English    Türkçe    فارسی   

6
3040-3089

  • When mine eye beheld the face of that (spiritual) emperor, (all) plurality vanished from my sight.” 3040
  • چشم من چون دید روی آن قباد  ** کثرت اعداد از چشمم فتاد 

  • The stars are many; though the sun is one, (yet) on his appearance their foundation is demolished.
  • اختران بسیار و خورشید ار یکیست  ** پیش او بنیاد ایشان مندکیست 

  • If a thousand mice put forth their heads, the cat feels no fear or apprehension of danger.
  • گر هزاران موش پیش آرند سر  ** گربه را نه ترس باشد نه حذر 

  • How should mice advance (to the attack), O such-and-such? They have no collectedness in their souls.
  • کی به پیش آیند موشان ای فلان  ** نیست جمعیت درون جانشان 

  • The collectedness (that consists) in outward forms is a vain thing: hark, beg from the Creator collectedness of spirit.
  • هست جمعیت به صورتها فشار  ** جمع معنی خواه هین از کردگار 

  • Collectedness is not the result of bodily multitude: know that body, like name, is built on (empty) air. 3045
  • نیست جمعیت ز بسیاری جسم  ** جسم را بر باد قایم دان چو اسم 

  • If there were any collectedness in the heart of the mouse, a number of mice would be collected (united) by a feeling of indignation,
  • در دل موش ار بدی جمعیتی  ** جمع گشتی چند موش از حمیتی 

  • And, rushing up like assassins, they would throw themselves on a cat without (giving her) any respite.
  • بر زدندی چون فدایی حمله‌ای  ** خویش را بر گربه‌ی بی‌مهله‌ای 

  • One would tear out her eyes in conflict (with her), while another would rip her ears with its teeth,
  • آن یکی چشمش بکندی از ضراب  ** وان دگر گوشش دریدی هم به ناب 

  • And another make a hole in her side: there would be no way of escape for her from the united party.
  • وان دگر سوراخ کردی پهلوش  ** از جماعت گم شدی بیرون شوش 

  • But the soul of the mouse has no collectedness: at the miaul of a cat (all) its wits fly out of its soul. 3050
  • لیک جمعیت ندارد جان موش  ** بجهد از جانش به بانگ گربه هوش 

  • The mouse is paralysed by the wily cat, (even) if the numbers of the mice amount to a hundred thousand.
  • خشک گردد موش زان گربه‌ی عیار  ** گر بود اعداد موشان صد هزار 

  • What cares the butcher for the numerous flock (of sheep)? How can abundance of consciousness prevent (the approach of) slumber?
  • از رمه‌ی انبه چه غم قصاب را  ** انبهی هش چه بندد خواب را 

  • He (God) is the Lord of the kingdom: He gives collectedness to the lion, so that he springs on the herd of onagers.
  • مالک الملک است جمعیت دهد  ** شیر را تا بر گله‌ی گوران جهد 

  • A hundred thousand savage and courageous onagers are as naught before the onset of the lion.
  • صد هزاران گور ده‌شاخ و دلیر  ** چون عدم باشند پیش صول شیر 

  • He is the Lord of the kingdom: He gives to a Joseph the kingdom of Beauty, so that he is (lovely) as the water of white clouds. 3055
  • مالک الملک است بدهد ملک حسن  ** یوسفی را تا بود چون ماء مزن 

  • He bestows upon one face the radiance of a star, so that a king becomes the slave of a girl.
  • در رخی بنهد شعاع اختری  ** که شود شاهی غلام دختری 

  • He bestows upon another face His own Light, so that at midnight it sees everything good and evil.
  • بنهد اندر روی دیگر نور خود  ** که ببیند نیم‌شب هر نیک و بد 

  • Joseph and Moses fetched light from God into their cheeks and countenances and into their inmost bosoms.
  • یوسف و موسی ز حق بردند نور  ** در رخ و رخسار و در ذات الصدور 

  • The face of Moses shot forth a flashing beam: he hung a veil in front of his face.
  • روی موسی بارقی انگیخته  ** پیش رو او توبره آویخته 

  • The splendour of his face would have dazzled (men's) eyes as the emerald (blinds) the eyes of the deaf adder. 3060
  • نور رویش آن‌چنان بردی بصر  ** که زمرد از دو دیده‌ی مار کر 

  • He besought God that the veil might become a covering for that powerful Light.
  • او ز حق در خواسته تا توبره  ** گردد آن نور قوی را ساتره 

  • He (God) said, “Hark, make a veil of thy felt raiment, for the garment of gnosis can be trusted (to keep it safe),
  • توبره گفت از گلیمت ساز هین  ** کان لباس عارفی آمد امین 

  • Because that robe has become inured to the Light: the Light of the Spirit shines through its warp and woof.
  • کان کسا از نور صبری یافتست  ** نور جان در تار و پودش تافتست 

  • Nothing will be a (safe) repository (for it) except a mantle like this: nothing else can endure Our Light.
  • جز چنین خرقه نخواهد شد صوان  ** نور ما را بر نتابد غیر آن 

  • If Mt Qáf should come forward as a barrier (to it), the Light would rend it asunder like Mt Sinai.” 3065
  • کوه قاف ار پیش آید بهرسد  ** هم‌چو کوه طور نورش بر درد 

  • Through the (Divine) omnipotence the bodies of (holy) men have gained ability to support the unconditioned Light.
  • از کمال قدرت ابدان رجال  ** یافت اندر نور بی‌چون احتمال 

  • His (God's) power makes a glass vessel the dwelling-place of that (Light) of which Sinai cannot bear (even) a mote.
  • آنچ طورش بر نتابد ذره‌ای  ** قدرتش جا سازد از قاروره‌ای 

  • A lamp-niche and a lamp-glass have become the dwelling-place of the Light by which Mt Qáf and Mt Sinai are torn to pieces.
  • گشت مشکات و زجاجی جای نور  ** که همی‌درد ز نور آن قاف و طور 

  • Know that their (the holy men's) bodies are the lamp-niche and their hearts the glass: this lamp illumines the empyrean and the heavens.
  • جسمشان مشکات دان دلشان زجاج  ** تافته بر عرش و افلاک این سراج 

  • Their (the heavens') light is dazzled by this Light and vanishes like the stars in this radiance of morning. 3070
  • نورشان حیران این نور آمده  ** چون ستاره زین ضحی فانی شده 

  • Hence the Seal of the prophets has related (the saying) of the everlasting and eternal Lord—
  • زین حکایت کرد آن ختم رسل  ** از ملیک لا یزال و لم یزل 

  • “I am not contained in the heavens or in the void or in the exalted intelligences and souls;
  • که نگنجیدم در افلاک و خلا  ** در عقول و در نفوس با علا 

  • (But) I am contained, as a guest, in the true believer's heart, without qualification or definition or description,
  • در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف  ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف 

  • To the end that by the mediation of that heart (all) above and below may win from Me sovereignties and fortune.
  • در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف  ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف 

  • Without such a mirror neither Earth nor Time could bear the vision of My beauty. 3075
  • بی‌چنین آیینه از خوبی من  ** برنتابد نه زمین و نه زمن 

  • I caused the steed of (My) mercy to gallop over the two worlds: I fashioned a very spacious mirror.
  • بر دو کون اسپ ترحم تاختیم  ** پس عریض آیینه‌ای بر ساختیم 

  • From this mirror (appear) at every moment fifty (spiritual) wedding-feasts: hearken to the mirror, but do not ask (Me) to describe it.”
  • هر دمی زین آینه پنجاه عرس  ** بشنو آیینه ولی شرحش مپرس 

  • The gist (of the discourse) is this, that he (Moses) made a veil of his raiment, since he knew the penetrativeness of (the light of) that Moon.
  • حاصل این کزلبس خویشش پرده ساخت  ** که نفوذ آن قمر را می‌شناخت 

  • Had the veil been (made) of anything except his raiment, it would have been torn to shreds, (even) if it had been (like) a solid mountain.
  • گر بدی پرده ز غیر لبس او  ** پاره گشتی گر بدی کوه دوتو 

  • It (the Light) would penetrate through iron walls: what contrivance could the veil employ against the Light of God? 3080
  • ز آهنین دیوارها نافذ شدی  ** توبره با نور حق چه فن زدی 

  • That veil had become glowing: it was the mantle of a gnostic in the moment of ecstasy.
  • گشته بود آن توبره صاحب تفی  ** بود وقت شور خرقه‌ی عارفی 

  • The fire is deposited (becomes immanent) in the tinder because it (the tinder) is already familiar with the fire.
  • زان شود آتش رهین سوخته  ** کوست با آتش ز پیش آموخته 

  • And in sooth Safúrá, from desire and love for that Light of true guidance, sacrificed both her eyes.
  • وز هوا و عشق آن نور رشاد  ** خود صفورا هر دو دیده باد داد 

  • At first she closed one eye and beheld the light of his (Moses') face (with the other); and that eye was lost.
  • اولا بر بست یک چشم و بدید  ** نور روی او و آن چشمش پرید 

  • Afterwards she could no longer restrain herself and (therefore) she opened the other (eye) and spent it on that Moon. 3085
  • بعد از آن صبرش نماند و آن دگر  ** بر گشاد و کرد خرج آن قمر 

  • Even so the (spiritual) warrior (first) gives away his bread; (but) when the light of devotion strikes on him, he gives away his life.
  • هم‌چنان مرد مجاهد نان دهد  ** چون برو زد نور طاعت جان دهد 

  • Then a woman said to her, “Art thou grieving for the jonquil-like eye that thou hast lost?”
  • پس زنی گفتش ز چشم عبهری  ** که ز دستت رفت حسرت می‌خوری 

  • “I am grieving,” she replied, “(to think) would that I had a hundred thousand eyes to lavish (on that Moon)!
  • گفت حسرت می‌خورم که صد هزار  ** دیده بودی تا همی‌کردم نثار 

  • The window, (which is) mine eye, has been ruined by the Moon; but the Moon is seated (there) like the (buried) treasure in the ruin.
  • روزن چشمم ز مه ویران شدست  ** لیک مه چون گنج در ویران نشست