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1911-1920

  • It is a scroll of such a shape and such a colour: then (as soon as possible) read it in privacy, O sorrowful one.
  • رقعه‌ای شکلش چنین رنگش چنین  ** بس بخوان آن را به خلوت ای حزین 
  • When you steal it from the stationer, my lad, then go out of the crowd and the noise and turmoil,
  • چون بدزدی آن ز وراق ای پسر  ** پس برون رو ز انبهی و شور و شر 
  • And read it by yourself in some lonely place: beware, do not seek any partnership in reading it.
  • تو بخوان آن را به خود در خلوتی  ** هین مجو در خواندن آن شرکتی 
  • But even if it (the secret) be divulged, do not be anxious, for none but you will get (so much as) half a barley-corn thereof.
  • ور شود آن فاش هم غمگین مشو  ** که نیابد غیر تو زان نیم جو 
  • And if it (the affair) be long drawn out, beware and take heed! Make (the text) do not ye despair your litany at every moment.” 1915
  • ور کشد آن دیر هان زنهار تو  ** ورد خود کن دم به دم لاتقنطوا 
  • The (heavenly) announcer of the good news said this and put his hand on his (the fakir's) heart, saying, “Go, endure the toil.”
  • این بگفت و دست خود آن مژده‌ور  ** بر دل او زد که رو زحمت ببر 
  • When the youth came back to himself after the absence, on account of his joy he could not be contained in the world.
  • چون به خویش آمد ز غیبت آن جوان  ** می‌نگنجید از فرح اندر جهان 
  • Had it not been for the tender care and protection and favour of God, his gallbladder would have burst from agitation.
  • زهره‌ی او بر دریدی از قلق  ** گر نبودی رفق و حفظ و لطف حق 
  • One (cause of) joy was this, that after (having passed through) six hundred veils his ear had heard the answer (to his prayer) from the (Divine) Presence.
  • یک فرح آن کز پس شصد حجاب  ** گوش او بشنید از حضرت جواب 
  • When his auditory sense had pierced through the veils, he raised his head aloft and passed beyond the skies, 1920
  • از حجب چون حس سمعش در گذشت  ** شد سرافراز و ز گردون بر گذشت