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1767-1816

  • خون شهیدان را ز آب اولی‏تر است ** این خطا از صد ثواب اولی‏تر است‏
  • For martyrs, blood is better than water: this fault (committed by him) is better than a hundred right actions (of another).
  • در درون کعبه رسم قبله نیست ** چه غم ار غواص را پاچیله نیست‏
  • Within the Ka‘ba the rule of the qibla does not exist: what matter if the diver has no snow-shoes?
  • تو ز سر مستان قلاووزی مجو ** جامه چاکان را چه فرمایی رفو
  • Do not seek guidance from the drunken: why dost thou order those whose garments are rent in pieces to mend them?
  • ملت عشق از همه دینها جداست ** عاشقان را ملت و مذهب خداست‏ 1770
  • The religion of Love is apart from all religions: for lovers, the (only) religion and creed is—God.
  • لعل را گر مهر نبود باک نیست ** عشق در دریای غم غمناک نیست‏
  • If the ruby have not a seal (graven on it), ’tis no harm: Love in the sea of sorrow is not sorrowful.
  • وحی آمدن موسی را علیه السلام در عذر آن شبان‏
  • How the (Divine) revelation came to Moses, on whom be peace, excusing that shepherd.
  • بعد از آن در سر موسی حق نهفت ** رازهایی کان نمی‏آید به گفت‏
  • After that, God spake secretly in the inmost heart of Moses mysteries which cannot be spoken.
  • بر دل موسی سخنها ریختند ** دیدن و گفتن به هم آمیختند
  • Words were poured upon his heart: vision and speech were mingled together.
  • چند بی‏خود گشت و چند آمد به خود ** چند پرید از ازل سوی ابد
  • How oft did he become beside himself and how oft return to himself! How oft did he fly from eternity to everlastingness!
  • بعد از این گر شرح گویم ابلهی است ** ز انکه شرح این ورای آگهی است‏ 1775
  • If I should unfold (his tale) after this, ’tis foolishness (in me), because the explanation of this is beyond (our) understanding;
  • ور بگویم عقلها را بر کند ** ور نویسم بس قلمها بشکند
  • And if I should speak (thereof), ’twould root up (men's) minds; and if I should write (thereof), ’twould shatter many pens.
  • چون که موسی این عتاب از حق شنید ** در بیابان در پی چوپان دوید
  • When Moses heard these reproaches from God, he ran into the desert in quest of the shepherd.
  • بر نشان پای آن سر گشته راند ** گرد از پرده‏ی بیابان بر فشاند
  • He pushed on over the footprints of the bewildered man, he scattered dust from the skirt of the desert.
  • گام پای مردم شوریده خود ** هم ز گام دیگران پیدا بود
  • The footstep of a man distraught is, in truth, distinct from the footsteps of others:
  • یک قدم چون رخ ز بالا تا نشیب ** یک قدم چون پیل رفته بر وریب‏ 1780
  • (At) one step, (he moves) like the rook (straight) from top to bottom (of the chessboard); (at) one step he goes crossways, like the bishop;
  • گاه چون موجی بر افرازان علم ** گاه چون ماهی روانه بر شکم‏
  • Now lifting his crest like a wave; now going on his belly like a fish;
  • گاه بر خاکی نبشته حال خود ** همچو رمالی که رملی بر زند
  • Now writing (a description of) his state on some dust, like a geomancer who takes an omen by drawing lines (on earth or sand).
  • عاقبت دریافت او را و بدید ** گفت مژده ده که دستوری رسید
  • At last he (Moses) overtook and beheld him; the giver of glad news said, “Permission has come (from God).
  • هیچ آدابی و ترتیبی مجو ** هر چه می‏خواهد دل تنگت بگو
  • Do not seek any rules or method (of worship); say whatsoever your distressful heart desires.
  • کفر تو دین است و دینت نور جان ** ایمنی و ز تو جهانی در امان‏ 1785
  • Your blasphemy is (the true) religion, and your religion is the light of the spirit: you are saved, and through you a (whole) world is in salvation.
  • ای معاف یفعل الله ما یشاء ** بی‏محابا رو زبان را بر گشا
  • O you who are made secure by God doeth whatso He willeth, go, loose your tongue without regard (for what you say).”
  • گفت ای موسی از آن بگذشته‏ام ** من کنون در خون دل آغشته‏ام‏
  • He said, “O Moses, I have passed beyond that: I am now bathed in (my) heart's blood.
  • من ز سدره‏ی منتهی بگذشته‏ام ** صد هزاران ساله ز آن سو رفته‏ام‏
  • I have passed beyond the Lote-tree of the farthest bourn, I have gone a hundred thousand years' journey on the other side.
  • تازیانه بر زدی اسبم بگشت ** گنبدی کرد و ز گردون بر گذشت‏
  • Thou didst ply the lash, and my horse shied, made a bound, and passed beyond the sky.
  • محرم ناسوت ما لاهوت باد ** آفرین بر دست و بر بازوت باد 1790
  • May the Divine Nature be intimate with my human nature— blessings be on thy hand and on thine arm!
  • حال من اکنون برون از گفتن است ** این چه می‏گویم نه احوال من است‏
  • Now my state is beyond telling: this which I am telling is not my (real) state.”
  • نقش می‏بینی که در آیینه‏ای است ** نقش تست آن نقش آن آیینه نیست‏
  • You behold the image which is in a mirror: it is your (own) image, it is not the image of the mirror.
  • دم که مرد نایی اندر نای کرد ** در خور نای است نه در خورد مرد
  • The breath which the flute-player puts into the flute—does it belong to the flute? No, it belongs to the man (the flute-player).
  • هان و هان گر حمد گویی گر سپاس ** همچو نافرجام آن چوپان شناس‏
  • Take good heed! Whether you speak praise (of God) or thanksgiving, know that it is even as the unseemly (words) of that shepherd.
  • حمد تو نسبت بدان گر بهتر است ** لیک آن نسبت به حق هم ابتر است‏ 1795
  • Though your praise is better in comparison with that, yet in relation to God it too is maimed (feeble).
  • چند گویی چون غطا برداشتند ** کاین نبوده ست آن که می‏پنداشتند
  • How often will you say, when the lid has been raised, “This was not what they were thinking (it was)!”
  • این قبول ذکر تو از رحمت است ** چون نماز مستحاضه رخصت است‏
  • This acceptance (by God) of your praise is from (His) mercy: it is an indulgence (which He grants), like (the indulgence granted in the case of) the prayers of a woman suffering from menorrhagia.
  • با نماز او بیالوده ست خون ** ذکر تو آلوده‏ی تشبیه و چون‏
  • Her prayers are stained with blood; your praise is stained with assimilation and qualification.
  • خون پلید است و به آبی می‏رود ** لیک باطن را نجاستها بود
  • Blood is foul, and (yet) it goes (is washed away) by a (little) water; but the inward part (the inner man) hath impurities
  • کان به غیر آب لطف کردگار ** کم نگردد از درون مرد کار 1800
  • Which fail not (are not removed) from the interior (the heart) of the man of works except by the water of the grace of the Maker.
  • در سجودت کاش رو گردانی‏ای ** معنی سبحان ربی دانی‏ای‏
  • Would that in your bowing low in prayer you would turn your face (to attentive consideration) and apprehend the meaning of “Glory to my Lord!”
  • کای سجودم چون وجودم ناسزا ** مر بدی را تو نکویی ده جزا
  • Saying, “Oh, my prostration (in prayer), like my existence, is unworthy (of Thee): do Thou give good in return for evil!”
  • این زمین از حلم حق دارد اثر ** تا نجاست برد و گلها داد بر
  • This earth has the mark of God's clemency, in that it got filth and gave flowers as the produce;
  • تا بپوشد او پلیدیهای ما ** در عوض بر روید از وی غنچه‏ها
  • In that it covers our pollutions, (and that) buds grow up from it in exchange.
  • پس چو کافر دید کاو در داد و جود ** کمتر و بی‏مایه تر از خاک بود 1805
  • Therefore, when the infidel saw that in giving and lavishing he was meaner and unwealthier than the earth,
  • از وجود او گل و میوه نرست ** جز فساد جمله پاکیها نجست‏
  • (That) flowers and fruit did not grow from his being, (and that) he sought (and achieved) nothing but the corruption of all purities,
  • گفت واپس رفته‏ام من در ذهاب ** حسرتا یا لیتنی کنت تراب‏
  • He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!
  • کاش از خاکی سفر نگزیدمی ** همچو خاکی دانه‏ای می‏چیدمی‏
  • Would that I had not chosen to travel away from earthiness, (and that) like a clod of earth I had gathered some grain!
  • چون سفر کردم مرا راه آزمود ** زین سفر کردن ره آوردم چه بود
  • When I travelled, the Way tried me: what was the present I brought (home) from this travelling?”
  • ز آن همه میلش سوی خاک است کاو ** در سفر سودی نبیند پیش رو 1810
  • ’Tis from all that propensity of his towards earth that he sees before him no profit in the journey.
  • روی واپس کردنش آن حرص و آز ** روی در ره کردنش صدق و نیاز
  • His turning his face back is that greed and cupidity (of his); his turning his face to the Way is sincerity and supplication.
  • هر گیا را کش بود میل علا ** در مزید است و حیات و در نما
  • Every herb that has a propensity for (moving) upwards is in (the state of) increase and life and growth;
  • چون که گردانید سر سوی زمین ** در کمی و خشکی و نقص و غبین‏
  • When it has turned its head towards the earth, (it is) in (the state of) decrease and dryness and failure and disappointment.
  • میل روحت چون سوی بالا بود ** در تزاید مرجعت آن جا بود
  • When the propensity of your spirit is upwards, (you are) in (the state of) increase, and that (lofty) place is the place to which you will return;
  • ور نگون ساری سرت سوی زمین ** آفلی حق لا یحب الآفلین‏ 1815
  • But if you are upside down, (with) your head towards the earth, (then) you are one that sinks: God loves not them that sink.
  • پرسیدن موسی علیه السلام از حق تعالی سر غلبه‏ی ظالمان‏
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, asked the high God (to explain) the secret of the predominance of the unjust.
  • گفت موسی ای کریم کارساز ** ای که یک دم ذکر تو عمر دراز
  • Moses said, “O Bounteous Disposer, O Thou whom to commemorate for one moment is (worth) a long life,