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1341-1365

  • We are the fishes, and Thou the Sea of Life: we live by Thy favour, O Thou whose attributes are excellent.
  • ماهیانیم و تو دریای حیات ** زنده‌ایم از لطفت ای نیکو صفات

  • Thou art not contained in the bosom of any thought, nor art Thou joined with the effect, as a cause.
  • تو نگنجی در کنار فکرتی ** نی به معلولی قرین چون علتی

  • Before this Flood and after it, Thou hast been the object of my address in (every) colloquy.
  • پیش ازین طوفان و بعد این مرا ** تو مخاطب بوده‌ای در ماجرا

  • I was speaking with Thee, not with them, O Thou that art the Giver of speech (both) newly and of old.
  • با تو می‌گفتم نه با ایشان سخن ** ای سخن‌بخش نو و آن کهن

  • Is it not the case that the lover, day and night, converses now with the ruins (of the beloved's abode), now with the traces (of her habitation)? 1345
  • نه که عاشق روز و شب گوید سخن ** گاه با اطلال و گاهی با دمن

  • To outward seeming, he has turned his face towards the ruins, (but) to whom is he (really) saying that song of praise, to whom?
  • روی با اطلال کرده ظاهرا ** او کرا می‌گوید آن مدحت کرا

  • Thanks (be to Thee)! Now Thou hast let loose the Flood and removed the ruins which stood between (me and Thee).
  • شکر طوفان را کنون بگماشتی ** واسطه‌ی اطلال را بر داشتی

  • (I thank Thee) because they were vile and evil ruins, uttering neither a cry nor an echo.
  • زانک اطلال لیم و بد بدند ** نه ندایی نه صدایی می‌زدند

  • I desire such ruins to speak with as answer back, like the mountain, by an echo,
  • من چنان اطلال خواهم در خطاب ** کز صدا چون کوه واگوید جواب

  • So that I may hear Thy name redoubled, (for) I am in love with Thy soul-soothing name. 1350
  • تا مثنا بشنوم من نام تو ** عاشقم برنام جان آرام تو

  • That is why every prophet holds the mountains dear: (’tis) that he may hear Thy name redoubled.
  • هرنبی زان دوست دارد کوه را ** تا مثنا بشنود نام ترا

  • That low mountain, resembling stony ground, is suitable for a mouse, not for us, as a resting-place.
  • آن که پست مثال سنگ لاخ ** موش را شاید نه ما را در مناخ

  • (When) I speak, it does not join with me: the breath of my speech remains without (any) echo.
  • من بگویم او نگردد یار من ** بی صدا ماند دم گفتار من

  • ’Tis better that thou level it with the earth; it is not in accord with thy breath (voice): thou shouldst join it with thy foot.”
  • با زمین آن به که هموارش کنی ** نیست همدم با قدم یارش کنی

  • He (God) said, “O Noah, if thou desire, I will assemble them all and raise them from (their graves in) the earth. 1355
  • گفت ای نوح ار تو خواهی جمله را ** حشر گردانم بر آرم از ثری

  • I will not break thy heart for the sake of a Canaan, but I am acquainting (thee) with (their real) states.”
  • بهر کنعانی دل تو نشکنم ** لیکت از احوال آگه می‌کنم

  • He (Noah) said, “Nay, nay, I am content that Thou shouldst drown me too, if it behove Thee (to do so).
  • گفت نه نه راضیم که تو مرا ** هم کنی غرقه اگر باید ترا

  • Keep drowning me every instant, I am pleased: Thy ordinance is my (very) soul, I bear it (with me) as my soul.
  • هر زمانم غرقه می‌کن من خوشم ** حکم تو جانست چون جان می‌کشم

  • I do not look at any one (but Thee), and even if I do look at (any one), he is (only) a pretext, and Thou art the (real) object of my regard.
  • ننگرم کس را وگر هم بنگرم ** او بهانه باشد و تو منظرم

  • I am in love with Thy making (both) in (the hour of) thanksgiving and (in the hour of) patience; how should I be in love, like the infidel, with that which Thou hast made?” 1360
  • عاشق صنع توم در شکر و صبر ** عاشق مصنوع کی باشم چو گبر

  • He that loves God's making is glorious; he that loves what He hath made is an unbeliever.
  • عاشق صنع خدا با فر بود ** عاشق مصنوع او کافر بود

  • Reconciliation of these two Traditions: “To be satisfied with infidelity is an act of infidelity,” and “If any one is not satisfied with My ordainment, let him seek a lord other than Me.”
  • توفیق میان این دو حدیث کی الرضا بالکفر کفر و حدیث دیگر من لم یرض بقضایی فلیطلب ربا سوای

  • Yesterday an inquirer put a question to me, because he was fond of disputation.
  • دی سالی کرد سایل مر مرا ** زانک عاشق بود او بر ماجرا

  • He said, “This Prophet uttered the deep saying, ‘To be satisfied with infidelity is an act of infidelity’; his words are (conclusive like) a seal.
  • گفت نکته‌ی الرضا بالکفر کفر ** این پیمبر گفت و گفت اوست مهر

  • Again, he said that the Moslem must be satisfied (acquiesce) in every ordainment, must be satisfied.
  • باز فرمود او که اندر هر قضا ** مر مسلمان را رضا باید رضا

  • Is not infidelity and hypocrisy the ordainment of God? If I become satisfied with this (infidelity), ’twill be opposition (disobedience to God), 1365
  • نه قضای حق بود کفر و نفاق ** گر بدین راضی شوم باشد شقاق