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6
161-185

  • Candy is not withheld from the ass of Jesus by him (Jesus), but the ass is naturally pleased with straw.
  • از خر عیسی دریغش نیست قند  ** لیک خر آمد به خلقت که پسند 
  • If candy had roused delight in the ass, he would have poured hundredweights of sugar in front of the ass.
  • قند خر را گر طرب انگیختی  ** پیش خر قنطار شکر ریختی 
  • Know that this is the (inner) meaning of We seal their mouths: this (knowledge) is important for the traveller on the Way,
  • معنی نختم علی افواههم  ** این شناس اینست ره‌رو را مهم 
  • That perchance, by (his following) the Way of the Seal of the prophets, the heavy seal may be lifted from his lips.
  • تا ز راه خاتم پیغامبران  ** بوک بر خیزد ز لب ختم گران 
  • The seals which the (former) prophets left were removed by the religion of Ahmad (Mohammed). 165
  • ختمهایی که انبیا بگذاشتند  ** آن بدین احمدی برداشتند 
  • The unopened locks had remained (as they were): they were opened by the hand of Lo, We have opened (unto thee).
  • قفلهای ناگشاده مانده بود  ** از کف انا فتحنا برگشود 
  • He is the intercessor in this world and in yonder world—in this world (for guidance) to the (true) religion, and yonder (for entrance) to Paradise.
  • او شفیع است این جهان و آن جهان  ** این جهان زی دین و آنجا زی جنان 
  • In this world he says, “Do Thou show unto them the Way,” and in yonder world he says, “Do Thou show unto them the Moon.”
  • این جهان گوید که تو رهشان نما  ** وآن جهان گوید که تو مهشان نما 
  • It was his custom in public and in private (to say), “Guide my people: verily they know not.”
  • پیشه‌اش اندر ظهور و در کمون  ** اهد قومی انهم لا یعلمون 
  • By his breath (powerful intercession) both the Gates were opened: in both worlds his prayer is answered. 170
  • باز گشته از دم او هر دو باب  ** در دو عالم دعوت او مستجاب 
  • He has become the Seal (of the prophets) for this reason that there never was any one like him in munificence nor ever shall be.
  • بهر این خاتم شدست او که به جود  ** مثل او نه بود و نه خواهند بود 
  • When a master surpasses (all others) in his craft, don't you say (to him), “The craft is sealed on thee”?
  • چونک در صنعت برد استاد دست  ** نه تو گویی ختم صنعت بر توست 
  • In the opening of seals thou (O Mohammed) art the Seal: in the world of the givers of spiritual life thou art the Hátim.
  • در گشاد ختمها تو خاتمی  ** در جهان روح‌بخشان حاتمی 
  • The purport (is this, that) the indications (esoteric teachings) of Mohammed are wholly revelation within revelation within revelation.
  • هست اشارات محمدالمراد  ** کل گشاد اندر گشاد اندر گشاد 
  • A hundred thousand blessings on his spirit and on the advent and cycle of his sons! 175
  • صد هزاران آفرین بر جان او  ** بر قدوم و دور فرزندان او 
  • Those fortunate Caliph-born sons of his are born of the substance of his soul and heart.
  • آن خلیفه‌زادگان مقبلش  ** زاده‌اند از عنصر جان و دلش 
  • Whether they be of Baghdád or Herát or Rayy, they are his progeny without admixture of water and earth.
  • گر ز بغداد و هری یا از ری‌اند  ** بی‌مزاج آب و گل نسل وی‌اند 
  • Wherever the rose-bough blossoms, ’tis still the (same) rose; wherever the wine-jar bubbles, ’tis still the (same) wine.
  • شاخ گل هر جا که روید هم گلست  ** خم مل هر جا که جوشد هم ملست 
  • If the sun uplift its head (rise) from the west, ’tis the same sun, not anything else.
  • گر ز مغرب بر زند خورشید سر  ** عین خورشیدست نه چیز دگر 
  • O Maker, by means of Thy veiling grace keep the fault-pickers blind to this (mystic) utterance. 180
  • عیب چینان را ازین دم کور دار  ** هم بستاری خود ای کردگار 
  • God said (in answer to my prayer), “I have blindfolded the eyes of the evil-natured bat (so as to prevent it) from (seeing) the peerless Sun.
  • گفت حق چشم خفاش بدخصال  ** بسته‌ام من ز آفتاب بی‌مثال 
  • From the glances of the infirm and feeble bat even the stars of that Sun are concealed.”
  • از نظرهای خفاش کم و کاست  ** انجم آن شمس نیز اندر خفاست 
  • In blame of the rotten (worthless) reputations which prevent spiritual experience of the Faith and point to insincerity and stand in the way of hundreds of thousands of fools; as (for example) the (flock of) sheep stood in the way of a certain effeminate person, and he durst not pass, so he asked the shepherd, “Will these sheep of yours bite me, I wonder?” “If you are a man,” he replied, “and the root of manhood is in you, they all are devoted to you; but if you are effeminate, each one of them is a dragon to (destroy) you.” There is another (kind of) effeminate person who, when he sees the sheep, immediately turns back and does not dare to ask (the shepherd); for he is afraid that, if he asks, the sheep will fall upon him and bite him.
  • نکوهیدن ناموسهای پوسیده را کی مانع ذوق ایمان و دلیل ضعف صدق‌اند و راه‌زن صد هزار ابله چنانک راه‌زن آن مخنث شده بودند گوسفندان و نمی‌یارست گذشتن و پرسیدن مخنث از چوپان کی این گوسفندان تو مرا عجب گزند گفت ای مردی و در تو رگ مردی هست همه فدای تو اند و اگر مخنثی هر یکی ترا اژدرهاست مخنثی دیگر هست کی چون گوسفندان را بیند در حال از راه باز گردد نیارد پرسیدن ترسد کی اگر بپرسم گوسفندان در من افتند و مرا بگزند 
  • Come, O Radiance of God, Husámu’ddín, O polisher of the spirit and sovereign of the Way to salvation,
  • ای ضیاء الحق حسام‌الدین بیا  ** ای صقال روح و سلطان الهدی 
  • Give the Mathnawí a free and open course, endow the outward form of its parables with the spirit (of life),
  • مثنوی را مسرح مشروح ده  ** صورت امثال او را روح ده 
  • That all its words may become reason and soul and may fly towards the soul's everlasting abode. 185
  • تا حروفش جمله عقل و جان شوند  ** سوی خلدستان جان پران شوند