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3051-3100

  • 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 

  • How should the treasure let this ruin of mine have (any regretful) memory of my porch and house?” 3090
  • کی گذارد گنج کین ویرانه‌ام  ** یاد آرد از رواق و خانه‌ام 

  • The light of Joseph's face, when he was passing by, used to fall on the latticed windows of every villa,
  • نور روی یوسفی وقت عبور  ** می‌فتادی در شباک هر قصور 

  • And the people within the house would say, “Joseph is taking a walk in this quarter and passing by”;
  • پس بگفتندی درون خانه در  ** یوسفست این سو به سیران و گذر 

  • For they would see the radiance on the wall, and then the landlords (inmates) would understand (the cause of it).
  • زانک بر دیوار دیدندی شعاع  ** فهم کردندی پس اصحاب بقاع 

  • The house that has its window in that direction is ennobled by that Joseph's walking for recreation.
  • خانه‌ای را کش دریچه‌ست آن طرف  ** دارد از سیران آن یوسف شرف 

  • Hark, open a window towards Joseph and begin to delight yourself by looking at him through the aperture. 3095
  • هین دریچه سوی یوسف باز کن  ** وز شکافش فرجه‌ای آغاز کن 

  • The business of love is to make that window (in the heart), for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved.
  • عشق‌ورزی آن دریچه کردنست  ** کز جمال دوست سینه روشنست 

  • Therefore gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved! This is in your power. Hearken, O father!
  • پس هماره روی معشوقه نگر  ** این به دست تست بشنو ای پدر 

  • Make a way for yourself into the innermost parts: banish the perception that is concerned with other (than God).
  • راه کن در اندرونها خویش را  ** دور کن ادراک غیراندیش را 

  • You possess an elixir: treat your (vile) skin (with it), and by means of this art (alchemy) make your enemies your friends.
  • کیمیا داری دوای پوست کن  ** دشمنان را زین صناعت دوست کن 

  • When you have become beauteous you will attain unto the Beauteous One who delivers the spirit from friendlessness. 3100
  • چون شدی زیبا بدان زیبا رسی  ** که رهاند روح را از بی‌کسی