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1242-1251

  • آن که بد نزدیک ما نامش منی ** پیش حق این نقش بد که با منی‌‌
  • That of which the name, with us, was ‘seed’ was, in the sight of God, this figure (of thee) who art (now) with me.
  • صورتی بود این منی اندر عدم ** پیش حق موجود نه بیش و نه کم‌‌
  • This ‘seed’ was a form (idea) in non-existence (potentiality), existent with God, neither more nor less (than the form in which it appeared externally).
  • حاصل آن آمد حقیقت نام ما ** پیش حضرت کان بود انجام ما
  • In brief, that which is our end is really our name with God.
  • مرد را بر عاقبت نامی نهد ** نه بر آن کاو عاریت نامی نهد 1245
  • He bestows on a man a name according to his final state, not according to that (state) to which He gives the name of ‘a loan.’
  • چشم آدم چون به نور پاک دید ** جان و سر نامها گشتش پدید
  • Inasmuch as the eye of Adam saw by means of the Pure Light, the soul and inmost sense of the names became evident to him.
  • چون ملک انوار حق در وی بیافت ** در سجود افتاد و در خدمت شتافت‌‌
  • Since the angels perceived in him the rays of God, they fell in worship and hastened to do homage.
  • مدح این آدم که نامش می‌‌برم ** قاصرم گر تا قیامت بشمرم‌‌
  • If until the Resurrection I reckon up the praise of this Adam whose name I am celebrating, I fall short (of what is due).
  • این همه دانست و چون آمد قضا ** دانش یک نهی شد بر وی خطا
  • All this he knew; (yet) when the Divine destiny came, he was at fault in the knowledge of a single prohibition,
  • کای عجب نهی از پی تحریم بود ** یا به تاویلی بد و توهیم بود 1250
  • Wondering whether the prohibition was for the purpose of making unlawful (the thing prohibited), or whether it admitted of an interpretation and was a cause of perplexity.
  • در دلش تاویل چون ترجیح یافت ** طبع در حیرت سوی گندم شتافت‌‌
  • When (the view that it admitted of) interpretation prevailed in his mind, his nature hastened in bewilderment towards the wheat.