محکمات عالم قرا نے: خلافت آدم

در دو عالم ھر کجا آثار عشقابن آدم سری از اسرار عشق

In both worlds, everywhere are the marks of love; man himself is a mystery of love.

سر عشق از عالم ارحام نیستاو ز سام و حام و روم و شام نیست

Love’s secret belongs not to the world of wombs, not to Shem or Ham, Greece or Syria:

کوکب بے شرق و غرب و بے غروبدر مدارش نے شمال و نے جنوب

A star without East and West, a star unsetting in whose orbit is neither North nor South.

حرف انی جاعل تقدیر اواز زمین تا آسمان تفسیر او

The words I am setting tell his destiny, their exegesis reaches from earth to heaven.

مرگ و قبر و حشر و نشر احوال اوستنور و نار آن جہان اعمال اوست

Death, grave, uprising, judgment are his estates, the light and fire of the other world are his works;

او امام و او صلوت و او حرماو مداد و او کتاب و او قلم

Himself is Imam, prayer and sanctuary, himself the Ink, himself the Book and the Pen.

خردہ خردہ غیب او گردد حضورنے حدود او را نہ ملکش را ثغور

Little by little what is hidden in him becomes visible; it has no boundaries, its kingdom no frontiers.

از وجودش اعتبار ممکناتاعتدال او عیار ممکنات

His being gives value to contingent things, his equilibrium is the touchstone of contingent things.

من چہ گویم از یم بے ساحلشغرق اعصار و دہور اندر دلش

What shall I declare of his sea without a shore? All ages and all times are drowned in his heart.

آنچہ در آدم بگنجد عالم استآنچہ در عالم نگنجد آدم است

That which is contained within man is the world, that which is not contained within the world is man.

آشکارا مہر و مہ از جلوتشنیست رہ جبریل را در خلوتش

Sun and moon are manifest through his self-display; even Gabriel cannot penetrate his privacy.

برتر از گردون مقام آدم استاصل تہذیب احترام آدم است

Loftier than the heavens is the station of man, and the beginning of education is respect for man.

زندگی اے زندہ دل دانی کہ چیستعشق یک بین در تماشای دوئی است

Man alive in heart, do you know what thing life is? One-seeing love that is contemplating duality:

مرد و زن وابستۂ یکدیگرندکائنات شوق را صورتگرند

Man and woman are bound one to the other, they are the fashioners of the creatures of desire.

زن نگہدارندۂ نار حیاتفطرت او لوح اسرار حیات

Woman is the guardian of the fire of life, her nature is the tablet of life’s mysteries;

آتش ما را بجان خود زندجوہر او خاک را آدم کند

She strikes our fire against her own soul and it is her substance that makes of the dust a man.

در ضمیرش ممکنات زندگیاز تب و تابش ثبات زندگی

In her heart lurk life’s potentialities, from her glow and flame life derives stability;

شعلہ ئی کز وی شرر ہا در گسستجان و تن بے سوز او صورت نبست

She is a fire from which the sparks break forth, body and soul, lacking her glow, cannot take shape.

ارج ما از ارجمندیھای اوما ہمہ از نقشبندیھای او

What worth we possess derives from her values for we are all images of her fashioning;

حق ترا داد است اگر تاب نظرپاک شو قدسیت او را نگر

If God has bestowed on you a glance aflame cleanse yourself, and behold her sanctity.

اے ز دینت عصر حاضر بردہ تابفاش گویم با تو اسرار حجاب

You from whose faith the present age has taken all fire, now I will tell you openly the secrets of the veil.

ذوق تخلیق آتشے اندر بدناز فروغ او فروغ انجمن

The joy of creation is a fire in the body and society is lightened by that light;

ہر کہ بردارد ازین آتش نصیبسوز و ساز خویش را گردد رقیب

And whosoever takes any portion of that fire watches jealously over his private passion;

ہر زمان بر نقش خود بندد نظرتا نگیرد لوح او نقش دگر

All the time he fixes his gaze on his own image lest his tablet should receive any other image.

مصطفی اندر حرا خلوت گزیدمدتی جز خویشتن کس را ندید

Mohammed chose solitude upon Mount Hira and for a space saw no other beside himself;

نقش ما را در دل او ریختندملتی از خلوتش انگیختند

Our image was then poured into his heart and out of his solitude a nation arose.

می توانی منکر یزدان شدنمنکر از شأن نبی نتوان شدن

Though you may be an unbeliever in God, yet you cannot gainsay the Prophet’s glory.

گرچہ داری جان روشن چون کلیمہست افکار تو بے خلوت عقیم

Though you possess a soul illumined as Moses, yet without solitude your thoughts remain barren;

از کم آمیزی تخیل زندہ ترزندہ تر جویندہ تر یابندہ تر

By isolation the imagination becomes more vivid, more vivid, more questing, more finding.

علم و ہم شوق از مقامات حیاتہر دو می گیرد نصیب از واردات

Science and passion are both stations of life both take a share of the impact of events.

علم از تحقیق لذت می بردعشق از تخلیق لذت می برد

Science derives pleasure from verification, love derives pleasure from creativeness.

صاحب تحقیق را جلوت عزیزصاحب تخلیق را خلوت عزیز

Display is very precious to the verifier, to the creator solitude is very precious.

چشم موسی خواست دیدار وجوداین ہمہ از لذت تحقیق بود

The eye of Moses desired to behold Being – that was all part of the pleasure of verification;

لن ترانے نکتہ ہا دارد رقیقاندکے گم شو درین بحر عمیق

Thou shalt not see Me contains many subtleties – lose yourself a little while in this sea profound.

ہر کجا بے پردہ آثار حیاتچشمہ زارش در ضمیر کائنات

On all sides life’s traces appear unveiled, its fountain wells up in the heart of creation.

در نگر ہنگامۂ آفاق رازحمت جلوت مدہ خلاق را

Consider the tumult that rages through all horizons; inflict not on the Creator the trouble of display;

حفظ ہر نقش آفرین از خلوت استخاتم او را نگین از خلوت است

Solitude is the protection of every artist, solitude is the bezel in the artist’s ring.