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1910-1919

  • گر ترا من گفتمی اوصاف مار ** ترس از جانت بر آوردی دمار 1910
  • Had I told you the qualities of the snake, terror would have made you give up the ghost.”

  • مصطفی فرمود اگر گویم به راست ** شرح آن دشمن که در جان شماست‏
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said, ‘If I should tell aright the description of the enemy which is in your souls,

  • زهره‏های پر دلان هم بر درد ** نه رود ره نه غم کاری خورد
  • The gall-bladders even of courageous men would burst: he (such a one) would neither go his way nor care for any work.

  • نه دلش را تاب ماند در نیاز ** نه تنش را قوت روزه و نماز
  • Neither would there remain to his heart endurance in supplication, nor to his body strength for fasting and (ritual) prayer.

  • همچو موشی پیش گربه لا شود ** همچو بره پیش گرگ از جا رود
  • He would become (good for) nothing as a mouse before a cat; he would be distraught as a lamb before a wolf.

  • اندر او نه حیله ماند نه روش ** پس کنم ناگفته تان من پرورش‏ 1915
  • No power to plan or move would remain in him: therefore I tend you without speaking.

  • همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زنم ** دست چون داود در آهن زنم‏
  • I am mute, like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí; I handle the iron, like David,

  • تا محال از دست من حالی شود ** مرغ پر برکنده را بالی شود
  • So that by my hand the (seemingly) impossible is brought to pass, and wings are restored to the bird whose plumes were torn away.

  • چون ید الله فوق أیدیهم بود ** دست ما را دست خود فرمود احد
  • Since there is (the text) the hand of God is above their hands, the One (God) has declared our hand to be His hand.

  • پس مرا دست دراز آمد یقین ** بر گذشته ز آسمان هفتمین‏
  • Therefore mine is surely a long hand that has passed beyond the Seventh Heaven.