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6
3171-3180

  • Ask of Him the life of love and do not ask for the (animal) soul: ask of Him that (spiritual) provision and do not ask for bread.
  • زو حیات عشق خواه و جان مخواه  ** تو ازو آن رزق خواه و نان مخواه 
  • Know that (the world of) created beings is like pure and limpid water in which the attributes of the Almighty are shining.
  • خلق را چون آب دان صاف و زلال  ** اندر آن تابان صفات ذوالجلال 
  • Their knowledge and their justice and their clemency are like a star of heaven (reflected) in running water.
  • علمشان و عدلشان و لطفشان  ** چون ستاره‌ی چرخ در آب روان 
  • Kings are the theatre for the manifestation of God's kingship; the learned (divines) are the mirrors for God's wisdom.
  • پادشاهان مظهر شاهی حق  ** فاضلان مرآت آگاهی حق 
  • Generations have passed away, and this is a new generation: the moon is the same moon, the water is not the same water. 3175
  • قرنها بگذشت و این قرن نویست  ** ماه آن ماهست آب آن آب نیست 
  • The justice is the same justice, and the learning is the same learning too; but those generations and peoples have been changed (supplanted by others).
  • عدل آن عدلست و فضل آن فضل هم  ** لیک مستبدل شد آن قرن و امم 
  • Generations on generations have gone, O sire, but these Ideas (Divine attributes) are permanent and everlasting.
  • قرنها بر قرنها رفت ای همام  ** وین معانی بر قرار و بر دوام 
  • The water in this channel has been changed many times: the reflexion of the moon and of the stars remains unaltered.
  • آن مبدل شد درین جو چند بار  ** عکس ماه و عکس اختر بر قرار 
  • Therefore its foundation is not in the running water; nay, but in the regions of the breadth (wide expanse) of Heaven.
  • پس بنااش نیست بر آب روان  ** بلک بر اقطار عرض آسمان 
  • These attributes are like Ideal stars: know that they are stablished in the sphere of the Ideas (Realities). 3180
  • این صفتها چون نجوم معنویست  ** دانک بر چرخ معانی مستویست