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1604-1613

  • Her body saw him as a hoopoe, (but) her spirit saw him as the ‘Anqá; her senses saw him as a fleck of foam, (but) her heart saw him as the sea.
  • جسم هدهد دید و جان عنقاش دید ** حس چو کفی دید و دل دریاش دید
  • Because of these two-coloured (diverse) talismans (appearance and reality) the intellect is at war with the senses, as Mohammed with the likes of Abú Jahl. 1605
  • عقل با حس زین طلسمات دو رنگ ** چون محمد با ابو جهلان به جنگ‏
  • The infidels regarded Ahmad (Mohammed) as (only) a man, since they did not see in him (the Prophetic nature which was manifested by the miracle) the moon was cleft asunder.
  • کافران دیدند احمد را بشر ** چون ندیدند از وی انشق القمر
  • Throw dust on your sense-perceiving eye: the sensuous eye is the enemy of intellect and religion.
  • خاک زن در دیده‏ی حس بین خویش ** دیده‏ی حس دشمن عقل است و کیش‏
  • God has called the sensuous eye blind; He has said that it is an idolater and our foe,
  • دیده‏ی حس را خدا اعماش خواند ** بت پرستش گفت و ضد ماش خواند
  • Because it saw the foam and not the sea, because it saw the present and not to-morrow.
  • ز انکه او کف دید و دریا را ندید ** ز انکه حالی دید و فردا را ندید
  • The master of to-morrow and of the present (is) before it; (yet) of a (whole) treasure it sees only a groat. 1610
  • خواجه‏ی فردا و حالی پیش او ** او نمی‏بیند ز گنجی جز تسو
  • (If) a mote bring a message from yonder Sun, the sun would become a slave to that mote.
  • ذره‏ای ز آن آفتاب آرد پیام ** آفتاب آن ذره را گردد غلام‏
  • The drop that has become an envoy from the Sea of Unity— the seven seas would be captive to that drop.
  • قطره‏ای کز بحر وحدت شد سفیر ** هفت بحر آن قطره را باشد اسیر
  • If a handful of earth become His courier, His heavens will lay their heads (in homage) before His earth.
  • گر کف خاکی شود چالاک او ** پیش خاکش سر نهد افلاک او