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  • گامهای تند بر بام سرا ** گفت با خود این چنین زهره کرا 830
  • (He heard) loud footsteps on the roof of the palace, and said to himself, “Who dares to do this?”

  • بانگ زد بر روزن قصر او که کیست ** این نباشد آدمی مانا پریست
  • He shouted, at the palace-window, “Who is it? This is not a man, belike it is a genie.

  • سر فرو کردند قومی بوالعجب ** ما همی گردیم شب بهر طلب
  • A wondrous folk put their heads down (from the roof), (saying), “We are going round by night for the purpose of search.”

  • هین چه می‌جویید گفتند اشتران ** گفت اشتر بام بر کی جست هان
  • “Eh, what are ye seeking?” “Camels,” they replied. He said, “Take heed! who ever sought camel on a roof?”

  • پس بگفتندش که تو بر تخت جاه ** چون همی جویی ملاقات اله
  • Then they said to him, “How art thou seeking to meet with God on the throne of state?”

  • خود همان بد دیگر او را کس ندید ** چون پری از آدمی شد ناپدید 835
  • That was all. None saw him again: he vanished like a genie from (the sight of) man.

  • معنی‌اش پنهان و او در پیش خلق ** خلق کی بینند غیر ریش و دلق
  • His reality (real self) was hidden, though he was in people’s presence: how should the people see aught but beard and frock (of the dervish)?

  • چون ز چشم خویش و خلقان دور شد ** هم‌چو عنقا در جهان مشهور شد
  • When he became far (disappeared) from his own and the people’s eyes, he became renowned in the world, like the ‘Anqá.

  • جان هر مرغی که آمد سوی قاف ** جمله‌ی عالم ازو لافند لاف
  • Whenever the soul of any (spiritual) bird has come to (Mount) Qáf, all the world boast and brag on account of it.

  • چون رسید اندر سبا این نور شرق ** غلغلی افتاد در بلقیس و خلق
  • When this orient light (from Solomon) reached Sabá, a tumult arose in Bilqís and her people.

  • روحهای مرده جمله پر زدند ** مردگان از گور تن سر بر زدند 840
  • All the dead spirits took wing: the dead put forth their heads from the grave, (which is) the body.

  • یک دگر را مژده می‌دادند هان ** نک ندایی می‌رسد از آسمان
  • They gave the good news to one another, saying, “Hark! Lo, a voice is coming from Heaven.”

  • زان ندا دینها همی‌گردند گبز ** شاخ و برگ دل همی گردند سبز
  • At (the sound of) that voice (men’s) religions wax great; the leaves and boughs of the heart become green.

  • از سلیمان آن نفس چون نفخ صور ** مردگان را وا رهانید از قبور
  • Like the blast of the trumpet (on Judgement-Day) that breath from Solomon delivered the dead from the tombs.

  • مر ترا بادا سعادت بعد ازین ** این گذشت الله اعلم بالیقین
  • May (such) felicity be thine after this (epoch of Solomon)! This (epoch) is past. God best knoweth the certain truth.

  • بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی اهل سبا و نصیحت و ارشاد سلیمان علیه‌السلام آل بلقیس را هر یکی را اندر خور خود و مشکلات دین و دل او و صید کردن هر جنس مرغ ضمیری به صفیر آن جنس مرغ و طعمه‌ی او
  • The rest of the story of the people of Sabá, and of the admonition and guidance given by Solomon, on whom be peace, to the kinsfolk of Bilqís—to every one (the particular guidance) suitable to his religious and spiritual difficulties; and how he caught (decoyed) each sort of conceptional bird with the whistle and bait proper for that sort of bird.

  • قصه گویم از سبا مشتاق‌وار ** چون صبا آمد به سوی لاله‌زار 845
  • I will tell the story of Sabá in lover’s style. When the Zephyr came towards the tulip-field,

  • لاقت الاشباح یوم وصلها ** عادت الاولاد صوب اصلها
  • The bodies met (experienced) the day of their union (with the spirits which dwell in them)’: the children turned again in the direction of their home.

  • امة العشق الخفی فی الامم ** مثل جود حوله لوم السقم
  • Amongst the communities the community of secret Love is like a liberality surrounded by the meanness of (spiritual) distemper.

  • ذلة الارواح من اشباحها ** عزة الاشباح من ارواحها
  • The baseness of spirits is (derived) from their bodies; the nobility of bodies is (derived) from their spirits.

  • ایها العشاق السقیا لکم ** انتم الباقون و البقیالکم
  • O lovers, the draught (of Love) is given to you. Ye are the everlasting: everlastingness is bestowed on you.

  • ایها السالون قوموا واعشقوا ** ذاک ریح یوسف فاستنشقوا 850
  • O ye that are forgetful, arise and love! That is the wind of Joseph: smell (its perfume)!

  • منطق‌الطیر سلیمانی بیا ** بانگ هر مرغی که آید می‌سرا
  • Come, O (master of the) bird-speech of Solomon, sing the song of every bird that comes.

  • چون به مرغانت فرستادست حق ** لحن هر مرغی بدادستت سبق
  • Since God hath sent thee to the birds, He hath instructed thee in the note of every bird.

  • مرغ جبری را زبان جبر گو ** مرغ پر اشکسته را از صبر گو
  • To the necessitarian bird speak the language of necessitarianism ; to the bird whose wings are broken speak of patience (quietism).

  • مرغ صابر را تو خوش دار و معاف ** مرغ عنقا را بخوان اوصاف قاف
  • Keep the patient bird happy and free from harm; to the bird (resembling the) ‘Anqá recite the descriptions of (Mount) Qáf.