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1956-1965

  • تازگی و جنبش طوبی است این ** همچو جنبشهای حیوان نیست این‌‌
  • This is the freshness and movement of the Túbá-tree, this is not like the movements of animals.

  • گر در افتد در زمین و آسمان ** زهره‌‌هاشان آب گردد در زمان‌‌
  • If it fall on earth and heaven, their galls will turn to water at once (they will be consumed with terror).

  • خود ز بیم این دم بی‌‌منتها ** باز خوان فأبين أن یحملنها
  • Truly, from fear of this infinite breath (they were filled with dismay): recite (the words of the Qur’án) but they refused to bear it (the trust offered to them).

  • ور نه خود أشفقن منها چون بدی ** گرنه از بیمش دل که خون شدی‌‌
  • Else, how should (the words) they shrank from it have been (in the Qur’án), unless from fear of it the heart of the mountain had become blood?

  • دوش دیگر لون این می‌‌داد دست ** لقمه‌‌ی چندی در آمد ره ببست‌‌ 1960
  • Yesternight this (breath) presented itself (to me) in a different guise (but) some morsels (of food) came in and barred the way.

  • بهر لقمه گشته لقمانی گرو ** وقت لقمان است ای لقمه برو
  • For a morsel's sake a Luqmán has become (held in custody as) a pledge: ’tis the time for Luqmán: begone, O morsel!

  • از هوای لقمه‌‌ی این خار خار ** از کف لقمان همی‌‌جویید خار
  • These pricks (of the flesh) for desire of a morsel! Seek ye always (to draw forth) the thorn from the sole of Luqmán.

  • در کف او خار و سایه‌‌ش نیز نیست ** لیکتان از حرص آن تمییز نیست‌‌
  • In his sole there is (really) no thorn or even the shadow of it, but because of concupiscence ye have not that discernment.

  • خار دان آن را که خرما دیده‌‌ای ** ز آن که بس نان کور و بس نادیده‌‌ای‌‌
  • Know that the thorn is that which thou, because thou art very greedy and very blind, hast deemed to be a date.

  • جان لقمان که گلستان خداست ** پای جانش خسته‌‌ی خاری چراست‌‌ 1965
  • Inasmuch as Luqmán's spirit is the rose-garden of God, why is the foot of his spirit wounded by a thorn?