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  • بر تو می‏خندد مبین او را چنان ** صد قیامت در درون استش نهان‏ 3105
  • He (the prophet or saint) smiles upon you, (but) do not deem him to be such (as he appears): in his inward consciousness are hidden a hundred Resurrections.
  • دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوست ** هر چه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست‏
  • Hell and Paradise are entirely parts of him: he is beyond any thought that you may conceive (of him).
  • هر چه اندیشی پذیرای فناست ** آن که در اندیشه ناید آن خداست‏
  • All that you may think of is liable to pass away; he that comes not into thought is God.
  • بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیست ** گر همی‏دانند کاندر خانه کیست‏
  • Wherefore (then do they behave with) presumption at the door of this house, if they know who is within the house?
  • ابلهان تعظیم مسجد می‏کنند ** در جفای اهل دل جد می‏کنند
  • Fools venerate the mosque and exert themselves in maltreating them that have the heart (in which God dwells).
  • آن مجاز است این حقیقت ای خران ** نیست مسجد جز درون سروران‏ 3110
  • That (mosque) is phenomenal, this (heart) is real, O asses! The (true) mosque is naught but the hearts of the (spiritual) captains.
  • مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاست ** سجده‏گاه جمله است آن جا خداست‏
  • The mosque that is the inward (consciousness) of the saints is the place of worship for all: God is there.
  • تا دل مرد خدا نامد به درد ** هیچ قومی را خدا رسوا نکرد
  • Until the heart of the man of God was grieved, never did God put any generation to shame.
  • قصد جنگ انبیا می‏داشتند ** جسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند
  • They were going to make war on the prophets: they saw the body (of the prophet), they supposed he was a man.
  • در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیان ** چون نمی‏ترسی که تو باشی همان‏
  • In thee are the moral natures of those peoples of yore: how art not thou afraid lest thou be the same (as they)?
  • آن نشانیها همه چون در تو هست ** چون تو زیشانی کجا خواهی برست‏ 3115
  • Forasmuch as all those marks are in thee, and thou art (one) of them, how wilt thou be saved?
  • قصه‏ی جوحی و آن کودک که پیش جنازه‏ی پدر خویش نوحه می‏کرد
  • The story of Júhí and the child who cried lamentably beside his father's bier.
  • کودکی در پیش تابوت پدر ** زار می‏نالید و بر می‏کوفت سر
  • A child was crying bitterly and beating his head beside his father's coffin,
  • کای پدر آخر کجایت می‏برند ** تا ترا در زیر خاکی بسپرند
  • Saying, “Why, father, where are they taking you to put you under some earth?
  • می‏برندت خانه‏ی تنگ و زحیر ** نی در او قالی و نه در وی حصیر
  • They are taking you to a narrow and noisome house: there is no carpet in it, nor any mat;
  • نی چراغی در شب و نه روز نان ** نی در او بوی طعام و نه نشان‏
  • No lamp at night and no bread by day; neither smell nor sign of food is there.
  • نی درش معمور و نی در بام راه ** نی یکی همسایه کاو باشد پناه‏ 3120
  • No door in good repair, no way to the roof; not one neighbour to be (your) refuge.
  • چشم تو که بوسه گاه خلق بود ** چون رود در خانه‏ی کور و کبود
  • Your eye, which was a place for the people's kisses—how should it go into a blind and murky house?—
  • خانه‏ی بی‏زینهار و جای تنگ ** که در او نه روی می‏ماند نه رنگ‏
  • A pitiless house and narrow room, where neither (your) face will be lasting nor (your) colour.”
  • زین نسق اوصاف خانه می‏شمرد ** وز دو دیده اشک خونین می‏فشرد
  • In this manner was he enumerating the qualities of the house, whilst he wrung tears of blood from his two eyes.
  • گفت جوحی را پدر ای ارجمند ** و الله این را خانه‏ی ما می‏برند
  • Júhí said to his father, “O worthy (sir), by God they are taking this (corpse) to our house.”
  • گفت جوحی را پدر ابله مشو ** گفت ای بابا نشانیها شنو 3125
  • The father said to Júhí, “Don't be a fool!” “O papa,” said he, “hear the marks (of identity).
  • این نشانیها که گفت او یک به یک ** خانه‏ی ما راست بی‏تردید و شک‏
  • These marks which he mentioned one by one—our house has them (all), without uncertainty or doubt.
  • نی حصیر و نه چراغ و نه طعام ** نه درش معمور و نه صحن و نه بام‏
  • (It has) neither mat nor lamp nor food; neither its door is in good repair, nor its court nor its roof.”
  • زین نمط دارند بر خود صد نشان ** لیک کی بینند آن را طاغیان‏
  • In this wise the disobedient have a hundred marks upon themselves, but how should they see them?
  • خانه‏ی آن دل که ماند بی‏ضیا ** از شعاع آفتاب کبریا
  • The house, namely, the heart that remains unlighted by the beams of the sun of (Divine) Majesty,