The Shepherd’s Care
牧羊人的照料
Join the community of saints
and know the delight of your own soul.
加入聖人的群體
瞭解你自己的靈魂的喜悅。
Enter the ruins of your heart
and learn the meaning of humility.
進入你心中的千瘡百孔
瞭解謙遜的含義。
Drain the cup of passion
and walk steadfast on the path of Truth.
用盡熱情
堅定不移地走在真理的路上。
Close both eyes
and see the mysteries with your inner eye.
閉上雙眼
用你內心的眼睛看見這奧秘。
Open your arms
if you want the Beloved’s embrace.
張開你的雙臂
如果你想擁有祂的懷抱。
Break your bonds with this body
if you want to see His pure and radiant Face.
斷開你與身體的連接
如果你想看見祂純粹而發光的臉龐。
The Saaqi is not a tyrant.
So come and sit within her circle.
How long will you stay outside
and watch her dance
the way you watch the circling night sky?
Saaqi 不是暴君。
來吧，坐在她的環繞之中。
你會在外面停留多久
看著她舞蹈
就像你看著夜晚流轉的星河？
God’s creation is vast –
Why do you sit all day in a tiny prison?
神的創造浩瀚無垠 –
為何你卻在一個小小的監牢里枯坐一整天？
Look! He’s giving you a real bargain –
Give up one and get a hundred.
Stop running around like a wolf or a dog –
stay and receive the Shepherd’s care.
看！祂在給你一筆真正合算的交易 –
放棄一然後得到一百。
別再像一匹狼或者一條狗那樣終日亂跑 –
停下來，接受牧羊人的照料。
Thoughts of the Beloved will feed your soul.
How can your hunger be satisfied
by thoughts of bread alone?
祂的想法會餵飽你的靈魂。
光有麵包的念頭
你的飢渴如何能被滿足？
Speak little,
Learn the words of eternity.
少說話，
瞭解永恆的語言。
Go beyond your tangled thoughts
and find the splendor of Paradise.
Go beyond your little world
and find the grandeur of God’s world.
超越你那些纏繞的念頭
找到天堂的光輝。
超越你的小小世界，
找到神的世界的莊嚴宏偉。
