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1811-1860

  • Their mouths remain gaping (in amazement) at the beauty of (that) ecstasy, (while) their eyes are absent (withdrawn) from the forms of this world.
  • در جمال حال وا مانده دهان  ** چشم غایب گشته از نقش جهان 

  • Those (spiritual) progenies are not (produced) by means of these four (elements); consequently they are not seen by these eyes.
  • آن موالید از زه این چار نیست  ** لاجرم منظور این ابصار نیست 

  • Those progenies are born of (Divine) illumination; consequently they are covered (from sight) by a pure veil.
  • آن موالید از تجلی زاده‌اند  ** لاجرم مستور پرده‌ی ساده‌اند 

  • We said “born,” but in reality they are not born, and this expression is only (used) in order to guide (the understanding).
  • زاده گفتیم و حقیقت زاد نیست  ** وین عبارت جز پی ارشاد نیست 

  • Hark, be silent that the King of Say may speak: do not play the nightingale with a Rose of this kind. 1815
  • هین خمش کن تا بگوید شاه قل  ** بلبلی مفروش با این جنس گل 

  • This eloquent Rose is full of song and cry: O nightingale, let thy tongue cease, be (all) ear!
  • این گل گویاست پر جوش و خروش  ** بلبلا ترک زبان کن باش گوش 

  • Both (these) kinds of pure ideal forms are valid (trustworthy) witnesses to the mystery of union.
  • هر دو گون تمثال پاکیزه‌مثال  ** شاهد عدل‌اند بر سر وصال 

  • Both (these) kinds of subtle and delectable beauty are witnesses to (spiritual) pregnancies and growing big (with child) in the past,
  • هر دو گون حسن لطیف مرتضی  ** شاهد احبال و حشر ما مضی 

  • Like ice that in the brilliant (month of) Tamúz is ever telling the story of winter
  • هم‌چو یخ کاندر تموز مستجد  ** هر دم افسانه‌ی زمستان می‌کند 

  • And recalling the cold winds and intense frost in those hard days and times; 1820
  • ذکر آن اریاح سرد و زمهریر  ** اندر آن ازمان و ایام عسیر 

  • (Or) like fruit that in winter-time tells the story of God's lovingkindness
  • هم‌چو آن میوه که در وقت شتا  ** می‌کند افسانه‌ی لطف خدا 

  • And the tale of the season when the sun was smiling and embracing the brides of the orchard. [And the tale of the season when the sun was (enjoying) touching and copulating (with) the brides of the orchard.]
  • قصه‌ی دور تبسمهای شمس  ** وآن عروسان چمن را لمس و طمس 

  • The ecstasy is gone but thy (every) part remains as a souvenir: either inquire of it, or thyself recall (the ecstasy) to mind.
  • حال رفت و ماند جزوت یادگار  ** یا ازو واپرس یا خود یاد آر 

  • When grief takes possession of thee, if thou art a fit (alert and capable) person thou wouldst question that moment of despair
  • چون فرو گیرد غمت گر چستیی  ** زان دم نومید کن وا جستیی 

  • And wouldst say to it, “O Sorrow that deniest implicitly the allowance of favours (bestowed upon thee) by that Perfection, 1825
  • گفتییش ای غصه‌ی منکر به حال  ** راتبه‌ی انعامها را زان کمال 

  • If Spring and (its) fresh gladness are not always thine, (then) of what is thy body, (which is) like a heap of roses, the storehouse?
  • گر بهر دم نت بهار و خرمیست  ** هم‌چو چاش گل تنت انبار چیست 

  • Thy body is a heap of roses, thy thought is like rose-water; the rose-water denies the rose: lo, here is a marvel!”
  • چاش گل تن فکر تو هم‌چون گلاب  ** منکر گل شد گلاب اینت عجاب 

  • (Even) straw is refused to those who apishly show ingratitude, (while) sun and cloud (sunshine and rain) are lavished on those who resemble the prophets in disposition.
  • از کپی‌خویان کفران که دریغ  ** بر نبی‌خویان نثار مهر و میغ 

  • That obstinacy in (showing) ingratitude is the rule followed by the ape, while that thankfulness and gratitude is the way of the prophet.
  • آن لجاج کفر قانون کپیست  ** وآن سپاس و شکر منهاج نبیست 

  • (See) what was done to the apish by their deeds of shame; (see) what was done to those of prophetic complexion by their acts of piety! 1830
  • با کپی‌خویان تهتکها چه کرد  ** با نبی‌رویان تنسکها چه کرد 

  • In well-cultivated places there are curs and biting (dogs); in ruined places there is the treasure of glory and light.
  • در عمارتها سگانند و عقور  ** در خرابیهاست گنج عز و نور 

  • If this (spiritual) moonlight had not been in eclipse, so many philosophers would not have lost the (right) way.
  • گر نبودی این بزوغ اندر خسوف  ** گم نکردی راه چندین فیلسوف 

  • Through losing their way the acute and intelligent saw the brand of foolishness on their noses.
  • زیرکان و عاقلان از گمرهی  ** دیده بر خرطوم داغ ابلهی 

  • The remainder of the Story of the fakir who desired (to receive) his daily bread without (having recourse to) work as a means (of earning it).
  • باقی قصه‌ی فقیر روزی‌طلب بی‌واسطه‌ی کسب 

  • In his grief that wretched pauper, who suffered a thousand agonies on account of indigence,
  • آن یکی بیچاره‌ی مفلس ز درد  ** که ز بی‌چیزی هزاران زهر خورد 

  • Used to beseech (God) in prayer and invocation, crying, “O Lord and Guardian of (them that are) the shepherds (of their people), 1835
  • لابه کردی در نماز و در دعا  ** کای خداوند و نگهبان رعا 

  • Thou didst create me without any exertion (on my part): give me daily bread from this mansion (the world) without contrivance (on my part).
  • بی ز جهدی آفریدی مر مرا  ** بی فن من روزیم ده زین سرا 

  • Thou gavest me the five jewels in the casket of my head, and also five other occult senses.
  • پنج گوهر دادیم در درج سر  ** پنج حس دیگری هم مستتر 

  • These gifts of Thine are not to be numbered or computed; in setting them forth I am tongue-tied and shamefaced.
  • لا یعد این داد و لا یحصی ز تو  ** من کلیلم از بیانش شرم‌رو 

  • Since Thou art alone (without partner) in my creation, do Thou adjust (accordingly) the matter of providing me with daily bread.”
  • چونک در خلاقیم تنها توی  ** کار رزاقیم تو کن مستوی 

  • For years this prayer was frequently uttered by him, and at last his supplication took effect, 1840
  • سالها زو این دعا بسیار شد  ** عاقبت زاری او بر کار شد 

  • As (in the case of) the person who used to beg God to grant him a lawful livelihood without labour and fatigue,
  • هم‌چو آن شخصی که روزی حلال  ** از خدا می‌خواست بی‌کسب و کلال 

  • (Till) at length the cow brought him happiness: (’twas in) the epoch of David whose justice was divinely inspired.
  • گاو آوردش سعادت عاقبت  ** عهد داود لدنی معدلت 

  • This thrall of love, too, made piteous entreaties, and he likewise carried off the ball from the field of (favourable) response.
  • این متیم نیز زاریها نمود  ** هم ز میدان اجابت گو ربود 

  • (Yet) while praying he would at times become distrustful on account of the postponement of the recompense and reward;
  • گاه بدظن می‌شدی اندر دعا  ** از پی تاخیر پاداش و جزا 

  • (And then) again the gracious Lord's deferment (of his hopes) would bring a message of joy to his heart and become a surety (for their fulfilment). 1845
  • باز ارجاء خداوند کریم  ** در دلش بشار گشتی و زعیم 

  • Whenever in (the course of his) earnest supplication weariness caused him to despair, he would hear from the Presence of God (the call) “Come!”
  • چون شدی نومید در جهد از کلال  ** از جناب حق شنیدی که تعال 

  • This (Divine) Maker is He who abaseth and exalteth: without these two (attributes) no work is accomplished.
  • خافضست و رافعست این کردگار  ** بی ازین دو بر نیاید هیچ کار 

  • Consider the lowness of the earth and the loftiness of the sky: without these two (attributes) its (the sky's) revolution is not (possible), O such-and-such.
  • خفض ارضی بین و رفع آسمان  ** بی ازین دو نیست دورانش ای فلان 

  • The lowness and loftiness of this earth are of another sort: for one half of the year it is barren and for (the other) half (it is) green and fresh.
  • خفض و رفع این زمین نوعی دگر  ** نیم سالی شوره نیمی سبز و تر 

  • The lowness and loftiness of distressful Time are of another sort: one half day and (the other) half night. 1850
  • خفض و رفع روزگار با کرب  ** نوع دیگر نیم روز و نیم شب 

  • The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).
  • خفض و رفع این مزاج ممترج  ** گاه صحت گاه رنجوری مضج 

  • Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.
  • هم‌چنین دان جمله احوال جهان  ** قحط و جدب و صلح و جنگ از افتتان 

  • By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,
  • این جهان با این دو پر اندر هواست  ** زین دو جانها موطن خوف و رجاست 

  • To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,
  • تا جهان لرزان بود مانند برگ  ** در شمال و در سموم بعث و مرگ 

  • (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes; 1855
  • تا خم یک‌رنگی عیسی ما  ** بشکند نرخ خم صدرنگ را 

  • For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).
  • کان جهان هم‌چون نمکسار آمدست  ** هر چه آنجا رفت بی‌تلوین شدست 

  • Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.
  • خاک را بین خلق رنگارنگ را  ** می‌کند یک رنگ اندر گورها 

  • This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.
  • این نمکسار جسوم ظاهرست  ** خود نمکسار معانی دیگرست 

  • The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.
  • آن نمکسار معانی معنویست  ** از ازل آن تا ابد اندر نویست 

  • This (earthly) newness has oldness as its opposite, but that newness (belonging to the world of Reality) is without opposite or like or number. 1860
  • این نوی را کهنگی ضدش بود  ** آن نوی بی ضد و بی ند و عدد