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1693-1742

  • Oh, many the bird flying in search of grain whose gullet was cut by its gullet (greediness)!
  • ای بسا مرغی پریده دانه‌جو ** که بریده حلق او هم حلق او
  • Oh, many the bird that, through its belly (appetite) and pangs of hunger, was made captive in a cage on the edge of a terrace!
  • ای بسا مرغی ز معده وز مغص ** بر کنار بام محبوس قفص
  • Oh, many the fish that, because of its gullet’s greed, was caught by a hook in water hard to reach! 1695
  • ای بسا ماهی در آب دوردست ** گشته از حرص گلو ماخوذ شست
  • Oh, many the chaste (woman) in a curtained bower that was brought to open shame by the misfortune of lust and gluttony! [Oh, many the chaste (woman) in a curtained bower that was brought to open shame by the misfortune of (her) vulva and throat!]
  • ای بسا مستور در پرده بده ** شومی فرج و گلو رسوا شده
  • Oh, many the learned and honest judge that was disgraced by greed and bribery!
  • ای بسا قاضی حبر نیک‌خو ** از گلو و رشوتی او زردرو
  • Nay, in the case of Hárút and Márút that wine (of lust) debarred them from ascending to Heaven.
  • بلک در هاروت و ماروت آن شراب ** از عروج چرخشان شد سد باب
  • On this account Báyazíd took precaution: he observed in himself remissness in (the performance of) the ritual prayer.
  • با یزید از بهر این کرد احتراز ** دید در خود کاهلی اندر نماز
  • (When) that possessor of the marrow (of spiritual knowledge) meditated concerning the cause, he perceived that the cause was (too) much water-drinking. 1700
  • از سبب اندیشه کرد آن ذو لباب ** دید علت خوردن بسیار از آب
  • He said, “For a year I will not drink water.” He acted accordingly, and God bestowed on him the power (to abstain).
  • گفت تا سالی نخواهم خورد آب ** آنچنان کرد و خدایش داد تاب
  • This was his least penance for the Religion’s sake: he became a (spiritual) sultan and the Pole of the Gnostics.
  • این کمینه جهد او بد بهر دین ** گشت او سلطان و قطب العارفین
  • Since the ascetic’s hand had been cut off by reason of his gullet (appetite), he closed the door of complaint.
  • چون بریده شد برای حلق دست ** مرد زاهد را در شکوی ببست
  • His name amongst the people came to be Shaykh Aqta’:the calamities (which he suffered because) of his gullet made him well-known by this (name).
  • شیخ اقطع گشت نامش پیش خلق ** کرد معروفش بدین آفات حلق
  • The miraculous gifts of Shaykh Aqta’, and how he used to weave palm-leaf baskets with both hands.
  • کرامات شیخ اقطع و زنبیل بافتن او بدو دست
  • A visitor found him in his hut, (and saw) that he was weaving a basket with both hands. 1705
  • در عریش او را یکی زایر بیافت ** کو بهر دو دست می زنبیل بافت
  • He (the Shaykh) said to him, “O enemy of thine own life, who hast come putting thy head into my hut.
  • گفت او را ای عدو جان خویش ** در عریشم آمده سر کرده پیش
  • Why hast thou made such hot haste?” He replied, “From excess of love and longing.”
  • این چراکردی شتاب اندر سباق ** گفت از افراط مهر و اشتیاق
  • Then he (the Shaykh) smiled and said, “Now come in, but keep this (thing) secret, O noble sir.
  • پس تبسم کرد و گفت اکنون بیا ** لیک مخفی دار این را ای کیا
  • Till I die, do not tell this to any one, neither to a comrade nor to a beloved nor to a worthless fellow.”
  • تا نمیرم من مگو این با کسی ** نه قرینی نه حبیبی نه خسی
  • Afterwards other folk, (looking) through his window, became acquainted with his weaving. 1710
  • بعد از آن قومی دگر از روزنش ** مطلع گشتند بر بافیدنش
  • He said, “O Creator, Thou knowest the wisdom (the purpose in this). I conceal (my secret), Thou hast revealed it.”
  • گفت حکمت را تو دانی کردگار ** من کنم پنهان تو کردی آشکار
  • The Divine inspiration came to him: “There were a number of people who were beginning to disbelieve in thee in (consequence of) this affliction,
  • آمد الهامش که یکچندی بدند ** که درین غم بر تو منکر می‌شدند
  • Saying, ‘Perchance he was a hypocrite in the Way (of God), so that God made him infamous among humankind.’
  • که مگر سالوس بود او در طریق ** که خدا رسواش کرد اندر فریق
  • I don not wish that that party should become infidels and in thinking evil (of thee) fall into perdition;
  • من نخواهم کان رمه کافر شوند ** در ضلالت در گمان بد روند
  • (Hence) We divulged this miracle- (namely), that We give thee a hand in thy working-time- 1715
  • این کرامت را بکردیم آشکار ** که دهیمت دست اندر وقت کار
  • To the end that these wretched evil-thinking men may not be turned back from the Lord of Heaven.
  • تا که آن بیچارگان بد گمان ** رد نگردند از جناب آسمان
  • Erstwhile, indeed, without these miracles I was giving thee consolation from My Person;
  • من ترا بی این کرامتها ز پیش ** خود تسلی دادمی از ذات خویش
  • This miracle I have given thee for their sake, and on that account have I bestowed on thee this (spiritual) lamp.
  • این کرامت بهر ایشان دادمت ** وین چراغ از بهر آن بنهادمت
  • Thou art past being afraid of bodily death and dismemberment of the limbs.
  • تو از آن بگذشته‌ای کز مرگ تن ** ترسی وز تفریق اجزای بدن
  • Vain imagination concerning the dismemberment of head and foot has gone from thee: there has come to thee, for a defence against imagination, a shield exceeding strong.” 1720
  • وهم تفریق سر و پا از تو رفت ** دفع وهم اسپر رسیدت نیک زفت
  • The reason why the magicians of Pharaoh had courage to suffer the amputation of their hands and feet.
  • سبب جرات ساحران فرعون بر قطع دست و پا
  • Is it not (the fact) that the accursed Pharaoh threatened (the magicians with) punishment on the earth,
  • ساحران را نه که فرعون لعین ** کرد تهدید سیاست بر زمین
  • Saying, “I will cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides, then I will hang you up: I will not hold you exempt (from punishment)”?
  • که ببرم دست و پاتان از خلاف ** پس در آویزم ندارمتان معاف
  • He thought that they were (still) in the same imagination and terror and distraction and doubt,
  • او همی‌پنداشت کایشان در همان ** وهم و تخویفند و وسواس و گمان
  • So that they would be trembling and terrified and affrighted by the vain imaginings and threats of the carnal soul.
  • که بودشان لرزه و تخویف و ترس ** از توهمها و تهدیدات نفس
  • He did not know that they had been delivered and were seated at the window of the light of the heart; 1725
  • او نمی‌داست کایشان رسته‌اند ** بر دریچه‌ی نور دل بنشسته‌اند
  • (And that) they had recognised (the difference of) their (bodily) shadows from their (real) selves, and were brisk and alert and happy and exulting;
  • این جهان خوابست اندر ظن مه‌ایست ** گر رود درخواب دستی باک نیست
  • (And that), if the mortar of the Sky (Fortune) should pound them small a hundred times in this miry place (the material world),
  • گر بخواب اندر سرت ببرید گاز ** هم سرت بر جاست و هم عمرت دراز
  • (Yet), since they had seen the origin of this (corporeal) composition, they were not afraid of the derivatives (which belong to the domain) of imagination.
  • گر ببینی خواب در خود را دو نیم ** تن‌درستی چون بخیزی نی سقیم
  • This world is a dream—do not rest in (false) opinion; if in dream a hand go (be lost), ’tis no harm.
  • حاصل اندر خواب نقصان بدن ** نیست باک و نه دوصد پاره شدن
  • If in dream a pruning-fork has cut off your head, not only is your head (still) in its place but your life is (still) prolonged. 1730
  • این جهان را که بصورت قایمست ** گفت پیغامبر که حلم نایمست
  • If in dream you see yourself (cut) in two halves, you are sound in body when you rise, not sick.
  • از ره تقلید تو کردی قبول ** سالکان این دیده پیدا بی رسول
  • The sum (of the matter is this): in dreams it is no harm for the body to be maimed or to be torn into two hundred pieces.
  • روز در خوابی مگو کین خواب نیست ** سایه فرعست اصل جز مهتاب نیست
  • The Prophet said of this world, which is substantial in appearance, that it is the sleeper's dream.
  • خواب و بیداریت آن دان ای عضد ** که ببیند خفته کو در خواب شد
  • You have accepted this (statement) conventionally, (but) the travellers (on the mystic Way) have beheld this (truth) clairvoyantly, without (relation from) the Prophet.
  • او گمان برده که این دم خفته‌ام ** بی‌خبر زان کوست درخواب دوم
  • You are asleep in the daytime: do not say that this is not sleep. The shadow (reflexion) is derivative, the origin (of it) is naught but the moonlight. 1735
  • هاون گردون اگر صد بارشان ** خرد کوبد اندرین گلزارشان
  • Know, O comrade, that your sleep and waking (your life in this world) is as though a sleeper should dream that he has gone to sleep.
  • اصل این ترکیب را چون دیده‌اند ** از فروع وهم کم ترسیده‌اند
  • He thinks, “Now I am asleep,” (and is) unaware that he is (really) in the second sleep.
  • سایه‌ی خود را ز خود دانسته‌اند ** چابک و چست و گش و بر جسته‌اند
  • If the potter break a pot, he himself will restore it (to a perfect state) when he wishes.
  • کوزه‌گر گر کوزه‌ای را بشکند ** چون بخواهد باز خود قایم کند
  • The blind man at every step is afraid of (falling into) the pit: he walks on the road with a thousand fears;
  • کور را هر گام باشد ترس چاه ** با هزاران ترس می‌آید براه
  • (But) the seeing man has seen the width of the road, so he knows (all about) the hole and the pit; 1740
  • مرد بینا دید عرض راه را ** پس بداند او مغاک و چاه را
  • His legs and knees do not tremble at any time: how should he look sour because of any affliction?
  • پا و زانواش نلرزد هر دمی ** رو ترش کی دارد او از هر غمی
  • “Arise, O Pharaoh (and do thy worst)! for we are not such (so deluded) as to stop at every cry and (every) ghoul.
  • خیز فرعونا که ما آن نیستیم ** که بهر بانگی و غولی بیستیم