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1093-1117

  • این چهل روزش بده مهلت بطوع ** تا سگالد مکرها او نوع نوع
  • Willingly give him these forty days, that he may bethink him of divers plots.

  • تا بکوشد او که نی من خفته‌ام ** تیز رو گو پیش ره بگرفته‌ام
  • Let him endeavour, for I am not asleep; bid him advance quickly, (for) I have barred the way in front (of him).

  • حیله‌هاشان را همه برهم زنم ** و آنچ افزایند من بر کم زنم 1095
  • I will confound all their devices, and I will reduce to little that which they increase.

  • آب را آرند من آتش کنم ** نوش و خوش گیرند و من ناخوش کنم
  • Let them fetch water, and I will make (it) fire; let them get honey and sweets and I will make (it) bitter.

  • مهر پیوندند و من ویران کنم ** آنک اندر وهم نارند آن کنم
  • Let them join in a bond of love, and I will destroy it; I will do that which they conceive not.

  • تو مترس و مهلتش ده دم‌دراز ** گو سپه گرد آر و صد حیلت بساز
  • Have thou no fear, and give him a lengthy respite; bid him bring together his host and prepare a hundred devices.”

  • مهلت دادن موسی علیه‌السلام فرعون را تا ساحران را جمع کند از مداین
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, gave Pharaoh a respite, that he might assemble the magicians from the cities.

  • گفت امر آمد برو مهلت ترا ** من بجای خود شدم رستی ز ما
  • He (Moses) said, “The (Divine) command hath come. Go, the respite is (granted) to thee. I depart to my dwelling-place: thou art delivered from me.”

  • او همی‌شد و اژدها اندر عقب ** چون سگ صیاد دانا و محب 1100
  • He was going (on his way), and at his heels (went) the dragon wise and loving, like the hunter's dog.

  • چون سگ صیاد جنبان کرده دم ** سنگ را می‌کرد ریگ او زیر سم
  • Like the hunter's dog, wagging its tail: it made the stones (crumble as) sand beneath its hoof.

  • سنگ و آهن را بدم در می‌کشید ** خرد می‌خایید آهن را پدید
  • With its breath it drew in stone and iron (to its jaws) and visibly chewed the iron into small fragments.

  • در هوا می‌کرد خود بالای برج ** که هزیمت می‌شد از وی روم و گرج
  • In the air it was making itself (rise) above the zodiac, so that Greeks and Georgians would flee from it in panic.

  • کفک می‌انداخت چون اشتر ز کام ** قطره‌ای بر هر که زد می‌شد جذام
  • From its palate it cast out foam, like a camel: whomsoever a drop hit, he was smitten with tubercular leprosy.

  • ژغژغ دندان او دل می‌شکست ** جان شیران سیه می‌شد ز دست 1105
  • The gnashing of its teeth would break the heart; the souls of black lions would be distraught (with terror).

  • چون به قوم خود رسید آن مجتبی ** شدق او بگرفت باز او شد عصا
  • When that chosen one (Moses) reached his kinsfolk, he took hold of the corner of its mouth, and it became again a staff.

  • تکیه بر وی کرد و می‌گفت ای عجب ** پیش ما خورشید و پیش خصم شب
  • He leaned upon it, saying, “O wonder! to me (’tis clear as) the sun, to my enemy (’tis dark as) night.

  • ای عجب چون می‌نبیند این سپاه ** عالمی پر آفتاب چاشتگاه
  • O wonder! How doth this host not see a whole world filled with the morning sun?

  • چشم باز و گوش باز و این ذکا ** خیره‌ام در چشم‌بندی خدا
  • Eyes open, and ears open, and this sun! I am amazed at God's eye-bandaging.

  • من ازیشان خیره ایشان هم ز من ** از بهاری خار ایشان من سمن 1110
  • I am amazed at them, and they too at me: (we are) from one springtime, (but) they are thorns and I am jasmine.

  • پیششان بردم بسی جام رحیق ** سنگ شد آبش به پیش این فریق
  • I bore to them many a cup of pure wine: its juice turned to stone before this company.

  • دسته گل بستم و بردم به پیش ** هر گلی چون خار گشت و نوش نیش
  • I twined a handful of roses and carried it to them: every rose became as a thorn, and the honey turned to poison.

  • آن نصیب جان بی‌خویشان بود ** چونک با خویش‌اند پیدا کی شود
  • That (pure wine) is the portion allotted to the selfless: since they are with themselves (not freed from self), how should it be shown (to them)?

  • خفته‌ی بیدار باید پیش ما ** تا به بیداری ببیند خوابها
  • With us, one must needs be a waking sleeper, that in the state of wakefulness he may dream dreams.”

  • دشمن این خواب خوش شد فکر خلق ** تا نخسپد فکرتش بستست حلق 1115
  • Thought of created things is an enemy to this sweet (waking) sleep: until his (any one's) thought is asleep, his throat is shut.

  • حیرتی باید که روبد فکر را ** خورده حیرت فکر را و ذکر را
  • A (mystical) bewilderment is needed to sweep (such) thought away: bewilderment devours (all) thought and recollection.

  • هر که کاملتر بود او در هنر ** او بمعنی پس بصورت پیشتر
  • The more perfect he is in (worldly) science, the more backward he is in reality and the more forward in appearance.