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  • مرگ هر یک ای پسر همرنگ اوست ** پیش دشمن دشمن و بر دوست دوست
  • Every one's death is of the same quality as himself, my lad: to the enemy (of God) an enemy, and to the friend (of God) a friend.
  • پیش ترک آیینه را خوش رنگیست ** پیش زنگی آینه هم زنگیست 3440
  • In the eyes of the Turcoman the mirror hath a fair colour; similarly in the eyes of the Ethiopian the mirror is (dark as) an Ethiopian.
  • آنک می‌ترسی ز مرگ اندر فرار ** آن ز خود ترسانی ای جان هوش دار
  • Your fear of death in fleeing (from it) is (really) your fear of yourself. Take heed, O (dear) soul!
  • روی زشت تست نه رخسار مرگ ** جان تو همچون درخت و مرگ برگ
  • ’Tis your (own) ugly face, not the visage of Death: your spirit is like the tree, and death (is like) the leaf.
  • از تو رستست ار نکویست ار بدست ** ناخوش و خوش هر ضمیرت از خودست
  • It has grown from you, whether it is good or evil: every hidden thought of yours, foul or fair, is (born) from yourself.
  • گر بخاری خسته‌ای خود کشته‌ای ** ور حریر و قزدری خود رشته‌ای
  • If you are wounded by a thorn, you yourself have sown; and if you are (clad) in satin and silk, you yourself have spun.
  • دانک نبود فعل همرنگ جزا ** هیچ خدمت نیست همرنگ عطا 3445
  • Know that the act is not of the same complexion as the requital: the service is nowise of the same complexion as the payment given (in return for it).
  • مزد مزدوران نمی‌ماند بکار ** کان عرض وین جوهرست و پایدار
  • The labourers' wage does not resemble the work, inasmuch as the latter is the accident, while the former is the substance and permanent.
  • آن همه سختی و زورست و عرق ** وین همه سیمست و زرست و طبق
  • The former is wholly hardship and effort and sweat, while the latter is wholly silver and gold and trays (of food).
  • گر ترا آید ز جایی تهمتی ** کرد مظلومت دعا در محنتی
  • If suspicion fall upon you from some quarter, (the reason is that) the person whom you wronged has invoked (God) against you in an affliction (which you have brought upon him).
  • تو همی‌گویی که من آزاده‌ام ** بر کسی من تهمتی ننهاده‌ام
  • You say, “I am free (from guilt): I have not laid suspicion on any one.”
  • تو گناهی کرده‌ای شکل دگر ** دانه کشتی دانه کی ماند به بر 3450
  • (No; but) you have committed another form of sin; you sowed the seed: how should the seed resemble the fruit?
  • او زنا کرد و جزا صد چوب بود ** گوید او من کی زدم کس را بعود
  • He (the celibate) committed adultery, and the penalty was a hundred blows with the stick. “When,” says he, “did I strike any one with wood?”
  • نه جزای آن زنا بود این بلا ** چوب کی ماند زنا را در خلا
  • Was not this infliction the penalty for that adultery? How should the stick resemble adultery (committed) in secret?
  • مار کی ماند عصا را ای کلیم ** درد کی ماند دوا را ای حکیم
  • How should the serpent resemble the rod, O Kalím (Moses)? How should the pain resemble the remedy, O doctor?
  • تو به جای آن عصا آب منی ** چون بیفکندی شد آن شخص سنی
  • When you, instead of (casting down) the rod, semen ejecisti (in uterum), that (semen) became (eventually) a fine (human) figure. [When you, instead of (casting down) the rod, ejaculate seminal fluid (into a uterus), that (semen) became (eventually) a fine (human) figure.]
  • یار شد یا مار شد آن آب تو ** زان عصا چونست این اعجاب تو 3455
  • That semen of yours became a friend (to you) or (like) a (noxious) serpent: why (then) is this astonishment at the rod (of Moses) on your part?
  • هیچ ماند آب آن فرزند را ** هیچ ماند نیشکر مر قند را
  • Does the semen at all resemble that child? Does the sugar-cane at all resemble the candy?
  • چون سجودی یا رکوعی مرد کشت ** شد در آن عالم سجود او بهشت
  • When a man has sown a prostration (in prayer) or a genuflexion, in yonder world his prostration becomes Paradise.
  • چونک پرید از دهانش حمد حق ** مرغ جنت ساختش رب الفلق
  • When praise of God has flown from his mouth, the Lord of the daybreak fashions it into a bird of Paradise.
  • حمد و تسبیحت نماند مرغ را ** گرچه نطفه‌ی مرغ بادست و هوا
  • Your praise and glorification does not resemble the bird, though the bird's semen is (naught but) wind and air.
  • چون ز دستت رست ایثار و زکات ** گشت این دست آن طرف نخل و نبات 3460
  • When altruism and almsgiving have grown up (proceeded) from your hand, (the act of) this (generous) hand becomes on yonder side (in the world hereafter) date-palms and (fresh) herbage.
  • آب صبرت جوی آب خلد شد ** جوی شیر خلد مهر تست و ود
  • The water (semen), (namely) your renunciation, became a river of water in Paradise; your love and affection (for God) is a river of milk in Paradise.
  • ذوق طاعت گشت جوی انگبین ** مستی و شوق تو جوی خمر بین
  • Delight in devotion became a river of honey; behold your (spiritual) intoxication and longing as a river of wine.
  • این سببها آن اثرها را نماند ** کس نداند چونش جای آن نشاند
  • These causes did not resemble those effects: none knows how He (God) installed it (the effect) in the place of that (cause).
  • این سببها چون به فرمان تو بود ** چار جو هم مر ترا فرمان نمود
  • Since these causes were (obedient) to your command, the four rivers (of Paradise) likewise showed obedience to you.
  • هر طرف خواهی روانش می‌کنی ** آن صفت چون بد چنانش می‌کنی 3465
  • You make them flow in whatever direction you wish: (even) as that quality (of disposition) was (in this world), such do you make it (the effect) to be (in the next world),
  • چون منی تو که در فرمان تست ** نسل آن در امر تو آیند چست
  • As (for example) your semen, which is at your command— the progeny thereof are ready to (obey) your command.
  • می‌دود بر امر تو فرزند نو ** که منم جزوت که کردی‌اش گرو
  • Your young son runs (obediently) at your command, saying, “I am the part of thee which thou didst deposit (in my mother's womb).”
  • آن صفت در امر تو بود این جهان ** هم در امر تست آن جوها روان
  • That (praiseworthy) quality was (obedient) to your command in this world: likewise (in the next world) those rivers flow at your command.
  • آن درختان مر ترا فرمان‌برند ** کان درختان از صفاتت با برند
  • Those trees (of Paradise) are obedient to you, because those trees are (made) fruitful by your (good) qualities.
  • چون به امر تست اینجا این صفات ** پس در امر تست آنجا آن جزات 3470
  • Since these qualities are (obedient) to your command here, so your recompense is at your command there.
  • چون ز دستت زخم بر مظلوم رست ** آن درختی گشت ازو زقوم رست
  • When blows proceeded from your hand against the victim of injustice, they became a tree (in Hell): the Zaqqúm grew from them.
  • چون ز خشم آتش تو در دلها زدی ** مایه‌ی نار جهنم آمدی
  • When in anger you threw fire into (people's) hearts, you became the source of Hell-fire.
  • آتشت اینجا چو آدم سوز بود ** آنچ از وی زاد مرد افروز بود
  • Since here (in this world) your fire was burning mankind, that which was born of it was kindling men (in Hell).
  • آتش تو قصد مردم می‌کند ** نار کز وی زاد بر مردم زند
  • Your fire (of anger) makes an attack on the people (here): the fire that sprang from it rushes against the people (there).
  • آن سخنهای چو مار و کزدمت ** مار و کزدم گشت و می‌گیرد دمت 3475
  • Your words resembling snakes and scorpions have become snakes and scorpions and are seizing your tail (assailing you from behind).
  • اولیا را داشتی در انتظار ** انتظار رستخیزت گشت یار
  • You kept the friends (of God) waiting: (hence) you will be kept waiting at the Resurrection.
  • وعده‌ی فردا و پس‌فردای تو ** انتظار حشرت آمد وای تو
  • Your promise, “To-morrow” and “the day after to-morrow,” has become your waiting on the Day of Congregation: alas for you!
  • منتظر مانی در آن روز دراز ** در حساب و آفتاب جان‌گداز
  • You will remain waiting on that long Day, (engaged) in rendering an account (of your actions) and (standing) in the soul-consuming sun,
  • کسمان را منتظر می‌داشتی ** تخم فردا ره روم می‌کاشتی
  • Because you were wont to keep Heaven waiting and sow the seed of “I will go on the Way to-morrow.”
  • خشم تو تخم سعیر دوزخست ** هین بکش این دوزخت را کین فخست 3480
  • Your anger is the seed of Hell-fire: take heed, extinguish this Hell of yours, for this is a trap.
  • کشتن این نار نبود جز به نور ** نورک اطفا نارنا نحن الشکور
  • The extinction of this fire is not (to be effected) save by the Light: “thy light hath put out our fire, we are the grateful.”
  • گر تو بی نوری کنی حلمی بدست ** آتشت زنده‌ست و در خاکسترست
  • If you are devoid of the Light and do an act of clemency, ’tis evil: your fire (of anger) is (still) alive and is (still lurking) in the embers.
  • آن تکلف باشد و روپوش هین ** نار را نکشد به غیر نور دین
  • Beware! That (clemency) is (mere) ostentation and masking (the truth): nothing will extinguish the fire (of anger) except the Light of Religion.
  • تا نبینی نور دین آمن مباش ** کاتش پنهان شود یک روز فاش
  • Do not be secure till you behold the Light of Religion, for the hidden fire will one day become manifest.
  • نور آبی دان و هم در آب چفس ** چونک داری آب از آتش مترس 3485
  • Deem the Light to be a water, and cleave to the water withal: when you have the water, be not afraid of the fire.
  • آب آتش را کشد کتش بخو ** می‌بسوزد نسل و فرزندان او
  • The water will extinguish the fire, because the fire by its nature burns up its (the water's) progeny and children.
  • سوی آن مرغابیان رو روز چند ** تا ترا در آب حیوانی کشند
  • Go, for a while, to those water-birds, that they may lead you to the Water of Life.
  • مرغ خاکی مرغ آبی هم‌تنند ** لیک ضدانند آب و روغنند
  • The land-bird and the water-bird have the same body (outward appearance), but they are (really) opposites: they are (like) water and oil.