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  • 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