تمہید: در معنی ربط فرد و ملت

فرد را ربط جماعت رحمت استجوہر او را کمال از ملت است

The link that binds the individual to the Society a mercy is; His truest self in the community alone achieves fulfillment.

تاتوانی با جماعت یار باشرونق ہنگامہ ی احرار باش

Wherefore be so far as in thee lies in close rapport with thy Society, and lustre bring to the wide intercourse of free-born men.

حرز جان کن گفتہ ی خیرالبشرہست شیطان از جماعت دور تر

Keep for thy talisman these words he spoke that was the best of mortals: ‘Satan holds his furthest distance where men congregate.’

فرد و قوم آئینہ ی یک دیگرندسلک و گوہر کہکشان و اخترند

The individual a mirror holds to the community, and they to him; he is a jewel threaded on their cord, a star that in their constellation shines;

فرد می گیرد ز ملت احترامملت از افراد می یابد نظام

And the Society is organized as by comprising many such as he.

فرد تا اندر جماعت گم شودقطرہ ی وسعت طلب قلزم شود

When in the Congregation he is list ’Tis like a drop which,
seeking to expand, becomes an ocean.

مایہ دار سیرت دیرینہ اورفتہ و آیندہ را آئینہ او

It is strong and rich in ancient ways,
a mirror to the Past as to the Future;

وصل استقبال و ماضی ذات اوچون ابد لا انتہا اوقات او

And the link between what is to come,
and what has gone before, as is Eternity.

در دلش ذوق نمو از ملت استاحتساب کار او از ملت است

The joy of growth swells in his heart from the community,
that watches and controls his every deed;

پیکرش از قوم و ہم جانش ز قومظاہرش از قوم و پنہانش ز قوم

To them he owes his body and his soul,
alike his outward and his hidden parts.

در زبان قوم گویا مے شودبر رہ اسلاف پویا می شود

His thoughts are vocal on the People’s tongue,
and on the pathway that his forbears laid he learns to run.

پختہ تر از گرمی صحبت شودتا بمعنی فرد ہم ملت شود

His immaturity is warmed to ripeness by their friendship’s flame,
till he becomes one with the Commonwealth.

وحدت او مستقیم از کثرت استکثرت اندر وحدت او وحدت است

His singleness in multiplicity is firm and stable,
and itself supplies a unity to their innumerate swarm.

لفظ چون از بیت خود بیرون نشستگوہر مضمون بجیب خود شکست

The word that sits outside its proper verse shatters the jewel of the thought concealed within its pocket;

برگ سبزی کز نہال خویش ریختاز بھاران تار امیدش گسیخت

When the verdant leaf falls from the stem,
its thread of hope for spring is snapped asunder.

ہر کہ آب از زمزم ملت نخوردشعلہ ہای نغمہ در عودش فسرد

He who has not drunk the water of the People’s sacred well;
the flames of minstrelsy within his lute grow cold, and die.

فرد تنہا از مقاصد غافل استقوتش آشفتگی را مایل است

The individual, alone, is heedless of high purposes;
his strength is apt to dissipate itself;

قوم با ضبط آشنا گرداندشنرم رو مثل صبا گرداندش

The People only make him intimate with discipline;
teach him to be as soft and tractable as is the gentle breeze;

پا بہ گل مانند شمشادش کنددست و پا بندد کہ آزادش کند

Set him in earth like a well-rooted oak, close-fetter him, to make him truly free.

چون اسیر حلقہ ی آئین شودآہوی رم خوی او مشکین شود

When he is prisoner to the chain of Law his deer by nature wild and uncontrolled, yields in captivity the precious musk.

تو خودی از بیخودی نشناختیخویش را اندر گمان انداختی

Thou, who hast not known self from selflessness,
therefore hast lost thyself in vain surmise;

جوہر نوریست اندر خاک تویک شعاعش جلوہ ی ادراک تو

Within thy dust there is an element of Light,
whose single shaft illuminates thy whole perception;

عیشت از عیشش غم تو از غمشزندہ ئی از انقلاب ہر دمش

All thy joy derives from its enjoyment, all thy sorrow springs from its distress;
its constant change and turn keep thee in vital being.

واحدست و بر نمی تابد دوئیمن ز تاب او من استم تو توئی

It is one and, being one, brooks no duality;
grace to its glow I am myself, thou thou.

خویش دار و خویش باز و خویش سازنازہا می پرورد اندر نیاز

Preserving self, staking and making self, nourishing pride in meek humility;

آتشے از سوز او گردد بلنداین شرر بر شعلہ اندازد کمند

It is a flame that sets a fire alight, a spark that overshoots the blazing torch.

فطرتش آزاد و ہم زنجیری استجزو او را قوت کل گیری است

Its nature is to be both free and bond;
itself a part, it has the potency to seize the whole.

خوگر پیکار پیہم دیدمشہم خودی ھم زندگی نامیدش

I have beheld its wont is strife incessant,
and have called its name Selfhood, and Life.

چون ز خلوت خویش را بیرون دہدپای در ہنگامہ ی جلوت نہد

Whenever it comes forth from its seclusion,
and discreetly steps into the riot of phenomena;

نقش گیر اندر دلش "او" می شود"من" ز ھم می ریزد و "تو" می شود

Its heart is impressed with the stamp of ‘he’,
‘I’ is dissolved, converting into ‘thou’.

جبر، قطع اختیارش می کنداز محبت مایہ دارش می کند

Compulsion cuts the freedom of its choice, making it rich in love.

ناز تا ناز است کم خیزد نیازناز ہا سازد بہم خیزد نیاز

While pride of self pulls its own way,
humility is not born; pull pride together, and humility comes into being.

در جماعت خود شکن گردد خودیتا ز گلبرگی چمن گردد خودی

Self negates itself in the community,
that it maybe no more a petal, but a rosary.

"نکتہ ہا چون تیغ پولاد است تیزگر نمی فہمی ز پیش ما گریز"

‘These subtleties are like a steely sword: If they defeat thy wit, quick, flee away!
- Rumi.