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  • So that the Beloved will be to thee both bread and water and lamp and minion and dessert and wine.
  • تا که معشوقت بود هم نان هم آب ** هم چراغ و شاهد و نقل شراب

  • Unite thyself—union is (a Divine) mercy—that I may be able to speak unto thee that which is;
  • جمع کن خود را جماعت رحمتست ** تا توانم با تو گفتن آنچ هست

  • For speaking is for the purpose of (producing) belief: the spirit of polytheism is quit (devoid) of belief in God. 3295
  • زانک گفتن از برای باوریست ** جان شرک از باوری حق بریست

  • The spirit that has been distributed over the contents of the (mundane) sphere is shared amongst sixty passions;
  • جان قسمت گشته بر حشو فلک ** در میان شصت سودا مشترک

  • Therefore silence is best: it gives peace to it ( to that spirit); therefore ( I ought to follow the adage) “Silence is the answer to fools.”
  • پس خموشی به دهد او را ثبوت ** پس جواب احمقان آمد سکوت

  • This I know, but intoxication of the body is opening my mouth without volition on my part,
  • این همی‌دانم ولی مستی تن ** می‌گشاید بی‌مراد من دهن

  • Just as in sneezing and yawning this mouth becomes open without your willing it.
  • آنچنان که از عطسه و از خامیاز ** این دهان گردد بناخواه تو باز

  • Commentary on the Tradition, "Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day."
  • تفسیر این حدیث کی ائنی لاستغفر الله فی کل یوم سبعین مرة

  • Like the Prophet, I repent seventy times daily of speaking and giving out (mysteries); 3300
  • هم‌چو پیغامبر ز گفتن وز نثار ** توبه آرم روز من هفتاد بار

  • But that intoxication becomes a breaker of (vows of) penitence: this intoxication of the body causes oblivion and tears the robe (of penitence).
  • لیک آن مستی شود توبه‌شکن ** منسی است این مستی تن جامه کن

  • The (Divine) purpose of making manifest the (things of) long ago (the eternal things) cast an intoxication upon the knower of the mystery,
  • حکمت اظهار تاریخ دراز ** مستیی انداخت در دانای راز

  • (So that) with such drum and banner (conspicuousness) the hidden mystery has become water gushing from (the fountain of) “the Pen is dry.”
  • راز پنهان با چنین طبل و علم ** آب جوشان گشته از جف القلم

  • The infinite Mercy is flowing continually: ye are asleep to the perception thereof, O men!
  • رحمت بی‌حد روانه هر زمان ** خفته‌اید از درک آن ای مردمان

  • The sleeper's garment drinks water from the river, (while) the sleeper is seeking the mirage in his dream. 3305
  • جامه‌ی خفته خورد از جوی آب ** خفته اندر خواب جویای سراب

  • He keeps running (to and fro), saying, “Yonder there is hope of water”: by this (false) thought he has barred the way against himself.
  • می‌رود که آنجای بوی آب هست ** زین تفکر راه را بر خویش بست

  • Because he said “yonder” he became far from here (from the place where the water is): (through resting) in a vain imagination he was banished from a reality.
  • زانک آنجا گفت زینجا دور شد ** بر خیالی از حقی مهجور شد

  • They (the worldly) are far-seeing (for their selfish ends) and very fast asleep spiritually: take some mercy upon them, O travellers on the Way!
  • دوربینانند و بس خفته‌روان ** رحمتی آریدشان ای ره‌روان

  • I never saw thirst (eager desire) induce sleep: (only) the thirst of the unintelligent induces sleep.
  • من ندیدم تشنگی خواب آورد ** خواب آرد تشنگی بی‌خرد

  • The (true) intelligence, indeed, is that which was fed by God, not the intelligence that was bestowed by (the planet) Mercury. 3310
  • خود خرد آنست کو از حق چرید ** نه خرد کان را عطارد آورید

  • Explaining that the particular (discursive) intellect does not see beyond the grave and, as regards all the rest, is subject to the authority of the saints and prophets.
  • بیان آنک عقل جزوی تا بگور بیش نبیند در باقی مقلد اولیا و انبیاست

  • The foresight of this intellect extends (only) to the grave, while that of the spiritual man is till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • پیش‌بینی این خرد تا گور بود ** وآن صاحب دل به نفخ صور بود

  • This intellect does not pass beyond a grave and sepulchre, and this (intellectual) foot does not tread the arena of marvels.
  • این خرد از گور و خاکی نگذرد ** وین قدم عرصه‌ی عجایب نسپرد

  • Go, become quit of this foot and this intellect: seek the eye appertaining to the invisible (the inward eye) and enjoy (contemplation).
  • زین قدم وین عقل رو بیزار شو ** چشم غیبی جوی و برخوردار شو

  • How should one subservient to a preceptor and in pupilage to a book find, like Moses, light from (his own) bosom?
  • هم‌چو موسی نور کی یابد ز جیب ** سخره‌ی استاد و شاگردان کتاب

  • From this (scholastic) study and this intellect comes naught but vertigo; therefore leave this study and adopt (in its stead) expectation. 3315
  • زین نظر وین عقل ناید جز دوار ** پس نظر بگذار و بگزین انتظار

  • Do not seek (spiritual) eminence from disputation: for him who is expectant (of Divine inspiration) listening is better than speaking.
  • از سخن‌گویی مجویید ارتفاع ** منتظر را به ز گفتن استماع

  • The office of teaching is a sort of sensual desire: every sensual fancy is an idol (source of polytheism) in the Way.
  • منصب تعلیم نوع شهوتست ** هر خیال شهوتی در ره بتست

  • If every busybody had found the track (had attained) to His grace, how should God have sent so many prophets?
  • گر بفضلش پی ببردی هر فضول ** کی فرستادی خدا چندین رسول

  • The particular intellect is like the lightning and the flash: how is it possible to go to Wakhsh in a flash?
  • عقل جزوی هم‌چو برقست و درخش ** در درخشی کی توان شد سوی وخش

  • The light of the lightning is not for guidance on the way; nay, it is a command to the cloud to weep. 3320
  • نیست نور برق بهر رهبری ** بلک امریست ابر را که می‌گری

  • The lightning of our intellect is for the sake of weeping, to the end that nonexistence may weep in longing for (real) existence.
  • برق عقل ما برای گریه است ** تا بگرید نیستی در شوق هست

  • The child's intellect said, “Attend school”; but it cannot learn by itself.
  • عقل کودک گفت بر کتاب تن ** لیک نتواند به خود آموختن

  • The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him.
  • عقل رنجور آردش سوی طبیب ** لیک نبود در دوا عقلش مصیب

  • Mark, the devils were going heavenward and listening to the secrets on high
  • نک شیاطین سوی گردون می‌شدند ** گوش بر اسرار بالا می‌زدند

  • And carrying away a little of those secrets, till the shooting stars quickly drove them from heaven, 3325
  • می‌ربودند اندکی زان رازها ** تا شهب می‌راندشان زود از سما

  • Saying, “Begone! A prophet is come there (on the earth): from him will be obtained whatsoever ye crave.
  • که روید آنجا رسولی آمدست ** هر چه می‌خواهید زو آید به دست

  • If ye are seeking priceless pearls, enter the houses by their doors.
  • گر همی‌جویید در بی‌بها ** ادخلوا الابیات من ابوابها

  • Keep knocking that door-ring and stand at the door: there is no way for you in the direction of the vault of heaven.
  • می‌زن آن حلقه‌ی در و بر باب بیست ** از سوی بام فلکتان راه نیست

  • Ye need not take this long road: We have bestowed on an earthly one the secrets of the mystery.
  • نیست حاجتتان بدین راه دراز ** خاکیی را داده‌ایم اسرار راز

  • Come to him, if ye are not disloyal; be made sugar-cane by him, though ye are (empty) reeds.” 3330
  • پیش او آیید اگر خاین نیید ** نیشکر گردید ازو گرچه نیید

  • That Guide will cause verdure to grow from thy earth: he is not inferior to the hoof of the horse of Gabriel.
  • سبزه رویاند ز خاکت آن دلیل ** نیست کم از سم اسپ جبرئیل

  • Thou wilt be made verdure, thou wilt be made fresh anew, if thou become the dust of the horse of a Gabriel—
  • سبزه گردی تازه گردی در نوی ** گر توخاک اسپ جبریلی شوی

  • The life-giving verdure which Sámirí put into the (golden) calf, so that it became endowed with the (vital) essence.
  • سبزه‌ی جان‌بخش که آن را سامری ** کرد در گوساله تا شد گوهری

  • From that verdure it took life and bellowed—such a bellowing as confounded the foe.
  • جان گرفت و بانگ زد زان سبزه او ** آنچنان بانگی که شد فتنه‌ی عدو

  • If ye come loyally to the possessors of the mystery, ye will be freed from the hood, like a falcon— 3335
  • گر امین آیید سوی اهل راز ** وا رهید از سر کله مانند باز

  • The hood that binds eye and ear, whereby the falcon is (made) wretched and abject.
  • سر کلاه چشم‌بند گوش‌بند ** که ازو بازست مسکین و نژند

  • The hood is (placed as) a blind on the eyes of falcons because its (the falcon's) whole desire is for its own kind.
  • زان کله مر چشم بازان را سدست ** که همه میلش سوی جنس خودست

  • When it has been severed from its kind, it associates with the king: the falconer unveils its eye.
  • چون برید از جنس با شه گشت یار ** بر گشاید چشم او را بازدار

  • God drove the devils from His place of watch, (He drove) the particular intellect from its autonomy,
  • راند دیوان را حق از مرصاد خویش ** عقل جزوی را ز استبداد خویش

  • Saying, “Do not domineer: thou art not autonomous; nay, thou art the pupil of the heart and predisposed (to learn from it). 3340
  • که سری کم کن نه‌ای تو مستبد ** بلک شاگرد دلی و مستعد

  • Go to the heart, go, for thou art a part of the heart: take heed, for thou art a slave of the just King.”
  • رو بر دل رو که تو جزو دلی ** هین که بنده‌ی پادشاه عادلی

  • To be His slave is better than being a sovereign, for “I am better” is the word of Satan.
  • بندگی او به از سلطانیست ** که انا خیر دم شیطانیست