When the cosmic creation advanced beyond the lesser realms of elements, plants, and beasts, humankind emerged upon the earthly stage—crafted as the ultimate key to unlock all secrets of the cosmos. Standing erect like a graceful cypress, man was endowed with noble speech and guided by the light of supreme wisdom. Gifted with intelligence, counsel, and discernment, all wild beasts and tame creatures yielded to his sovereign rule. Yet true wisdom demands that one look beyond mere physical form, for humanity is not defined by outward shape alone. Brought forth from the convergence of the spiritual and material realms and nurtured through divine intermediaries, man is the final work in the sequence of creation, yet the primary purpose of the divine design. Thus, mortals are urged never to treat life as a trivial game, but to contemplate their ultimate destiny, subjecting the body to honest toil in pursuit of knowledge. Through wisdom, one escapes the snares of affliction and looks upon the swift-revolving vault of heaven—an eternal wheel unwearied by time, holding both pain and remedy, wherein the fortunes, gains, and hidden deeds of all creatures stand forever revealed.
#1
چو زین بُگذَری مَردُم آمد پَدید
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شد این بَندها را سَراسَر کِلید
“When all these lower realms were passed, humankind came into being, becoming the key to unlock all tied knots of creation.”
#2
سَرش راست بَر شُد چو سَروِ بُلَند
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به گفتارْ خوب و خِرَدْ کار بَند
“He stood erect like a tall cypress tree, gifted with fair speech and employing wisdom in every deed.”
#3
پذیرندهٔ هوش و رای و خِرَد
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مَر او را دَد و دام فَرمان بَرَد
“Capable of receiving intelligence, sound judgment, and wisdom, both wild beasts and tame creatures yielded to his command.”
#4
زِ راهِ خِرَد بِنگَری اَندکی
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که مَردُم به مَعنی چه باشَد یکی
“Look thoughtfully through the path of wisdom, to comprehend what it truly means to be human in inner truth.”
#5
مگر مَردُمی خیره خوانی هَمی
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جز این را نشانی نَدانی هَمی
“Unless you blindly call mere appearance human, knowing no other deeper nature or divine mark.”
#6
تو را از دو گیتی بَر آوَرده‌اَند
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به چَندین میانچی بِپَروَردِه‌اَند
“You were brought forth from both the physical and spiritual realms, nurtured into being through many intermediaries.”
#7
نُخُستینِ فِطرَت پَسینِ شُمار
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تویی خویشتَن را به بازی مَدار
“You are the ultimate aim of creation, though last in sequence; do not hold yourself in light esteem or treat life as a game.”
#8
شِنیدَم زِ دانا دِگرگونه زین
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چه دانیم رازِ جَهان آفرین
“I have heard other profound words from the wise; yet who among us can truly fathom the secrets of the Creator of the World?”
#9
نِگَه کُن سَرانجامِ خود را ببین
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چو کاری بیابی اَز این بِه گُزین
“Behold your final end and destiny, and whenever you find a path superior to this, choose it wisely.”
#10
به رَنج اَندر آری تَنَت را رَواست
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که خود رَنج بُردن به دانش سِزاست
“It is fitting to subject your body to hard toil, for enduring hardship in pursuit of knowledge is truly worthy.”
#11
چو خواهی که یابی زِ هَر بَد رَها
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سَر اَندر نَیاری به دامِ بَلا
“If you desire to be saved from every evil, never bow your head into the snare of calamity.”
#12
نِگه کُن بِدین گُنبدِ تیزگَرد
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که دَرمان اَزوی اَست و زویَست دَرد
“Look upon this swift-turning vault of heaven, from which remedies flow and from which pain descends.”
#13
نه گَشت‌ِ زَمانه بِفَرسایَدَش
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نه آن رَنج وُ تیمار بِگزایَدَش
“The turning of time does not wear it away, nor do earthly grief and hardship afflict its eternal motion.”
#14
نه از جُنبش آرام گیرَد هَمی
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نه چون ما تَباهی پَذیرَد هَمی
“It finds no rest from its constant revolution, nor does it yield to decay and corruption as we mortals do.”
#15
اَز او دان فُزونی اَز او هَم شُمار
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بَد و نیک نَزدیکِ او آشکار
“Attribute both increase and fate to its turning, for all good and evil stand unveiled before it.”