شد ** کز دم داود او آگاه شد

  • The intellect, in chase (of spiritual truth), prevails over your currish fleshly soul (only) at the time when the Shaykh is its helper.
  • عقل گاهی غالب آید در شکار ** برسگ نفست که باشد شیخ یار

  • The fleshly soul is a dragon with hundredfold strength and cunning: the face of the Shaykh is the emerald that plucks out its eye
  • نفس اژدرهاست با صد زور و فن ** روی شیخ او را زمرد دیده کن

  • If you wish the owner of the cows to be abased, goad him in that direction as (you would goad) asses, O contumacious man!
  • گر تو صاحب گاو را خواهی زبون ** چون خران سیخش کن آن سو ای حرون

  • When he approaches him (the saint) who is nigh unto God, his tongue, a hundred ells long, is shortened. 2550
  • چون به نزدیک ولی الله شود ** آن زبان صد گزش کوته شود

  • (He hath) a hundred tongues, and each tongue of him (hath) a hundred languages: his fraud and guile come not into (the bounds of) description.
  • صد زبان و هر زبانش صد لغت ** زرق و دستانش نیاید در صفت

  • The claimant for the cow, the fleshly soul, is eloquent and brings forward hundreds of thousands of unsound pleas.
  • مدعی گاو نفس آمد فصیح ** صد هزاران حجت آرد ناصحیح

  • He deceives (all in) the city except the king: he cannot waylay the sagacious king.
  • شهر را بفریبد الا شاه را ** ره نتاند زد شه آگاه را

  • The fleshly soul hath glorification of God (on its tongue), and the Qur’án in its right hand; (but) in its sleeve (it hath) dagger and sword.
  • نفس را تسبیح و مصحف در یمین ** خنجر و شمشیر اندر آستین

  • Do not believe its Qur’án and hypocritical ostentation, do not make yourself its confidant and comrade; 2555
  • مصحف و سالوس او باور مکن ** خویش با او هم‌سر و هم‌سر مکن

  • (For) it will take you to the tank to perform the ritual ablution, and will cast you to the bottom thereof.
  • سوی حوضت آورد بهر وضو ** واندر اندازد ترا در قعر او

  • The intellect is luminous and a seeker of good: how (then) does the dark fleshly soul prevail over it?
  • عقل نورانی و نیکو طالبست ** نفس ظلمانی برو چون غالبست

  • (It prevails) because it is at home, (while) your intellect is a stranger: the dog at his own door is (like) a terrible lion.
  • زانک او در خانه عقل تو غریب ** بر در خود سگ بود شیر مهیب

  • Wait till the lions go (back) to the jungle and these blind dogs’ will believe (in them) there.
  • باش تا شیران سوی بیشه روند ** وین سگان کور آنجا بگروند

  • The common folk of the city do not know the deceit of the fleshly soul and of the body: it (the fleshly soul) is not subdued save by (Divine) inspiration in the heart. 2560
  • مکر نفس و تن نداند عام شهر ** او نگردد جز بوحی القلب قهر

  • Every one that is its congener becomes its friend, except, to be sure, the David who is your Shaykh;
  • هر که جنس اوست یار او شود ** جز مگر داود کان شیخت بود

  • For he has been transmuted, and whomsoever God hath seated in the abode of the heart, he( that person) is no more the body’s congener.
  • کو مبدل گشت و جنس تن نماند ** هر که را حق در مقام دل نشاند

  • All the (other) people are (rendered) infirm by (that which lies in) ambush (within them): ‘tis certain that infirmity associates with infirmity.
  • خلق جمله علتی‌اند از کمین ** یار علت می‌شود علت یقین

  • Every worthless fellow pretends to be (a) David; every one who lacks discernment lays hold of him (attaches himself to him):
  • هر خسی دعوی داودی کند ** هر که بی تمییز کف در وی زند

  • He hears the bird’s note from a fowler and, (like a) foolish bird, he keeps going in that direction. 2565
  • از صیادی بشنود آواز طیر ** مرغ ابله می‌کند آن سوی سیر

  • ‘He dos not distinguish fact from fiction: he is misguided. Come, flee from him, even if he is spiritual (in appearance).
  • نقد را از نقل نشناسد غویست ** هین ازو بگریز اگر چه معنویست

  • What has grown (genuinely) and what has been tied on (artificially) is (all) one to him: though he may claim (to possess) intuitive certainty, he is (really) in a (great) doubt.
  • رسته و بر بسته پیش او یکیست ** گر یقین دعوی کند او در شکیست

  • If such a one is absolutely keen-witted, (still), when he has not this (power of) discernment, he is a fool.
  • این چنین کس گر ذکی مطلقست ** چونش این تمییز نبود احمقست

  • Hark, flee from him as the deer from the lion: do not hasten boldly towards him, O wise man!
  • هین ازو بگریز چون آهو ز شیر ** سوی او مشتاق ای دانا دلیر

  • How Jesus, on whom be peace, fled to the top of a mountain (to escape) from the fools.
  • گریختن عیسی علیه السلام فراز کوه از احمقان

  • Jesus, son of Mary, was fleeing to a mountain: you would say that a lion wished to shed his blood. 2570
  • عیسی مریم به کوهی می‌گریخت ** شیرگویی خون او می‌خواست ریخت

  • A certain man ran after him and said, “(Is it) well (with thee)? There is no one in pursuit of thee: why dost thou flee, like a bird?”
  • آن یکی در پی دوید و گفت خیر ** در پیت کس نیست چه گریزی چو طیر

  • (But) he (Jesus) still kept running with haste so (quickly) that on account of his haste he did not answer him.
  • با شتاب او آنچنان می‌تاخت جفت ** کز شتاب خود جواب او نگفت

  • He pushed on in pursuit of Jesus for the distance of one or two fields, and then invoked Jesus with the utmost earnestness,
  • یک دو میدان در پی عیسی براند ** پس بجد جد عیسی را بخواند

  • Saying, “For the sake of pleasing God, stop one moment, for I have a difficulty concerning thy flight.
  • کز پی مرضات حق یک لحظه بیست ** که مرا اندر گریزت مشکلیست

  • From whom art thou fleeing in this direction, O noble one? There is no lion pursuing thee, no enemy, and there is no fear or danger.” 2575
  • از کی این سو می‌گریزی ای کریم ** نه پیت شیر و نه خصم و خوف و بیم

  • He said, “I am fleeing from the fool. Begone! I am saving myself. Do not debar me!”
  • گفت از احمق گریزانم برو ** می‌رهانم خویش را بندم مشو

  • “Why,” said he, “art not thou the Messiah by whom the blind and the deaf are restored (to sight and hearing)?”
  • گفت آخر آن مسیحا نه توی ** که شود کور و کر از تو مستوی

  • He said, “Yea.” Said the other, “Art not thou the King in whom the spells of the Unseen World have their abode?—
  • گفت آری گفت آن شه نیستی ** که فسون غیب را ماویستی

  • (So that) when thou chantest those spells over a dead man, he springs up (rejoicing) like a lion that has caught his prey.”
  • چون بخوانی آن فسون بر مرده‌ای ** برجهد چون شیر صید آورده‌ای

  • He said, “Yea, I am he.” Said the other, “Dost not thou make (living) birds out of clay, O beauteous one?” 2580
  • گفت آری آن منم گفتا که تو ** نه ز گل مرغان کنی ای خوب‌رو

  • He said, “Yea.” Said the other, “Then, O pure Spirit, thou doest whatsoever thou wilt: of whom hast thou fear?
  • گفت آری گفت پس ای روح پاک ** هرچه خواهی می‌کنی از کیست باک

  • With such (miraculous) evidence, who is there in the world that would not be one of the slaves (devoted) to thee?”
  • با چنین برهان که باشد در جهان ** که نباشد مر ترا از بندگان

  • Jesus said, “By the holy Essence of God, the Maker of the body and the Creator of the soul in eternity;
  • گفت عیسی که به ذات پاک حق ** مبدع تن خالق جان در سبق

  • By the sanctity of the pure Essence and Attributes of Him, for whose sake the collar of Heaven is rent,
  • حرمت ذات و صفات پاک او ** که بود گردون گریبان‌چاک او

  • (I swear) that the spells and the Most Great Name which I pronounced over the deaf and the blind were good (in their effects). 2585
  • کان فسون و اسم اعظم را که من ** بر کر و بر کور خواندم شد حسن

  • I pronounced (them) over the stony mountain: it was cloven and tore upon itself its mantle down to the navel.
  • بر که سنگین بخواندم شد شکاف ** خرقه را بدرید بر خود تا بناف

  • I pronounced (them) over the corpse: it came to life. I pronounced (them) over nonentity: it became entity.
  • برتن مرده بخواندم گشت حی ** بر سر لاشی بخواندم گشت شی

  • I pronounced them lovingly over the heart of the fool hundreds of thousands of times, and ’twas no cure (for his folly).
  • خواندم آن را بر دل احمق بود ** صد هزاران بار و درمانی نشد