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6
148-157

  • جان چه باشد با خبر از خیر و شر  ** شاد با احسان و گریان از ضرر 
  • What is soul? (Soul is) conscious of good and evil, rejoicing on account of kindness, weeping on account of injury.
  • چون سر و ماهیت جان مخبرست  ** هر که او آگاه‌تر با جان‌ترست 
  • Since consciousness is the inmost nature and essence of the soul, the more aware one is the more spiritual is he.
  • روح را تاثیر آگاهی بود  ** هر که را این بیش اللهی بود  150
  • Awareness is the effect of the spirit: any one who has this in excess is a man of God.
  • چون خبرها هست بیرون زین نهاد  ** باشد این جانها در آن میدان جماد 
  • Since there are consciousnesses beyond this (bodily) nature, in that (spiritual) arena these (sensual) souls are (like) inanimate matter.
  • جان اول مظهر درگاه شد  ** جان جان خود مظهر الله شد 
  • The first soul is the theatre of the (Divine) court; the Soul of the soul is verily the theatre of God (Himself).
  • آن ملایک جمله عقل و جان بدند  ** جان نو آمد که جسم آن بدند 
  • The angels were entirely reason and spirit (till) there came a new Spirit of which they were the body.
  • از سعادت چون بر آن جان بر زدند  ** هم‌چو تن آن روح را خادم شدند 
  • When, by happy fortune, they attached themselves to that Spirit, they became subservient to that Spirit, as the body (is subservient to the spirit dwelling in it).
  • آن بلیس از جان از آن سر برده بود  ** یک نشد با جان که عضو مرده بود  155
  • Hence Iblís (Satan) had turned his head away from the Spirit: he did not become one with it because he was a dead limb.
  • چون نبودش آن فدای آن نشد  ** دست بشکسته مطیع جان نشد 
  • Since he had it not, he did not become devoted to it: the broken hand does not obey the spirit (which rules the body).
  • جان نشد ناقص گر آن عضوش شکست  ** کان بدست اوست تواند کرد هست 
  • (But) the Spirit is not impaired though its limb is broken, for that (limb) is in its power, and it can bring it to life.