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  • هر قدم زین آب تازی دورتر ** دو دوان سوی سراب با غرر
  • At every step you hurry farther away from the water, whilst you keep running on towards the perilous mirage.

  • عین آن عزمت حجاب این شده ** که به تو پیوسته است و آمده
  • Your very setting-out has become the barrier (which prevents you) from (seeing) this that has come close to you.

  • بس کسا عزمی به جایی می‌کند ** از مقامی کان غرض در وی بود
  • Oh, many a one sets out to some place from the spot where the object of his quest is (to be found).

  • دید و لاف خفته می‌ناید به کار ** جز خیالی نیست دست از وی بدار 3235
  • The (far) sight and boasting of the sleeper is of no avail; it is naught but a phantasy: hold aloof from it.

  • خوابناکی لیک هم بر راه خسپ ** الله الله بر ره الله خسپ
  • Thou art sleepy, but anyhow sleep on the Way: for God's sake, for God's sake, sleep on the Way of God,

  • تا بود که سالکی بر تو زند ** از خیالات نعاست بر کند
  • That perchance a Traveller (on the Way) may attach himself to thee and tear thee from the phantasies of slumber.

  • خفته را گر فکر گردد هم‌چو موی ** او از آن دقت نیابد راه کوی
  • (Even) if the sleeper's thought become (subtle) as a hair, he will not find the way to the Abode by that subtlety.

  • فکر خفته گر دوتا و گر سه‌تاست ** هم خطا اندر خطا اندر خطاست
  • Whether the sleeper's thought is twofold or threefold, still it is error on error on error.

  • موج بر وی می‌زند بی‌احتراز ** خفته پویان در بیابان دراز 3240
  • The waves are beating upon him without restraint, (whilst) he asleep is running in the long wilderness.

  • خفته می‌بیند عطشهای شدید ** آب اقرب منه من حبل الورید
  • The sleeper dreams of the sore pangs of thirst, (whilst) the water is nearer unto him than the neck-vein.

  • حکایت آن زاهد کی در سال قحط شاد و خندان بود با مفلسی و بسیاری عیان و خلق می‌مردند از گرسنگی گفتندش چه هنگام شادیست کی هنگام صد تعزیت است گفت مرا باری نیست
  • Story of the ascetic who, notwithstanding his destitution and numerous family, was rejoicing and laughing in a year of drought whilst the people were dying of hunger. They said to him, "What is the occasion for joy? It is an occasion for a hundred mournings." "For me at any rate ’tis not (so)," he replied.

  • هم‌چنان کن زاهد اندر سال قحط ** بود او خندان و گریان جمله رهط
  • Even as (for example) that ascetic was laughing in a year of drought, while all (his) folk were weeping.

  • پس بگفتندش چه جای خنده است ** قحط بیخ مومنان بر کنده است
  • So they said to him, “What is the occasion for laughter, (when) the drought has uprooted (destroyed) the true believers?

  • رحمت از ما چشم خود بر دوختست ** ز آفتاب تیز صحرا سوختست
  • The (Divine) mercy hath closed its eyes to us: the plain is burnt by the fierce sun.

  • کشت و باغ و رز سیه استاده است ** در زمین نم نیست نه بالا نه پست 3245
  • Crops and vineyards and vines are standing black: there is no moisture in the earth, neither up nor down.

  • خل می‌میرند زین قحط و عذاب ** ده ده و صد صد چو ماهی دور از آب
  • The people are dying from this drought and torment by tens and hundreds like fish far from the water.

  • بر مسلمانان نمی‌آری تو رحم ** مومنان خویشند و یک تن شحم و لحم
  • Thou art taking no pity on the Moslems; (yet) the true believers are kinsmen and one body (of) fat and flesh.

  • رنج یک جزوی ز تن رنج همه‌ست ** گر دم صلحست یا خود ملحمه‌ست
  • The pain of one part of the body is the pain of all (its parts), whether it be the hour of peace or war.”

  • گفت در چشم شما قحطست این ** پیش چشمم چون بهشتست این زمین
  • He (the ascetic) replied, “In your eyes this is a drought, (but) to my eye this earth is like Paradise.

  • من همی‌بینم بهر دشت و مکان ** خوشه‌ها انبه رسیده تا میان 3250
  • I am beholding in every desert and everywhere ears of corn in abundance, reaching up to the waist;

  • خوشه‌ها در موج از باد صبا ** پر بیابان سبزتر از گندنا
  • (I see) the wilderness full of ears of corn (tossed) in waves by the east-wind, (so that it is) greener than the leek.

  • ز آزمون من دست بر وی می‌زنم ** دست و چشم خویش را چون بر کنم
  • By way of trial I am putting my hand thereon: how should I remove my hand and eye?

  • یار فرعون تنید ای قوم دون ** زان نماید مر شما را نیل خون
  • Ye are friends of Pharaoh, (who is) the body, O base people: hence the Nile seems to you to be blood.

  • یار موسی خرد گردید زود ** تا نماند خون بینید آب رود
  • Quickly become friends of Moses, (who is) the intellect, in order that the blood may remain not and ye may behold the river-water.

  • با پدر از تو جفایی می‌رود ** آن پدر در چشم تو سگ می‌شود 3255
  • (If) an injustice is proceeding from (is being done by) thee towards thy father, that father will become (as) a (biting) cur in thine eyes.

  • آن پدر سگ نیست تاثیر جفاست ** که چنان حرمت نظر را سگ نماست
  • That father is not a cur: ’tis the effect of (thy) injustice that such mercy appears to thy sight (as) a cur.