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  • چون کسی کاو از مرض گل داشت دوست ** گر چه پندارد که آن خود قوت اوست‏ 1080
  • As (in the case of) one who from disease has become fond of (eating) clay— though he may suppose that that (clay) is indeed his (natural) food,
  • قوت اصلی را فرامش کرده است ** روی در قوت مرض آورده است‏
  • He has (in reality) forgotten his original food and has betaken himself to the food of disease.
  • نوش را بگذاشته سم خورده است ** قوت علت همچو چوبش کرده است‏
  • Having given up honey, he has eaten poison; he has made the food of disease (to be his nourishment) as (though it were) fat.
  • قوت اصلی بشر نور خداست ** قوت حیوانی مر او را ناسزاست‏
  • Man's original food is the Light of God: animal food is improper for him;
  • لیک از علت در این افتاد دل ** که خورد او روز و شب زین آب و گل‏
  • But, in consequence of disease, his mind has fallen into this (delusion), that day and night he should eat of this water and clay.
  • روی زرد و پای سست و دل سبک ** کو غذای و السما ذات الحبک‏ 1085
  • (He is) pale-faced, weak-footed, faint-hearted—where is the food of by Heaven which hath (starry) tracks?
  • آن غذای خاصگان دولت است ** خوردن آن بی‏گلو و آلت است‏
  • That is the food of the chosen ones of the (Divine) sovereignty; the eating thereof is (done) without throat or instrument.
  • شد غذای آفتاب از نور عرش ** مر حسود و دیو را از دود فرش‏
  • The food of the (spiritual) sun is (derived) from the light of the (celestial) Throne; (the food that belongs) to the envious and devilish is (derived) from the smoke of the (terrestrial) carpet.
  • در شهیدان یرزقون فرمود حق ** آن غذا را نه دهان بد نه طبق‏
  • God said concerning the martyrs, they are (alive with their Lord) receiving sustenance. For that food there was neither mouth nor dish.
  • دل ز هر یاری غذایی می‏خورد ** دل ز هر علمی صفایی می‏برد
  • The heart is eating a (particular) food from every single companion; the heart is getting a (particular) excellence from every single (piece of) knowledge.
  • صورت هر آدمی چون کاسه‏ای است ** چشم از معنی او حساسه‏ای است‏ 1090
  • Every human being's (outer) form is like a cup; (only) the (spiritual) eye is a percipient of his (or her) reality.
  • از لقای هر کسی چیزی خوری ** و ز قران هر قرین چیزی بری‏
  • You eat (receive) something from meeting with any one, and you carry away something from conjunction with any associate.
  • چون ستاره با ستاره شد قرین ** لایق هر دو اثر زاید یقین‏
  • When planet comes into conjunction with planet, the effect appropriate to them both is assuredly produced,
  • چون قران مرد و زن زاید بشر ** وز قران سنگ و آهن شد شرر
  • As (for example) the conjunction of man and woman brings to birth the human being, and (as) sparks arise from the conjunction of stone and iron;
  • و ز قران خاک با بارانها ** میوه‏ها و سبزه و ریحانها
  • And (as) from the conjunction of earth with rains (there are produced) fruits and greenery and sweet herbs;
  • و ز قران سبزه‏ها با آدمی ** دل خوشی و بی‏غمی و خرمی‏ 1095
  • And (as) from the conjunction of green things (plants and verdant spots) with man (there is produced) joy of heart and carelessness and happiness;
  • وز قران خرمی با جان ما ** می‏بزاید خوبی و احسان ما
  • And (as) from the conjunction of happiness with our souls are born our goodness and beneficence.
  • قابل خوردن شود اجسام ما ** چون بر آید از تفرج کام ما
  • Our bodies become capable of eating and drinking when our desire for recreation (in the open air) is satisfied.
  • سرخ رویی از قران خون بود ** خون ز خورشید خوش گلگون بود
  • Redness of countenance is (derived) from the conjunction of blood (with the face); blood is (derived) from the beautiful rose-coloured sun.
  • بهترین رنگها سرخی بود ** و آن ز خورشید است و از وی می‏رسد
  • Redness is the best of (all) colours, and that is (born) of the sun and is arriving (to us) from it.
  • هر زمینی کان قرین شد با زحل ** شوره گشت و کشت را نبود محل‏ 1100
  • Every land that has been conjoined with Saturn has become nitrous and is not the place for sowing.
  • قوت اندر فعل آید ز اتفاق ** چون قران دیو با اهل نفاق‏
  • Through concurrence power comes into action, as (in the case of) the conjunction of the Devil with hypocrites.
  • این معانی راست از چرخ نهم ** بی‏همه طاق و طرم طاق و طرم‏
  • These spiritual truths without (possessing) any (worldly) pomp and grandeur, have pomp and grandeur from the Ninth Heaven.
  • خلق را طاق و طرم عاریت است ** امر را طاق و طرم ماهیت است‏
  • The pomp and grandeur belonging to (the world of) creation is a borrowed (adventitious) thing; the pomp and grandeur belonging to the (world of) Command is an essential thing.
  • از پی طاق و طرم خواری کشند ** بر امید عز در خواری خوشند
  • For the sake of (earthly) pomp and grandeur they endure abasement; in the hope of glory they are happy in (their) abasement.
  • بر امید عز ده روزه‏ی خدوک ** گردن خود کرده‏اند از غم چو دوک‏ 1105
  • In the hope of a ten days' (transient) glory (full) of annoyance, they have made their necks, from anxiety, (thin) as a spindle.
  • چون نمی‏آیند اینجا که منم ** کاندر این عز آفتاب روشنم‏
  • How do not they come to this place where I am?—for in this (spiritual) glory I am the shining Sun.
  • مشرق خورشید برج قیرگون ** آفتاب ما ز مشرقها برون‏
  • The rising-place of the sun is the pitch-coloured tower (of heaven), (but) my Sun is beyond (all) rising-places.
  • مشرق او نسبت ذرات او ** نه بر آمد نه فرو شد ذات او
  • His “rising-place” (is only) in relation to His motes: His essence neither rose nor set.
  • ما که واپس ماند ذرات وی‏ایم ** در دو عالم آفتابی بی‏فی‏ایم‏
  • I who am left behind (surpassed in eminence) by His motes am (nevertheless) in both worlds a sun without shadow.
  • باز گرد شمس می‏گردم عجب ** هم ز فر شمس باشد این سبب‏ 1110
  • Still, I am revolving round the Sun—’tis wonderful; the cause of this is the majesty of the Sun.
  • شمس باشد بر سببها مطلع ** هم از او حبل سببها منقطع‏
  • The Sun is acquainted with (all secondary) causes; at the same time the cord of (all secondary) causes is severed from Him.
  • صد هزاران بار ببریدم امید ** از که از شمس این شما باور کنید
  • Hundreds of thousands of times have I cut off (abandoned) hope—of whom? Of the Sun? Do you believe this?
  • تو مرا باور مکن کز آفتاب ** صبر دارم من و یا ماهی ز آب‏
  • Do not believe of me that I can endure to be without the Sun, or the fish to be without water;
  • ور شوم نومید نومیدی من ** عین صنع آفتاب است ای حسن‏
  • And if I become despairing, my despair is the objective manifestation of the Sun's  work, O goodly (friend).
  • عین صنع از نفس صانع چون برد ** هیچ هست از غیر هستی چون چرد 1115
  • How should the objective manifestation of the work be cut off from the very self of the Worker? How should any object of (contingent) being pasture on (derive existence from) aught but (Absolute) Being?
  • جمله هستیها از این روضه چرند ** گر براق و تازیان ور خود خرند
  • All (contingent) beings pasture on this Meadow, whether they be Buráq or Arab horses or even asses;
  • و انکه گردشها از آن دریا ندید ** هر دم آرد رو به صحرایی جدید
  • And he that has not regarded (all) becomings (movements and changes) as (proceeding) from that Sea, at every instant turns his face towards a new point of orientation.
  • او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد ** تا که آب شور او را کور کرد
  • He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.
  • بحر می‏گوید به دست راست خور ** ز آب من ای کور تا یابی بصر
  • The Sea is saying, “Drink of my water with the right hand, O blind one, that thou mayst gain sight.”
  • هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست‏ 1120
  • Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are.
  • نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست می‏گردی گهی گاهی دو تو
  • O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.
  • ما ز عشق شمس دین بی‏ناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم‏
  • Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.
  • هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود
  • Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;
  • توتیای کبریای تیز فعل ** داروی ظلمت کش استیز فعل‏
  • (Heal him with) the quick-acting tutty of majesty, the darkness-killing remedy of the recalcitrant,
  • آن که گر بر چشم اعمی بر زند ** ظلمت صد ساله را زو بر کند 1125
  • Which, if it strike on the eye of the blind man, will dispel from him a hundred years' darkness.
  • جمله کوران را دوا کن جز حسود ** کز حسودی بر تو می‏آرد جحود
  • Heal all the blind ones except the envious man who from envy is bringing denial against thee.
  • مر حسودت را اگر چه آن منم ** جان مده تا همچنین جان می‏کنم‏
  • To thy envier, though it be I, do not give life, (but let me alone) so that I may be suffering the agony of (spiritual) death even as he is.
  • آن که او باشد حسود آفتاب ** و انکه می‏رنجد ز بود آفتاب‏
  • (I mean) him that is envious of the Sun and him that is fretting at the existence of the Sun.
  • اینت درد بی‏دوا کاو راست آه ** اینت افتاده ابد در قعر چاه‏
  • Look you, this is the incurable disease which he has, alas; look you, this is one fallen for ever to the bottom of the pit.