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4
554-563

  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a vapour to the sky; nay, but like the ascension of an embryo to rationality.
  • نه چو معراج بخاری تا سما ** بل چو معراج جنینی تا نهی
  • The steed of not-being (self-naughtedness) became a goodly Buráq: it brings you to (real) existence, if you are non-existent (self-naughted). 555
  • خوش براقی گشت خنگ نیستی ** سوی هستی آردت گر نیستی
  • Its hoof brushes the mountains and seas till it puts the world of sense perception behind.
  • کوه و دریاها سمش مس می‌کند ** تا جهان حس را پس می‌کند
  • Set your foot into the ship and keep going quickly, like the soul going towards the soul's Beloved.
  • پا بکش در کشتی و می‌رو روان ** چون سوی معشوق جان جان روان
  • (With) no hands and no feet, go to Eternity in the same fashion as that in which the spirits sped from non-existence.
  • دست نه و پای نه رو تا قدم ** آن چنانک تاخت جانها از عدم
  • If there had not been somnolence (dullness and inattention) in the hearer's hearing, the veil of logical reasoning would have been torn asunder in the discourse.
  • بردریدی در سخن پرده‌ی قیاس ** گر نبودی سمع سامع را نعاس
  • O Heaven, shower pearls on his (the Shaykh's) rede! O World, have shame of (be abashed by) his world! 560
  • ای فلک بر گفت او گوهر ببار ** از جهان او جهانا شرم دار
  • If thou wilt shower (pearls), thy substance will become (increased in splendour) hundredfold: thy inorganic (matter) will become seeing and speaking.
  • گر بباری گوهرت صد تا شود ** جامدت بیننده و گویا شود
  • Therefore thou wilt have scattered a largesse for thine own sake, inasmuch as every stock of thine will be centupled.
  • پس نثاری کرده باشی بهر خود ** چونک هر سرمایه‌ی تو صد شود
  • Story of Bilqís' sending a gift from the city of Sabá to Solomon, on whom be peace.
  • قصه‌ی هدیه فرستادن بلقیس از شهر سبا سوی سلیمان علیه‌السلام
  • The gift of Bilqís was forty mules: their whole load consisted of bricks of gold.
  • هدیه‌ی بلقیس چل استر بدست ** بار آنها جمله خشت زر بدست