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  • If the sensual soul cannot refrain from this bread, take the elixir and turn thy copper into gold.
  • گر ندارد صبر زین نان جان حس ** کیمیا را گیر و زر گردان تو مس‌‌
  • Wouldst thou wash thy garment (clean), O so-and-so, do not avert thy face from the bleachers' quarter. 3880
  • جامه شویی کرد خواهی ای فلان ** رو مگردان از محله‌‌ی گازران‌‌
  • Although the bread has broken thy fast, cling to Him that binds what is broken, and ascend!
  • گر چه نان بشکست مر روزه‌‌ی ترا ** در شکسته بند پیچ و برتر آ
  • Inasmuch as His hand binds what is broken, it follows that His breaking is assuredly mending.
  • چون شکسته بند آمد دست او ** پس رفو باشد یقین اشکست او
  • It thou break it, He will say to thee, “Come, make it whole (again)”; and thou hast neither hand nor foot (thou art helpless).
  • گر تو آن را بشکنی گوید بیا ** تو درستش کن نداری دست و پا
  • Therefore He (alone) has the right to break, for He (alone) can mend what has been broken.
  • پس شکستن حق او باشد که او ** مر شکسته گشته را داند رفو
  • He that knows how to sew (together) knows how to tear (asunder); whatsoever He sells, He buys (something) better (in exchange). 3885
  • آن که داند دوخت او داند درید ** هر چه را بفروخت نیکوتر خرید
  • He lays the house in ruins, upside down; then in one moment He makes it more habitable (than it was before).
  • خانه را ویران کند زیر و زبر ** پس به یک ساعت کند معمورتر
  • If He sever one head from the body, He at once raises up hundreds of thousands of heads (for the beheaded person).
  • گر یکی سر را ببرد از بدن ** صد هزاران سر بر آرد در زمن‌‌
  • If He had not ordained a retaliation upon the guilty, or if He had not said, “In retaliation there is (for you) a life,”
  • گر نفرمودی قصاصی بر جناة ** یا نگفتی فی القصاص آمد حیات‌‌
  • Who indeed would have the stomach (would dare) of himself (on his own responsibility) to wield (draw) a sword against him that is a thrall to the decree of God?—
  • خود که را زهره بدی تا او ز خود ** بر اسیر حکم حق تیغی زند
  • Because every one whose eyes He (God) hath opened would know that the slayer was constrained (to slay) by (Divine) predestination. 3890
  • ز آن که داند هر که چشمش را گشود ** کآن کشنده سخره‌‌ی تقدیر بود
  • Any one on whom that decree might come (fall) would strike a sword-blow even at the head of his (own) child.
  • هر که را آن حکم بر سر آمدی ** بر سر فرزند هم تیغی زدی‌‌
  • Go, fear (God) and do not rail at the wicked: know thine own impotence before the snare of the (Divine) decree.
  • رو بترس و طعنه کم زن بر بدان ** پیش دام حکم عجز خود بدان‌‌
  • How Adam, on whom be peace, marvelled at the perdition of the accursed Iblís and showed vanity.
  • تعجب کردن آدم علیه السلام از ضلالت ابلیس لعین و عجب آوردن‌‌
  • The eye of Adam looked with contempt and scorn on Iblís who is damned.
  • چشم آدم بر بلیسی کو شقی ست ** از حقارت و از زیافت بنگریست‌‌
  • He behaved with self-conceit and became self-approving: he laughed at the plight of accursed Iblís.
  • خویش بینی کرد و آمد خود گزین ** خنده زد بر کار ابلیس لعین‌‌
  • The jealousy of God cried out (against him)—“O chosen one, thou art ignorant of the hidden mysteries (of His providence). 3895
  • بانگ بر زد غیرت حق کای صفی ** تو نمی‌‌دانی ز اسرار خفی‌‌
  • If He should turn the fur inside out, He would tear up from root and bottom (even) the (firmest) mountain (of faith);
  • پوستین را باژگونه گر کند ** کوه را از بیخ و از بن بر کند
  • At that instant He would rend the veil of (put to shame) a hundred Adams and bring (to light) a hundred Devils newly converted to Islam.”
  • پرده‌‌ی صد آدم آن دم بر درد ** صد بلیس نو مسلمان آورد
  • Adam said, “I repent of this look; I will not think so disrespectfully again.”
  • گفت آدم توبه کردم زین نظر ** این چنین گستاخ نندیشم دگر
  • O Help of them that call for help, lead us (aright)! There is no (cause for) pride in knowledge or riches.
  • یا غیاث المستغیثین اهدنا ** لا افتخار بالعلوم و الغنی‌‌
  • Do not let a heart stray that Thou hast guided by Thy grace, and avert the evil which the Pen has written. 3900
  • لا تزغ قلبا هدیت بالکرم ** و اصرف السوء الذی خط القلم‌‌
  • Let the evil of Thy ordainment pass from our souls: do not cut us off from those who are sincere.
  • بگذران از جان ما سوء القضا ** وا مبر ما را ز اخوان صفا
  • There is naught more bitter than separation from Thee: without Thy protection there is naught but perplexity.
  • تلخ‌‌تر از فرقت تو هیچ نیست ** بی‌‌پناهت غیر پیچا پیچ نیست‌‌
  • Our (worldly) goods waylay (and plunder) our (spiritual) goods: our bodies tear the garment (of spirituality) from our souls.
  • رخت ما هم رخت ما را راه زن ** جسم ما مر جان ما را جامه کن‌‌