آن شب آنجا سخت باران در گرفت ** کز غلیظی ابرشان آمد شگفت
During the night it began to rain violently in that place, (and continued so long) that they were astonished at the thickness of the clouds.
زن بیامد بر گمان آنک شو ** سوی در خفتست و آن سو آن عمو 3660
(When) the wife came (home), she thought her husband was sleeping towards the door, and the uncle on the other side.
رفت عریان در لحاف آن دم عروس ** داد مهمان را به رغبت چند بوس
The wife immediately undressed and went to bed and kissed the guest fondly several times.
گفت می‌ترسیدم ای مرد کلان ** خود همان آمد همان آمد همان
“O worthy man,” said she, “I was afraid (of this), and now that very thing has happened, that very thing has happened, that very thing!
مرد مهمان را گل و باران نشاند ** بر تو چون صابون سلطانی بماند
The mud and rain have stranded thy guest (here): he is left on thy hands like Government soap.
اندرین باران و گل او کی رود ** بر سر و جان تو او تاوان شود
How can he set out in this rain and mud? He will become a tax upon thy head and soul.”
زود مهمان جست و گفت این زن بهل ** موزه دارم غم ندارم من ز گل 3665
The guest at once jumped up and said, “O woman, leave off! I have boots, I don't mind the mud.
من روان گشتم شما را خیر باد ** در سفر یک دم مبادا روح شاد
I depart. May good be with you! May your spirit during its (earthly) journey never rejoice (even) for a moment,
تا که زوتر جانب معدن رود ** کین خوشی اندر سفر ره‌زن شود
So that it may the sooner go towards its native home! for this (worldly) pleasure waylays (the traveller) on his journey.”
زن پشیمان شد از آن گفتار سرد ** چون رمید و رفت آن مهمان فرد
When the distinguished guest started up and went off, the wife was sorry for (having spoken) those unsympathetic words.
زن بسی گفتش که آخر ای امیر ** گر مزاحی کردم از طیبت مگیر
Many a time the wife said to him, “Why, O Amír, if I made a merry jest, don't take offence.”
سجده و زاری زن سودی نداشت ** رفت و ایشان را در آن حسرت گذاشت 3670
The wife's supplication and lament were of no avail: he departed and left them to grieve.
جامه ازرق کرد زان پس مرد و زن ** صورتش دیدند شمعی بی‌لگن
Afterwards the husband and wife clad themselves in blue: they deemed his (radiant) form to be a candle without a basin.
می‌شد و صحرا ز نور شمع مرد ** چون بهشت از ظلمت شب گشته فرد
He was going (on his way), and by that man's candle-light the desert was isolated, like Paradise, from the darkness of night.
کرد مهمان خانه خانه‌ی خویش را ** از غم و از خجلت این ماجرا
He (the husband) made his house a guest-house in sorrow and shame for this (calamitous) event.
در درون هر دو از راه نهان ** هر زمان گفتی خیال میهمان
In the hearts of them both, (coming) by the hidden way, the phantom of the guest was saying continually,
که منم یار خضر صد گنج و جود ** می‌فشاندم لیک روزیتان نبود 3675
“I am the friend of Khadir: I would have scattered a hundred treasures of munificence (over you), but ’twas not your appointed portion.”
تمثیل فکر هر روزینه کی اندر دل آید به مهمان نو کی از اول روز در خانه فرود آید و فضیلت مهمان‌نوازی و ناز مهمان کشیدن و تحکم و بدخویی کند به خداوند خانه
Comparing the daily thoughts that come into the heart with the new guests who from the beginning of the day alight in the house and behave with arrogance and ill-temper towards the master of the house; and concerning the merit of treating the guest with kindness and of suffering his haughty airs patiently.
هر دمی فکری چو مهمان عزیز ** آید اندر سینه‌ات هر روز نیز
Every day, too, at every moment a (different) thought comes, like an honoured guest, into thy bosom.
فکر را ای جان به جای شخص دان ** زانک شخص از فکر دارد قدر و جان
O (dear) soul, regard thought as a person, since (every) person derives his worth from thought and spirit.
فکر غم گر راه شادی می‌زند ** کارسازیهای شادی می‌کند
If the thought of sorrow is waylaying (spoiling) joy, (yet) it is making preparations for joy.
خانه می‌روبد به تندی او ز غیر ** تا در آید شادی نو ز اصل خیر
It violently sweeps thy house clear of (all) else, in order that new joy from the source of good may enter in.
می‌فشاند برگ زرد از شاخ دل ** تا بروید برگ سبز متصل 3680
It scatters the yellow leaves from the bough of the heart, in order that incessant green leaves may grow.
می‌کند بیخ سرور کهنه را ** تا خرامد ذوق نو از ما ورا
It uproots the old joy, in order that new delight may march in from the Beyond.
غم کند بیخ کژ پوسیده را ** تا نماید بیخ رو پوشیده را
Sorrow pulls up the crooked rotten (root), in order that it may disclose the root that is veiled from sight.
غم ز دل هر چه بریزد یا برد ** در عوض حقا که بهتر آورد
Whatsoever (things) sorrow may cause to be shed from the heart or may take away (from it), assuredly it will bring better in exchange,