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3029-3053

  • چونک جعفر رفت سوی قلعه‌ای  ** قلعه پیش کام خشکش جرعه‌ای 
  • When Ja‘far advanced against a certain fortress, the fortress (seemed) to his dry palate (to be no more than) a single gulp.

  • یک سواره تاخت تا قلعه بکر  ** تا در قلعه ببستند از حذر  3030
  • Riding alone, he charged up to the fortress, so that they (the garrison) locked the fortress-gate in dread.

  • زهره نه کس را که پیش آید به جنگ  ** اهل کشتی را چه زهره با نهنگ 
  • No one dared to meet him in battle: what stomach have the ship's crew (to contend) with a leviathan?

  • روی آورد آن ملک سوی وزیر  ** که چه چاره‌ست اندرین وقت ای مشیر 
  • The king turned to his vizier, saying, “What is to be done in this crisis, Counsellor?”

  • گفت آنک ترک گویی کبر و فن  ** پیش او آیی به شمشیر و کفن 
  • He replied, “(The only remedy is) that you should bid farewell to pride and cunning, and come to him with sword and shroud.”

  • گفت آخر نه یکی مردیست فرد  ** گفت منگر خوار در فردی مرد 
  • “Why,” said the king, “is not he a single man (and) alone?” He (the vizier) replied, “Do not look with contempt on the man's loneliness.

  • چشم بگشا قلعه را بنگر نکو  ** هم‌چو سیمابست لرزان پیش او  3035
  • Open your eye: look well at the fortress: it is trembling before him like quicksilver.

  • شسته در زین آن‌چنان محکم‌پیست  ** گوییا شرقی و غربی با ویست 
  • He sits (alone) on the saddle, (but) his nerve is just as unshaken as if an (army of the) East and West were accompanying him.

  • چند کس هم‌چون فدایی تاختند  ** خویشتن را پیش او انداختند 
  • Several men rushed forward, like Fidá’ís (desperate assassins), and flung themselves into combat with him.

  • هر یکی را او بگرزی می‌فکند  ** سر نگوسار اندر اقدام سمند 
  • He felled each of them with a blow of his mace (so that they were hurled) headlong at the feet of his steed.

  • داده بودش صنع حق جمعیتی  ** که همی‌زد یک تنه بر امتی 
  • God's (creative) action had bestowed on him such a collectedness that he was attacking a (whole) people single-handed.

  • چشم من چون دید روی آن قباد  ** کثرت اعداد از چشمم فتاد  3040
  • When mine eye beheld the face of that (spiritual) emperor, (all) plurality vanished from my sight.”

  • اختران بسیار و خورشید ار یکیست  ** پیش او بنیاد ایشان مندکیست 
  • The stars are many; though the sun is one, (yet) on his appearance their foundation is demolished.

  • گر هزاران موش پیش آرند سر  ** گربه را نه ترس باشد نه حذر 
  • If a thousand mice put forth their heads, the cat feels no fear or apprehension of danger.

  • کی به پیش آیند موشان ای فلان  ** نیست جمعیت درون جانشان 
  • How should mice advance (to the attack), O such-and-such? They have no collectedness in their souls.

  • هست جمعیت به صورتها فشار  ** جمع معنی خواه هین از کردگار 
  • The collectedness (that consists) in outward forms is a vain thing: hark, beg from the Creator collectedness of spirit.

  • نیست جمعیت ز بسیاری جسم  ** جسم را بر باد قایم دان چو اسم  3045
  • Collectedness is not the result of bodily multitude: know that body, like name, is built on (empty) air.

  • در دل موش ار بدی جمعیتی  ** جمع گشتی چند موش از حمیتی 
  • If there were any collectedness in the heart of the mouse, a number of mice would be collected (united) by a feeling of indignation,

  • بر زدندی چون فدایی حمله‌ای  ** خویش را بر گربه‌ی بی‌مهله‌ای 
  • And, rushing up like assassins, they would throw themselves on a cat without (giving her) any respite.

  • آن یکی چشمش بکندی از ضراب  ** وان دگر گوشش دریدی هم به ناب 
  • One would tear out her eyes in conflict (with her), while another would rip her ears with its teeth,

  • وان دگر سوراخ کردی پهلوش  ** از جماعت گم شدی بیرون شوش 
  • And another make a hole in her side: there would be no way of escape for her from the united party.

  • لیک جمعیت ندارد جان موش  ** بجهد از جانش به بانگ گربه هوش  3050
  • But the soul of the mouse has no collectedness: at the miaul of a cat (all) its wits fly out of its soul.

  • خشک گردد موش زان گربه‌ی عیار  ** گر بود اعداد موشان صد هزار 
  • The mouse is paralysed by the wily cat, (even) if the numbers of the mice amount to a hundred thousand.

  • از رمه‌ی انبه چه غم قصاب را  ** انبهی هش چه بندد خواب را 
  • What cares the butcher for the numerous flock (of sheep)? How can abundance of consciousness prevent (the approach of) slumber?

  • مالک الملک است جمعیت دهد  ** شیر را تا بر گله‌ی گوران جهد 
  • He (God) is the Lord of the kingdom: He gives collectedness to the lion, so that he springs on the herd of onagers.