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  • کین حیات او را چو مرگی می‌نمود  ** کار پیشش بازگونه گشته بود 
  • For this (present) life seemed to him like a (state of) death: in his view the thing had become reversed.
  • موت را از غیب می‌کرد او کدی  ** ان فی موتی حیاتی می‌زدی  2675
  • He was begging death (as a gift) from the Unseen, he was crying, “Verily, my life is in my death.”
  • موت را چون زندگی قابل شده  ** با هلاک جان خود یک دل شده 
  • He had embraced death as (other people embrace) life, he had become in full accord with the destruction of his life.
  • سیف و خنجر چون علی ریحان او  ** نرگس و نسرین عدوی جان او 
  • As (with) ‘Alí, the sword and dagger were his sweet basil, the narcissus and eglantine were his soul's enemies.
  • بانگ آمد رو ز صحرا سوی شهر  ** بانگ طرفه از ورای سر و جهر 
  • A Voice came (to his ear), “Go from the desert to the city”— a wondrous Voice transcending the occult and the manifest.
  • گفت ای دانای رازم مو به مو  ** چه کنم در شهر از خدمت بگو 
  • He cried, “O Thou that knowest my secret, hair by hair, tell me, what service am I to do in the city?”
  • گفت خدمت آنک بهر ذل نفس  ** خویش را سازی تو چون عباس دبس  2680
  • It (the Voice) said, “The service is this, that for the purpose of self abasement thou shouldst make thyself (like) ‘Abbás (the seller) of date-syrup.
  • مدتی از اغنیا زر می‌ستان  ** پس به درویشان مسکین می‌رسان 
  • For a while take money from the rich and then deliver it to the lowly poor.
  • خدمتت اینست تا یک چند گاه  ** گفت سمعا طاعة ای جان‌پناه 
  • This is the service thou must do for some time.” He replied, “To hear is to obey, O Thou who art my soul's refuge.”
  • بس سال و بس جواب و ماجرا  ** بد میان زاهد و رب الوری 
  • Many questions and answers and much conversation passed between the ascetic and the Lord of mankind,