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700-709

  • رو که نشناسم ترا از من بجه ** عارف بی‌خویشم و بهلول ده 700
  • (Saying), “Begone, I do not know thee: spring away from me. I am a gnostic who is beside himself and (I am) the Buhlúl of the village.”
  • تو توهم می‌کنی از قرب حق ** که طبق‌گر دور نبود از طبق
  • Thou art conceiving a false opinion of thy nearness to God, thinking that the Tray-maker is not far from the tray;
  • این نمی‌بینی که قرب اولیا ** صد کرامت دارد و کار و کیا
  • (And) thou dost not see this, that the nearness of the saints (to God) hath a hundred miracles and pomps and powers.
  • آهن از داوود مومی می‌شود ** موم در دستت چو آهن می‌بود
  • By David iron is made (soft as) a piece of wax; in thy hand wax is (hard) as iron.
  • قرب خلق و رزق بر جمله‌ست عام ** قرب وحی عشق دارند این کرام
  • Nearness (to God) in respect of (His) creating and sustaining (us) is common to all, (but only) these noble ones possess the nearness (consisting) of the inspiration of Love.
  • قرب بر انواع باشد ای پدر ** می‌زند خورشید بر کهسار و زر 705
  • Nearness is of various kinds, O father: the sun strikes (both) on the mountains and on the gold (in the mine);
  • لیک قربی هست با زر شید را ** که از آن آگه نباشد بید را
  • But between the sun and the gold there is a nearness (affinity) of which the bíd-tree hath no knowledge.
  • شاخ خشک و تر قریب آفتاب ** آفتاب از هر دو کی دارد حجاب
  • (Both) the dry and fresh bough are near to the sun: how should the sun be screened off from either?
  • لیک کو آن قربت شاخ طری ** که ثمار پخته از وی می‌خوری
  • But where is the nearness of the sappy bough, from which you eat ripe fruit?
  • شاخ خشک از قربت آن آفتاب ** غیر زوتر خشک گشتن گو بیاب
  • From nearness to the sun let the dry bough get (if it can) anything besides withering sooner!