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1326-1375

  • How should he go at its heels like a catamite (base sycophant)? The infidel too would step back.
  • در پی او کی شدی مانند حیز ** پی خود را واکشیدی گبر نیز
  • If the cow were acquainted with the butchers, how should she follow them to that (butcher's) shop,
  • گاو گر واقف ز قصابان بدی ** کی پی ایشان بدان دکان شدی
  • Or eat bran from their hands, or give them milk on account of (their) coaxing (her)?
  • یا بخوردی از کف ایشان سبوس ** یا بدادی شیرشان از چاپلوس
  • And if she ate, how should the fodder be digested by her, if she were aware of the purpose of the fodder?
  • ور بخوردی کی علف هضمش شدی ** گر ز مقصود علف واقف بدی
  • Heedlessness (delusion), then, is in sooth the pillar (support) of this world: what is dawlat (worldly fortune)? for this dawádaw (running to and fro) is (accompanied) with lat (blows). 1330
  • پس ستون این جهان خود غفلتست ** چیست دولت کین دوادو با لتست
  • The beginning thereof is daw, daw (run, run); in the end (it is) lat khwar (suffer blows): the death of the ass is not (occurring) except in this wilderness.
  • اولش دو دو به آخر لت بخور ** جز درین ویرانه نبود مرگ خر
  • Whenever thou hast earnestly taken a work in hand, its faultiness has become veiled to thee at this moment.
  • تو به جد کاری که بگرفتی به دست ** عیبش این دم بر تو پوشیده شدست
  • Thou art able to give thyself up to the work, (only) because the Creator veils its faultiness from thee.
  • زان همی تانی بدادن تن به کار ** که بپوشید از تو عیبش کردگار
  • Likewise, (with) every thought in which thou art hot (eager), the faultiness of that thought of thine has become hidden from thee.
  • همچنین هر فکر که گرمی در آن ** عیب آن فکرت شدست از تو نهان
  • If its faultiness and disgrace were made visible to thee, thy soul would flee from it (as far as) the distance between east and west. 1335
  • بر تو گر پیدا شدی زو عیب و شین ** زو رمیدی جانت بعد المشرقین
  • The state (of mind) in which at last thou repentest of it (of a faulty action)—if this should be thy state (of mind) at first, how wouldst thou run (for the sake of that action)?
  • حال که آخر زو پشیمان می‌شوی ** گر بود این حال اول کی دوی
  • Therefore He (God) at first veiled (the real nature of) that from our souls, in order that we might perform that action in accordance with the Divine destiny.
  • پس بپوشید اول آن بر جان ما ** تا کنیم آن کار بر وفق قضا
  • When the Divine destiny brought its ordainment into view, the eye was opened, so that repentance arrived.
  • چون قضا آورد حکم خود پدید ** چشم وا شد تا پشیمانی رسید
  • This repentance is another (manifestation of the) Divine destiny: abandon this repentance, worship God!
  • این پشیمانی قضای دیگرست ** این پشیمانی بهل حق را پرست
  • And if thou make (it) a habit and become addicted to repentance, because of this (habitual) repentance thou wilt become more repentant. 1340
  • ور کنی عادت پشیمان خور شوی ** زین پشیمانی پشیمان‌تر شوی
  • One half of thy life will pass in distraction and the other half will pass in repentance.
  • نیم عمرت در پریشانی رود ** نیم دیگر در پشیمانی رود
  • Take leave of this (anxious) thought and repentance: seek a better (spiritual) state and friend and work.
  • ترک این فکر و پریشانی بگو ** حال و یار و کار نیکوتر بجو
  • And if thou hast no better work in hand, then for the omission of what (work) is thy repentance?
  • ور نداری کار نیکوتر به دست ** پس پشیمانیت بر فوت چه است
  • If thou knowest the good way, worship (God); and if thou dost not know (it), how dost thou know that this way (in which thou art going) is evil?
  • گر همی دانی ره نیکو پرست ** ور ندانی چون بدانی کین به دست
  • Thou dost not know evil till thou knowest good: (only) from (one) contrary is it possible to discern (the other) contrary, O youth. 1345
  • بد ندانی تا ندانی نیک را ** ضد را از ضد توان دید ای فتی
  • Since (as thou sayest) thou wert rendered impotent to abandon the thought of this (repentance), at that time thou wert also impotent to commit sin.
  • چون ز ترک فکر این عاجز شدی ** از گناه آنگاه هم عاجز بدی
  • Since thou wert impotent (to commit sin), on account of what is thy repentance? Inquire concerning impotence, by whose pull (exertion of power) is it (produced)?
  • چون بدی عاجز پشیمانی ز چیست ** عاجزی را باز جو کز جذب کیست
  • No one has seen impotence in the world without power, nor will it (ever) be (so). Know this (for sure).
  • عاجزی بی‌قادری اندر جهان ** کس ندیدست و نباشد این بدان
  • Similarly, (with) every desire that thou cherishest, thou art debarred from (perceiving) its faultiness;
  • همچنین هر آرزو که می‌بری ** تو ز عیب آن حجابی اندری
  • And if the viciousness of that desire had been shown, thy soul of its own accord would have recoiled from seeking (to gratify it). 1350
  • ور نمودی علت آن آرزو ** خود رمیدی جان تو زان جست و جو
  • If He (God) had shown unto thee the faultiness of that work, no one, dragging (thee) along (by force), would have taken thee in that direction;
  • گر نمودی عیب آن کار او ترا ** کس نبردی کش کشان آن سو ترا
  • And (as regards) that other work from which thou art exceedingly averse, the reason is that its faultiness has come into clear view.
  • وان دگر کار کز آن هستی نفور ** زان بود که عیبش آمد در ظهور
  • O God who knowest the secret and who art gracious in speech, do not hide from us the faultiness of the evil work;
  • ای خدای رازدان خوش‌سخن ** عیب کار بد ز ما پنهان مکن
  • (And) do not show unto us the faultiness of the good work, lest we become cold (disgusted) and distracted from journeying (in the Way).
  • عیب کار نیک را منما به ما ** تا نگردیم از روش سرد و هبا
  • According to that (aforesaid) habit, the exalted Solomon went into the Mosque in the brightness (of dawn). 1355
  • هم بر آن عادت سلیمان سنی ** رفت در مسجد میان روشنی
  • The king was seeking (to observe) the daily rule of seeing the new plants in the Mosque.
  • قاعده‌ی هر روز را می‌جست شاه ** که ببیند مسجد اندر نو گیاه
  • The heart with that pure eye (which it possesses) sees occultly the (spiritual) herbs that are invisible to the vulgar.
  • دل ببیند سر بدان چشم صفی ** آن حشایش که شد از عامه خفی
  • Story of the Súfí who, head on knee, was engaged in (spiritual) meditation in the garden: his friends said to him, "Lift up thy head and enjoy the garden and the sweet herbs and the birds and the marks of the mercy of God most High."
  • قصه‌ی صوفی کی در میان گلستان سر به زانو مراقب بود یارانش گفتند سر برآور تفرج کن بر گلستان و ریاحین و مرغان و آثار رحمةالله تعالی
  • In the orchard a certain Súfí laid his face in Súfí fashion upon his knee for the sake of (mystical) revelation;
  • صوفیی در باغ از بهر گشاد ** صوفیانه روی بر زانو نهاد
  • Then he sank deep down into himself. An impertinent fellow was annoyed by his semblance of slumber.
  • پس فرو رفت او به خود اندر نغول ** شد ملول از صورت خوابش فضول
  • “Why,” said he, “dost thou sleep? Nay, look at the vines, behold these trees and marks (of Divine mercy) and green plants. 1360
  • که چه خسپی آخر اندر رز نگر ** این درختان بین و آثار و خضر
  • Hearken to the command of God, for He hath said, ‘Look ye’: turn thy face towards these marks of (Divine) mercy.”
  • امر حق بشنو که گفتست انظروا ** سوی این آثار رحمت آر رو
  • He replied, “O man of vanity, its marks are (within) the heart: that (which is) without is only the marks of the marks.”
  • گفت آثارش دلست ای بوالهوس ** آن برون آثار آثارست و بس
  • The (real) orchards and verdure are in the very essence of the soul: the reflexion thereof upon (that which is) without is as (the reflexion) in running water.
  • باغها و سبزه‌ها در عین جان ** بر برون عکسش چو در آب روان
  • In the water there is (only) the phantom (reflected image) of the orchard, which quivers on account of the subtle quality of the water.
  • آن خیال باغ باشد اندر آب ** که کند از لطف آب آن اضطراب
  • The (real) orchards and fruits are within the heart: the reflexion of their beauty is (falling) upon this water and earth (the external world). 1365
  • باغها و میوه‌ها اندر دلست ** عکس لطف آن برین آب و گلست
  • If it were not the reflexion of that delectable cypress, then God would not have called it the abode of deception.
  • گر نبودی عکس آن سرو سرور ** پس نخواندی ایزدش دار الغرور
  • This deception is (consists in) that: i.e. this phantom (the external world) exists (derives its existence) from the reflexion of the heart and spirit of the (holy) men.
  • این غرور آنست یعنی این خیال ** هست از عکس دل و جان رجال
  • All the deceived ones come to (gaze on) this reflexion in the opinion that this is the place of Paradise.
  • جمله مغروران برین عکس آمده ** بر گمانی کین بود جنت‌کده
  • They are fleeing from the origins of the orchards; they are making merry over a phantom.
  • می‌گریزند از اصول باغها ** بر خیالی می‌کنند آن لاغها
  • When their heedless sleep comes to an end, they see truly— but what use is that sight (to them)? 1370
  • چونک خواب غفلت آیدشان به سر ** راست بینند و چه سودست آن نظر
  • Then in the graveyard arises uproar and lament: on account of this mistake (they cry) “alas” till the Resurrection.
  • بس به گورستان غریو افتاد و آه ** تا قیامت زین غلط وا حسرتاه
  • Oh, happy he that died before death, i.e. he got scent of (became acquainted with) the origin of this vineyard.
  • ای خنک آن را که پیش از مرگ مرد ** یعنی او از اصل این رز بوی برد
  • Story of the growing of the carob in a nook of the Farther Mosque, and how Solomon, on whom be peace, was grieved thereat, when it began to talk with him and told its characteristic property and its name
  • قصه‌ی رستن خروب در گوشه‌ی مسجد اقصی و غمگین شدن سلیمان علیه‌السلام از آن چون به سخن آمد با او و خاصیت و نام خود بگفت
  • Then Solomon saw that a new plant had grown, like an ear of corn, in a nook (of the Mosque).
  • پس سلیمان دید اندر گوشه‌ای ** نوگیاهی رسته هم‌چون خوشه‌ای
  • He saw a very uncommon plant, green and fresh: its green ness took away the light from (dazzled) the sight.
  • دید بس نادر گیاهی سبز و تر ** می‌ربود آن سبزیش نور از بصر
  • Then that herb at once saluted him: he answered it (returned its salutation) and marvelled at its beauty. 1375
  • پس سلامش کرد در حال آن حشیش ** او جوابش گفت و بشکفت از خوشیش