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159-168

  • The Súfí's book is not (composed of) ink of letters (letters written with ink): it is naught but a heart white as snow.
  • دفتر صوفی سواد حرف نیست ** جز دل اسپید همچون برف نیست‏
  • The scholar's provision is (consists of) pen-marks (written letters and words). What is the Súfí's provision? Footmarks. 160
  • زاد دانشمند آثار قلم ** زاد صوفی چیست آثار قدم‏
  • He (the Súfí) stalks the game, like a hunter: he sees the musk-deer's track and follows the footprints.
  • همچو صیادی سوی اشکار شد ** گام آهو دید بر آثار شد
  • For some while the track of the deer is (the) proper (clue) for him, (but) afterwards ’tis the navel (musk-gland) of the deer that is his guide.
  • چند گاهش گام آهو در خور است ** بعد از آن خود ناف آهو رهبر است‏
  • When he has given thanks for (having been favoured with knowledge of) the track and has traversed the way, of necessity by means of that track he arrives at a goal.
  • چون که شکر گام کرد و ره برید ** لاجرم ز آن گام در کامی رسید
  • To go one stage (guided) by the scent of the musk-gland is better than a hundred stages of (following) the track and roaming about.
  • رفتن یک منزلی بر بوی ناف ** بهتر از صد منزل گام و طواف‏
  • The heart that is the rising-place of the moonbeams (of Divine light) is for the gnostic (the means of revelation indicated by the words) its doors shall be opened. 165
  • آن دلی کاو مطلع مهتابهاست ** بهر عارف فتحت ابوابهاست‏
  • To you it is a wall, to them it is a door; to you a stone, to (those) venerated ones a pearl.
  • با تو دیوار است و با ایشان در است ** با تو سنگ و با عزیزان گوهر است‏
  • What you see plainly in the mirror—the Pír sees more than that in the brick.
  • آن چه تو در آینه بینی عیان ** پیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن‏
  • The Pírs are they whose spirits, before this world existed, were in the Sea of (Divine) bounty.
  • پیر ایشان‏اند کاین عالم نبود ** جان ایشان بود در دریای جود