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2900-2909

  • بر توکل تا چه آید در نبرد ** چون توکل کردن اصحاب نرد 2900
  • Consider what comes of acting on trust in warfare: (it is vain) like the trust of dice-players.

  • وآن نظرهایی که آن افسرده نیست ** جز رونده و جز درنده‌ی پرده نیست
  • But those insights that are not frozen (dense and dull) are nothing if not piercing and veil-rending.

  • آنچ در ده سال خواهد آمدن ** این زمان بیند به چشم خویشتن
  • He (such a one) sees with his own eye at the present moment that which will come to pass in ten years.

  • هم‌چنین هر کس به اندازه‌ی نظر ** غیب و مستقبل ببیند خیر وشر
  • Similarly, every one sees the unseen and the future, (both) good and evil, according to the measure of his insight.

  • چونک سد پیش و سد پس نماند ** شد گذاره چشم و لوح غیب خواند
  • When the barrier in front and the barrier behind are removed, the eye penetrates and reads the tablet of the Unseen.

  • چون نظر پس کرد تا بدو وجود ** ماجرا و آغاز هستی رو نمود 2905
  • When he (such a one) looks back to the origin of existence, the past circumstances and beginning of existence display themselves (to him)—

  • بحث املاک زمین با کبریا ** در خلیفه کردن بابای ما
  • (Namely), the disputation of the terrestrial angels with the (Divine) Majesty as to making our Father (Adam) the Vicegerent.

  • چون نظر در پیش افکند او بدید ** آنچ خواهد بود تا محشر پدید
  • When he casts his eye forward he sees plainly that which shall be (all that shall come to pass) till the (Last) Congregation.

  • پس ز پس می‌بیند او تا اصل اصل ** پیش می‌بیند عیان تا روز فصل
  • Therefore he sees back to the root of the root (the primal origin), and he sees forward clairvoyantly to the Day of Decision.

  • هر کسی اندازه‌ی روشن‌دلی ** غیب را بیند به قدر صیقلی
  • Every one, according to the measure of his spiritual enlightenment, sees the things unseen in proportion to the polishing (of the heart's mirror).