از یکی ما تابه صد این دیده‌ایم ** نه به تقلید از کسی بشنیده‌ایم
We have seen this not (only) once but a hundred times: we have not heard it at second-hand from any one.
گفت الدین نصیحه آن رسول ** آن نصیحت در لغت ضد غلول
The Prophet said, ‘The (Mohammedan) religion is (consists in) sincerity (nasíhat)’: that nasíhat etymologically is the opposite of ghulúl (unfaithfulness).
این نصیحت راستی در دوستی ** در غلولی خاین و سگ‌پوستی
This nasíhat is ‘to be true in friendship’: in an act of ghulúl you are treacherous and currish.
بی خیانت این نصیحت از وداد ** می‌نماییمت مگرد از عقل و داد3945
We are showing this sincerity towards thee, without treachery, from (motives of) love: do not turn away from reason and justice!”
جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را
The lover's reply to those who chid him.
گفت او ای ناصحان من بی ندم ** از جهان زندگی سیر آمدم
He said, “O sincere advisers, I have become unrepentantly weary of the world of life.
منبلی‌ام زخم جو و زخم‌خواه ** عافیت کم جوی از منبل براه
I am an idle vagabond, seeking blows and desiring blows: do not seek rectitude from the vagabond on the road.
منبلی نی کو بود خود برگ‌جو ** منبلی‌ام لاابالی مرگ‌جو
(I am) not the vagabond who in sooth is a seeker of provender: I am the reckless vagabond (who is) the seeker of death.
منبلی نی کو به کف پول آورد ** منبلی چستی کزین پل بگذرد
(I am) not the vagabond who gets small money into his palm, (but) the nimble vagabond who would cross this bridge (to the world hereafter)—
آن نه کو بر هر دکانی بر زند ** بل جهد از کون و کانی بر زند3950
Not the one who cleaves to every shop; nay, but (the one who) springs away from (phenomenal) existence and strikes upon a mine (of reality).
مرگ شیرین گشت و نقلم زین سرا ** چون قفص هشتن پریدن مرغ را
Death and migration from this (earthly) abode has become as sweet to me as leaving the cage and flying (is sweet) to the (captive) bird—
آن قفص که هست عین باغ در ** مرغ می‌بیند گلستان و شجر
The cage that is in the very midst of the garden, (so that) the bird beholds the rose-beds and the trees,
جوق مرغان از برون گرد قفص ** خوش همی‌خوانند ز آزادی قصص
(While) outside, round the cage, a multitude of birds is sweetly chanting tales of liberty:
مرغ را اندر قفص زان سبزه‌زار ** نه خورش ماندست و نه صبر و قرار
At (the sight of) that verdant place neither (desire for) food remains to the bird in the cage, nor patience and rest,
سر ز هر سوراخ بیرون می‌کند ** تا بود کین بند از پا برکند3955
(But) it puts out its head through every hole, that perchance it may tear off this fetter from its leg.
چون دل و جانش چنین بیرون بود ** آن قفص را در گشایی چون بود
Since its heart and soul are (already) outside like this, how will it be when you open the cage?”
نه چنان مرغ قفص در اندهان ** گرد بر گردش به حلقه گربگان
Not such is the bird caged amidst anxieties—cats round about it in a ring:
کی بود او را درین خوف و حزن ** آرزوی از قفص بیرون شدن
How, in this dread and sorrow, should it have the desire to go out of the cage?
او همی‌خواهد کزین ناخوش حصص ** صد قفص باشد بگرد این قفص
It wishes that, (to save it) from this unwelcome plucking (of its feathers), there might be a hundred cages round about this cage (in which it is confined).
عشق جالینوس برین حیات دنیا بود کی هنر او همینجا بکار می‌آید هنری نورزیده است کی در آن بازار بکار آید آنجا خود را به عوام یکسان می‌بیند
The love of (a) Galen is for this present life, for only here does his art avail; he has not practised any art that avails in yonder market: there he sees himself to be the same as the vulgar.
آنچنانک گفت جالینوس راد ** از هوای این جهان و از مراد3960
That is even as wise Galen said on account of (his) passion for this world and because of what he desired (in it)—
راضیم کز من بماند نیم جان ** که ز کون استری بینم جهان
“I am content that (only) half of my vital spirit should remain, so that I may see the world through the arse of a mule.”
گربه می‌بیند بگرد خود قطار ** مرغش آیس گشته بودست از مطار
He sees around him cats in troops: his bird has despaired of flying;
یا عدم دیدست غیر این جهان ** در عدم نادیده او حشری نهان
Or he has deemed all except this world to be non-existence and has not perceived in non-existence a hidden resurrection.
چون جنین کش می‌کشد بیرون کرم ** می‌گریزد او سپس سوی شکم
Like the embryo which (the Divine) Bounty is drawing forth: it is fleeing back towards the belly.
لطف رویش سوی مصدر می‌کند ** او مقر در پشت مادر می‌کند3965
(The Divine) Grace is turning its (the embryo's) face towards the place of exit, (while) it (the embryo) is making its abode in the mother's loins,
که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کام ** ای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
Saying, “Oh, I wonder, if I fall outside of this city and (abode of) pleasure, shall I see with my eye this dwelling-place;