چہ بحر است این کہ علمش ساحل آمدز قعر او چہ گوھر حاصل آمد

What is this ocean whose shore is knowledge?What is that pearl which is found in its depth?

حیات پر نفس بحر روانیشعور آگہے او را کرانی

EVER-MOVING Life is a flowing ocean,Consciousness is its shore.

چہ دریائی کہ ژرف و موج داراستہزاران کوہ و صحرا بر کنار است

What an ocean that is deep and surgingA thousand mountains and deserts are on its bank.

مپرس از موجہای بیقرارشکہ ہر موجش برون جست از کنارش

Don't talk about its surging waves,For each had overflowed its bank.

گذشت از بحر و صحرا را نمی دادنگہ را لذت کیف و کمی داد

It left the ocean and imparted moisture to the desert,It gave to the eye the sense of quantity and quality.

ہر آن چیزی کہ آید در حضورشمنور گردد از فیض شعورش

Whatever thing comes into its presence,Gets illumined through the grace of its consciousness.

بخلوت مست و صحبت ناپذیر استولی ہر شی ز نورش مستنیر است

It is satisfied with its privacy and is not inclined to association with others,Yet all things are illumined by its light.

نخستین می نماید مستنیرشکند آخر بہ آئینی اسیرش

First it brightens it up,Then it ensnares it in a mirror.

شعورش با جہان نزدیک تر کردجہان او را ز راز او خبر کرد

Its consciousness makes it familiar with the world,The world made it aware of its potentiality.

خرد بند نقاب از رخ گشودشولیکن نطق عریان تر نمودش

Intellect removes veil from its face,But speech reveals it much better.

نگنجد اندرین دیر مکافاتجہان او را مقامی از مقامات

Yet it is not confined to this mundane world -It is only one of its stages in the path of evolution.

برون از خویش می بینی جہانرادر و دشت و یم و صحرا و کان را

You look upon the world as existing outside you:These mountains and deserts, oceans and mines;

جہان رنگ و بو گلدستۂ ماز ما آزاد و ھم وابستۂ ما

This world of colour and smell is our nosegay;It is independent and yet intimately related to us.

خودی او را بیک تار نگہ بستزمین و آسمان و مہر و مہ بست

The ego bound them all by its one glance:The earth and the sky, the moon and the sun.

دل ما را بہ او پوشیدہ راہی استکہ ہر موجود ممنون نگاہی است

Our heart has a secret gateway to it,For every existent depends for its existence upon our perception.

گر او را کس نبیند زار گردداگر بیند، یم و کہسار گردد

If nobody sees, it becomes contemptible;If anybody sees, it becomes mountains and oceans.

جہان را فربہی از دیدن مانہالش رستہ از بالیدن ما

The world has significance through our seeing it -Its tree grows by our growth.

حدیث ناظر و منظور رازی استدل ہر ذرہ در عرض نیازی است

The problem of subject and object is a mystery;The heart of every particle of matter is expressing its supplication:

تو ای شاہد مرا مشہود گردانز فیض یک نظر موجود گردان

O observer, make me your object,Make me existent by the grace of your sight.

کمال ذات شی موجود بودنبرای شاہدی مشہود بودن

The perfection of the being of a thing lies in being present,In becoming an object for an observer;

زوالش در حضور ما نبودنمنور از شعور ما نبودن

Its defect, not to be before our eyes,Not to be illumined by our awareness.

جہان غیر از تجلی ہای ما نیستکہ بی ما جلوۂ نور و صدا نیست

The world is nothing but our manifestation,For without us there would be no world of light and sound,

تو ہم از صحبتش یاری طلب کننگہ را از خم و پیچش ادب کن

You also should crave help by associating with it,Discipline your eyes by its twists and turns.

’’یقین میدان کہ شیران شکاریدرین رہ خواستند از مور یاری‘‘

Rest assured that master-huntsmenHave sought help in this matter from insects.

بیاری ہای او از خود خبر گیرتو جبریل امینی بال و پر گیر

With its help, keep a watchful eye on yourself;You are like Gabriel the truthful; take wings.

بہ بسیاری گشا چشم خرد راکہ دریابی تماشای احد را

Open the eye of intellect on this world of plurality,So that you may enjoy the revelations of the One,

نصیبب خود ز بوی پیرہن گیربہ کنعان نکہت از مصر و یمن گیر

Take your share from the smell of the shirt,While sitting in Kan'an, get fragrance from Egypt and Yemen.

خودی صیاد و نخچیرش مہ و مہراسیر بند تدبیرش مہ و مہر

Ego is the hunter, the sun and the moon are its prey;They are chained to the strings of his intellectual efforts.

چو آتش خویش را اندر جہان زنشبیخون بر مکان و لامکان زن

Throw yourself on this world like fire!Make an assault on the visible and the invisible worlds alike.