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  • گفت ای یار نکو احوال چیست ** این فغان و بانگ تو از دست کیست‏
  • “O good friend,” said he, “what is the matter? By whose hand (violence) is this lamentation and outcry of yours (caused)?”

  • گفت اینک بین نشان پای دزد ** این طرف رفته ست دزد زن بمزد
  • “Look here,” said (the other). “See the thief's footprints! The pimping thief has gone this way. [ “Look here,” said (the other). “See the thief's footprints! The thief whose wife is for hire (who prostitutes his wife to other men) has gone this way.]

  • نک نشان پای دزد قلتبان ** در پی او رو بدین نقش و نشان‏
  • Look at the cuckold thief's footprints! Follow him by means of these marks and traces.”

  • گفت ای ابله چه می‏گویی مرا ** من گرفته بودم آخر مر و را 2805
  • He answered, “O fool, what are you telling me? Why, I had (as good as) caught him,

  • دزد را از بانگ تو بگذاشتم ** من تو خر را آدمی پنداشتم‏
  • (But) at your cry I let the thief go. I deemed you, ass (as you are), a (reasonable) man.

  • این چه ژاژست و چه هرزه ای فلان ** من حقیقت یافتم چه بود نشان‏
  • What silly gabble and nonsense is this, O fellow? I (had) found the reality: what (use to me) is the clue?”

  • گفت من از حق نشانت می‏دهم ** این نشان است از حقیقت آگهم‏
  • He replied, “I am giving you a clue to the real (thing). This is the clue; I am acquainted with the reality.”

  • گفت طراری تو یا خود ابلهی ** بلکه تو دزدی و زین حال آگهی‏
  • He (the householder) said, “You are an artful knave or else you are a fool; nay, you are a thief and cognisant of this affair.

  • خصم خود را می‏کشیدم من کشان ** تو رهانیدی و را کاینک نشان‏ 2810
  • I was (on the point of) dragging my adversary along, (when) you let him escape, saying (to me), ‘Here are (his) traces.’”

  • تو جهت گو من برونم از جهات ** در وصال آیات کو یا بینات‏
  • You speak of (external) relations, (but) I transcend (all) relations. In union (with God) where are signs or evidences?

  • صنع بیند مرد محجوب از صفات ** در صفات آن است کاو گم کرد ذات‏
  • The man that is debarred (from the Essence) sees the (Divine) action (as proceeding) from the Attributes: he that has lost the Essence is in (confined to) the Attributes.

  • واصلان چون غرق ذاتند ای پسر ** کی کنند اندر صفات او نظر
  • Inasmuch as those united (with God) are absorbed in the Essence, O son, how should they look upon His Attributes?

  • چون که اندر قعر جو باشد سرت ** کی به رنگ آب افتد منظرت‏
  • When your head is at the bottom of the river, how will your eye fall on the colour of the water?

  • ور به رنگ آب باز آیی ز قعر ** پس پلاسی بستدی دادی تو شعر 2815
  • And if you come back from the bottom to the colour of the water, then you have received a coarse woollen garment and given (fine) fur (in exchange).

  • طاعت عامه گناه خاصگان ** وصلت عامه حجاب خاص دان‏
  • The piety of the vulgar is sin in the elect; the unitive state of the vulgar is a veil in the elect.

  • مر وزیری را کند شه محتسب ** شه عدوی او بود نبود محب‏
  • If the king make a vizier a police inspector, the king is his enemy, he is not his friend.

  • هم گناهی کرده باشد آن وزیر ** بی‏سبب نبود تغیر ناگزیر
  • Also, that vizier will have committed some offence: necessarily change (for the worse) is not (does not occur) without cause.

  • آن که ز اول محتسب بد خود و را ** بخت و روزی آن بده ست از ابتدا
  • He that has been a police inspector from the first—to him that (office) has been fortune and livelihood from the beginning;

  • لیک آن کاول وزیر شه بده ست ** محتسب کردن سبب فعل بد است‏ 2820
  • But he that was first the king's vizier—evil-doing is the cause of making him a police inspector.

  • چون ترا شه ز آستانه پیش خواند ** باز سوی آستانه باز راند
  • When the King has called you from the threshold into His presence, and again has driven you back to the threshold,

  • تو یقین می‏دان که جرمی کرده‏ای ** جبر را از جهل پیش آورده‏ای‏
  • Know for sure that you have committed a sin and in folly have brought forward (pleaded) compulsion (as the cause),

  • که مرا روزی و قسمت این بده ست ** پس چرا دی بودت آن دولت به دست‏
  • Saying, “This was my (predestined) portion and lot.” (But) then, why was that good luck in your hands yesterday?

  • قسمت خود خود بریدی تو ز جهل ** قسمت خود را فزاید مرد اهل‏
  • Through folly you yourself have cut off your lot. The worthy man augments his lot.

  • قصه‏ی منافقان و مسجد ضرار ساختن ایشان‏
  • The story of the Hypocrites and their building the Mosque of Opposition.

  • یک مثال دیگر اندر کژروی ** شاید ار از نقل قرآن بشنوی‏ 2825
  • It is fit if you will hearken to another parable concerning perversity (taken) from the narrative in the Qur’án.

  • این چنین کژ بازیی در جفت و طاق ** با نبی می‏باختند اهل نفاق‏
  • The Hypocrites played against the Prophet (just) such a crooked game at odd and even (as was played by Iblís against Mu‘áwiya),