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755-804

  • (As though to say), ‘Oh, I wonder whether there is a fowler in front of me or behind, so that for fear of him I should abstain from this food.’ 755
  • کای عجب پیش و پسم صیاد هست  ** تا کشم از بیم او زین لقمه دست 
  • Do thou see behind (thee) the story of (what happened to) the wicked; see before (thee) the death of (many a) friend and neighbour,
  • تو ببین پس قصه‌ی فجار را  ** پیش بنگر مرگ یار و جار را 
  • Whom He (God) destroyed without (using) any instrument: He is close to thee in every circumstance.
  • که هلاکت دادشان بی‌آلتی  ** او قرین تست در هر حالتی 
  • God inflicted torment (on them), and there is no mace or hand (employed): know, then, that God is one who deals justice (inflicts chastisement) without hands.
  • حق شکنجه کرد و گرز و دست نیست  ** پس بدان بی‌دست حق داورکنیست 
  • He who was saying, ‘If God exists, where is He?’ was confessing on the rack (of pain) that ’tis He (God).
  • آنک می‌گفتی اگر حق هست کو  ** در شکنجه او مقر می‌شد که هو 
  • He who was saying, ‘This is far-fetched and marvellous’ was shedding tears and crying, ‘O Thou who art nigh!’ 760
  • آنک می‌گفت این بعیدست و عجیب  ** اشک می‌راند و همی گفت ای قریب 
  • Since he has deemed it necessary to flee from the trap, (’tis strange that) the trap for thee is in fact stuck fast to thy (gaudy) feathers.
  • چون فرار از دام واجب دیده است  ** دام تو خود بر پرت چفسیده است 
  • I will tear out the pin of this ill-fated trap: I will not suffer bitter grief for the sake of (indulging) a desire.
  • بر کنم من میخ این منحوس دام  ** از پی کامی نباشم طلخ‌کام 
  • I have given thee this answer (which is) suitable to thy understanding: apprehend (its meaning) and do not avert thy face from seeking.
  • درخور عقل تو گفتم این جواب  ** فهم کن وز جست و جو رو بر متاب 
  • Snap this cord, which is greed and envy: remember (the text) on her neck a cord of palm-fibres.”
  • بسکل این حبلی که حرص است و حسد  ** یاد کن فی جیدها حبل مسد 
  • The reason why Khalíl (Abraham), on whom be peace, killed the crow, indicating (thereby) the subjugation of certain blameworthy and pernicious qualities in the disciple.
  • صفت کشتن خلیل علیه‌السلام زاغ را کی آن اشارت به قمع کدام صفت بود از صفات مذمومه‌ی مهلکه در مرید 
  • There is no end and completion to this discourse. O Friend of God, why didst thou kill the crow? 765
  • این سخن را نیست پایان و فراغ  ** ای خلیل حق چرا کشتی تو زاغ 
  • Because of the (Divine) command. What was the wisdom of the (Divine) command? A small part of the mysteries thereof must (now) be shown.
  • بهر فرمان حکمت فرمان چه بود  ** اندکی ز اسرار آن باید نمود 
  • The cawing and noisy cry of the black crow is ever asking for (long) life in this world.
  • کاغ کاغ و نعره‌ی زاغ سیاه  ** دایما باشد به دنیا عمرخواه 
  • Like Iblís, it (the crow) besought the holy and incomparable God for bodily life till the Resurrection.
  • هم‌چو ابلیس از خدای پاک فرد  ** تا قیامت عمر تن درخواست کرد 
  • He (Iblís) said, “Grant me a respite till the Day of Retribution.” Would that he had said, “We repent, O our Lord.”
  • گفت انظرنی الی یوم الجزا  ** کاشکی گفتی که تبنا ربنا 
  • Life without repentance is all agony of spirit: to be absent from God is present (instant) death. 770
  • عمر بی توبه همه جان کندنست  ** مرگ حاضر غایب از حق بودنست 
  • Life and death—both these are sweet with (the presence of) God: without God the Water of Life is fire.
  • عمر و مرگ این هر دو با حق خوش بود  ** بی‌خدا آب حیات آتش بود 
  • Moreover, ’twas from the effect of the (Divine) curse that in such a Presence he was requesting (long) life.
  • آن هم از تاثیر لعنت بود کو  ** در چنان حضرت همی‌شد عمرجو 
  • To crave of God aught other than God is (merely) the supposition of gain, and (in reality) it is entire loss;
  • از خدا غیر خدا را خواستن  ** ظن افزونیست و کلی کاستن 
  • Especially (to desire) a life sunk in estrangement (from God) is to behave like a fox in the presence of the lion,
  • خاصه عمری غرق در بیگانگی  ** در حضور شیر روبه‌شانگی 
  • (Saying), “Give me longer life that I may go farther back; grant me more time that I may become less.” 775
  • عمر بیشم ده که تا پس‌تر روم  ** مهلم افزون کن که تا کمتر شوم 
  • (The result is) that he (such an one) is a mark for the (Divine) curse: evil is that one who seeks to be accursed.
  • تا که لعنت را نشانه او بود  ** بد کسی باشد که لعنت‌جو بود 
  • The goodly life is to nourish the spirit in nearness (to God); the crow's life is for the sake of eating dung.
  • عمر خوش در قرب جان پروردنست  ** عمر زاغ از بهر سرگین خوردنست 
  • (The crow says), “Give me more life that I may be ever eating dung: give me this always, for I am very evil-natured.”
  • عمر بیشم ده که تا گه می‌خورم  ** دایم اینم ده که بس بدگوهرم 
  • Were it not that that foul-mouthed one is a dung-eater, he would say, “Deliver me from the nature of the crow!”
  • گرنه گه خوارست آن گنده‌دهان  ** گویدی کز خوی زاغم وا رهان 
  • Prayer.
  • مناجات 
  • O Thou who hast transmuted one clod of earth into gold, and another clod into the Father of mankind, 780
  • ای مبدل کرده خاکی را به زر  ** خاک دیگر را بکرده بوالبشر 
  • Thy work is the transmutation of essences and (the showing of) munificence; my work is mistake and forgetfulness and error.
  • کار تو تبدیل اعیان و عطا  ** کار من سهوست و نسیان و خطا 
  • Transmute mistake and forgetfulness into knowledge: I am all choler, make me patience and forbearance.
  • سهو و نسیان را مبدل کن به علم  ** من همه خلمم مرا کن صبر و حلم 
  • O Thou who makest nitrous earth to be bread, and O Thou who makest dead bread to be life,
  • ای که خاک شوره را تو نان کنی  ** وی که نان مرده را تو جان کنی 
  • O Thou who makest the distracted soul to be a Guide, and O Thou who makest the wayless wanderer to be a Prophet,
  • ای که جان خیره را رهبر کنی  ** وی که بی‌ره را تو پیغمبر کنی 
  • Thou makest a piece of earth to be heaven, Thou givest increase in the earth from the stars. 785
  • می‌کنی جزو زمین را آسمان  ** می‌فزایی در زمین از اختران 
  • Whosoever makes the Water of Life to consist of (the pleasures of) this world, death comes to him sooner than to the others.
  • هر که سازد زین جهان آب حیات  ** زوترش از دیگران آید ممات 
  • The eye of the heart (the inward eye) that contemplated the (spiritual) firmament perceived that here (in the sensible world) is a continual alchemy.
  • دیده‌ی دل کو به گردون بنگریست  ** دید که اینجا هر دمی میناگریست 
  • The harmonious cohesion of the patched garment, (which is) the body, without being stitched (together), is (owing to) the transmutation of essences and (to) an all-embracing elixir.
  • قلب اعیانست و اکسیری محیط  ** ایتلاف خرقه‌ی تن بی‌مخیط 
  • From the day when thou camest into existence, thou wert fire or air or earth.
  • تو از آن روزی که در هست آمدی  ** آتشی یا بادی یا خاکی بدی 
  • If thou hadst remained in that condition, how should this (present) height have been reached by thee? 790
  • گر بر آن حالت ترا بودی بقا  ** کی رسیدی مر ترا این ارتقا 
  • The Transmuter did not leave thee in thy first (state of) existence: He established a better (state of) existence in the place of that (former one);
  • از مبدل هستی اول نماند  ** هستی بهتر به جای آن نشاند 
  • And so on till (He gave thee) a hundred thousand states of existence, one after the other, the second (always) better than the beginning.
  • هم‌چنین تا صد هزاران هستها  ** بعد یکدیگر دوم به ز ابتدا 
  • Regard (all change as derived) from the Transmuter, leave (ignore) the intermediaries, for by (regarding) the intermediaries thou wilt be come far from their Origin.
  • از مبدل بین وسایط را بمان  ** کز وسایط دور گردی ز اصل آن 
  • Wherever the intermediaries increase, union (with the Origin) is removed: (in proportion as) the intermediaries are less, the delight of (attaining to) union is greater.
  • واسطه هر جا فزون شد وصل جست  ** واسطه کم ذوق وصل افزونترست 
  • By knowing the intermediaries thy bewilderment (in God) is diminished: thy bewilderment gives thee admission to the (Divine) Presence. 795
  • از سبب‌دانی شود کم حیرتت  ** حیرت تو ره دهد در حضرتت 
  • Thou hast gained these (successive) lives from (successive) deaths: why hast thou averted thy face from dying in Him?
  • این بقاها از فناها یافتی  ** از فنااش رو چرا برتافتی 
  • What loss was thine (what loss didst thou suffer) from those deaths, that thou hast clung (so tenaciously) to (this earthly) life, O rat?
  • زان فناها چه زیان بودت که تا  ** بر بقا چفسیده‌ای ای نافقا 
  • Since thy second (life) is better than thy first, therefore seek to die (to the world), and worship the Transmuter.
  • چون دوم از اولینت بهترست  ** پس فنا جو و مبدل را پرست 
  • O contumacious man, thou hast experienced a hundred thousand resurrections at every moment from the beginning of thy existence until now:
  • صد هزاران حشر دیدی ای عنود  ** تاکنون هر لحظه از بدو وجود 
  • From inanimateness (thou didst move) unconsciously towards (vegetal) growth, and from (vegetal) growth towards (animal) life and tribulation; 800
  • از جماد بی‌خبر سوی نما  ** وز نما سوی حیات و ابتلا 
  • Again, towards reason and goodly discernments; again, towards (what lies) outside of these five (senses) and six (directions).
  • باز سوی عقل و تمییزات خوش  ** باز سوی خارج این پنج و شش 
  • These footprints are (extend) as far as the shore of the Ocean; then the footprints disappear in the Ocean;
  • تا لب بحر این نشان پایهاست  ** پس نشان پا درون بحر لاست 
  • Because, from (Divine) precaution, the resting-places (appointed for the traveller) on the dry land are (like) villages and dwellings and caravanserays,
  • زانک منزلهای خشکی ز احتیاط  ** هست دهها و وطنها و رباط 
  • (While) on the contrary the resting-places of the Ocean, when its billows swell, have no floor or roof (to shelter the traveller) during (his) stay and detention.
  • باز منزلهای دریا در وقوف  ** وقت موج و حبس بی‌عرصه و سقوف