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1648-1657

  • Hypocrisy is like lightning, and in its gleam the travellers cannot see the way.
  • زرق چون برقست و اندر نور آن ** راه نتوانند دیدن ره‌روان
  • This world and its people are good-for-nothing: both are unanimous in respect of (their) faithlessness.
  • این جهان و اهل او بی‌حاصل‌اند ** هر دو اندر بی‌وفایی یکدل‌اند
  • The son of the world (the worldling) is faithless like the world: though he turn the face towards thee, that face is (really) the nape (back). 1650
  • زاده‌ی دنیا چو دنیا بی‌وفاست ** گرچه رو آرد به تو آن رو قفاست
  • The people of that (other) world, like that world, on account of (their) probity continue for ever in (observance of their) covenant and promise.
  • اهل آن عالم چو آن عالم ز بر ** تا ابد در عهد و پیمان مستمر
  • When, in sooth, did two prophets oppose each other? When did they wrest (their) evidential miracles (spiritual powers and privileges) from one another?
  • خود دو پیغمبر به هم کی ضد شدند ** معجزات از همدگر کی بستدند
  • How should the fruit of that world become stale? Intellectual joy does not turn into sorrows.
  • کی شود پژمرده میوه‌ی آن جهان ** شادی عقلی نگردد اندهان
  • The fleshly soul is unplighted (bound by no covenant); for that reason it ought to be killed: it is base, and base is the spot to which its desires are directed.
  • نفس بی‌عهدست زان رو کشتنیست ** او دنی و قبله‌گاه او دنیست
  • This assembly (the world) is well-adapted for fleshly souls: the grave and shroud are suitable to the dead. 1655
  • نفسها را لایقست این انجمن ** مرده را درخور بود گور و کفن
  • Although the fleshly soul is sagacious and acute, its qibla (objective) is this world, (therefore) regard it as dead.
  • نفس اگر چه زیرکست و خرده‌دان ** قبله‌اش دنیاست او را مرده دان
  • (But when) the water of God's inspiration has reached this dead (soul), the living (soul) comes into view (rises) from the tomb of a corpse.
  • آب وحی حق بدین مرده رسید ** شد ز خاک مرده‌ای زنده پدید