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27-51

  • انبیا با دشمنان بر می‌تنند ** پس ملایک رب سلم می‌زنند
  • The prophets contend with their enemies; then the angels utter cries of “Save (them), O Lord,”

  • کین چراغی را که هست او نور کار ** از پف و دمهای دزدان دور دار
  • Saying, “Keep this Lamp, which is light-disseminating, far from the puffs and breaths of thieves.”

  • دزد و قلابست خصم نور بس ** زین دو ای فریادرس فریاد رس
  • Only the thief and the coiner are adversaries of the light: succour (us) from these twain, O Succourer!

  • روشنی بر دفتر چارم بریز ** کفتاب از چرخ چارم کرد خیز 30
  • Shed light upon the Fourth Book, for the sun rose from the Fourth Heaven.

  • هین ز چارم نور ده خورشیدوار ** تا بتابد بر بلاد و بر دیار
  • Come, give light, like the sun, from the Fourth (Book), so that it may shine upon (all) countries and inhabited lands.

  • هر کش افسانه بخواند افسانه است ** وآنک دیدش نقد خود مردانه است
  • Whoever reads it (as) an idle tale, he is (as) an idle tale; and he who regards it as money in his own hands (real truth to be applied to himself) is like a man (of God).

  • آب نیلست و به قبطی خون نمود ** قوم موسی را نه خون بد آب بود
  • It is the water of the Nile, which seemed blood to the Egyptian, (but) to the people of Moses was not blood, but water.

  • دشمن این حرف این دم در نظر ** شد ممثل سرنگون اندر سقر
  • At this moment the enemy of these words (the Mathnawí) is pictured in (thy) sight (falling) headlong into Hell-fire.

  • ای ضیاء الحق تو دیدی حال او ** حق نمودت پاسخ افعال او 35
  • O Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (Radiance of God), thou hast seen his (evil) state: God hath shown unto thee the answer to his (evil) actions.

  • دیده‌ی غیبت چو غیبست اوستاد ** کم مبادا زین جهان این دید و داد
  • Thine eye which beholds the invisible is a master(-seer) like the Invisible: may this vision and gift not vanish from this world!

  • این حکایت را که نقد وقت ماست ** گر تمامش می‌کنی اینجا رواست
  • If thou wilt here complete this story, which is the current coin of (directly applicable to) our present state, ’tis fitting.

  • ناکسان را ترک کن بهر کسان ** قصه را پایان بر و مخلص رسان
  • Leave the unworthy folk for the sake of the worthy: bring the tale to the end and conduct it to the issue.

  • این حکایت گر نشد آنجا تمام ** چارمین جلدست آرش در نظام
  • If this story was not finished there (in the Third Book), ’tis (now) the Fourth Volume: set it out in order.

  • تمامی حکایت آن عاشق که از عسس گریخت در باغی مجهول خود معشوق را در باغ یافت و عسس را از شادی دعای خیر می‌کرد و می‌گفت کی عسی ان تکرهوا شیا و هو خیر لکم
  • Conclusion of the story of the lover who fled from the night-patrol into an orchard unknown to him, and for joy at finding his beloved in the orchard called down blessings on the night-patrol and said, "It may be that ye loathe a thing although it is better for you."

  • اندر آن بودیم کان شخص از عسس ** راند اندر باغ از خوفی فرس 40
  • We were at the point (of the story) where that person (fled) in terror from the night-patrol (and) galloped into the orchard.

  • بود اندر باغ آن صاحب‌جمال ** کز غمش این در عنا بد هشت سال
  • In the orchard was the beauteous one for love of whom this (youth) had been in tribulation eight years.

  • سایه‌ی او را نبود امکان دید ** هم‌چو عنقا وصف او را می‌شنید
  • He had no possibility of seeing (even) her shadow: he was (only) hearing the description of her, as (of) the ‘Anqá,

  • جز یکی لقیه که اول از قضا ** بر وی افتاد و شد او را دلربا
  • Except (for) one meeting which happened to him by (Divine) destiny at the first and enravished his heart.

  • بعد از آن چندان که می‌کوشید او ** خود مجالش می‌نداد آن تندخو
  • After that, however much effort he made, in sooth that cruel one would give him no opportunity.

  • نه بلا به چاره بودش نه به مال ** چشم پر و بی‌طمع بود آن نهال 45
  • Neither entreaty nor wealth availed him: that (fresh) sapling was fully satisfied and without desire.

  • عاشق هر پیشه‌ای و مطلبی ** حق بیالود اول کارش لبی
  • (In the case of) the lover of any craft or object of pursuit, God has touched his lip (with honey or the like) at the beginning of the affair;

  • چون بدان آسیب در جست آمدند ** پیش پاشان می‌نهد هر روز بند
  • (But) when at that contact they have entered upon the quest, He lays a snare before their feet every day.

  • چون در افکندش بجست و جوی کار ** بعد از آن در بست که کابین بیار
  • When He has plunged him (the lover) into search for the matter (which he has at heart), after that He shuts the door, saying, “Bring the dowry.”

  • هم بر آن بو می‌تنند و می‌روند ** هر دمی راجی و آیس می‌شوند
  • Still they cling to that (sweet) scent (hope) and go (on their quest): at every moment they become hopeful and despairing.

  • هر کسی را هست اومید بری ** که گشادندش در آن روزی دری 50
  • Every one (of them) hath hope of (winning) the fruit whereto a door was opened to him on a certain day;

  • باز در بستندش و آن درپرست ** بر همان اومید آتش پا شدست
  • Then it was shut (upon them) again; (but) that devotee to the door, (continuing) in the same hope, has become fire-footed.