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527-551

  • گر بصورت من ز آدم زاده‌ام ** من به معنی جد جد افتاده‌ام
  • (That is to say), “If in appearance I am born of Adam, in reality I am the forefather of (every) forefather,
  • کز برای من بدش سجده‌ی ملک ** وز پی من رفت بر هفتم فلک
  • Since the worship of the angels was (rendered) to him for my sake, and he ascended to the Seventh Heaven on my account.
  • پس ز من زایید در معنی پدر ** پس ز میوه زاد در معنی شجر
  • Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”
  • اول فکر آخر آمد در عمل ** خاصه فکری کو بود وصف ازل 530
  • The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal.
  • حاصل اندر یک زمان از آسمان ** می‌رود می‌آید ایدر کاروان
  • To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.
  • نیست بر این کاروان این ره دراز ** کی مفازه زفت آید با مفاز
  • This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?
  • دل به کعبه می‌رود در هر زمان ** جسم طبع دل بگیرد ز امتنان
  • The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.
  • این دراز و کوتهی مر جسم راست ** چه دراز و کوته آنجا که خداست
  • This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?
  • چون خدا مر جسم را تبدیل کرد ** رفتنش بی‌فرسخ و بی‌میل کرد 535
  • When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile.
  • صد امیدست این زمان بردار گام ** عاشقانه ای فتی خل الکلام
  • There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.
  • گرچه پله‌ی چشم بر هم می‌زنی ** در سفینه خفته‌ای ره می‌کنی
  • Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).
  • تفسیر این حدیث کی مثل امتی کمثل سفینة نوح من تمسک بها نجا و من تخلف عنها غرق
  • Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."
  • بهر این فرمود پیغامبر که من ** هم‌چو کشتی‌ام به طوفان زمن
  • On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.
  • ما و اصحابم چو آن کشتی نوح ** هر که دست اندر زند یابد فتوح
  • I and my Companions are as the Ship of Noah: whoso clings (to us) will gain (spiritual) graces.”
  • چونک با شیخی تو دور از زشتیی ** روز و شب سیاری و در کشتیی 540
  • When you are with the Shaykh you are far removed from wickedness: day and night you are a traveller and in a ship.
  • در پناه جان جان‌بخشی توی ** کشتی اندر خفته‌ای ره می‌روی
  • You are under the protection of a life-giving spirit: you are asleep in the ship, you are going on the way.
  • مسکل از پیغامبر ایام خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر فن و بر کام خویش
  • Do not break with the prophet of your days: do not rely on your own skill and footsteps.
  • گرچه شیری چون روی ره بی‌دلیل ** خویش‌بین و در ضلالی و ذلیل
  • Lion though you are, you are self-conceited and in error and contemptible when you go on the way without a guide.
  • هین مپر الا که با پرهای شیخ ** تا ببینی عون و لشکرهای شیخ
  • Beware! Do not fly but with the wings of the Shaykh, that you may see (receive) the aid of the armies of the Shaykh.
  • یک زمانی موج لطفش بال تست ** آتش قهرش دمی حمال تست 545
  • At one time the wave of his mercy is your pinion, at another moment the fire of his wrath is your carrier.
  • قهر او را ضد لطفش کم شمر ** اتحاد هر دو بین اندر اثر
  • Do not reckon his wrath to be the contrary of his mercy: behold the oneness of both (these qualities) in the effect.
  • یک زمان چون خاک سبزت می‌کند ** یک زمان پر باد و گبزت می‌کند
  • At one time he will make you green like the earth, at another time he will make you full of wind, and big.
  • جسم عارف را دهد وصف جماد ** تا برو روید گل و نسرین شاد
  • He gives the quality of inorganic things to the body of the knower (of God), in order that gay roses and eglantines may grow on it;
  • لیک او بیند نبیند غیر او ** جز به مغز پاک ندهد خلد بو
  • But he (the Shaykh) alone sees (them), none sees but he: Paradise yields no scent but to the purified brain.
  • مغز را خالی کن از انکار یار ** تا که ریحان یابد از گلزار یار 550
  • Empty your brain of disbelief in the Friend, that it may feel sweet odours from the rose-garden of the Friend;
  • تا بیابی بوی خلد از یار من ** چون محمد بوی رحمن از یمن
  • So that you may feel the scent of Paradise from my Friend, as Mohammed the scent of the Merciful (God) from Yemen.