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117-166

  • But they (the mystics) use a comparison and illustration, in order that a loving feeble-minded man may apprehend (the truth).
  • لیک تمثیلی و تصویری کنند  ** تا که در یابد ضعیفی عشقمند 

  • ’Tis not a simile, but ’tis a parable for the purpose of releasing (melting) the frozen intellect.
  • مثل نبود لیک باشد آن مثال  ** تا کند عقل مجمد را گسیل 

  • The intellect is strong in the head but weak in the legs, because it is sick of heart (spiritually decayed) though sound of body (materially flourishing).
  • عقل سر تیزست لیکن پای سست  ** زانک دل ویران شدست و تن درست 

  • Their (the unspiritual men's) intellect is deeply involved in the dessert (pleasures) of this world: never, never do they think of abandoning sensuality. 120
  • عقلشان در نقل دنیا پیچ پیچ  ** فکرشان در ترک شهوت هیچ هیچ 

  • In the hour of pretension their breasts are (glowing) like the orient sun, (but) in the hour of pious devotion their endurance is (brief) as the lightning.
  • صدرشان در وقت دعوی هم‌چو شرق  ** صبرشان در وقت تقوی هم‌چو برق 

  • A learned man who shows self-conceit in (displaying) his talents is faithless as the world at the time for keeping faith.
  • عالمی اندر هنرها خودنما  ** هم‌چو عالم بی‌وفا وقت وفا 

  • At the time when he regards himself (with pride) he is not contained in the world: he has become lost in the gullet and belly, like bread.
  • وقت خودبینی نگنجد در جهان  ** در گلو و معده گم گشته چو نان 

  • (Yet) all these (evil) qualities of theirs may become good: evil does not remain when it turns to seeking good.
  • این همه اوصافشان نیکو شود  ** بد نماند چونک نیکوجو شود 

  • If egoism is foul-smelling like semen, (yet) when it attains unto the spirit (spirituality) it gains light. 125
  • گر منی گنده بود هم‌چون منی  ** چون به جان پیوست یابد روشنی 

  • Every mineral that sets its face towards (aspires to evolve into) the plant (the vegetative state)—life grows from the tree of its fortune.
  • هر جمادی که کند رو در نبات  ** از درخت بخت او روید حیات 

  • Every plant that turns its face towards the (animal) spirit drinks, like Khizr, from the Fountain of Life.
  • هر نباتی کان به جان رو آورد  ** خضروار از چشمه‌ی حیوان خورد 

  • Once more, when the (animal) spirit sets its face towards the (Divine) Beloved, it lays down its baggage (and passes) into the life without end.
  • باز جان چون رو سوی جانان نهد  ** رخت را در عمر بی‌پایان نهد 

  • How an inquirer asked (a preacher) about a bird that was supposed to have settled on the wall of a city—“Is its head more excellent and estimable and noble and honourable or its tail?”—and how the preacher gave him a reply suited to the measure of his understanding.
  • سال سایل از مرغی کی بر سر ربض شهری نشسته باشد سر او فاضل‌ترست و عزیزتر و شریف‌تر و مکرم‌تر یا دم او و جواب دادن واعظ سایل را به قدر فهم او 

  • One day an inquirer said to a preacher, “O thou who art the pulpit's most eminent expounder,
  • واعظی را گفت روزی سایلی  ** کای تو منبر را سنی‌تر قایلی 

  • I have a question to ask. Answer my question in this assembly-place, O possessor of the marrow (of wisdom). 130
  • یک سالستم بگو ای ذو لباب  ** اندرین مجلس سالم را جواب 

  • A bird has settled on the city-wall: which is better—its head or its tail?”
  • بر سر بارو یکی مرغی نشست  ** از سر و از دم کدامینش بهست 

  • He replied, “If its face is to the town and its tail to the country, know that its face is better than its tail;
  • گفت اگر رویش به شهر و دم به ده  ** روی او از دم او می‌دان که به 

  • But if its tail is towards the town and its face to the country, be the dust on that tail and spring away from its face.”
  • ور سوی شهرست دم رویش به ده  ** خاک آن دم باش و از رویش بجه 

  • A bird flies to its nest by means of wings: the wings of Man are aspiration, O people.
  • مرغ با پر می‌پرد تا آشیان  ** پر مردم همتست ای مردمان 

  • (In the case of) the lover who is soiled with good and evil, do not regard the good and evil; (only) regard the aspiration. 135
  • عاشقی که آلوده شد در خیر و شر  ** خیر و شر منگر تو در همت نگر 

  • If a falcon be white and beyond compare, (yet) it becomes despicable when it hunts a mouse;
  • باز اگر باشد سپید و بی‌نظیر  ** چونک صیدش موش باشد شد حقیر 

  • And if there be an owl that has desire for the king, it is (noble as) the falcon's head: do not regard the hood.
  • ور بود چغدی و میل او به شاه  ** او سر بازست منگر در کلاه 

  • Man, no bigger than a kneading-trough (scooped in a log), has surpassed (in glory) the heavens and the aether (the empyrean).
  • آدمی بر قد یک طشت خمیر  ** بر فزود از آسمان و از اثیر 

  • Did this heaven ever hear (the words) We have honoured which this sorrowful Man heard (from God)?
  • هیچ کرمنا شنید این آسمان  ** که شنید این آدمی پر غمان 

  • Did any one offer to earth and sky (his) beauty and reason and eloquence and fond affection? 140
  • بر زمین و چرخ عرضه کرد کس  ** خوبی و عقل و عبارات و هوس 

  • Didst thou ever display to heaven thy beauty of countenance and thy sureness of judgement in (matters of) opinion?
  • جلوه کردی هیچ تو بر آسمان  ** خوبی روی و اصابت در گمان 

  • Didst thou ever, O son, offer thy silvery limbs to the pictured forms in the bath-house?
  • پیش صورتهای حمام ای ولد  ** عرضه کردی هیچ سیم‌اندام خود 

  • (No); thou leavest those houri-like figures and displayest thyself to a half-blind old woman.
  • بگذری زان نقشهای هم‌چو حور  ** جلوه آری با عجوز نیم‌کور 

  • What is there in the old woman that was not in them, so that she rapt thee away from those figures (and attracted thee) to herself?
  • در عجوزه چیست که ایشان را نبود  ** که ترا زان نقشها با خود ربود 

  • (If) thou wilt not say (what it is), I will tell (thee) plainly: ’tis reason and sense and perception and consideration and soul. 145
  • تو نگویی من بگویم در بیان  ** عقل و حس و درک و تدبیرست و جان 

  • In the old woman there is a soul that mingles (with the body): the pictured forms in the hot-baths have no (rational) spirit.
  • در عجوزه جان آمیزش‌کنیست  ** صورت گرمابه‌ها را روح نیست 

  • If the pictured form in the hot-bath should move, it would at once separate thee from the old woman.
  • صورت گرمابه گر جنبش کند  ** در زمان او از عجوزه بر کند 

  • What is soul? (Soul is) conscious of good and evil, rejoicing on account of kindness, weeping on account of injury.
  • جان چه باشد با خبر از خیر و شر  ** شاد با احسان و گریان از ضرر 

  • Since consciousness is the inmost nature and essence of the soul, the more aware one is the more spiritual is he.
  • چون سر و ماهیت جان مخبرست  ** هر که او آگاه‌تر با جان‌ترست 

  • Awareness is the effect of the spirit: any one who has this in excess is a man of God. 150
  • روح را تاثیر آگاهی بود  ** هر که را این بیش اللهی بود 

  • Since there are consciousnesses beyond this (bodily) nature, in that (spiritual) arena these (sensual) souls are (like) inanimate matter.
  • چون خبرها هست بیرون زین نهاد  ** باشد این جانها در آن میدان جماد 

  • The first soul is the theatre of the (Divine) court; the Soul of the soul is verily the theatre of God (Himself).
  • جان اول مظهر درگاه شد  ** جان جان خود مظهر الله شد 

  • The angels were entirely reason and spirit (till) there came a new Spirit of which they were the body.
  • آن ملایک جمله عقل و جان بدند  ** جان نو آمد که جسم آن بدند 

  • When, by happy fortune, they attached themselves to that Spirit, they became subservient to that Spirit, as the body (is subservient to the spirit dwelling in it).
  • از سعادت چون بر آن جان بر زدند  ** هم‌چو تن آن روح را خادم شدند 

  • Hence Iblís (Satan) had turned his head away from the Spirit: he did not become one with it because he was a dead limb. 155
  • آن بلیس از جان از آن سر برده بود  ** یک نشد با جان که عضو مرده بود 

  • Since he had it not, he did not become devoted to it: the broken hand does not obey the spirit (which rules the body).
  • چون نبودش آن فدای آن نشد  ** دست بشکسته مطیع جان نشد 

  • (But) the Spirit is not impaired though its limb is broken, for that (limb) is in its power, and it can bring it to life.
  • جان نشد ناقص گر آن عضوش شکست  ** کان بدست اوست تواند کرد هست 

  • There is another mystery (to be told), (but) where is another ear? Where is a parrot capable of (eating) that sugar?
  • سر دیگر هست کو گوش دگر  ** طوطیی کو مستعد آن شکر 

  • For the elect parrots there is a profound (occult) candy: to that food the eyes of the vulgar parrots are closed.
  • طوطیان خاص را قندیست ژرف  ** طوطیان عام از آن خور بسته طرف 

  • How should one who has (only) the appearance of a dervish taste of that purity? It is spiritual reality, not (mere) fa‘úlun fá‘ilát (amphibrachs and cretics). 160
  • کی چشد درویش صورت زان زکات  ** معنیست آن نه فعولن فاعلات 

  • Candy is not withheld from the ass of Jesus by him (Jesus), but the ass is naturally pleased with straw.
  • از خر عیسی دریغش نیست قند  ** لیک خر آمد به خلقت که پسند 

  • If candy had roused delight in the ass, he would have poured hundredweights of sugar in front of the ass.
  • قند خر را گر طرب انگیختی  ** پیش خر قنطار شکر ریختی 

  • Know that this is the (inner) meaning of We seal their mouths: this (knowledge) is important for the traveller on the Way,
  • معنی نختم علی افواههم  ** این شناس اینست ره‌رو را مهم 

  • That perchance, by (his following) the Way of the Seal of the prophets, the heavy seal may be lifted from his lips.
  • تا ز راه خاتم پیغامبران  ** بوک بر خیزد ز لب ختم گران 

  • The seals which the (former) prophets left were removed by the religion of Ahmad (Mohammed). 165
  • ختمهایی که انبیا بگذاشتند  ** آن بدین احمدی برداشتند 

  • The unopened locks had remained (as they were): they were opened by the hand of Lo, We have opened (unto thee).
  • قفلهای ناگشاده مانده بود  ** از کف انا فتحنا برگشود