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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۹ - در بیان آنک ثواب عمل عاشق از حق هم حق است / Book Five - Section 29 - Explaining That the Reward for the Lover's Action from the Truth is the Truth Itself

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عاشقان را شادمانی و غم اوستدست مزد و اجرت خدمت هم اوست
For lovers, He is both joy and sorrow; He is also the wages and reward of service.
غیر معشوق ار تماشایی بودعشق نبود هرزه سودایی بود
If there is any spectator other than the Beloved, it is not love, it is a vain passion.
عشق آن شعله ست کو چون بر فروختهرچه جز معشوق باقی جمله سوخت
Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, burns away everything except the Beloved.
تیغ لا در قتل غیر حق برانددر نگر زان پس که بعد لا چه ماند
It wields the sword of 'no' (la) to slay other than God; look closely at what remains after 'no'.
ماند الا الله باقی جمله رفتشاد باش ای عشق شرکت سوز زفت
There remains 'except God' (illa Allah), the rest is all gone; rejoice, O great, association-burning Love!
خود همو بود آخرین و اولینشرک جز از دیده احول مبین
He Himself was the last and the first; do not see polytheism except from the squinting eye.
ای عجب حسنی بود جز عکس آننیست تن را جنبشی از غیر جان
Oh wonder, is there any beauty other than the reflection of That? The body has no motion except from the soul.
آن تنی را که بود در جان خللخوش نگردد گر بگیری در عسل
That body which has a defect in its soul does not become sweet even if you put it in honey.
این کسی داند که روزی زنده بوداز کف این جان جان جامی ربود
This is known to one who was once alive and snatched a cup from the hand of this Soul of souls.
وانک چشم او ندیدست آن رخانپیش او جانست این تف دخان
And he whose eye has not seen those cheeks, to him this smoky heat seems to be the soul.
چون ندید او عمر عبدالعزیزپیش او عادل بود حجاج نیز
Since he has not seen Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Hajjaj also appears just to him.
چون ندید او مار موسی را ثباتدر حبال سحر پندارد حیات
Since he has not seen the permanence of Moses' serpent, he imagines life in the sorcerers' ropes.
مرغ کو ناخورده است آب زلالاندر آب شور دارد پر و بال
The bird that has not tasted sweet, clear water, bathes its wings and feathers in brackish water.
جز به ضد ضد را همی نتوان شناختچون ببیند زخم بشناسد نواخت
One cannot recognize anything except by its opposite; when one experiences the blow, one recognizes the caress.
لاجرم دنیا مقدم آمدستتا بدانی قدر اقلیم الست
Therefore, this world has come first so that you may know the value of the realm of Alast.
چون ازینجا وا رهی آنجا رویدر شکرخانه ابد شاکر شوی
When you escape from here and go there, you will be eternally grateful in the sugar-house.
گویی آنجا خاک را می بیختمزین جهان پاک می بگریختم
You will say, 'There I was sifting dust, and fleeing from this pure world.'
ای دریغا پیش ازین بودیم اجلتا عذابم کم بدی اندر وجل
'Alas, would that my appointed death had come before this, so that my torment in fear would have been less.'

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