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2060-2084

  • پاسخم دادند خندان کای عزیز ** این بپوشیدست اکنون بر تو نیز 2060
  • And smilingly answered, ‘O honoured one, is this hidden from thee even now?
  • بر دلی کو در تحیر با خداست ** کی شود پوشیده راز چپ و راست
  • How should the mystery of left and right be hidden from the heart that is in (the state of) bewilderment with God?’
  • گفتم ار سوی حقایق بشکفند ** چون ز اسم حرف رسمی واقفند
  • I said (to myself), ‘If they are open to (in communication with) the (spiritual) realities, (yet) how are they acquainted with names (consisting) of letters attached to the form (of words)?’
  • گفت اگر اسمی شود غیب از ولی ** آن ز استغراق دان نه از جاهلی
  • He (one of the seven men) said, ‘If a name vanish from (the consciousness of) a saint, know that that is (the result arising) from (his) absorption (in God), not from ignorance.’
  • بعد از آن گفتند ما را آرزوست ** اقتدا کردن به تو ای پاک دوست
  • Afterwards they said, ‘We desire to follow thy leadership (in prayer), O holy friend.’
  • گفتم آری لیک یک ساعت که من ** مشکلاتی دارم از دور زمن 2065
  • ‘Yes,’ said I, ‘but (wait) awhile—for I have certain difficulties (derived) from the revolution of Time—
  • تا شود آن حل به صحبتهای پاک ** که به صحبت روید انگوری ز خاک
  • In order that they may be solved by means of holy companionships; for through companionship a grape grows from the earth.
  • دانه‌ی پرمغز با خاک دژم ** خلوتی و صحبتی کرد از کرم
  • A kernelly seed graciously consorted in solitary intercourse with the dark earth;
  • خویشتن در خاک کلی محو کرد ** تا نماندش رنگ و بو و سرخ و زرد
  • It effaced itself entirely in the earth, so that no colour or scent or red or yellow (hue) remained to it.
  • از پس آن محو قبض او نماند ** پرگشاد و بسط شد مرکب براند
  • After that effacement its constriction ceased: it opened its wings and expanded and sped on its way.
  • پیش اصل خویش چون بی‌خویش شد ** رفت صورت جلوه‌ی معنیش شد 2070
  • Inasmuch as it became selfless in the presence of its origin, the form departed (from it) and its real essence was displayed.’
  • سر چنین کردند هین فرمان تراست ** تف دل از سر چنین کردن بخاست
  • They nodded so (as though saying), ‘Hark, ’tis for thee to command,’ and from their nodding so a flame arose in my heart.
  • ساعتی با آن گروه مجتبی ** چون مراقب گشتم و از خود جدا
  • When for a while I had taken part with that elect company in contemplation (of God) and had been separated from myself,
  • هم در آن ساعت ز ساعت رست جان ** زانک ساعت پیر گرداند جوان
  • At that very hour my spirit was freed from hours (of Time); (I say ‘freed’) because hours make the young old.”
  • جمله تلوینها ز ساعت خاستست ** رست از تلوین که از ساعت برست
  • All changes have arisen from the hours: he that is freed from the hours is freed from change.
  • چون ز ساعت ساعتی بیرون شوی ** چون نماند محرم بی‌چون شوی 2075
  • When for an hour you escape from the hours, relation abides not: you become familiar with that which is without relation.
  • ساعت از بی‌ساعتی آگاه نیست ** زانکش آن سو جز تحیر راه نیست
  • The hours are not acquainted with hourlessness (timelessness), because for him (who is conscious of time) there is no way thither except bewilderment.
  • هر نفر را بر طویله خاص او ** بسته‌اند اندر جهان جست و جو
  • In this world of search and seeking every set of people have been tied in the stable peculiar to them,
  • منتصب بر هر طویله رایضی ** جز بدستوری نیاید رافضی
  • And over each stable a trainer has been appointed; save by (his) permission no recalcitrant comes (into another place).
  • از هوس گر از طویله بسکلد ** در طویله دیگران سر در کند
  • If, from vain desire, he should break away from the stable and intrude into the stable of others,
  • در زمان آخرجیان چست خوش ** گوشه‌ی افسار او گیرند و کش 2080
  • At once the nimble and goodly stablemen seize the corner of his halter and drag (him back).
  • حافظان را گر نبینی ای عیار ** اختیارت را ببین بی اختیار
  • O cunning one, if you behold not your keepers, behold your choice (and perceive that it is) involuntary.
  • اختیاری می‌کنی و دست و پا ** بر گشادستت چرا حسبی چرا
  • You are making a choice, and your hands and feet are loosed: why (then) are you imprisoned, why?
  • روی در انکار حافظ برده‌ای ** نام تهدیدات نفسش کرده‌ای
  • You have betaken yourself to denying (the action of) the keeper: you have called it ‘threats of the fleshly soul.’
  • پیش رفتن دقوقی رحمة الله علیه به امامت
  • How Daqúqí went forward to act as Imám.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد تیز دو ** هین نماز آمد دقوقی پیش رو
  • This discourse hath no end. “Run quickly! Hark, the (time for) prayer is come. Go forward, O Daqúqí!