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  • He replied, “Life is freely given for the king's sake: why should he come as an intercessor between (us)?
  • گفت بهر شاه مبذولست جان ** او چرا آید شفیع اندر میان
  • At that moment mine was (the state described by the words) —‘I am with God in a state wherein no chosen prophet is my peer.’ 2960
  • لی مع‌الله وقت بود آن دم مرا ** لا یسع فیه نبی مجتبی
  • I desire no mercy but the blows of the king; I desire no refuge except that king.
  • من نخواهم رحمتی جز زخم شاه ** من نخواهم غیر آن شه را پناه
  • I have naughted all besides the king for the reason that I have devoted myself to the king.
  • غیر شه را بهر آن لا کرده‌ام ** که به سوی شه تولا کرده‌ام
  • The king, if he behead me in his wrath, will bestow on me sixty other lives.
  • گر ببرد او به قهر خود سرم ** شاه بخشد شصت جان دیگرم
  • ’Tis my business to hazard (and lose) my head and to be selfless; ’tis the business of my sovereign king to give (me) a (new) head.”
  • کار من سربازی و بی‌خویشی است ** کار شاهنشاه من سربخشی است
  • Honour to the head that is severed by the King's hand! Shame on the head that betakes itself to another! 2965
  • فخر آن سر که کف شاهش برد ** ننگ آن سر کو به غیری سر برد
  • The night which the King in his wrath covered with pitch (pitchy darkness) holds in disdain a thousand days of festival.
  • شب که شاه از قهر در قیرش کشید ** ننگ دارد از هزاران روز عید
  • Verily, the circumambulation performed by him who beholds the King is above wrath and grace and infidelity and religion.
  • خود طواف آنک او شه‌بین بود ** فوق قهر و لطف و کفر و دین بود
  • Not one word (capable of) expressing it has (ever) come into the world, for it is hidden, hidden, hidden,
  • زان نیامد یک عبارت در جهان ** که نهانست و نهانست و نهان
  • Inasmuch as these glorious names and words were manifested from the reel (uttered from the mouth) of Adam.
  • زانک این اسما و الفاظ حمید ** از گلابه‌ی آدمی آمد پدید
  • He (God) taught (him) the names was an Imám (an infallible authority) for Adam; but (the teaching was) not in the garb of (letters such as) ‘ayn and lám. 2970
  • علم الاسما بد آدم را امام ** لیک نه اندر لباس عین و لام
  • When he put on his head the cap of water and clay, those spiritual names became black-faced,
  • چون نهاد از آب و گل بر سر کلاه ** گشت آن اسمای جانی روسیاه
  • For they assumed the veil of letters and breath, (only) in order that the essential reality might (gradually) be made manifest to the water and clay.
  • که نقاب حرف و دم در خود کشید ** تا شود بر آب و گل معنی پدید
  • Although from one point of view speech is a revealer, yet from ten points of view it is a curtain and concealer.
  • گرچه از یک وجه منطق کاشف است ** لیک از ده وجه پرده و مکنف است
  • How Khalíl (Abraham) answered Gabriel, on both of whom be peace, when he asked him, "Hast thou any need?"—"As regards need of thee, no!"
  • گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا
  • “I am the Khalíl (Abraham) of the present time, and he is the Gabriel: I do not want him as a guide (to deliver me) in calamity.
  • من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیل ** من نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل
  • He did not learn respectfulness (as he might) from noble Gabriel, who asked the Friend of God (Abraham) what was his wish, 2975
  • او ادب ناموخت از جبریل راد ** که بپرسید از خیل حق مراد
  • Saying, ‘Hast thou a wish?—that I may help (thee to obtain it); otherwise, I will flee and make a speedy departure.’
  • که مرادت هست تا یاری کنم ** ورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم
  • Abraham said, ‘No; begone out of the way! After direct vision the intermediary is (only) an inconvenience.’
  • گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میان ** واسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان
  • On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).
  • بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه ** مومنان را زانک هست او واسطه
  • If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?
  • هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
  • Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that. 2980
  • گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست ** لیک کار من از آن نازکترست
  • His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”
  • کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی شاهست لیک ** پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک
  • That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).
  • آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
  • Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;
  • بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
  • For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.
  • کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
  • Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words; 2985
  • بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف
  • But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.
  • لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
  • This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.
  • هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
  • The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,
  • هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر ** جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر
  • Because he knows that this world of sowing is for the sake of the (Last) Congregation and (for the sake of) gathering in (the harvest).
  • زانک داند کین جهان کاشتن ** هست بهر محشر و برداشتن
  • No contract (of sale) was (ever made) for the sake of itself; nay, but for the sake of (being in) the position of (making) gain and profit. 2990
  • هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبود ** بلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود
  • There is no disbeliever, if you look (carefully), whose disbelief is for the sake of the disbelief itself;
  • هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگری ** منکری‌اش بهر عین منکری
  • Nay, but (it is) for the purpose of subduing his adversary in envy (of him), or seeking superiority and self-display.
  • بل برای قهر خصم اندر حسد ** یا فزونی جستن و اظهار خود
  • And that superiority too is for the sake of some other desire: the forms give no relish without the essential meanings.
  • وآن فزونی هم پی طمع دگر ** بی‌معانی چاشنی ندهد صور
  • You ask “Why art thou doing this?” because the forms are (as) the oil, and the essential meaning is (as) the light.
  • زان همی‌پرسی چرا این می‌کنی ** که صور زیتست و معنی روشنی
  • Otherwise, wherefore is this saying “why”?—since (hypothetically) the form is for the sake of the form itself. 2995
  • ورنه این گفتن چرا از بهر چیست ** چونک صورت بهر عین صورتیست
  • This saying “why” is a question concerning the use (reason): it is bad to say “why” for any cause but this.
  • این چرا گفتن سال از فایده‌ست ** جز برای این چرا گفتن بدست
  • Wherefore, O trusty one, should you desire (to know) the use (reason)?—since (hypothetically) the use of this (form) is only this (form itself).
  • از چه رو فایده‌ی جویی ای امین ** چون بود فایده این خود همین
  • Hence it is not (in accordance with) wisdom that the forms of heaven and (those of) the people of the earth should be (created) for this only.
  • پس نقوش آسمان و اهل زمین ** نیست حکمت کان بود بهر همین
  • If there is no Wise (Creator), what is (the reason of) this orderly arrangement (the cosmos)? And if there is a Wise (Creator), how is His action devoid (of meaning)?
  • گر حکیمی نیست این ترتیب چیست ** ور حکیمی هست چون فعلش تهیست
  • No one makes pictures and colouring in a bath-house except for (some) purpose (either) right or wrong. 3000
  • کس نسازد نقش گرمابه و خضاب ** جز پی قصد صواب و ناصواب
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, besought the Lord, saying, "Thou didst create creatures and destroy them," and how the answer came.
  • مطالبه کردن موسی علیه‌السلام حضرت را کی خلقت خلقا اهلکتهم و جواب آمدن
  • Moses said, “O Lord of the Reckoning, Thou didst create the form: how didst Thou destroy it again?”
  • گفت موسی ای خداوند حساب ** نقش کردی باز چون کردی خراب
  • Thou hast made the form, male and female, that gives unto the spirit increase (of joy); and then Thou dost ruin it: why?”
  • نر و ماده نقش کردی جان‌فزا ** وانگهان ویران کنی این را چرا
  • God said, “I know that this question of thine is not from disbelief and heedlessness and idle fancy;
  • گفت حق دانم که این پرسش ترا ** نیست از انکار و غفلت وز هوا
  • Else I should have corrected and chastised thee: I should have afflicted thee on account of this question.
  • ورنه تادیب و عتابت کردمی ** بهر این پرسش ترا آزردمی
  • But (I know that) thou wishest to discover in My actions the wisdom and hidden meaning of (phenomenal) duration, 3005
  • لیک می‌خواهی که در افعال ما ** باز جویی حکمت و سر بقا
  • That thou mayst acquaint the vulgar therewith and by this means make every raw (ignorant) person to become cooked.
  • تا از آن واقف کنی مر عام را ** پخته گردانی بدین هر خام را
  • Thou hast become a questioner on purpose to disclose (this matter) to the vulgar, albeit thou art acquainted with it;
  • قاصدا سایل شدی در کاشفی ** بر عوام ار چه که تو زان واقفی
  • For this questioning is the half of knowledge, and this ability (to ask questions) does not belong to every outsider.”
  • زآنک نیم علم آمد این سال ** هر برونی را نباشد آن مجال