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  • ور بشد اندر تردد صد دله ** یک زمان شکرستش و سالی گله
  • Or if he does become (such), (he is) always changing and shifting in vacillation: he gives thanks (to God) for one moment and utters complaints for a year.

  • پای پیش و پای پس در راه دین ** می‌نهد با صد تردد بی یقین 2355
  • He steps forward and backwards in the Way of the Religion with a hundred vacillations and without (any) certainty.

  • وام‌دار شرح اینم نک گرو ** ور شتابستت ز الم نشرح شنو
  • I am owing (you) the exposition of this. Lo, (you have received) the pledge; and if you are in haste, hear (the complete exposition) from (the Súra beginning with the words) Have not We opened….?

  • چون ندارد شرح این معنی کران ** خر به سوی مدعی گاو ران
  • Since the explanation of this subject has no end, proceed to (speak of) the litigant (who claimed redress on account) of the cow.

  • گفت کورم خواند زین جرم آن دغا ** بس بلیسانه قیاسست ای خدا
  • He (the man who killed the cow) said, “The impostor has called me blind because of (my having committed) this crime: O God, ‘tis a very Satanic inference (of his).

  • من دعا کورانه کی می‌کرده‌ام ** جز به خالق کدیه کی آورده‌ام
  • When have I been praying in the fashion of the blind? When have I begged of any one except the Creator?

  • کور از خلقان طمع دارد ز جهل ** من ز تو کز تست هر دشوار سهل 2360
  • The blind man in his ignorance hath hope of (Thy) creatures; (but) I (have hope) of Thee (alone), by whom every difficult thing is (made) easy.

  • آن یکی کورم ز کوران بشمرید ** او نیاز جان و اخلاصم ندید
  • That blind fellow has reckoned me amongst the blind: he has not seen my soul’s humble supplication and my entire devotion (to Thee).

  • کوری عشقست این کوری من ** حب یعمی و یصمست ای حسن
  • This blindness of mine is the blindness of love: it is (a case of) ‘Love makes one blind and deaf,’ O Hasan.

  • کورم از غیر خدا بینا بدو ** مقتضای عشق این باشد نکو
  • I am blind to aught other than God, I am (made) seeing by Him: if this is be what Love demands, 'tis well.

  • تو که بینایی ز کورانم مدار ** دایرم برگرد لطفت ای مدار
  • Do not Thou (O God), who art seeing, deem me to be one of the blind: I am revolving round Thy grace, O Axis (of all).

  • آنچنانک یوسف صدیق را ** خواب بنمودی و گشتش متکا 2365
  • Just as Thou didst show a dream to the veracious Joseph, and it became a support to him,

  • مر مرا لطف تو هم خوابی نمود ** آن دعای بی‌حدم بازی نبود
  • To me too Thy grace showed a dream: that endless prayer of mine was not an idle play.

  • می‌نداند خلق اسرار مرا ** ژاژ می‌دانند گفتار مرا
  • (Thy) creatures do not understand my hidden thoughts and they regard my words as drivel.

  • حقشان است و کی داند راز غیب ** غیر علام سر و ستار عیب
  • They have the right (to do so), for who knows the mystery of the Unseen save the Knower of secrets and the Coverer of faults?”

  • خصم گفتش رو به من کن حق بگو ** رو چه سوی آسمان کردی عمو
  • His adversary said to him, “Turn your face to me! Tell the truth! Why have you turned your face towards Heaven, uncle?

  • شید می‌آری غلط می‌افکنی ** لاف عشق و لاف قربت می‌زنی 2370
  • You are employing fraud, you are casting error (suggesting falsehood) : you are prating of love and nearness (to God).

  • با کدامین روی چون دل‌مرده‌ای ** روی سوی آسمانها کرده‌ای
  • Inasmuch as you are spiritually dead, with what face have you turned your face towards the heavens?”

  • غلغلی در شهر افتاده ازین ** آن مسلمان می‌نهد رو بر زمین
  • On this account an uproar arose in the city, (while) that Moslem laid his face (flat) on the ground.

  • کای خدا این بنده را رسوا مکن ** گر بدم هم سر من پیدا مکن
  • Crying, “O God, do not put this servant (of Thine) to shame: if I am wicked, yet do not divulge my secret.

  • تو همی‌دانی و شبهای دراز ** که همی‌خواندم ترا با صد نیاز
  • Thou knowest (the truth), and the long nights (know it) during which I was calling unto Thee with a hundred supplications.

  • پیش خلق این را اگر خود قدر نیست ** پیش تو همچون چراغ روشنیست 2375
  • Albeit this (supplication) has no worth in the sight of the people, in Thy sight it is like a shining lamp.”

  • شنیدن داود علیه السلام سخن هر دو خصم وسال کردن از مدعی علیه
  • How David, on whom be peace, heard what both the litigants had to say, and interrogated the defendant.

  • چونک داود نبی آمد برون ** گفت هین چونست این احوال چون
  • When the prophet David came forth, he asked, "What is all this about? What is the matter?"

  • مدعی گفت ای نبی الله داد ** گاو من در خانه او در فتاد
  • The plaintiff said, “O prophet of God, (give me) justice! My cow strayed into his house.

  • کشت گاوم را بپرسش که چرا ** گاو من کشت او بیان کن ماجرا
  • He killed my cow. Ask him why he killed my cow, and (bid him) explain what happened.”

  • گفت داودش بگو ای بوالکرم ** چون تلف کردی تو ملک محترم
  • David said to him (the poor man), “Speak, O noble one! How did you destroy the property of this honourable person?

  • هین پراکنده مگو حجت بیار ** تا به یک سو گردد این دعوی و کار 2380
  • Take care! Do not talk incoherently, (but) bring forward (your) plea, in order that this claim and cause may be (settled and) laid aside.”

  • گفت ای داود بودم هفت سال ** روز و شب اندر دعا و در سال
  • He said, “O David, for seven years I was (engaged) day and night in invocation and entreaty.

  • این همی‌جستم ز یزدان کای خدا ** روزیی خواهم حلال و بی عنا
  • This (is what) I was seeking from God: ‘O God, (I said), I want a means of livelihood (that will be) lawful and without trouble (on my part).’

  • مرد و زن بر ناله من واقف‌اند ** کودکان این ماجرا را واصف‌اند
  • (Both) men and women are acquainted with my lamentation; the children (can) describe this happening.

  • تو بپرس از هر که خواهی این خبر ** تا بگوید بی شکنجه بی ضرر
  • Ask whomsoever thou wilt for information about this, so that he may tell (thee) without torture and without (suffering) harm.

  • هم هویدا پرس و هم پنهان ز خلق ** که چه می‌گفت این گدای ژنده‌دلق 2385
  • Inquire of the people both and secretly what this beggar with the tattered cloak used to say.

  • بعد این جمله دعا و این فغان ** گاوی اندر خانه دیدم ناگهان
  • After all this invocation and outcry, suddenly I saw a cow in my house.

  • چشم من تاریک شد نه بهر لوت ** شادی آن که قبول آمد قنوت
  • My eye became dim, not on account of the food, (but) for joy that the supplication had been accepted.

  • کشتم آن را تا دهم در شکر آن ** که دعای من شنود آن غیب‌دان
  • I killed her that I might give (alms) in thankfulness that He who knoweth things unseen had hearkened to my prayer.”

  • حکم کردن داود علیه السلام برکشنده‌ی گاو
  • How David, on whom be peace, gave judgement against the slayer of the cow.

  • گفت داود این سخنها را بشو ** حجت شرعی درین دعوی بگو
  • David said, “Wipe out these words and declare (set forth) a legal plea in this dispute.

  • تو روا داری که من بی حجتی ** بنهم اندر شهر باطل سنتی 2390
  • Do you deem it allowable that, without any (such) plea, I should establish a wring ordinance in the city?

  • این کی بخشیدت خریدی وارثی ** ریع را چون می‌ستانی حارثی
  • Who gave you this (cow)? Did you buy or inherit her? How will you take the crop? Are you the farmer?

  • کسب را همچون زراعت دان عمو ** تا نکاری دخل نبود آن تو
  • Know, uncle, that the acquisition (of property) is like agriculture: unless you sow (the land), the produce does not belong to you;

  • آنچ کاری بدروی آن آن تست ** ورنه این بی‌داد بر تو شد درست
  • For you reap what you sow: that is yours. Otherwise, this act of injustice is proved against you.

  • رو بده مال مسلمان کژ مگو ** رو بجو وام و بده باطل مجو
  • Go, pay the Moslem’s money, and don’t speak falsely. Go, try to borrow (the money), and pay (it to him), and don’t seek (to do) wrong.”

  • گفت ای شه تو همین می‌گوییم ** که همی‌گویند اصحاب ستم 2395
  • “O King,” he replied, “thou art saying to me the same thing as the oppressors say.”

  • تضرع آن شخص از داوری داود علیه السلام
  • How that person earnestly appealed (to God) against the judgement of David, on whom be peace.

  • سجده کرد و گفت کای دانای سوز ** در دل داود انداز آن فروز
  • He prostrated himself and said, “O Thou who knowest (my inward) ardour, cast that flame into the heart of David!

  • در دلش نه آنچ تو اندر دلم ** اندر افکندی براز ای مفضلم
  • Put in his heart that which Thou hast secretly let fall into mine, O my Benefactor!”

  • این بگفت و گریه در شد های های ** تا دل داود بیرون شد ز جای
  • He said this and began to weep with loud cries of lamentation, so that David’s heart was moved exceedingly’.

  • گفت هین امروز ای خواهان گاو ** مهلتم ده وین دعاوی را مکاو
  • “Hark,” said he, “O demander of (redress on account of) the cow, give me a respite to-day and do not search into these matters of dispute,

  • تا روم من سوی خلوت در نماز ** پرسم این احوال از دانای راز 2400
  • So that I may go to a solitary place and ask the Knower of mysteries about these matters, (whilst I am engaged) in prayer.

  • خوی دارم در نماز این التفات ** معنی قرة عینی فی الصلوة
  • During prayer I am accustomed to turn thus (to God): (that is) the meaning of (the words of the Tradition), ‘the delight I feel in the ritual prayer

  • روزن جانم گشادست از صفا ** می‌رسد بی واسطه نامه‌ی خدا
  • The window of my soul is opened, and from the purity (of the Unseen World) the Book of God comes (to me) without intermediary.

  • نامه و باران و نور از روزنم ** می‌فتد در خانه‌ام از معدنم
  • The Book and the rain (of Divine grace) and the Light are falling through my window into my house from my (real and original) source.’’