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1605-1614

  • It has become an oft-told tale concerning the women of Joseph's Egypt that consciousness departed from them on account of their pre-occupation (with the beauty of Joseph). 1605
  • از زنان مصر یوسف شد سمر ** که ز مشغولی بشد زیشان خبر
  • (Hence) they cut their fore-arms to pieces: (in such a case) the spirit is distraught, so that it looks neither behind nor before.
  • پاره پاره کرده ساعدهای خویش ** روح واله که نه پس بیند نه پیش
  • Oh, many a brave man in battle whose hand or foot is cut by blows (of the sword),
  • ای بسا مرد شجاع اندر حراب ** که ببرد دست یا پایش ضراب
  • And he bears that same hand into the combat, thinking that it remains firm (intact).
  • او همان دست آورد در گیر و دار ** بر گمان آنک هست او بر قرار
  • (Afterwards) indeed he will see that his hand has been injured (and that) much blood has gone from him unawares.
  • خود ببیند دست رفته در ضرر ** خون ازو بسیار رفته بی‌خبر
  • Explaining that the body is as a garment to the spirit, and that this (bodily) hand is the sleeve of the spirit's hand, and that this (bodily) foot is the shoe of the spirit's foot.
  • در بیان آنک تن روح را چون لباسی است و این دست آستین دست روحست واین پای موزه‌ی پای روحست
  • (I mention this insensibility to pain) that you may know that the body is like a garment. Go, seek the wearer of the garment, do not lick (kiss) a garment. 1610
  • تا بدانی که تن آمد چون لباس ** رو بجو لابس لباسی را ملیس
  • To the spirit the knowledge of the Unity (of God) is sweeter (than care for the body): it hath a hand and foot different from those which are visible.
  • روح را توحید الله خوشترست ** غیر ظاهر دست و پای دیگرست
  • You may behold in dream the (spiritual) hand and foot and their connexion (with the spiritual body): deem that (vision) a reality, deem it not to be in vain.
  • دست و پا در خواب بینی و ایتلاف ** آن حقیقت دان مدانش از گزاف
  • You are such that without the (material) body you have a (spiritual) body: do not, then, dread the going forth of the soul from the body.
  • آن توی که بی بدن داری بدن ** پس مترس از جسم و جان بیرون شدن
  • Story of the dervish who had secluded himself in the mountains, with an account of the sweetness of severance (from the world) and seclusion and of entering upon this path, for (God hath said), “I am the companion of them that commemorate Me and the friend of them that take Me as their friend. If thou art with all, thou art without all when thou art without Me; And if thou art without all, thou art with all when thou art with Me.”
  • حکایت آن درویش کی در کوه خلوت کرده بود و بیان حلاوت انقطاع و خلوت و داخل شدن درین منقبت کی انا جلیس من ذکرنی و انیس من استانس بی گر با همه‌ای چو بی منی بی همه‌ای ور بی همه‌ای چو با منی با همه‌ای
  • There was a dervish dwelling in a mountainous place: solitude was his bedfellow and boon-companion.
  • بود درویشی بکهساری مقیم ** خلوت او را بود هم خواب و ندیم