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2181-2190

  • گرچه زاهد را بود روزی شگرف  ** کی بود یک روز او خمسین الف 
  • Although, for the ascetic, one day is of great value, (yet) how should his one day be (equal to) fifty thousand (years)?
  • قدر هر روزی ز عمر مرد کار  ** باشد از سال جهان پنجه هزار 
  • The length of every day in the life of the adept is fifty thousand of the years of the world.
  • عقلها زین سر بود بیرون در  ** زهره‌ی وهم ار بدرد گو بدر 
  • Intellects are excluded from this mystery: if the heart of Imagination burst, let it burst!
  • ترس مویی نیست اندر پیش عشق  ** جمله قربانند اندر کیش عشق 
  • In the sight of Love, fear is not (so much as) a single hair: in the law of Love, all things (else) are (offered) as a sacrifice.
  • عشق وصف ایزدست اما که خوف  ** وصف بنده‌ی مبتلای فرج و جوف  2185
  • Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by lust and gluttony. [Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant (of God) who is afflicted by vulva and belly.]
  • چون یحبون بخواندی در نبی  ** با یحبوهم قرین در مطلبی 
  • Since you have read in the Qur’án (the words) “they love Him” joined in a certain place with (the words) “He loves them,”
  • پس محبت وصف حق دان عشق نیز  ** خوف نبود وصف یزدان ای عزیز 
  • Know, then, that love (mahabbat), and excessive love (‘ishq) too, is an attribute of God: fear is not an attribute of God, O honoured sir.
  • وصف حق کو وصف مشتی خاک کو  ** وصف حادث کو وصف پاک کو 
  • What relation exists between the attributes of God and those of a handful of earth? What relation exists between the attributes of him who is originated in time and those of the Holy (Eternal) One?
  • شرح عشق ار من بگویم بر دوام  ** صد قیامت بگذرد و آن ناتمام 
  • If I should continue to describe Love, a hundred Resurrections would pass, and it (my description would still be) incomplete;
  • زانک تاریخ قیامت را حدست  ** حد کجا آنجا که وصف ایزدست  2190
  • For there is a limit to the date of the Resurrection, but what limit can there be where the Divine attributes are (concerned)?