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  • شب شود در خانه آید گرسنه ** کودکان رفته بمانده یک تنه‏
  • Night falls, and he (the child who acted as shopkeeper comes home hungry: the (other) children are gone, and he is let alone.

  • این جهان بازی‏گه است و مرگ شب ** باز گردی کیسه خالی پر تعب‏ 2600
  • This world is a playground, and death is the night: thou returnest with an empty purse, tired out.

  • کسب دین عشق است و جذب اندرون ** قابلیت نور حق دان ای حرون‏
  • The earnings of religion are love and inward rapture––capacity to receive the Light of God, O thou obstinate one!

  • کسب فانی خواهدت این نفس خس ** چند کسب خس کنی بگذار بس‏
  • This vile fleshly soul desires thee to earn that which passeth away: how long wilt thou earn what is vile? Let it go! Enough!

  • نفس خس گر جویدت کسب شریف ** حیله و مکری بود آن را ردیف‏
  • If the vile fleshly soul desire thee to earn what is noble, there is some trick and plot behind it.

  • بیدار کردن ابلیس معاویه را که خیز وقت نماز است‏
  • How Iblís awakened Mu‘áwiya—may God be well-pleased with him!—saying, “Arise, it is time for prayer.”

  • در خبر آمد که آن معاویه ** خفته بد در قصر در یک زاویه‏
  • ’Tis related in Tradition that Mu‘áwiya was asleep in a nook of the palace.

  • قصر را از اندرون در بسته بود ** کز زیارتهای مردم خسته بود 2605
  • The palace-door was fastened from the inside, for he was fatigued by people's visits.

  • ناگهان مردی و را بیدار کرد ** چشم چون بگشاد پنهان گشت مرد
  • Suddenly he was awakened by a man, (but) when he opened his eyes the man vanished.

  • گفت اندر قصر کس را ره نبود ** کیست کاین گستاخی و جرات نمود
  • He said (to himself), “No one had entrance to the palace: who is he that has shown such impudence and boldness?”

  • گرد برگشت و طلب کرد آن زمان ** تا بیابد ز آن نهان گشته نشان‏
  • Then he went round and searched in order to find the trace of that one who had become hidden (from sight).

  • از پس در مدبری را دید کاو ** در در و پرده نهان می‏کرد رو
  • Behind the door he espied a luckless man who was hiding his face in the door and the curtain.

  • گفت هی تو کیستی نام تو چیست ** گفت نامم فاش ابلیس شقی است‏ 2610
  • “Hey,” he cried, “who are you? What is your name?” “(To speak) plainly,” said he, “my name is Iblís the damned.”

  • گفت بیدارم چرا کردی به جد ** راست گو با من مگو بر عکس و ضد
  • He (Mu‘áwiya) asked, “Why did you take pains to awaken me? Tell the truth, don't tell me what is reverse and contrary (to the fact).”

  • از خر افکندن ابلیس معاویه را و رو پوش و بهانه کردن و جواب گفتن معاویه او را
  • How Iblís gave Mu‘áwiya, may God be well-pleased with him, a fall, and practiced dissimulation, and how Mu‘áwiya answered him.

  • گفت هنگام نماز آخر رسید ** سوی مسجد زود می‏باید دوید
  • He said, “The time for prayer is (all but) come to an end: you must run quickly to the mosque.

  • عجلوا الطاعات قبل الفوت گفت ** مصطفی چون در معنی می‏بسفت‏
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said, boring the pearl of the idea, ‘Make haste to perform your devotions before the time is past.’”

  • گفت نی نی این غرض نبود ترا ** که به خیری رهنما باشی مرا
  • He (Mu‘áwiya) said, “Nay, nay; ’tis not thy purpose to be my guide unto any good.

  • دزد آید از نهان در مسکنم ** گویدم که پاسبانی می‏کنم‏ 2615
  • (If) a thief come secretly into my dwelling-place and say to me, ‘I am keeping watch,’

  • من کجا باور کنم آن دزد را ** دزد کی داند ثواب و مزد را
  • How shall I believe that thief? How should a thief know the recompense and reward for good works?”

  • باز جواب گفتن ابلیس معاویه را
  • How Iblís again made answer to Mu‘áwiya.

  • گفت ما اول فرشته بوده‏ایم ** راه طاعت را به جان پیموده‏ایم‏
  • He said, “At first I was an angel: I traversed the way of obedience (to God) with (all my) soul.

  • سالکان راه را محرم بدیم ** ساکنان عرش را هم دم بدیم‏
  • I was the confidant of them that follow the path (of devotion): I was familiar with them that dwell by the Throne of God.

  • پیشه‏ی اول کجا از دل رود ** مهر اول کی ز دل بیرون شود
  • How should (one's) first calling go out of (one's) mind? How should (one's) first love go forth from (one's) heart?

  • در سفر گر روم بینی یا ختن ** از دل تو کی رود حب الوطن‏ 2620
  • If in travel you see Anatolia or Khutan, how should love of your own country go from your heart?

  • ما هم از مستان این می بوده‏ایم ** عاشقان درگه وی بوده‏ایم‏
  • I too have been one of those drunken with this wine: I have been a lover at His court.

  • ناف ما بر مهر او ببریده‏اند ** عشق او در جان ما کاریده‏اند
  • They cut my navel in (predestined me from birth to) love of Him: they sowed love of Him in my heart.

  • روز نیکو دیده‏ایم از روزگار ** آب رحمت خورده‏ایم اندر بهار
  • I have seen good days from Fortune: I have drunk the water of (Divine) Mercy in (my) spring-time.