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1060-1069

  • The road is smooth, and under it are pitfalls: amidst the names there is a dearth of meaning. 1060
  • راه هموار است و زیرش دامها ** قحط معنی در میان نامها
  • Words and names are like pitfalls: the sweet (flattering) word is the sand for (the sand that sucks up) the water of our life.
  • لفظها و نامها چون دامهاست ** لفظ شیرین ریگ آب عمر ماست‌‌
  • The one sand whence water gushes is seldom to be found: go, seek it.
  • آن یکی ریگی که جوشد آب ازو ** سخت کمیاب است رو آن را بجو
  • He that searches after wisdom becomes a fountain of wisdom; he becomes independent of acquisition and (ways and) means.
  • منبع حکمت شود حکمت طلب ** فارغ آید او ز تحصیل و سبب‌‌
  • The guarding tablet becomes a Guarded Tablet; his understanding becomes enriched by the Spirit.
  • لوح حافظ لوح محفوظی شود ** عقل او از روح محظوظی شود
  • When his understanding has been his teacher at the beginning, after this the understanding becomes his pupil. 1065
  • چون معلم بود عقلش ز ابتدا ** بعد از این شد عقل شاگردی و را
  • The understanding says, like Gabriel, “O Ahmad (Mohammed), if I take one (more) step, it will burn me;
  • عقل چون جبریل گوید احمدا ** گر یکی گامی نهم سوزد مرا
  • Do thou leave me, henceforth advance (alone): this is my limit, O sultan of the soul!”
  • تو مرا بگذار زین پس پیش ران ** حد من این بود ای سلطان جان‌‌
  • Whoever, through heedlessness, remains without thanksgiving and patience (selfcontrol), knows (no resource) but this, that he should follow in the heels of necessity (jabr).
  • هر که ماند از کاهلی بی‌‌شکر و صبر ** او همین داند که گیرد پای جبر
  • Any one who pleads necessity (as an excuse) feigns himself to be ill, with the result that the (feigned) illness brings him to the grave.
  • هر که جبر آورد خود رنجور کرد ** تا همان رنجوری‌‌اش در گور کرد