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677-701

  • سوی خود اعمی شدم از حق بصیر ** پس معافم از قلیل و از کثیر
  • I have become blind in regard to myself, seeing by (the grace of) God: therefore I am absolved from the small (obligation) and from the great.”
  • لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
  • Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,
  • که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
  • Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).
  • باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد 680
  • Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation.
  • این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
  • In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.
  • صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
  • There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”
  • گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
  • If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).
  • چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
  • When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,
  • که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ 685
  • Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him.
  • گر نبودی امتحان هر بدی ** هر مخنث در وغا رستم بدی
  • Were there not a testing of every vicious person, every effeminate would be a Rustam in the fray.
  • خود مخنث را زره پوشیده گیر ** چون ببیند زخم گردد چون اسیر
  • Even suppose that the effeminate has put on a coat of mail: as soon as he feels the blow, he will become as a captive.
  • مست حق هشیار چون شد از دبور ** مست حق ناید به خود تا نفخ صور
  • How will he that is intoxicated with God be restored to his senses by (the soft breath of) the west-wind? The God-intoxicated man will not come to himself till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • باده‌ی حق راست باشد بی دروغ ** دوغ خوردی دوغ خوردی دوغ دوغ
  • The wine of God is true, not false: thou hast drunk buttermilk, thou hast drunk buttermilk, buttermilk, buttermilk!
  • ساختی خود را جنید و بایزید ** رو که نشناسم تبر را از کلید 690
  • Thou hast made thyself out to be a Junayd or a Báyazíd, (saying), “Begone, for I do not know a hatchet from a key.”
  • بدرگی و منبلی و حرص و آز ** چون کنی پنهان بشید ای مکرساز
  • How by means of hypocrisy, O contriver of fraud, wilt thou conceal depravity of nature and (spiritual) sloth and greed and concupiscence?
  • خویش را منصور حلاجی کنی ** آتشی در پنبه‌ی یاران زنی
  • Thou makest thyself a Mansúr-i Halláj and settest fire to the cotton of thy friends,
  • که بنشناسم عمر از بولهب ** باد کره‌ی خود شناسم نیمشب
  • Saying, “I do not know ‘Umar from Bú Lahab, (but) I know the wind of my ass-colt at midnight.”
  • ای خری کین از تو خر باور کند ** خویش را بهر تو کور و کر کند
  • Oh, the ass that would believe this from an ass like thee, and would make himself blind and deaf for thy sake!
  • خویش را از ره‌روان کمتر شمر ** تو حریف ره‌ریانی گه مخور 695
  • Do not count thyself one of the travellers on the Way; thou art a comrade of them that defile the Way: do not eat dung (do not talk rubbish)!
  • باز پر از شید سوی عقل تاز ** کی پرد بر آسمان پر مجاز
  • Fly back from hypocrisy, hasten towards Reason: how shall the wing of the phenomenal (unreal) soar to Heaven?
  • خویشتن را عاشق حق ساختی ** عشق با دیو سیاهی باختی
  • Thou hast feigned to be a lover of God, (but in truth) thou hast played the game of love with a black devil.
  • عاشق و معشوق را در رستخیز ** دو بدو بندند و پیش آرند تیز
  • At the Resurrection lover and beloved shall be tied in couples and quickly brought forward (to judgement).
  • تو چه خود را گیج و بی‌خود کرده‌ای ** خون رز کو خون ما را خورده‌ای
  • Why hast thou made thyself crazy and senseless? Where is the blood of the vine? Thou hast drunk our blood,
  • رو که نشناسم ترا از من بجه ** عارف بی‌خویشم و بهلول ده 700
  • (Saying), “Begone, I do not know thee: spring away from me. I am a gnostic who is beside himself and (I am) the Buhlúl of the village.”
  • تو توهم می‌کنی از قرب حق ** که طبق‌گر دور نبود از طبق
  • Thou art conceiving a false opinion of thy nearness to God, thinking that the Tray-maker is not far from the tray;