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  • آن ملک چون مرغ بال و پر گرفت ** وین خرد بگذاشت پر و فر گرفت
  • The Angel assumed wings and pinions like a bird, while this Intelligence left wings (behind) and assumed (immaterial) splendour—
  • لاجرم هر دو مناصر آمدند ** هر دو خوش رو پشت همدیگر شدند 3195
  • Necessarily both became co-adjutors: both the beauteous ones became a support to one another.
  • هم ملک هم عقل حق را واجدی ** هر دو آدم را معین و ساجدی
  • The Angel as well as the Intelligence is a finder of God: each of the twain is a helper and worshipper of Adam.
  • نفس و شیطان بوده ز اول واحدی ** بوده آدم را عدو و حاسدی
  • The Flesh (nafs) and the Devil have (also) been (essentially) one from the first, and have been an enemy and envier of Adam.
  • آنک آدم را بدن دید او رمید ** و آنک نور متمن دید او خمید
  • He that regarded Adam as a body fled (from him in disdain), while he that regarded (him as) the trusty Light bowed (in worship).
  • آن دو دیده‌روشنان بودند ازین ** وین دو را دیده ندیده غیر طین
  • Those two (the Angel and the Intelligence) were (made) clairvoyant by this (Adam), while the eye of these two (the Flesh and the Devil) saw nothing but clay.
  • این بیان اکنون چو خر بر یخ بماند ** چون نشاید بر جهود انجیل خواند 3200
  • This discourse is now left (floundering) like an ass on the ice, since it is not fitting to recite the Gospel to Jews.
  • کی توان با شیعه گفتن از عمر ** کی توان بربط زدن در پیش کر
  • How can one speak of ‘Umar to Shí‘ites? How can one play a lute before the deaf?
  • لیک گر در ده به گوشه یک کسست ** های هویی که برآوردم بسست
  • But if there is any one (hidden) in a nook in the village, the hue and cry that I have raised is enough.
  • مستحق شرح را سنگ و کلوخ ** ناطقی گردد مشرح با رسوخ
  • To him that is worthy to (hear) the exposition, stones and brickbats become an articulate and well-grounded exponent.
  • بیان آنک حق تعالی هرچه داد و آفرید از سماوات و ارضین و اعیان و اعراض همه باستدعاء حاجت آفرید خود را محتاج چیزی باید کردن تا بدهد کی امن یجیب المضطر اذا دعاه اضطرار گواه استحقاقست
  • Explaining that whatsoever God most High bestowed and created— the heavens and the earths and the substances and the accidents— He created all (this) at the demand of need, and that one must make one's self in need of a thing, so that He may bestow it; for “… Or He who answers the sorely distressed when he calls unto Him?” Sore distress is the evidence of worthiness (to receive the Divine bounty).
  • آن نیاز مریمی بودست و درد ** که چنان طفلی سخن آغاز کرد
  • ’Twas Mary's want and pain that made such a babe (as Jesus) begin to speak (in the cradle).
  • جزو او بی او برای او بگفت ** جزو جزوت گفت دارد در نهفت 3205
  • Part of her spoke on her behalf without her: every part of thee hath speech in secret.
  • دست و پا شاهد شوندت ای رهی ** منکری را چند دست و پا نهی
  • Thy hands and feet become witnesses (against thee), O slave: how long wilt thou set hand and foot (strenuously apply thyself) to denial?
  • ور نباشی مستحق شرح و گفت ** ناطقه‌ی ناطق ترا دید و بخفت
  • And if thou art not worthy of (hearing) the exposition and the speech, the rational soul of the speaker saw thee (to be unworthy) and went to sleep (refrained from action).
  • هر چه رویید از پی محتاج رست ** تا بیابد طالبی چیزی که جست
  • Whatsoever grew has grown for the sake of the needy, in order that a seeker may find the thing he sought.
  • حق تعالی گر سماوات آفرید ** از برای دفع حاجات آفرید
  • If God most High has created the heavens, He has created them for the purpose of removing needs.
  • هر کجا دردی دوا آنجا رود ** هر کجا فقری نوا آنجا رود 3210
  • Wherever a pain is, the cure goes thither; wherever a poverty is, the provision goes thither.
  • هر کجا مشکل جواب آنجا رود ** هر کجا کشتیست آب آنجا رود
  • Wherever a difficult question is, the answer goes thither; wherever a ship is, the water goes thither.
  • آب کم جو تشنگی آور بدست ** تا بجوشد آب از بالا و پست
  • Do not seek the water, (but) get thirst, so that the water may gush forth from above and below.
  • تا نزاید طفلک نازک گلو ** کی روان گردد ز پستان شیر او
  • Until the tender-throated babe is born, how should the milk for it begin to flow from the (mother's) breast?
  • رو بدین بالا و پستیها بدو ** تا شوی تشنه و حرارت را گرو
  • Go, run on these hills and dales, to the end that thou mayst become thirsty and a prey to heat;
  • بعد از آن بانگ زنبور هوا ** بانگ آب جو بنوشی ای کیا 3215
  • After that, from the noise of the hornet of the air (the thundercloud) thou wilt hear the noise of the water of the stream, O king.
  • حاجت تو کم نباشد از حشیش ** آب را گیری سوی او می‌کشیش
  • Thy need is not less than (that of) dry plants: thou takest water and art drawing it towards them;
  • گوش گیری آب را تو می‌کشی ** سوی زرع خشک تا یابد خوشی
  • Thou takest the water by the ear and drawest it towards the dry crops that they may obtain refreshment.
  • زرع جان را کش جواهر مضمرست ** ابر رحمت پر ز آب کوثرست
  • For the spiritual crops, whose essences are concealed, the cloud of (Divine) mercy is full of the water of Kawthar.