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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۱۳ - بیان آنک نور که غذای جانست غذای جسم اولیا می‌شود تا او هم یار می‌شود روح را کی اسلم شیطانی علی یدی / Book Five - Section 13 - Explaining that the Light which is the Food of the Soul becomes the Food of the Body of the Saints, so that the Body also becomes a Partner to the Spirit, since 'My Devil has accepted Islam at my hands'

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گرچه آن مطعوم جانست و نظرجسم را هم زان نصیبست ای پسر
Although that is the nourishment of the soul and of perception,
The body also has a share in it, O son.
گر نگشتی دیو جسم آن را اکولاسلم الشیطان نفرمودی رسول
If the devil of the body had not become a devourer of that,
The Prophet would not have said, 'My devil has accepted Islam.'
دیو زان لوتی که مرده حی شودتا نیاشامد مسلمان کی شود
From that spiritual banquet by which the dead becomes alive,
Until the devil drinks of it, how should he become a Muslim?
دیو بر دنیاست عاشق کور و کرعشق را عشقی دگر برد مگر
The devil is in love with this world, blind and deaf;
Nothing can take away one love except another love.
از نهان خانه یقین چون می چشداندک اندک رخت عشق آنجا کشد
When he tastes from the secret chamber of certainty,
Little by little he pulls the baggage of his love thither.
یا حریص االبطن عرج هکذاانما المنهاج تبدیل الغذا
O greedy of belly, ascend in this manner!
Indeed, the path is to change your nourishment.
یا مریض القلب عرج للعلاججملة التدبیر تبدیل المزاج
O sick of heart, ascend for treatment!
The sum of the remedy is to change your temperament.
ایها المحبوس فی رهن الطعامسوف تنجو ان تحملت الفطام
O you who are imprisoned as a pledge for food,
You will be delivered if you endure weaning!
ان فی الجوع طعام وافرافتقدها وارتج یا نافر
In hunger there is abundant food,
Seek it and hope for it, O runner-away.
اغتذ بالنور کن مثل البصروافق الاملاک یا خیر البشر
Feed upon the light, be like the eye;
Conform to the angels, O best of mankind!
چون ملک تسبیح حق را کن غذاتا رهی هم چون ملایک از اذا
Like the angels, make the glorification of God your food,
That you may be delivered, like the angels, from distress.
جبرییل ار سوی جیفه کم تنداو به قوت کی ز کرکس کم زند
If Gabriel rarely swoops down on carrion,
How is he in strength any less than a vulture?
حبذا خوانی نهاده در جهانلیک از چشم خسیسان بس نهان
How excellent is the table spread in the world,
Yet utterly hidden from the eyes of the mean!
گر جهان باغی پر از نعمت شودقسم موش و مار هم خاکی بود
If the world should become a garden full of bounty,
The portion of the mouse and the snake would still be dust.

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