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  • مر مروت را نهاده زیر پا ** گشته زندان دوزخی ز آن نان ربا
  • He (the insolvent) had trodden virtue underfoot; the prison had become a hell on account of that robber of bread.

  • گر گریزی بر امید راحتی ** ز آن طرف هم پیشت آید آفتی‏ 590
  • If you flee in hope of some relief, on that side also a calamity comes to meet you.

  • هیچ کنجی بی‏دد و بی‏دام نیست ** جز به خلوت‏گاه حق آرام نیست‏
  • No corner is without wild beasts; there is no rest but in the place where you are alone with God.

  • کنج زندان جهان ناگزیر ** نیست بی‏پا مزد و بی‏دق الحصیر
  • The corner (narrow cell) of this world's inevitable prison is not exempt from the charges for visitors and (the cost of) housewarming.

  • و الله ار سوراخ موشی در روی ** مبتلای گربه چنگالی شوی‏
  • By God, if you go into a mouse-hole, you will be afflicted by some one who has the claws of a cat.

  • آدمی را فربهی هست از خیال ** گر خیالاتش بود صاحب جمال‏
  • Man has fatness from (thrives on) fancy, if his fancies are beautiful;

  • ور خیالاتش نماید ناخوشی ** می‏گدازد همچو موم از آتشی‏ 595
  • And if his fancies show anything unlovely he melts away as wax (is melted) by a fire.

  • در میان مار و کژدم گر ترا ** با خیالات خوشان دارد خدا
  • If amidst snakes and scorpions God keep you with the fancies of them that are (spiritually) fair,

  • مار و کژدم مر ترا مونس بود ** کان خیالت کیمیای مس بود
  • The snakes and scorpions will be friendly to you, because that fancy is the elixir which transmutes your copper (into gold).

  • صبر شیرین از خیال خوش شده ست ** کان خیالات فرج پیش آمده ست‏
  • Patience is sweetened by fair fancy, since (in that case) the fancies of relief (from pain) have come before (the mind).

  • آن فرج آید ز ایمان در ضمیر ** ضعف ایمان ناامیدی و زحیر
  • That relief comes into the heart from faith: weakness of faith is despair and torment.

  • صبر از ایمان بیابد سر کله ** حیث لا صبر فلا إیمان له‏ 600
  • Patience gains a crown from faith: where one hath no patience, he hath no faith.

  • گفت پیغمبر خداش ایمان نداد ** هر که را صبری نباشد در نهاد
  • The Prophet said, “God has not given faith to any one in whose nature there is no patience.”

  • آن یکی در چشم تو باشد چو مار ** هم وی اندر چشم آن دیگر نگار
  • That same one (who) in your eyes is like a snake is a picture (of beauty) in the eyes of another,

  • ز انکه در چشمت خیال کفر اوست ** و آن خیال مومنی در چشم دوست‏
  • Because in your eyes is the fancy of his being an infidel, while in the eyes of his friend is the fancy of his being a (true) believer;

  • کاندر این یک شخص هر دو فعل هست ** گاه ماهی باشد او و گاه شست‏
  • For both the effects (belief and unbelief) exist in this one person: now he is a fish and now a hook.

  • نیم او مومن بود نیمیش گبر ** نیم او حرص آوری نیمیش صبر 605
  • Half of him is believer, half of him infidel; half of him cupidity, half of him patience (and abstinence).

  • گفت یزدانت فمنکم مومن ** باز منکم کافر گبر کهن‏
  • Your God has said, “(Some) of you (are) believing”; (and) again, “(Some) of you (are) unbelieving” (as) an old fire-worshipper.

  • همچو گاوی نیمه‏ی چپش سیاه ** نیمه‏ی دیگر سپید همچو ماه‏
  • (He is) like an ox, his left half black, the other half white as the moon.

  • هر که این نیمه ببیند رد کند ** هر که آن نیمه ببیند کد کند
  • Whoever sees the former half spurns (him); whoever sees the latter half seeks (after him).

  • یوسف اندر چشم اخوان چون ستور ** هم وی اندر چشم یعقوبی چو حور
  • Joseph was like a beast of burden in the eyes of his brethren; at the same time in the eyes of a Jacob he was like a houri.

  • از خیال بد مر او را زشت دید ** چشم فرع و چشم اصلی ناپدید 610
  • Through evil fancy the (bodily) derivative eye and the original unseen eye (of the mind) regarded him (Joseph) as ugly.

  • چشم ظاهر سایه‏ی آن چشم دان ** هر چه آن بیند بگردد این بد آن‏
  • Know that the outward eye is the shadow of that (inward) eye: whatever that (inward) eye may see, this (outward) eye turns to that (eye).

  • تو مکانی اصل تو در لامکان ** این دکان بر بند و بگشا آن دکان‏
  • You are of where, (but) your origin is in Nowhere: shut up this shop and open that shop.

  • شش جهت مگریز زیرا در جهات ** ششدره است و ششدره مات است مات‏
  • Do not flee to the (world of the) six directions, because in directions there is the shashdara, and the shashdara is mate, mate.

  • شکایت کردن اهل زندان پیش وکیل قاضی از دست آن مفلس
  • How the prisoners laid a complaint of the insolvent's high-handedness before the agent of the Cadi.

  • با وکیل قاضی ادراک‏مند ** اهل زندان در شکایت آمدند
  • The prisoners came to complain to the Cadi's agent, (who was) possessed of discernment,

  • که سلام ما به قاضی بر کنون ** باز گو آزار ما زین مرد دون‏ 615
  • Saying, “Take now our salutations to the Cadi and relate (to him) the sufferings inflicted on us by this vile man;

  • کاندر این زندان بماند او مستمر ** یاوه تاز و طبل‏خوار است و مضر
  • For he has remained in this prison continuously, and he is an idle gad-about, a lickspittle, and a nuisance.

  • چون مگس حاضر شود در هر طعام ** از وقاحت بی‏صلا و بی‏سلام‏
  • Like a fly, he impudently appears at every meal without invitation and without salaam.

  • پیش او هیچ است لوت شصت کس ** کر کند خود را اگر گوییش بس‏
  • To him the food of sixty persons is nothing; he feigns himself deaf if you say to him, ‘Enough!’

  • مرد زندان را نیاید لقمه‏ای ** ور به صد حیلت گشاید طعمه‏ای‏
  • No morsel reaches the (ordinary) man in prison, or if by means of a hundred contrivances he discover some food,

  • در زمان پیش آید آن دوزخ گلو ** حجتش این که خدا گفتا کلوا 620
  • That hell-throat at once comes forward (with) this (as) his argument, that God has said, ‘Eat ye.’

  • زین چنین قحط سه ساله داد داد ** ظل مولانا ابد پاینده باد
  • Justice, justice against such a three years' famine! May the shadow of our lord endure for ever!

  • یا ز زندان تا رود این گاومیش ** یا وظیفه کن ز وقفی لقمه‏ایش‏
  • Either let this buffalo go from prison, or make him a regular allowance of food from a trust-fund.

  • ای ز تو خوش هم ذکور و هم اناث ** داد کن المستغاث المستغاث‏
  • O thou by whom both males and females are (made) happy, do justice! Thy help is invoked and besought.”

  • سوی قاضی شد وکیل با نمک ** گفت با قاضی شکایت یک به یک‏
  • The courteous agent went to the Cadi and related the complaint to him point by point.

  • خواند او را قاضی از زندان به پیش ** پس تفحص کرد از اعیان خویش‏ 625
  • The Cadi called him (the insolvent) from the prison into his presence, and (then) inquired (about him) from his own officers.

  • گشت ثابت پیش قاضی آن همه ** که نمودند از شکایت آن رمه‏
  • All the complaints which that flock (of prisoners) had set forth were proved to the Cadi.

  • گفت قاضی خیز از این زندان برو ** سوی خانه‏ی مرده‏ریگ خویش شو
  • The Cadi said (to him), “Get up and depart from this prison: go to the house which is your inherited property.”

  • گفت خان و مان من احسان تست ** همچو کافر جنتم زندان تست‏
  • He replied, “My house and home consist in thy beneficence; as (in the case of) an infidel, thy prison is my Paradise.

  • گر ز زندانم برانی تو به رد ** خود بمیرم من ز تقصیری و کد
  • If thou wilt drive me from the prison and turn me out, verily I shall die of destitution and beggary.”

  • همچو ابلیسی که می‏گفت ای سلام ** رب أنظرنی إلی یوم القیام‏ 630
  • (He pleaded) like the Devil, who was saying, “O Preserver, O my Lord, grant me a respite till the day of Resurrection;

  • کاندر این زندان دنیا من خوشم ** تا که دشمن زادگان را می‏کشم‏
  • For I am happy (to be) in the prison of this world, in order that I may be slaying the children of mine enemy,

  • هر که او را قوت ایمانی بود ** و ز برای زاد ره نانی بود
  • (And), if any one have some food of faith and a single loaf as provision for the journey (to the life hereafter),

  • می‏ستانم گه به مکر و گه به ریو ** تا بر آرند از پشیمانی غریو
  • I may seize it, now by plot and now by guile, so that in repentance they may raise an outcry (of lamentation);

  • گه به درویشی کنم تهدیدشان ** گه به زلف و خال بندم دیدشان‏
  • (And in order that) sometimes I may threaten them with poverty, sometimes bind their eyes with (the spell of) tress and mole.”

  • قوت ایمانی در این زندان کم است ** وان که هست از قصد این سگ در خم است‏ 635
  • In this prison (the world) the food of faith is scarce, and that which exists is in (danger of being caught in) the noose (of destruction) through the attack of this cur.

  • از نماز و صوم و صد بی‏چارگی ** قوت ذوق آید برد یک بارگی‏
  • (If) from prayer and fasting and a hundred helplessnesses (utter self-abnegations) the food of spiritual feeling come (to any one), he (the Devil) at once carries it off.

  • أستعیذ الله من شیطانه ** قد هلکنا آه من طغیانه‏
  • I seek refuge with God from His Satan: we have perished, alas, through his overweening disobedience.

  • یک سگ است و در هزاران می‏رود ** هر که در وی رفت او او می‏شود
  • He is (but) one cur, and he goes into thousands (of people): into whomsoever he goes, he (that person) becomes he (Satan).