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  • آنچنان که از عطسه و از خامیاز ** این دهان گردد بناخواه تو باز
  • Just as in sneezing and yawning this mouth becomes open without your willing it.
  • تفسیر این حدیث کی ائنی لاستغفر الله فی کل یوم سبعین مرة
  • Commentary on the Tradition, "Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day."
  • هم‌چو پیغامبر ز گفتن وز نثار ** توبه آرم روز من هفتاد بار 3300
  • Like the Prophet, I repent seventy times daily of speaking and giving out (mysteries);
  • لیک آن مستی شود توبه‌شکن ** منسی است این مستی تن جامه کن
  • But that intoxication becomes a breaker of (vows of) penitence: this intoxication of the body causes oblivion and tears the robe (of penitence).
  • حکمت اظهار تاریخ دراز ** مستیی انداخت در دانای راز
  • The (Divine) purpose of making manifest the (things of) long ago (the eternal things) cast an intoxication upon the knower of the mystery,
  • راز پنهان با چنین طبل و علم ** آب جوشان گشته از جف القلم
  • (So that) with such drum and banner (conspicuousness) the hidden mystery has become water gushing from (the fountain of) “the Pen is dry.”
  • رحمت بی‌حد روانه هر زمان ** خفته‌اید از درک آن ای مردمان
  • The infinite Mercy is flowing continually: ye are asleep to the perception thereof, O men!
  • جامه‌ی خفته خورد از جوی آب ** خفته اندر خواب جویای سراب 3305
  • The sleeper's garment drinks water from the river, (while) the sleeper is seeking the mirage in his dream.
  • می‌رود که آنجای بوی آب هست ** زین تفکر راه را بر خویش بست
  • He keeps running (to and fro), saying, “Yonder there is hope of water”: by this (false) thought he has barred the way against himself.
  • زانک آنجا گفت زینجا دور شد ** بر خیالی از حقی مهجور شد
  • Because he said “yonder” he became far from here (from the place where the water is): (through resting) in a vain imagination he was banished from a reality.
  • دوربینانند و بس خفته‌روان ** رحمتی آریدشان ای ره‌روان
  • They (the worldly) are far-seeing (for their selfish ends) and very fast asleep spiritually: take some mercy upon them, O travellers on the Way!
  • من ندیدم تشنگی خواب آورد ** خواب آرد تشنگی بی‌خرد
  • I never saw thirst (eager desire) induce sleep: (only) the thirst of the unintelligent induces sleep.
  • خود خرد آنست کو از حق چرید ** نه خرد کان را عطارد آورید 3310
  • The (true) intelligence, indeed, is that which was fed by God, not the intelligence that was bestowed by (the planet) Mercury.
  • بیان آنک عقل جزوی تا بگور بیش نبیند در باقی مقلد اولیا و انبیاست
  • Explaining that the particular (discursive) intellect does not see beyond the grave and, as regards all the rest, is subject to the authority of the saints and prophets.
  • پیش‌بینی این خرد تا گور بود ** وآن صاحب دل به نفخ صور بود
  • The foresight of this intellect extends (only) to the grave, while that of the spiritual man is till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • این خرد از گور و خاکی نگذرد ** وین قدم عرصه‌ی عجایب نسپرد
  • This intellect does not pass beyond a grave and sepulchre, and this (intellectual) foot does not tread the arena of marvels.
  • زین قدم وین عقل رو بیزار شو ** چشم غیبی جوی و برخوردار شو
  • Go, become quit of this foot and this intellect: seek the eye appertaining to the invisible (the inward eye) and enjoy (contemplation).
  • هم‌چو موسی نور کی یابد ز جیب ** سخره‌ی استاد و شاگردان کتاب
  • How should one subservient to a preceptor and in pupilage to a book find, like Moses, light from (his own) bosom?
  • زین نظر وین عقل ناید جز دوار ** پس نظر بگذار و بگزین انتظار 3315
  • From this (scholastic) study and this intellect comes naught but vertigo; therefore leave this study and adopt (in its stead) expectation.
  • از سخن‌گویی مجویید ارتفاع ** منتظر را به ز گفتن استماع
  • Do not seek (spiritual) eminence from disputation: for him who is expectant (of Divine inspiration) listening is better than speaking.
  • منصب تعلیم نوع شهوتست ** هر خیال شهوتی در ره بتست
  • The office of teaching is a sort of sensual desire: every sensual fancy is an idol (source of polytheism) in the Way.
  • گر بفضلش پی ببردی هر فضول ** کی فرستادی خدا چندین رسول
  • If every busybody had found the track (had attained) to His grace, how should God have sent so many prophets?
  • عقل جزوی هم‌چو برقست و درخش ** در درخشی کی توان شد سوی وخش
  • The particular intellect is like the lightning and the flash: how is it possible to go to Wakhsh in a flash?
  • نیست نور برق بهر رهبری ** بلک امریست ابر را که می‌گری 3320
  • The light of the lightning is not for guidance on the way; nay, it is a command to the cloud to weep.
  • برق عقل ما برای گریه است ** تا بگرید نیستی در شوق هست
  • The lightning of our intellect is for the sake of weeping, to the end that nonexistence may weep in longing for (real) existence.
  • عقل کودک گفت بر کتاب تن ** لیک نتواند به خود آموختن
  • The child's intellect said, “Attend school”; but it cannot learn by itself.
  • عقل رنجور آردش سوی طبیب ** لیک نبود در دوا عقلش مصیب
  • The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him.