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596-620

  • تا زبون گردد به پیش آن نظر ** شعشعات آفتاب با شرر
  • In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;
  • که آن نظر نوری و این ناری بود ** نار پیش نور بس تاری بود
  • For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.
  • کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره
  • The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.
  • گفت عبدالله شیخ مغربی ** شصت سال از شب ندیدم من شبی
  • Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.
  • من ندیدم ظلمتی در شصت سال ** نه به روز و نه به شب نه ز اعتلال
  • During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”
  • صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همی‌رفتیم در دنبال او 600
  • The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him
  • در بیابانهای پر از خار و گو ** او چو ماه بدر ما را پیش‌رو
  • Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.
  • روی پس ناکرده می‌گفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ
  • Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’
  • باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست
  • Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’
  • روز گشتی پاش را ما پای‌بوس ** گشته و پایش چو پاهای عروس
  • Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,
  • نه ز خاک و نه ز گل بر وی اثر ** نه از خراش خار و آسیب حجر 605
  • No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.”
  • مغربی را مشرقی کرده خدای ** کرده مغرب را چو مشرق نورزای
  • God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).
  • نور این شمس شموسی فارس است ** روز خاص و عام را او حارس است
  • The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.
  • چون نباشد حارس آن نور مجید ** که هزاران آفتاب آرد پدید
  • How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?
  • تو به نور او همی رو در امان ** در میان اژدها و کزدمان
  • By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.
  • پیش پیشت می‌رود آن نور پاک ** می‌کند هر ره‌زنی را چاک‌چاک 610
  • That holy light is going in front of thee and tearing every highwayman to pieces.
  • یوم لا یخزی النبی راست دان ** نور یسعی بین ایدیهم بخوان
  • Know aright (the meaning of the text) on the Day when He (God) will not put the Prophet to shame; read (their) light shall run before them.
  • گرچه گردد در قیامت آن فزون ** از خدا اینجا بخواهید آزمون
  • Although that (light) will be increased at the Resurrection, (yet) beg of God (to grant thee) trial (of it) here;
  • کو ببخشد هم به میغ و هم به ماغ ** نور جان والله اعلم بالبلاغ
  • For He bestows spiritual light both on cloud and mist, and God best knoweth how to impart (it).
  • بازگردانیدن سلیمان علیه‌السلام رسولان بلقیس را به آن هدیه‌ها کی آورده بودند سوی بلقیس و دعوت کردن بلقیس را به ایمان و ترک آفتاب‌پرستی
  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, bade the envoys of Bilqís return to her with the gifts which they had brought; and how he called Bilqís to (accept) the Faith and to abandon sun-worship.
  • باز گردید ای رسولان خجل ** زر شما را دل به من آرید دل
  • “O shamefaced envoys, turn back! The gold is yours: bring unto me the heart, the (pure) heart!
  • این زر من بر سر آن زر نهید ** کوری تن فرج استر را دهید 615
  • Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): date corporis caecitatem pudendo mulae.” [Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): give the body’s blindness (its blind desire for gold) to a (female) mule’s private part.”]
  • فرج استر لایق حلقه‌ی زرست ** زر عاشق روی زرد اصفرست
  • Annulo aureo pudendum mulae idoneum est; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance; [A mule’s private part is suitable (as a hiding place) for a ring of gold; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance;]
  • که نظرگاه خداوندست آن ** کز نظرانداز خورشیدست کان
  • For that (countenance) is the object of the Lord’s regard, while the mine (of gold) results from the sun’s casting looks (of favour).
  • کو نظرگاه شعاع آفتاب ** کو نظرگاه خداوند لباب
  • How can (that which is) the sunbeams’ object of regard be compared with (that which is) an object of regard to the Lord of the quintessence’?
  • از گرفت من ز جان اسپر کنید ** گرچه اکنون هم گرفتار منید
  • “Make of your souls a shield against my taking (you) captive, though (in truth) ye are my captives even now.”
  • مرغ فتنه دانه بر بامست او ** پر گشاده بسته‌ی دامست او 620
  • The bird tempted by the bait is (still) on the roof: with wings outspread, it is (nevertheless) imprisoned in the trap.