نقطۂ نوری کہ نام او خودی استزیر خاک ما شرار زندگی است

THE luminous point whose name is the SelfIs the life-spark beneath our dust.

از محبت می شود پایندہ ترزندہ تر سوزندہ تر تابندہ تر

By Love it is made more I sting,More living, more burning, more glowing.

از محبت اشتعال جوہرشارتقای ممکنات مضمرش

From Love proceeds the radiance of its being.And the development of its unknown possibilities.

فطرت او آتش اندوزد ز عشقعالم افروزی بیاموزد ز عشق

Its nature gathers fire from Love,Love instructs it to illumine the world.

عشق را از تیغ و خنجر باک نیستاصل عشق از آب و باد و خاک نیست

Love fears neither sword nor dagger,Love is not born of water and air and earth.

در جہان ہم صلح و ہم پیکار عشقآب حیوان تیغ جوہر دار عشق

Love makes peace and war in the world,Love is the Fountain of Life, Love is the flashing sword of Death.

از نگاہ عشق خارا شق شودعشق حق آخر سراپا حق شود

The hardest rocks are shivered by Love's glance:Love of God at last becomes wholly God,

عاشقی آموز و محبوبی طلبچشم نوحی قلب ایوبی طلب

Learn thou to love, and seek a beloved:Seek an eye like Noah's, a heart like Job's !

کیمیا پیدا کن از مشت گلیبوسہ زن بر آستان کاملی

Transmute thy handful of earth into gold,Kiss the threshold of a Perfect Man!

شمع خود را ہمچو رومی بر فروزروم را در آتش تبریز سوز

Like Rumi, light the candleAnd burn Rum in the fire of Tabriz !

ہست معشوقی نہان اندر دلتچشم اگر دارے بیا بنمایمت

There is a beloved hidden within thine heart:I will show him to thee, if thou hast eyes to see.

عاشقان او ز خوبان خوب ترخوشتر و زیباتر و محبوب تر

His lovers are fairer than the fair,Sweeter and comelier and more beloved.

دل ز عشق او توانا می شودخاک ھمدوش ثریا می شود

By. love of him the heart is made strongAnd earth rubs shoulders with the Pleiades.

خاک نجد از فیض او چالاک شدآمد اندر وجد و بر افلاک شد

The soil of Najd was quickened by his graceAnd fell into a rapture and rose to the skies

در دل مسلم مقام مصطفی استآبروی ما ز نام مصطفی است

In the Muslim 's heart is the home of Muhammad,All our glory is from the name of Muhammad.

طور موجے از غبار خانہ اشکعبہ را بیت الحرم کاشانہ اش

Sinai is but an eddy of the dust of his house,His dwelling-place is a sanctuary to the Ka'ba itself.

کمتر از آنی ز اوقاتش ابدکاسب افزایش از ذاتش ابد

Eternity is less than a moment of his time,Eternity receives increase, from his essence.

بوریا ممنون خواب راحتشتاج کسرے زیر پای امتش

He slept on a mat of rushes,But the crown of Chosroes was under his people's feet.

در شبستان حرا خلوت گزیدقوم و آئین و حکومت آفرید

He chose the nightly solitude of Mount Hira,And he founded a state and laws and government.

ماند شبہا چشم او محروم نومتا بہ تخت خسروی خوابیدہ قوم

He passed many a night with sleepless eyesIn order that the Muslims might sleep on the throne of Persia.

وقت ہیجا تیغ او آہن گدازدیدہ ی او اشکبار اندر نماز

In the hour of battle, iron was melted by the fash of his sword;In the hour of prayer, tears fell like rain from his eye.

در دعای نصرت آمین تیغ اوقاطع نسل سلاطین تیغ او

When he prayed for Divine help, his sword answered "Amen"And extirpated the race of kings.

در جھان آئین نو آغاز کردمسند اقوام پیشین در نورد

He instituted new laws in the world,He brought the empires of antiquity to an end.

از کلید دین در دنیا گشادہمچو او بطن ام گیتی نزاد

With the key of religion he opened the door of this world:The womb of the world never bore his like.

در نگاہ او یکے بالا و پستبا غلام خویش بر یک خوان نشست

In his sight high and low were one,He sat with his slave at one table.

در مصافی پیش آن گردون سریردختر سردار طی آمد اسیر

The daughter of the chieftain of Tai was taken prisoner in battleAnd brought into that exalted presence

پای در زنجیر و ہم بے پردہ بودگردن از شرم و حیا خم کردہ بود

Her feet in chains, unveiled, she was,And her neck bowed with shame

دخترک را چون نبی بی پردہ دیدچادر خود پیش روی او کشید

When the Prophet saw that the -, poor girl had no veil,He covered her face with his own mantle.

ما از آن خاتون طی عریان تریمپیش اقوام جہان بی چادریم

We are more naked than that lady of Tai,We are unveiled before the nations of the world.

روز محشر اعتبار ماست اودر جہان ہم پردہ دار ماست او

In him is our trust on the Day of Judgement,And in this world too he is our protector.

لطف و قہر او سراپا رحمتیآن بیاران این باعدا رحمتی

Both his favour and his wrath are entirely a mercy:That is a mercy to his friends and this to his foes.

آن کہ بر اعدا در رحمت گشادمکہ را پیغام ’’لاتثریب‘‘ داد

He opened the gate of mercy to his enemies,He gave to Mecca the message, "No penalty shall be laid upon you."

ما کہ از قید وطن بیگانہ ایمچون نگہ نور دو چشمیم و یکیم

We who know not the bonds of countryResemble sight, which is one though it be the light of two eyes.

از حجاز و چین و ایرانیم ماشبنم یک صبح خندانیم ما

We belong to the Hijaz and China and Persia,Yet we are the dew of one smiling dawn.

مست چشم ساقی بطحاستیمدر جہان مثل می و میناستیم

We are all under the spell of the eye of the cup bearer from Mecca,We are united as wine and cup.

امتیازات نسب را پاک سوختآتش او این خس و خاشاک سوخت

He burnt clean away distinctions of lineage.His fire consumed this trash and rubble.

چون گل صد برگ ما را بو یکیستاوست جان این نظام و او یکیست

We are like a rose with many petals but with one perfume:He is the soul of this society, and he is one

سر مکنون دل او ما بدیمنعرۂ بی باکانہ زد افشا شدیم

We are the secret concealed in his heart:He spake out fearlessly, and we were revealed.

شور عشقش در نے خاموش منمی تپد صد نغمہ در آغوش من

The song of love for him fills my silent reed,A hundred notes throb in my bosom.

من چہ گویم از تولایش کہ چیستخشک چوبی در فراق او گریست

How shall I tell what devotion he inspires ?A block of dry wood wept at porting from him.

ہستی مسلم تجلے گاہ اوطور ہا بالد ز گرد راہ او

The Muslim's being is where he manifests his glory:Many a Sinai springs from the dust on his path.

پیکرم را آفرید آئینہ اشصبح من از آفتاب سینہ اش

My image was created by his- mirror,My dawn rises from the sun of his breast.

در تپید دمبدم آرام منگرم تر از صبح محشر شام من

My repose is a perpetual fever,My evening hotter than the morning of Judgment Day:

ابر آذار است و من بستان اوتاک من نمناک از باران او

He is the April cloud and I his garden,My vine is bedewed with his rain.

چشم در کشت محبت کاشتماز تماشا حاصلی برداشتم

Ii sowed mine eye in the field of LoveAnd reaped, a harvest of vision.

خاک یثرب از دو عالم خوشتر استای خنک شہری کہ آنجا دلبر است

"The soil of Medina is sweeter than both worlds:Oh, happy the town where dwell the Beloved!"

کشتہ ی انداز ملا جامیمنظم و نثر او علاج خامیم

I am lost in admiration of the style of Mulla Jami:His verse and prose are a remedy for my immaturity.

شعر لبریز معانی گفتہ استدر ثنای خواجہ گوہر سفتہ است

He has written poetry overflowing with beautiful ideas;And has threaded pearls in praise of the Master-

’’نسخۂ کونین را دیباچہ اوستجملہ عالم بندگان و خواجہ اوست‘‘

"Muhammad is the preface to the book of the universe;All the worlds are slaves and he is the Master."

کیفیت ہا خیزد از صبہای عشقہست ہم تقلید از اسمای عشق

From the wine of Love spring many spiritual qualities:Amongst the attributes of Love is blind devotion.

کامل بسطام در تقلید فرداجتناب از خوردن خربوزہ کرد

The saint of Bistam, who in devotion was unique,Abstained from eating a water-melon.

عاشقی؟ محکم شو از تقلید یارتا کمند تو شود یزدان شکار

Be a lover constant in devotion to thy beloved,That thou mayst cast thy nose and capture God.

اندکی اندر حرای دل نشینترک خود کن سوی حق ہجرت گزین

Sojourn for a while on the Hira of the heart.Abandon self and flee to God.

محکم از حق شو سوی خود گام زنلات و عزای ہوس را سر شکن

Strengthened by God, return to they selfAnd break the heads of the Lat and Uzza of sensuality.

لشکری پیدا کن از سلطان عشقجلوہ گر شو بر سر فاران عشق

By the might of Love evoke an armyReveal thyself on the Faran of Love,

تا خدای کعبہ بنوازد تراشرح ’’انے جاعل‘‘ سازد ترا

That the Lord of the Ka'ba may show thee favourAnd make thee the object of the text, "Lo, I will appoint a vicegerent on the earth."