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  • (Both) the rider and the ridden are under the authority of the King: the body is at the portal and the spirit in the audience-chamber.
  • راکب و مرکوب در فرمان شاه  ** جسم بر درگاه وجان در بارگاه 

  • When the King desires the water to come into the pitcher, He says to the spirit-army, “Ride!” 80
  • چونک خواهد که آب آید در سبو  ** شاه گوید جیش جان را که ارکبوا 

  • Again, when He calls the spirit aloft, there comes from the overseers the cry, “Dismount!”
  • باز جانها را چو خواند در علو  ** بانگ آید از نقیبان که انزلوا 

  • The discourse, (if continued) after this (point), will become subtle: diminish the fire, do not put more faggots on it,
  • بعد ازین باریک خواهد شد سخن  ** کم کن آتش هیزمش افزون مکن 

  • Lest the small pots boil (too) quickly: the pot of the perceptions is small and low.
  • تا نجوشد دیگهای خرد زود  ** دیگ ادراکات خردست و فرود 

  • The Holy Transcendent One who makes the apple-orchard conceals them (the apples) in a mist of words.
  • پاک سبحانی که سیبستان کند  ** در غمام حرفشان پنهان کنند 

  • From this mist of sound and words and talk (arises such) a screen that naught of the apple comes (into perception) save the scent. 85
  • زین غمام بانگ و حرف و گفت و گوی  ** پرده‌ای کز سیب ناید غیر بوی 

  • At least draw (inhale) this scent in greater quantity with (the nostrils of) your intelligence, that taking you by the ear it may lead you towards your origin.
  • باری افزون کش تو این بو را به هوش  ** تا سوی اصلت برد بگرفته گوش 

  • Preserve the scent and beware of the rheum: protect your body from the cold wind (breath) and being of the vulgar,
  • بو نگه‌دار و بپرهیز از زکام  ** تن بپوش از باد و بود سرد عام 

  • Lest by the effect (thereof) it stop up your nose: oh, their air is colder than winter.
  • تا نینداید مشامت را ز اثر  ** ای هواشان از زمستان سردتر 

  • They are like lifeless matter and frozen and stout of body: their breaths issue from a snow-hill.
  • چون جمادند و فسرده و تن‌شگرف  ** می‌جهد انفاسشان از تل برف 

  • When the earth (of your being) is covered with a shroud of this snow, brandish the sunbeam-sword of Husámu’ddín. 90
  • چون زمین زین برف در پوشد کفن  ** تیغ خورشید حسام‌الدین بزن 

  • Hark, lift up the sword of Allah from the east: with (the radiance of) that east make this portal hot.
  • هین بر آر از شرق سیف‌الله را  ** گرم کن زان شرق این درگاه را 

  • That Sun smites the snow with a dagger: it causes the torrents to pour from the mountains upon the (frozen) earth,
  • برف را خنجر زند آن آفتاب  ** سیلها ریزد ز کهها بر تراب 

  • For it is neither of the east nor of the west: by day and by night it is at war with the astronomer,
  • زانک لا شرقیست و لا غربیست او  ** با منجم روز و شب حربیست او 

  • Saying, “Why in thy baseness and blindness hast thou made a qibla other than me of stars that give no true guidance?
  • که چرا جز من نجوم بی‌هدی  ** قبله کردی از لیمی و عمی 

  • Displeasing to thee are the words of that trusty one in the Qur’án—‘I love not them that set.’ 95
  • تا خوشت ناید مقال آن امین  ** در نبی که لا احب الا فلین 

  • (Prompted) by Quzah, thou hast girt thyself (for service) before the moon: hence thou art vexed by (the sign announced in the Verse) and the moon shall be split asunder.
  • از قزح در پیش مه بستی کمر  ** زان همی رنجی ز وانشق القمر 

  • Thou disbelievest that the sun shall be folded up: in thy opinion the sun is of the highest degree.
  • منکری این را که شمس کورت  ** شمس پیش تست اعلی‌مرتبت 

  • Thou deemest change of weather to be caused by the stars: thou art displeased with (the text) when the star shall fall.
  • از ستاره دیده تصریف هوا  ** ناخوشت آید اذا النجم هوی 

  • Verily, the moon produces no greater effect than bread: O many a loaf of bread that severs the vein of life!
  • خود مثرتر نباشد مه ز نان  ** ای بسا نان که ببرد عرق جان 

  • Verily, (the planet) Venus produces no greater effect than water: O many a water that has destroyed the body! 100
  • خود مثرتر نباشد زهره زآب  ** ای بسا آبا که کرد او تن خراب 

  • Love of those (stars) is (implanted) in thy soul, and the advice of thy friend strikes (only) on the outer skin of thy ear.
  • مهر آن در جان تست و پند دوست  ** می‌زند بر گوش تو بیرون پوست 

  • (If) our advice takes no hold of thee, O great man, know that neither does thy advice take any hold of us.
  • پند ما در تو نگیرد ای فلان  ** پند تو در ما نگیرد هم بدان 

  • (Thy ears are closed) unless, perchance, the special (sovereign) key (to open them) come from the Friend to whom belong the keys of the heavens.”
  • جز مگر مفتاح خاص آید ز دوست  ** که مقالید السموات آن اوست 

  • This discourse is like the stars and the moon (in splendour), but without the command of God it makes no impression.
  • این سخن هم‌چون ستاره‌ست و قمر  ** لیک بی‌فرمان حق ندهد اثر 

  • The impression made by this star (which is) beyond locality strikes (only) on ears that seek inspiration, 105
  • این ستاره‌ی بی‌جهت تاثیر او  ** می‌زند بر گوشهای وحی‌جو 

  • Saying, “Come ye from (the world of) locality to the world without spatial relations, in order that the wolf may not tear you to pieces in checkmate (utter discomfiture).”
  • کی بیایید از جهت تا بی‌جهات  ** تا ندراند شما را گرگ مات 

  • Since its pearl-scattering radiance is such (as has been mentioned), the sun of the present world may be described as its bat.
  • آنچنان که لمعه‌ی درپاش اوست  ** شمس دنیا در صفت خفاش اوست 

  • The seven blue (celestial) spheres are in servitude to it; the courier moon is fevered and wasted away by it.
  • هفت چرخ ازرقی در رق اوست  ** پیک ماه اندر تب و در دق اوست 

  • Venus lays her hand upon it to beseech (its favour); Jupiter comes forward to offer to it the ready money of his soul.
  • زهره چنگ مسله در وی زده  ** مشتری با نقد جان پیش آمده 

  • Saturn is eager to kiss its hand, but he does not regard himself as worthy of that honour. 110
  • در هوای دستبوس او زحل  ** لیک خود را می‌نبیند از محل 

  • On account of it, Mars has inflicted so many wounds on his hands and feet; and on account of it Mercury has broken a hundred pens.
  • دست و پا مریخ چندین خست ازو  ** وآن عطارد صد قلم بشکست ازو 

  • All these stars (planets) are at war with the astronomer, saying, “O thou who hast let the spirit go and hast preferred colour (vanity),
  • با منجم این همه انجم به جنگ  ** کای رها کرده تو جان بگزیده رنگ 

  • It is the spirit, and we all are (mere) colour and designs: the star (spark) of every thought in it is the soul of the (material) stars.”
  • جان ویست و ما همه رنگ و رقوم  ** کوکب هر فکر او جان نجوم 

  • Where is thought (in relation to it)? There all is pure light: this word “thought” is (used only) for thy sake, O thinker.
  • فکر کو آنجا همه نورست پاک  ** بهر تست این لفظ فکر ای فکرناک 

  • Every (material) star hath its house on high: our star is not contained in any house. 115
  • هر ستاره خانه دارد در علا  ** هیچ خانه در نگنجد نجم ما 

  • How should that which burns (transcends) place (spatial relations) enter into space? How should there be a limit for the illimitable light?
  • جای سوز اندر مکان کی در رود  ** نور نامحدود را حد کی بود 

  • 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