English    Türkçe    فارسی   

3
372-381

  • فهو لا یرضی بحال ابدا ** لا بضیق لا بعیش رغدا
  • For he is never content with any state (of things), neither with poverty nor with a life of plenty

  • قتل الانسان ما اکفره ** کلما نال هدی انکره
  • May Man be killed! How ungrateful he is!Whenever he obtains guidance, he spurns it.

  • نفس زین سانست زان شد کشتنی ** اقتلوا انفسکم گفت آن سنی
  • The carnal soul is of this sort, hence it ought to be killed : that Exalted One hath said, “Kill yourselves.”

  • خار سه سویست هر چون کش نهی ** در خلد وز زخم او تو کی جهی 375
  • It is a triagonal thorn: however you may place it, it will pierce, and how will you escape from its stab?

  • آتش ترک هوا در خار زن ** دست اندر یار نیکوکار زن
  • Set the thorn on fire with renunciation of sensual passion, and cling to the righteous friend.

  • چون ز حد بردند اصحاب سبا ** که بپیش ما وبا به از صبا
  • When the people of Saba carried (their ingratitude) beyond bounds, saying, “In our opinion, pestilence is better than the zephyr,”

  • ناصحانشان در نصیحت آمدند ** از فسوق و کفر مانع می‌شدند
  • Their counselors began to admonish (them) and restrain (them) from impiety and ingratitude;

  • قصد خون ناصحان می‌داشتند ** تخم فسق و کافری می‌کاشتند
  • (But) they sought to take the lives of their counselors, and sowed the seed of impiety and unthankfulness.

  • چون قضا آید شود تنگ این جهان ** از قضا حلوا شود رنج دهان 380
  • When the (Divine) decree comes to pass, this (whole) world becomes cramped (so that there is no escape); by the (Divine) decree sweetmeat becomes anguish to the mouth.

  • گفت اذا جاء القضا ضاق الفضا ** تحجب الابصار اذ جاء القضا
  • He ( the Prophet) said, “When the Decree comes, the (widest) expanse is narrow; when the Decree comes, the eyes are veiled.”