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  • ترک‌جوشش شرح کردم نیم‌خام ** از حکیم غزنوی بشنو تمام
  • I have given a half-raw (imperfect) explanation of it, (like) the Turcomans' ill-boiled meat: hear (it) in full from the Sage of Ghazna.
  • در الهی‌نامه گوید شرح این ** آن حکیم غیب و فخرالعارفین 3750
  • In the Iláhí-náma that Sage of the Unseen and Glory of them that know (God) explains this (matter).
  • غم خور و نان غم‌افزایان مخور ** زانک عاقل غم خورد کودک شکر
  • (He says), “Eat (feel) sorrow, and do not eat the bread of those who increase (your) sorrow (hereafter), for the wise man eats sorrow, the child (eats) sugar (rejoices).”
  • قند شادی میوه‌ی باغ غمست ** این فرح زخمست وآن غم مرهمست
  • The sugar of joy (hereafter) is the fruit of the garden of sorrow (here): this (sensual) joy is the wound and that (spiritual) sorrow is the plaster.
  • غم چو بینی در کنارش کش به عشق ** از سر ربوه نظر کن در دمشق
  • When you see (spiritual) sorrow, embrace it with passionate love: look on Damascus from the top of Rubwa.
  • عاقل از انگور می بیند همی ** عاشق از معدوم شی بیند همی
  • The wise man is seeing the wine in the grape, the lover (of God) is seeing the thing (entity) in the non-existent.
  • جنگ می‌کردند حمالان پریر ** تو مکش تا من کشم حملش چو شیر 3755
  • The day before yesterday the porters were quarrelling (and crying), “Don't you lift (it), let me lift his load (and carry it off) like a lion!”
  • زانک زان رنجش همی‌دیدند سود ** حمل را هر یک ز دیگر می‌ربود
  • Since they were seeing profit in that toil, each one was snatching the load from the other.
  • مزد حق کو مزد آن بی‌مایه کو ** این دهد گنجیت مزد و آن تسو
  • What comparison is there between God's reward and the reward given by that worthless creature? The former gives you a treasure as your reward, and the latter a groat.
  • گنج زری که چو خسپی زیر ریگ ** با تو باشد ان نباشد مردریگ
  • (God gives you) a golden treasure that remains with you when you lie (buried) under the sand and is not left as a heritage.
  • پیش پیش آن جنازه‌ت می‌دود ** مونس گور و غریبی می‌شود
  • It runs before your hearse and becomes your companion in the tomb and in the state where all is strange.
  • بهر روز مرگ این دم مرده باش ** تا شوی با عشق سرمد خواجه‌تاش 3760
  • For the sake of your death-day be dead (to self), now, so that you may be (united) with everlasting Love, O fellow-servant.
  • صبر می‌بیند ز پرده‌ی اجتهاد ** روی چون گلنار و زلفین مراد
  • Through the curtain of the struggle (against self) renunciation sees the face like a pomegranate-flower and the two tresses of the Desired One.
  • غم چو آیینه‌ست پیش مجتهد ** کاندرین ضد می‌نماید روی ضد
  • Sorrow is as a mirror before the struggler, for in this contrary there appears the face of the (other) contrary.
  • بعد ضد رنج آن ضد دگر ** رو دهد یعنی گشاد و کر و فر
  • After the (one) contrary, (which is) pain, the other contrary, that is, gladness and triumph, shows its face.
  • این دو وصف از پنجه‌ی دستت ببین ** بعد قبض مشت بسط آید یقین
  • Observe these two qualities (contraction and expansion) in the fingers of your hand: assuredly after the closing of the fist comes the opening.
  • پنجه را گر قبض باشد دایما ** یا همه بسط او بود چون مبتلا 3765
  • If the fingers be always closed or entirely (invariably) open, he (their owner) is like an afflicted person.
  • زین دو وصفش کار و مکسب منتظم ** چون پر مرغ این دو حال او را مهم
  • His work and action is regulated by these two qualities: these two conditions are (as) important for him as the bird's wings (to the bird).
  • چونک مریم مضطرب شد یک زمان ** همچنانک بر زمین آن ماهیان
  • When Mary was all at once dismayed, like those fishes on land,
  • گفتن روح القدس مریم راکی من رسول حقم به تو آشفته مشو و پنهان مشو از من کی فرمان اینست
  • [How the Holy Spirit said to Mary, “I am sent to thee by God: be not agitated and do not hide from me, for this is the (Divine) command.”]
  • بانگ بر وی زد نمودار کرم ** که امین حضرتم از من مرم
  • The Exemplar of (Divine) Bounty cried out to her, “I am the trusted (messenger) of the Lord: be not afraid of me.
  • از سرافرازان عزت سرمکش ** از چنین خوش محرمان خود درمکش
  • Do not turn thy head away from the exalted (favourites) of (Divine) Majesty, do not withdraw thyself from such goodly confidants.”
  • این همی گفت و ذباله‌ی نور پاک ** از لبش می‌شد پیاپی بر سماک 3770
  • He was saying this, and (meanwhile) from his lips a wick (ray) of pure light was going up to Simák (Arcturus) step by step (uninterruptedly).
  • از وجودم می‌گریزی در عدم ** در عدم من شاهم و صاحب علم
  • “Thou art fleeing from my existence into non-existence (the Unseen World): in non-existence I am a King and standard-bearer.
  • خود بنه و بنگاه من در نیستیست ** یکسواره نقش من پیش ستیست
  • Verily, my home and dwelling-place is in non-existence: solely my (outward) form is before the Lady (Mary).
  • مریما بنگر که نقش مشکلم ** هم هلالم هم خیال اندر دلم
  • O Mary, look (well), for I am a difficult form (to apprehend): I am both a new moon and a phantasy in the heart.