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1916-1940

  • 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.

  • دست من بنمود بر گردون هنر ** مقریا بر خوان که انشق القمر 1920
  • My hand showed (its) cunning upon the sky: O teacher of the Qur’án, recite the moon hath been cleft asunder.’

  • این صفت هم بهر ضعف عقلهاست ** با ضعیفان شرح قدرت کی رواست‏
  • This characteristic, moreover, is on account of the weakness of (men's) understandings: how is it possible to explain the (Divine) omnipotence to the weak?

  • خود بدانی چون بر آری سر ز خواب ** ختم شد و الله أعلم بالصواب‏
  • You will surely know when you lift your head from (this sensuous) sleep. ’Tis the end (of my discourse), and God knows best what is right.

  • مر ترا نه قوت خوردن بدی ** نه ره و پروای قی کردن بدی‏
  • “(If I had told you about the snake), you would not have been able to eat, nor would you have been capable of vomiting or cared (to do so).

  • می‏شنیدم فحش و خر می‏راندم ** رب یسر زیر لب می‏خواندم‏
  • I heard (your) abuse and went on with my work; I kept repeating under my lip (breath), ‘O Lord, make (it) easy!’

  • از سبب گفتن مرا دستور نه ** ترک تو گفتن مرا مقدور نه‏ 1925
  • I had not permission to speak of the cause, and I had not power to abandon you.

  • هر زمان می‏گفتم از درد درون ** اهد قومی إنهم لا یعلمون‏
  • From the grief in my heart I was saying continually, ‘Guide my people; verily, they know not’.”

  • سجده‏ها می‏کرد آن رسته ز رنج ** کای سعادت ای مرا اقبال و گنج‏
  • The man that had been delivered from woe was falling on his knees and saying, “O (thou who art) my bliss, O my fortune and treasure,

  • از خدا یابی جزاها ای شریف ** قوت شکرت ندارد این ضعیف‏
  • Thou wilt get rewards from God, O noble one; this weakling has not the power to thank thee.

  • شکر حق گوید ترا ای پیشوا ** آن لب و چانه ندارم و آن نوا
  • God will say thanks to thee, O leader; I have not the lips and the chin and the voice for that.”

  • دشمنی عاقلان زین‏سان بود ** زهر ایشان ابتهاج جان بود 1930
  • Of this fashion is the enmity of the wise: their poison is gladness to the soul.

  • دوستی ابله بود رنج و ضلال ** این حکایت بشنو از بهر مثال‏
  • The friendship of the fool is woe and perdition: hear this tale as a parable.

  • اعتماد کردن بر تملق و وفای خرس‏
  • On putting trust in the fawningness and good faith of the bear.

  • اژدهایی خرس را در می‏کشید ** شیر مردی رفت و فریادش رسید
  • A dragon was pulling a bear (into its jaws); a valiant man went and succoured it.

  • شیر مردانند در عالم مدد ** آن زمان کافغان مظلومان رسد
  • The valiant (holy) men are a help in the world when the wail of the oppressed reaches (them).

  • بانگ مظلومان ز هر جا بشنوند ** آن طرف چون رحمت حق می‏دوند
  • From every quarter they hear the cry of the oppressed and run in that direction, like the mercy of God.

  • آن ستونهای خللهای جهان ** آن طبیبان مرضهای نهان‏ 1935
  • Those buttresses for the breaches of the world, those physicians for hidden maladies,

  • محض مهر و داوری و رحمتند ** همچو حق بی‏علت و بی‏رشوتند
  • Are pure love and justice and mercy; even as God, they are flawless (incorruptible) and unbribed.

  • این چه یاری می‏کنی یک بارگیش ** گوید از بهر غم و بی‏چارگیش‏
  • (If you ask one of them), “Why dost thou give him this aid all at once?” he says, “On account of his grief and helplessness.”

  • مهربانی شد شکار شیر مرد ** در جهان دارو نجوید غیر درد
  • Lovingkindness is fallen a prey to the valiant (holy) man, (for) medicine seeks naught in the world but the pain (which it should cure).

  • هر کجا دردی دوا آن جا رود ** هر کجا پستی است آب آن جا دود
  • Wherever a pain is, the remedy goes there: wherever a lowland is, the water runs there.

  • آب رحمت بایدت رو پست شو ** و آن گهان خور خمر رحمت مست شو 1940
  • If thou want the water of mercy, go, become lowly, and then drink the wine of mercy and become drunken.