Sol 6.1

  1. ،

    A world of ours that does not clear, steeped in murk.

    It swayed like a beauty who adorned disobedience.

  2. Its allure fills the vessel of minds.

    It captivates the weak of heart with incantations.

  3. Its hallmark is guile in its changing colors.

    If it shows beauty, it conceals transgression.

  4. It preens, enticing whoever pursues it in rapture,

    Until, when it twists and turns, it exhausts him with running.

  5. It deceives whoever comes to the law of its creed

    With union through nearness, then threatens collapse.

  6. ،

    Whoever circles the protected pasture, greeting it at dawn,

    Ends the day in poverty and scatters the grazing herd.

  7. In it is upheaval; if it closes in, it prevails.

    Trouble is its nature, if it constrains one's striving.

  8. ...

    No palace in it has rested peacefully forever,

    Nor has any kingdom endured—such is the world.

  9. : ،

    I came to the right; it turned to the left of my hand.

    I said, 'Peace'; it twisted my hand forcefully.

  10. ،...

    :

    It said, 'I am a matter meant to test you; go on.'

    I said, in short, 'You are oblivion enough.'

  11. If you are pearls in the land of my mount,

    Your garden is a mixture; its embers are burning intoxication.

  12. Rather, you are a thread spun from radiance that rose aloft,

    Then its phantom vanished from sight.

  13. I have tired of the visions from you that entice me;

    If they come as a dream, they leave as delirium.

  14. You belittled dreams that hide away in shame;

    You adorned hopes, then they folded in on themselves.

  15. Dreams of one awake, unclothed,

    Among the visions, like a tangled bundle, ended naked.

  16. How many a lovesick soul in you seeks passing gain,

    Through the excess of his singing, he ruined his judgment.

  17. When he felt secure, his esteem vanished;

    He returned abject in hope, without shame.

  18. He has grown jealous after being drawn to desire;

    He casts a glance that entices blind visions.

  19. Whoever rides diversion or cloaks himself in it

    Lives a captive unless he understands the prohibition.

  20. He suffers from broken covenants in a tale

    That was like a promise that tears reason to shreds.

  21. :

    They said, 'And in you is safety; its code

    Is understanding among the keepers of guidance—a guiding way.'

  22. !

    Your meaning is a secret; its strange aspect is a wonder.

    It builds shadows that exhaust whoever grows weary.

  23. :

    It has been said: the discerning one's resolve is his wisdom

    In ordering the steps of his ascent as he walks.

  24. When a recluse kept his contact with you infrequent,

    He put desire to shame by holding harm at bay.

  25. What have I to do with the world, a sea of desire?

    In its embrace a besotted soul slept, growing weary.

  26. I probed it deeply with my insight, and so through it

    I became certain that hopes had ascended as revelation.

  27. Tomorrow, in its paradise, they will open as flow-

    ers, without thorns that make barefoot steps bleed.

  28. The world along my path is a means in my hand;

    It is not lodged in my heart as my highest goal.

  29. ،

    An abode whose dwellings are made of bricks of piety;

    Gardens of Eden are built from this world.

  30. ،

    Beautiful in growth, its planter rose to eminence;

    Whoever sows well reaps well.

Sol 6.1