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  • چون که کرد ابلیس خو با سروری ** دید آدم را حقیر او از خری‏
  • Since Iblís had become accustomed to being leader, he in his folly regarded Adam with contempt.

  • که به از من سروری دیگر بود ** تا که او مسجود چون من کس شود
  • Saying, “Is there another leader superior to me, so that he should be worshipped by one like me?”

  • سروری زهر است جز آن روح را ** کاو بود تریاق لانی ز ابتدا
  • Leadership is poison, except to the spirit that from the beginning hath (in himself) abundance of the antidote.

  • کوه اگر پر مار شد باکی مدار ** کاو بود در اندرون تریاق‏زار 3465
  • If the mountain is full of snakes, have no fear, for it is a mine of antidote within.

  • سروری چون شد دماغت را ندیم ** هر که بشکستت شود خصم قدیم‏
  • When leadership has become a bosom-friend to your brain, any one who breaks (thwarts) you becomes (as) an ancient adversary.

  • چون خلاف خوی تو گوید کسی ** کینه‏ها خیزد ترا با او بسی‏
  • When any one contradicts your disposition (habit of mind), many feelings of hatred against him arise in you.

  • که مرا از خوی من بر می‏کند ** خویش را بر من چو سرور می‏کند
  • “He is tearing me (you say) from my (engrained) disposition, he is making himself like a captain over me.”

  • چون نباشد خوی بد سرکش در او ** کی فروزد آن خلاف آتش در او
  • Unless the evil disposition has become headstrong in him, how should the fire (of passion) blaze up in him through being opposed?

  • با مخالف او مدارایی کند ** در دل او خویش را جایی کند 3470
  • He may show some feigned courtesy to the opponent, he may make a place for himself in his heart,

  • ز انکه خوی بد بگشته ست استوار ** مور شهوت شد ز عادت همچو مار
  • (But he really hates him), because the evil disposition has waxed strong: the ant of (worldly) lust has through habit become as a snake.

  • مار شهوت را بکش در ابتدا ** ور نه اینک گشت مارت اژدها
  • Kill the snake of lust in tribulation; else, look you, your snake is become a dragon.

  • لیک هر کس مور بیند مار خویش ** تو ز صاحب دل کن استفسار خویش‏
  • But every one deems his own snake an ant: do you (then) seek the explanation of yourself (your real state) from him that is lord of the heart.

  • تا نشد زر مس نداند من مسم ** تا نشد شه دل نداند مفلسم‏
  • Until copper becomes gold, it does not know itself to be copper: until the heart becomes a king, it does not know itself to be an insolvent.

  • خدمت اکسیر کن مس‏وار تو ** جور می‏کش ای دل از دل دار تو 3475
  • Do service to the elixir, like copper: endure oppression, O heart, from him that holds the heart in fee.

  • کیست دل دار اهل دل نیکو بدان ** که چو روز و شب جهانند از جهان‏
  • Who is it that holds the heart in fee? Know well, it is the lords of the heart who, like day and night, are recoiling from the world.

  • عیب کم گو بنده‏ی الله را ** متهم کم کن به دزدی شاه را
  • Do not find fault with the Servant of God: do not suspect the King of being a thief.

  • کرامات آن درویش که در کشتی متهمش کردند
  • The miracles of the dervish who was suspected of theft in a ship.

  • بود درویشی درون کشتیی ** ساخته از رخت مردی پشتیی‏
  • A dervish was in a ship: he had made a bolster (for himself) from the goods of saintly fortitude.

  • یاوه شد همیان زر او خفته بود ** جمله را جستند و او را هم نمود
  • A purse of gold was lost. He was asleep (at the time). They searched all (in the ship) and brought him also to view

  • کاین فقیر خفته را جوییم هم ** کرد بیدارش ز غم صاحب درم‏ 3480
  • Saying, “Let us search this sleeping mendicant as well.” (So) the owner of the money, (excited) by grief, awakened him.

  • که در این کشتی حرمدان گمشدست ** جمله را جستیم نتوانی تو رست‏
  • “A bag of valuables,” said he, “has been lost in this ship. We have searched the whole company: you cannot escape (suspicion).

  • دلق بیرون کن برهنه شو ز دلق ** تا ز تو فارغ شود اوهام خلق‏
  • Put off your dervish-cloak, strip yourself of it, in order that the people's suspicions may be cleared away from you.”

  • گفت یا رب مر غلامت را خسان ** متهم کردند فرمان در رسان‏
  • He cried, “O Lord, these vile wretches have made an accusation against Thy slave: bring Thy command to pass!”

  • چون به درد آمد دل درویش از آن ** سر برون کردند هر سو در زمان‏
  • When the heart of the dervish was pained by that (suspicion), at once there put forth their heads on every side

  • صد هزاران ماهی از دریای ژرف ** در دهان هر یکی دری شگرف‏ 3485
  • From the deep sea myriads of fishes, and in the mouth of each (was) a superb pearl:

  • صد هزاران ماهی از دریای پر ** در دهان هر یکی در و چه در
  • Myriads of fishes out of the full sea, each with a pearl in its mouth—and what (marvellous) pearls!—