Thou camest with three pebbles and a sling and didst rout a hundred thousand men:
تو به سه سنگ و فلاخن آمدی ** صد هزاران مرد را بر هم زدی
Thy pebbles broke into a hundred thousand pieces, and each one drank the blood of an enemy.
سنگهایت صدهزاران پاره شد ** هر یکی هر خصم را خونخواره شد
Iron became as wax in thy hand when the (craft of) fashioning coats of mail was made known to thee.
آهن اندر دست تو چون موم شد ** چون زرهسازی ترا معلوم شد
The mountains became thy thankful. accompanists: they chant the psalms with thee, as one who teaches the recitation of theQur’an.
کوهها با تو رسایل شد شکور ** با تو میخوانند چون مقری زبور
Hundreds of thousands of spiritual eyes were opened and through thy breath were made ready for (contemplation of) the Unseen;2500
صد هزاران چشم دل بگشاده شد ** از دم تو غیب را آماده شد
And that (miracle) is stronger than all those (others), for this one is lasting: thou bestowest the life that is enduring for ever.’!
و آن قویتر زان همه کین دایمست ** زندگی بخشی که سرمد قایمست
This indeed is the soul of all miracles, that it (the miracle) should bestow everlasting life on the (spiritually) dead.
جان جملهی معجزات اینست خود ** کو ببخشد مرده را جان ابد
The wicked man was killed and a whole world (of people) were quickened with life: every one became anew a (devoted) servant to God.
کشته شد ظالم جهانی زنده شد ** هر یکی از نو خدا را بنده شد
Explaining that Man’s fleshly soul is in the position of the murderer who had become a claimant on account of the cow, and that the slayer of the cow is the intellect, and that David is God or the Shaykh who is God’s vicar, by means, of whose strength and support it is possible to kill the wicked (murderer) and be enriched with (spiritual) daily bread that is not earned by labour and for which, there is no reckoning.
بیان آنک نفس آدمی بجای آن خونیست کی مدعی گاو گشته بود و آن گاو کشنده عقلست و داود حقست یا شیخ کی نایب حق است کی بقوت و یاری او تواند ظالم را کشتن و توانگر شدن به روزی بیکسب و بیحساب
Kill your fleshly soul and make the world (spiritually) alive; it (your fleshly soul) has killed its master: make it (your) slave.
نفس خود را کش جهانی را زنده کن ** خواجه را کشتست او را بنده کن
Hark! your fleshly soul is (as) the claimant (of compensation) for the cow: it has made itself a master and thief.2505
مدعی گاو نفس تست هین ** خویشتن را خواجه کردست و مهین
The slayer of the cow is your intellect (rational soul): go, do not be offended with the’ slayer of the cow, (which is) your body.
آن کشندهی گاو عقل تست رو ** بر کشنده گاو تن منکر مشو
The intellect is a captive and craves of God daily bread (won) without toil, and bounty (placed before it) on a tray.
عقل اسیرست و همی خواهد ز حق ** روزیی بی رنج و نعمت بر طبق
Upon what does its daily bread (won) without toil depend? Upon its killing the cow is the origin of (all) evil
روزی بی رنج او موقوف چیست ** آنک بکشد گاو را کاصل بدیست
The fleshly soul says, “How shouldst thou kill my ‘cow’?-because the “cow” of the fleshly soul is the (outward) form of the body.
نفس گوید چون کشی تو گاو من ** زانک گاو نفس باشد نقش تن
The intellect, (typified by) the master’s son, is left destitute, (while) the fleshly soul, (typified by) the murderer, has become a master and leader.2510
خواجهزادهی عقل مانده بینوا ** نفس خونی خواجه گشت و پیشوا
Do you know what is the daily bread (won) without toil? It is the food of spirits and the daily bread of the prophet.
روزی بیرنج میدانی که چیست ** قوت ارواحست و ارزاق نبیست
But it depends upon sacrificing the cow: know (that) the (spiritual) treasure (is found) in (sacrifice of) the cow, O you who dig in (holes and) corners!
لیک موقوفست بر قربان گاو ** گنج اندر گاو دان ای کنجکاو
Yesternight I ate something; otherwise, I would have given the reins entirely into the hand of your understanding’.
دوش چیزی خوردهام ور نه تمام ** دادمی در دست فهم تو زمام
(The words), ‘ yesternight I ate something,” are an idle tale: whatsoever comes (to pass) is from the secret chamber (of Divine Destiny).
دوش چیزی خوردهام افسانه است ** هرچه میآید ز پنهان خانه است
Wherefore have we fixed our eyes on (secondary) causes, if we have learned from those with beauteous eyes how to glance amorously?2515
چشم بر اسباب از چه دوختیم ** گر ز خوشچشمان کرشم آموختیم
Over the (secondary) causes there are other (primary) causes: do not look at the (secondary) cause; let thy gaze fall on that (primary cause).
هست بر اسباب اسبابی دگر ** در سبب منگر در آن افکن نظر
The prophets came in order to cut (the cords of secondary) causes: they flung their miracles at Saturn (in the Seventh Heaven).
انبیا در قطع اسباب آمدند ** معجزات خویش بر کیوان زدند
Without cause (means) they clove the sea asunder; without sowing they found heaps of corn.
بیسبب مر بحر را بشکافتند ** بی زراعت چاش گندم یافتند
Sand, too, was turned into flour by their work; goat’s hair became silk as it was pulled (from the hide).
ریگها هم آرد شد از سعیشان ** پشم بز ابریشم آمد کشکشان
The whole of the Qur’án consists in (is concerned with) the cutting off of (secondary) causes: (its theme is) the glory of the poor (prophet or saint) and the destruction of (those like) Abú Lahab.2520