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  • هر پشه هر کیک چون گرگی شده ** اندر آن ویرانه‌شان زخمی زده
  • Every gnat, every flea, had become as a wolf and inflicted a wound upon them in that ruined place.

  • فرصت آن پشه راندن هم نبود ** از نهیب حمله‌ی گرگ عنود
  • There was no opportunity even of driving away those gnats, because of (their) dread of an attack by the contumacious wolf,

  • تا نباید گرگ آسیبی زند ** روستایی ریش خواجه بر کند
  • Lest the wolf should inflict some damage, (and then) the countryman would tear out the Khwája's beard.

  • این چنین دندان‌کنان تا نیمشب ** جانشان از ناف می‌آمد به لب 650
  • In this wise (they were) gnashing their teeth till midnight: their souls were coming (up) from the navel to the lip.

  • ناگهان تمثال گرگ هشته‌ای ** سر بر آورد از فراز پشته‌ای
  • Suddenly the figure of a deserted (solitary) wolf raised its head (appeared) from the top of a hillock.

  • تیر را بگشاد آن خواجه ز شست ** زد بر آن حیوان که تا افتاد پست
  • The Khwája loosed the arrow from the thumbstall and shot at the animal, so that it fell to the ground.

  • اندر افتادن ز حیوان باد جست ** روستایی های کرد و کوفت دست
  • In falling, wind escaped from the animal: the countryman uttered a wail and beat his hands,

  • ناجوامردا که خرکره‌ی منست ** گفت نه این گرگ چون آهرمنست
  • (Crying), “O ungenerous (wretch), it is my ass-colt!” “Nay,” said he, “this is the devilish wolf.

  • اندرو اشکال گرگی ظاهرست ** شکل او از گرگی او مخبرست 655
  • The features of wolfishness are apparent in it; its form makes (one) acquainted with its wolfishness.”

  • گفت نه بادی که جست از فرج وی ** می‌شناسم همچنانک آبی ز می
  • “Nay,” he said, “I know the wind that escaped from its arse as well as (I know) water from wine.

  • کشته‌ای خرکره‌ام را در ریاض ** که مبادت بسط هرگز ز انقباض
  • Thou hast killed my ass-colt in the meadows—mayst thou never be released from anguish!”

  • گفت نیکوتر تفحص کن شبست ** شخصها در شب ز ناظر محجبست
  • “Make a better investigation,” he replied; “it is night, and at night material objects are screened from the beholder.

  • شب غلط بنماید و مبدل بسی ** دید صایب شب ندارد هر کسی
  • Night causes many a thing to appear wrong and changed (from its proper aspect): not every one has the (power of) seeing correctly by night.

  • هم شب و هم ابر و هم باران ژرف ** این سه تاریکی غلط آرد شگرف 660
  • (Now there is) both night and clouds and heavy rain withal: these three darknesses produce great error.”

  • گفت آن بر من چو روز روشنست ** می‌شناسم باد خرکره‌ی منست
  • He said, “To me ’tis as (manifest as) bright day: I know (it), it is the wind of my ass-colt.

  • در میان بیست باد آن باد را ** می‌شناسم چون مسافر زاد را
  • Amongst twenty winds I know that wind as the traveller (knows) his provisions for the journey.”

  • خواجه بر جست و بیامد ناشکفت ** روستایی را گریبانش گرفت
  • The Khwája sprang up, and losing patience he seized the countryman by his collar,

  • کابله طرار شید آورده‌ای ** بنگ و افیون هر دو با هم خورده‌ای
  • Crying, “O fool and cutpurse, thou hast shown hypocrisy: thou hast eaten both beng and opium together.

  • در سه تاریکی شناسی باد خر ** چون ندانی مر مرا ای خیره‌سر 665
  • Amidst three darknesses thou knowest the wind of the ass: how dost not thou know me, O giddy-head?

  • آنک داند نیمشب گوساله را ** چون نداند همره ده‌ساله را
  • He that knows a colt at midnight, how should he not know his own ten years' comrade?”

  • خویشتن را عارف و واله کنی ** خاک در چشم مروت می‌زنی
  • Thou art feigning to be a gnostic and distraught (with love of God): thou art throwing dust in the eyes of generosity,

  • که مرا از خویش هم آگاه نیست ** در دلم گنجای جز الله نیست
  • Saying, “I have no consciousness even of myself: in my heart there is no room for aught but God.

  • آنچ دی خوردم از آنم یاد نیست ** این دل از غیر تحیر شاد نیست
  • I have no recollection of what I ate yesterday: this heart takes joy in nothing except bewilderment.

  • عاقل و مجنون حقم یاد آر ** در چنین بی‌خویشیم معذور دار 670
  • I am sane and maddened by God: remember (this), and (since I am) in such a state of selflessness, hold me excusable.

  • آنک مرداری خورد یعنی نبید ** شرع او را سوی معذوران کشید
  • He that eats carrion, that is to say, (drinks) date-wine—the (religious) Law enrols him amongst those who are excused.

  • مست و بنگی را طلاق و بیع نیست ** همچو طفلست او معاف و معتقیست
  • The drunkard and eater of beng has not (the right of) divorce or barter; he is even as a child: he is a person absolved and emancipated.

  • مستیی کید ز بوی شاه فرد ** صد خم می در سر و مغز آن نکرد
  • The intoxication that arises from the scent of the unique King—a hundred vats of wine never wrought that (intoxication) in head and brain.

  • پس برو تکلیف چون باشد روا ** اسب ساقط گشت و شد بی دست و پا
  • To him (the God-intoxicated man), then, how should the obligation (to keep the Law) be applicable? The horse is fallen (out of account) and has become unable to move.

  • بار کی نهد در جهان خرکره را ** درس کی دهد پارسی بومره را 675
  • Who in the world would lay a load upon the ass-colt? Who would give lessons in Persian to Bú Murra?

  • بار بر گیرند چون آمد عرج ** گفت حق لیس علی الاعمی حرج
  • When lameness comes, the load is taken off: God hath said,It is no sin in the blind.

  • سوی خود اعمی شدم از حق بصیر ** پس معافم از قلیل و از کثیر
  • I have become blind in regard to myself, seeing by (the grace of) God: therefore I am absolved from the small (obligation) and from the great.”

  • لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
  • Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,

  • که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
  • Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).

  • باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد 680
  • Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation.

  • این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
  • In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.

  • صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
  • There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”

  • گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
  • If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).

  • چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
  • When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,

  • که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ 685
  • Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him.

  • گر نبودی امتحان هر بدی ** هر مخنث در وغا رستم بدی
  • Were there not a testing of every vicious person, every effeminate would be a Rustam in the fray.

  • خود مخنث را زره پوشیده گیر ** چون ببیند زخم گردد چون اسیر
  • Even suppose that the effeminate has put on a coat of mail: as soon as he feels the blow, he will become as a captive.

  • مست حق هشیار چون شد از دبور ** مست حق ناید به خود تا نفخ صور
  • How will he that is intoxicated with God be restored to his senses by (the soft breath of) the west-wind? The God-intoxicated man will not come to himself till the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).

  • باده‌ی حق راست باشد بی دروغ ** دوغ خوردی دوغ خوردی دوغ دوغ
  • The wine of God is true, not false: thou hast drunk buttermilk, thou hast drunk buttermilk, buttermilk, buttermilk!

  • ساختی خود را جنید و بایزید ** رو که نشناسم تبر را از کلید 690
  • Thou hast made thyself out to be a Junayd or a Báyazíd, (saying), “Begone, for I do not know a hatchet from a key.”

  • بدرگی و منبلی و حرص و آز ** چون کنی پنهان بشید ای مکرساز
  • How by means of hypocrisy, O contriver of fraud, wilt thou conceal depravity of nature and (spiritual) sloth and greed and concupiscence?

  • خویش را منصور حلاجی کنی ** آتشی در پنبه‌ی یاران زنی
  • Thou makest thyself a Mansúr-i Halláj and settest fire to the cotton of thy friends,

  • که بنشناسم عمر از بولهب ** باد کره‌ی خود شناسم نیمشب
  • Saying, “I do not know ‘Umar from Bú Lahab, (but) I know the wind of my ass-colt at midnight.”

  • ای خری کین از تو خر باور کند ** خویش را بهر تو کور و کر کند
  • Oh, the ass that would believe this from an ass like thee, and would make himself blind and deaf for thy sake!

  • خویش را از ره‌روان کمتر شمر ** تو حریف ره‌ریانی گه مخور 695
  • Do not count thyself one of the travellers on the Way; thou art a comrade of them that defile the Way: do not eat dung (do not talk rubbish)!

  • باز پر از شید سوی عقل تاز ** کی پرد بر آسمان پر مجاز
  • Fly back from hypocrisy, hasten towards Reason: how shall the wing of the phenomenal (unreal) soar to Heaven?