Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?
خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین
The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.2265
لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست
Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?
پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایهی دل چون بود دل را غرض
Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),
آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه
Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?
یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** میپرستدشان برای گفت و گو
The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?
دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور
The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which?2270
نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام
Leave (what is only) a fragment of the heart and seek the (perfect) heart, in order that by means of it that fragment may become as a mountain.
ریزهی دل را بهل دل را بجو ** تا شود آن ریزه چون کوهی ازو
The (perfect) heart is encompassing (the whole of) this realm of existence and scattering gold in beneficence and bounty.
دل محیطست اندرین خطهی وجود ** زر همیافشاند از احسان و جود
It chooses to lavish blessings derived from the Blessedness of God upon the people of the world.
از سلام حق سلامیها نثار ** میکند بر اهل عالم اختیار
Whosoever's skirt is right and ready, the largesse of the heart comes to that person.
هر که را دامن درستست و معد ** آن نثار دل بر آنکس میرسد
Your skirt (to catch that largesse) is supplication and presence (with God): beware, do not put in your skirt the stone of iniquity,2275
دامن تو آن نیازست و حضور ** هین منه در دامن آن سنگ فجور
In order that your skirt may not be torn by those stones and that you may distinguish the sterling coin (of truth) from the colours (of falsehood).
تا ندرد دامنت زان سنگها ** تا بدانی نقد را از رنگها
You have filled your skirt with stones (of iniquity) from this world, and also with stones of silver and gold, as children (do).
سنگ پر کردی تو دامن از جهان ** هم ز سنگ سیم و زر چون کودکان
Inasmuch as from that fancy of silver and gold there was no (real) gold, the skirt of your sincerity was rent and your sorrow increased.
از خیال سیم و زر چون زر نبود ** دامن صدقت درید و غم فزود
How should the (coloured) stone appear to the children as stone, till Reason lays hold of their skirts?
کی نماید کودکان را سنگ سنگ ** تا نگیرد عقل دامنشان به چنگ
The Elder (Pír) is Reason, not that white hair (of eld): hair is not contained in (has nothing to do with) this fortune and hope (which is bestowed by Reason).2280
پیر عقل آمد نه آن موی سپید ** مو نمیگنجد درین بخت و امید
How the company (of the Seven) took offence at Daqúqí's invocation and intercession, and flew away and disappeared in the Veil of the Unseen World; and how Daqúqí was bewildered (and did not know) whether they had gone into the air or on the earth.
انکار کردن آن جماعت بر دعا و شفاعت دقوقی و پریدن ایشان و ناپیدا شدن در پردهی غیب و حیران شدن دقوقی کی در هوا رفتند یا در زمین
“When the ship was saved and (the voyagers) attained to their desire, simultaneously the (ritual) prayer of that company was finished.
چون رهید آن کشتی و آمد بکام ** شد نماز آن جماعت هم تمام
They began to murmur to one another, saying, ‘O father, which of us is this (interfering) busybody?’
فجفجی افتادشان با همدگر ** کین فضولی کیست از ما ای پدر
Each one spoke in secret to the other, (whilst they were) concealed (from view) behind Daqúqí's back,
هر یکی با آن دگر گفتند سر ** از پس پشت دقوقی مستتر
And each one said, ‘I did not make this invocation just now, either externally or internally.’
گفت هر یک من نکردستم کنون ** این دعا نه از برون نه از درون
He (one of the company) said, ‘It would seem that this Imám of ours, (moved) by grief, has meddlesomely offered an orison.’2285
گفت مانا این امام ما ز درد ** بوالفضولانه مناجاتی بکرد
Said the other, ‘O thou who art familiar with (intuitive) certainty, so it appears to me too.
گفت آن دیگر که ای یار یقین ** مر مرا هم مینماید این چنین
He has been meddlesome: (prompted) by distress he has interfered with Him who chooseth (as He pleaseth), the Absolute One.’
او فضولی بوده است از انقباض ** کرد بر مختار مطلق اعتراض
When I looked behind (me) to see what those noble ones were saying,
چون نگه کردم سپس تا بنگرم ** که چه میگویند آن اهل کرم