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1830-1879

  • چون اساس خانه‏ای می‏افگنند ** اولین بنیاد را بر می‏کنند 1830
  • When they lay the foundation of a house (to rebuild it), they dig up the first foundation.

  • گل بر آرند اول از قعر زمین ** تا به آخر بر کشی ماء معین‏
  • (Also), people first fetch up clay from the depths of the earth in order that at last you may draw up flowing water.

  • از حجامت کودکان گریند زار ** که نمی‏دانند ایشان سر کار
  • Children weep piteously at cupping, for they know not the secret of the matter;

  • مرد خود زر می‏دهد حجام را ** می‏نوازد نیش خون آشام را
  • (But) a man, in sooth, gives the cupper gold and fondles the blood-drinking lancet.

  • می‏دود حمال زی بار گران ** می‏رباید بار را از دیگران‏
  • The porter runs to the heavy load: he snatches the load from others.

  • جنگ حمالان برای بار بین ** این چنین است اجتهاد کار بین‏ 1835
  • Behold the struggle of the porters for the load! Such is the endeavour of him that sees (the truth of) things,

  • چون گرانیها اساس راحت است ** تلخها هم پیشوای نعمت است‏
  • Inasmuch as burdens are the foundation of ease, and bitter things, too, are the forerunners of enjoyment.

  • حفت الجنة بمکروهاتنا ** حفت النیران من شهواتنا
  • Paradise is compassed about with the things we dislike (to do); the fires (of Hell) are compassed about with our lusts.

  • تخم مایه‏ی آتشت شاخ تر است ** سوخته‏ی آتش قرین کوثر است‏
  • The seed (source) of the substance of your fire (of torment) is the fresh bough (of lust); (but) he that is burned by the fire (of renunciation) is the comrade of Kawthar.

  • هر که در زندان قرین محنتی است ** آن جزای لقمه‏ای و شهوتی است‏
  • Whosoever is the comrade of affliction in prison—that is the retribution for a mouthful (of unlawful food) and a lust.

  • هر که در قصری قرین دولتی است ** آن جزای کارزار و محنتی است‏ 1840
  • Whosoever is the comrade of a high fortune in a palace— that is the reward for some battle-field and sore trial.

  • هر که را دیدی به زر و سیم فرد ** دان که اندر کسب کردن صبر کرد
  • Whomsoever you have seen unrivalled in (his store of) gold and silver—know that he has been patient in earning.

  • بی‏سبب بیند چو دیده شد گذار ** تو که در حسی سبب را گوش دار
  • When the (spiritual) eye has become piercing, he (the owner) sees without causes. You who are in (the bondage of) sense-perception, pay you heed to causes!

  • آن که بیرون از طبایع جان اوست ** منصب خرق سببها آن اوست‏
  • He whose spirit is beyond (the world of) natural properties— to him belongs the position of power to rive (the chain of) causes.

  • بی‏سبب بیند نه از آب و گیا ** چشم چشمه‏ی معجزات انبیا
  • The (spiritual) eye regards the fountain of the miracles of the prophets as (being) without cause, not as (arising) from water and herbage.

  • این سبب همچون طبیب است و علیل ** این سبب همچون چراغ است و فتیل‏ 1845
  • These causes are (linked together) like the physician and the sick: these causes are like the lamp and the wick.

  • شب چراغت را فتیل نو بتاب ** پاک دان زینها چراغ آفتاب‏
  • Twist a new wick for your night-lamp, (but) know that the lamp of the sun transcends these things.

  • رو تو کهگل ساز بهر سقف خان ** سقف گردون را ز کهگل پاک دان‏
  • Go you and make plaster for the roof of your house, (but) know that the roof of the sky is undefiled by plaster.

  • اه که چون دل دار ما غم سوز شد ** خلوت شب در گذشت و روز شد
  • Alas that, after our Sweetheart had burned (utterly destroyed) our pain, the night-time of being alone (with Him) passed away and became day!

  • جز به شب جلوه نباشد ماه را ** جز به درد دل مجو دل خواه را
  • Except at night there is no unveiling of the moon: except through heartache do not seek your heart's desire.

  • ترک عیسی کرده خر پرورده‏ای ** لاجرم چون خر برون پرده‏ای‏ 1850
  • Forsaking Jesus, you have fostered the ass: of necessity, like the ass, you are outside of the curtain.

  • طالع عیسی است علم و معرفت ** طالع خر نیست ای تو خر صفت‏
  • Knowledge and gnosis are the fortune of Jesus; they are not the fortune of the ass, O you asinine one!

  • ناله‏ی خر بشنوی رحم آیدت ** پس ندانی خر خری فرمایدت‏
  • You listen to the moaning of the ass, and pity comes over you; then you know not (that) the ass commands you to be asinine.

  • رحم بر عیسی کن و بر خر مکن ** طبع را بر عقل خود سرور مکن‏
  • Have pity on Jesus and have no pity on the ass: do not make the (carnal) nature lord over your intellect.

  • طبع را هل تا بگرید زار زار ** تو از او بستان و وام جان گزار
  • Let the (carnal) nature weep sore and bitterly: do you take from it and pay the debt of the (rational) soul.

  • سالها خربنده بودی بس بود ** ز انکه خربنده ز خر واپس بود 1855
  • For years you have been the ass's slave. It is enough, for the ass's slave is behind (even) the ass.

  • ز اخروهن مرادش نفس تست ** کاو به آخر باید و عقلت نخست‏
  • The thing meant by (the Prophet's words) “put them (the women) behind” is your fleshly soul; for it must be last, and your intellect (must be) first.

  • هم مزاج خر شده ست این عقل پست ** فکرش این که چون علف آرم بدست‏
  • This base intellect has become of the same temperament as the ass: its (only) thought is how it shall get hold of fodder.

  • آن خر عیسی مزاج دل گرفت ** در مقام عاقلان منزل گرفت‏
  • The ass of Jesus took (to itself) the temperament of the (rational) spirit: it took its abode in the place of the intelligent,

  • ز انکه غالب عقل بود و خر ضعیف ** از سوار زفت گردد خر نحیف‏
  • Because (in Jesus) intellect was ruling, and the ass (was) weak —the ass is made lean by a strong rider—

  • و ز ضعیفی عقل تو ای خر بها ** این خر پژمرده گشته ست اژدها 1860
  • While from the weakness of your intellect, O you who have (no more than) the value of an ass, this worn-out ass has become a dragon.

  • گر ز عیسی گشته‏ای رنجور دل ** هم از او صحت رسد او را مهل‏
  • If through Jesus (the spiritual guide) you have become heart-sick, (yet) health too comes from him: do not leave him.

  • چونی ای عیسای عیسی دم ز رنج ** که نبود اندر جهان بی‏مار گنج‏
  • How art thou as to affliction, O thou Jesus who hast the (healing) breath of Jesus? For there never was in the world a treasure without a snake.

  • چونی ای عیسی ز دیدار جهود ** چونی ای یوسف ز مکار حسود
  • How art thou, O Jesus, at the sight of the Jews? How art thou, O Joseph, in respect of the envious plotter?

  • تو شب و روز از پی این قوم غمر ** چون شب و روزی مدد بخشای عمر
  • Night and day for the sake of this foolish people thou, like night and day, art a replenisher of life.

  • چونی از صفراییان بی‏هنر ** چه هنر زاید ز صفرا درد سر 1865
  • How art thou in regard to those bilious ones who are without excellence? What excellence is born from bile? Headache.

  • تو همان کن که کند خورشید شرق ** ما نفاق و حیله و دزدی و زرق‏
  • Do thou the same thing as the sun of the east does: we are hypocrisy and craft and thieving and dissimulation.

  • تو عسل ما سرکه در دنیا و دین ** دفع این صفرا بود سرکنگبین‏
  • Thou art honey, we are vinegar in (the affairs of) this world and in religion; the (means of) removing this bile is oxymel.

  • سرکه افزودیم ما قوم زحیر ** تو عسل بفزا کرم را وامگیر
  • We folk who suffer from colic have added more and more vinegar; do thou add more and more honey, withhold not thy bounty.

  • این سزید از ما چنان آمد ز ما ** ریگ اندر چشم چه فزاید عما
  • This was meet in us; such (acts naturally) issued from us: what is increased by sand in the eye? Blindness.

  • آن سزد از تو أیا کحل عزیز ** که بیابد از تو هر ناچیز چیز 1870
  • (But) ’tis meet in thee, O precious collyrium, that every nothing should gain from thee something.

  • ز آتش این ظالمانت دل کباب ** از تو جمله اهد قومی بد خطاب‏
  • Thy heart is roasted by the fire of these unrighteous men, (yet) all thy appeal (to God) has been, “Guide my people!”

  • کان عودی در تو گر آتش زنند ** این جهان از عطر و ریحان آگنند
  • Thou art a mine of aloes-wood: if they set thee afire, they will fill this world with otto of roses and sweet basil.

  • تو نه آن عودی کز آتش کم شود ** تو نه آن روحی که اسیر غم شود
  • Thou art not that aloes-wood that is minished by the fire: thou art not that spirit that is made captive by grief.

  • عود سوزد کان عود از سوز دور ** باد کی حمله برد بر اصل نور
  • Aloes-wood burns, (but) the mine of aloes-wood is far from burning: how should the wind (of evil words) assail the source of (spiritual) light?

  • ای ز تو مر آسمانها را صفا ** ای جفای تو نکوتر از وفا 1875
  • Oh, ’tis from thee the heavens have (their) purity; oh, thy unkindness is better than kindness,

  • ز انکه از عاقل جفایی گر رود ** از وفای جاهلان آن به بود
  • Because if an unkindness come from the wise it is better than the kindness of the ignorant.

  • گفت پیغمبر عداوت از خرد ** بهتر از مهری که از جاهل رسد
  • The Prophet said, “Enmity (proceeding) from wisdom is better than the love that comes from a fool.”

  • رنجانیدن امیری خفته‏ای را که مار در دهانش رفته بود
  • How an Amír harassed a sleeping man into whose mouth a snake had gone.

  • عاقلی بر اسب می‏آمد سوار ** در دهان خفته‏ای می‏رفت مار
  • A wise man was riding along (at the moment when) a snake was going into the mouth of a man asleep.

  • آن سوار آن را بدید و می‏شتافت ** تا رماند مار را فرصت نیافت‏
  • The rider saw that, and was hurrying to scare away the snake, (but) he got no chance (of doing so).