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1285-1309

  • How forsooth, in that valley (of imitation), did I rejoice from afar through blindness and confusion? 1285
  • من در آن وادی چگونه خود ز دور  ** شادیی می‌کردم از عمیا و شور 
  • What was I fancying, and what was it (in truth)? My weak perception was showing (only) a weak image (of the reality).”
  • من چه می‌بستم خیال و آن چه بود  ** درک سستم سست نقشی می‌نمود 
  • Where is the thought of the (holy) men in relation to the child of the (mystic) Way? Where is his fancy in comparison with true realisation?
  • طفل راه را فکرت مردان کجاست  ** کو خیال او و کو تحقیق راست 
  • The thought of children is (of) the nurse or milk or raisins and walnuts or weeping and crying.
  • فکر طفلان دایه باشد یا که شیر  ** یا مویز و جوز یا گریه و نفیر 
  • The imitator is like a sick child, although he may have (at his disposal) subtle argumentation and (logical) proofs.
  • آن مقلد هست چون طفل علیل  ** گر چه دارد بحث باریک و دلیل 
  • That profundity in (dealing with) proofs and difficult problems is severing him from (spiritual) insight. 1290
  • آن تعمق در دلیل و در شکال  ** از بصیرت می‌کند او را گسیل 
  • It took away (from him) the stock (of insight), which is the collyrium of his inmost consciousness, and applied itself to the discussion of (formal) problems.
  • مایه‌ای کو سرمه‌ی سر ویست  ** برد و در اشکال گفتن کار بست 
  • O imitator, turn back from Bukhárá: go to self-abasement (ba-khwárí) that thou mayst become a (spiritual) hero,
  • ای مقلد از بخارا باز گرد  ** رو به خواری تا شوی تو شیرمرد 
  • And that thou mayst behold within (thee) another Bukhárá, in the assembly-place whereof the champions are unlearned.
  • تا بخارای دگر بینی درون  ** صفدران در محفلش لا یفقهون 
  • Although the courier is a swift runner on land, when he goes to sea his sinews are broken.
  • پیک اگر چه در زمین چابک‌تگیست  ** چون به دریا رفت بسکسته رگیست 
  • He is only (like those of whom God says in the Qur’án) We have borne them on the land; (but) that one who is borne on the sea—he is somebody. 1295
  • او حملناهم بود فی‌البر و بس  ** آنک محمولست در بحر اوست کس 
  • The King (God) hath great bounty: run (to receive it), O thou who hast become in pawn to an imagination and fancy.
  • بخشش بسیار دارد شه بدو  ** ای شده در وهم و تصویری گرو 
  • From conformity that simple disciple, too, was weeping in concert with the venerable (Shaykh);
  • آن مرید ساده از تقلید نیز  ** گریه‌ای می‌کرد وفق آن عزیز 
  • (For), like the deaf man, he regarded the (Shaykh's) weeping in the manner of a conformist and was unaware of the cause.
  • او مقلدوار هم‌چون مرد کر  ** گریه می‌دید و ز موجب بی‌خبر 
  • When he had wept a long while, he paid his respects and departed: the (Shaykh's) favourite disciple came quickly after him,
  • چون بسی بگریست خدمت کرد و رفت  ** از پیش آمد مرید خاص تفت 
  • And said, “O thou who art weeping like a witless cloud in concert with the weeping of the Shaykh (possessed) of insight, 1300
  • گفت ای گریان چو ابر بی‌خبر  ** بر وفاق گریه‌ی شیخ نظر 
  • For God's sake, for God's sake, for God's sake, O loyal disciple, although in (thy) conformity thou art seeking (spiritual) profit,
  • الله الله الله ای وافی مرید  ** گر چه درتقلید هستی مستفید 
  • Take heed not to say, ‘I saw that (spiritual) king weeping, and I wept like him’; for that is denial (of his exalted state).”
  • تا نگویی دیدم آن شه می‌گریست  ** من چو او بگریستم که آن منکریست 
  • A weeping full of ignorance and conformity and (mere) opinion is not like the weeping of that trusted one.
  • گریه‌ی پر جهل و پر تقلید و ظن  ** نیست هم‌چون گریه‌ی آن متمن 
  • Do not judge (one) weeping by the analogy of (another) weeping: ’tis a long way from this weeping to that (weeping).
  • تو قیاس گریه بر گریه مساز  ** هست زین گریه بدان راه دراز 
  • That (weeping) is after a thirty years' (spiritual) warfare: the intellect can never get there. 1305
  • هست آن از بعد سی‌ساله جهاد  ** عقل آنجا هیچ نتواند فتاد 
  • Beyond reason there are a hundred stages: deem not the intellect to be acquainted with that caravan.
  • هست زان سوی خرد صد مرحله  ** عقل را واقف مدان زان قافله 
  • His weeping is neither from sorrow nor from joy: (only) the spirit knows the weeping of (him who is) the fountain of beauties.
  • گریه‌ی او نه از غمست و نه از فرح  ** روح داند گریه‌ی عین الملح 
  • His weeping, his laughter—(both) are of Yonder (World) and transcend all that the intellect may conceive.
  • گریه‌ی او خنده‌ی او آن سریست  ** زانچ وهم عقل باشد آن بریست 
  • His tears are like his eye: how should the sightless eye become a (seeing) eye?
  • آب دیده‌ی او چو دیده‌ی او بود  ** دیده‌ی نادیده دیده کی شود