The Boundless Treasure Within

GhazalIraqi style
English

The Boundless Treasure Within

I found endless treasures in the corner of my soul. Look at this corner of the soul, how it became the mine of that limitless wealth. My soul stepped out of the world of names and marks; it lost every trace, and so entered the traceless world. The moment a treasure appeared in the ruined dwelling of the heart, that ruined dwelling was made whole and prosperous, end to end. At every instant, from the road of truth, into the city of the heart come a hundred thousand caravans loaded with endless goods. Once the city of the heart was made prosperous, with each breath caravans keep flowing from truth toward that city. The heart reached the treasure without suffering any hardship; suddenly a boundless treasure fell into its hands from the unseen. In the dark night of the body, a daylight rose from the heart; a sun climbed all at once out of the sky of the soul. A sun descended from the wheel of heaven onto the ground of the heart, lifting that ground up past a thousand skies. When the eastern sun shone upon the western one, every atom of the world became clear to the western one.
Explanation: The 'ruined dwelling of the heart' plays on a Persian image where a broken or empty heart becomes the site of spiritual abundance. 'East' and 'west' suggest the meeting of divine light with the receiving soul.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۵

گنجهای بی نهایت یافتم در کنج جان کنج جان را بین که چون شد کان گنج بیکران
جان من از عالم نام و نشان آمد برون بی نشان شد تا در آمد در جهان بی نشان
تا که آمد در خراب آباد دل گنجی پدید تا خراب آباد دل شد سر به سر معمور از آن
هر زمان آید به شهرستان دل از راه حق با متاع بی نهایت صد هزاران کاروان
چونکه شهرستان دل معمور شد در هر نفس کاروانها گردد از حق سوی شهرستان روان
دل نبرده هیچ رنجی بر سر گنجی رسید آمدش ناگه به دست از غیب گنجی بیکران
در شب تاریک تن روزی پدید آمد ز دل آفتابی ز آسمان جان برآمد ناگهان
آفتابی بر زمین دل فرود آمد ز چرخ تا زمین را بگذرانید از هزاران آسمان
تا تجلی کرد مهر مشرقی بر مغربی مغربی را جمله ذرات عالم شد عیان