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4
551-560

  • تا بیابی بوی خلد از یار من ** چون محمد بوی رحمن از یمن
  • So that you may feel the scent of Paradise from my Friend, as Mohammed the scent of the Merciful (God) from Yemen.

  • در صف معراجیان گر بیستی ** چون براقت بر کشاند نیستی
  • If you stand in the rank of those who make the (spiritual) ascension, not-being (self-naughtedness) will bear you aloft, like Buráq.

  • نه چو معراج زمینی تا قمر ** بلک چون معراج کلکی تا شکر
  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a piece of earth (an earthly being) to the moon; nay, but like the ascension of a cane to sugar.

  • نه چو معراج بخاری تا سما ** بل چو معراج جنینی تا نهی
  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a vapour to the sky; nay, but like the ascension of an embryo to rationality.

  • خوش براقی گشت خنگ نیستی ** سوی هستی آردت گر نیستی 555
  • The steed of not-being (self-naughtedness) became a goodly Buráq: it brings you to (real) existence, if you are non-existent (self-naughted).

  • کوه و دریاها سمش مس می‌کند ** تا جهان حس را پس می‌کند
  • Its hoof brushes the mountains and seas till it puts the world of sense perception behind.

  • پا بکش در کشتی و می‌رو روان ** چون سوی معشوق جان جان روان
  • Set your foot into the ship and keep going quickly, like the soul going towards the soul's Beloved.

  • دست نه و پای نه رو تا قدم ** آن چنانک تاخت جانها از عدم
  • (With) no hands and no feet, go to Eternity in the same fashion as that in which the spirits sped from non-existence.

  • بردریدی در سخن پرده‌ی قیاس ** گر نبودی سمع سامع را نعاس
  • If there had not been somnolence (dullness and inattention) in the hearer's hearing, the veil of logical reasoning would have been torn asunder in the discourse.

  • ای فلک بر گفت او گوهر ببار ** از جهان او جهانا شرم دار 560
  • O Heaven, shower pearls on his (the Shaykh's) rede! O World, have shame of (be abashed by) his world!