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416-425

  • هم ازینجا کودکانش در پسند ** نرتع و نلعب بشادی می‌زدند
  • On the same side his children in approval (of the country-man’s invitation) were joyously striking up “Let us frolic and play,”
  • همچو یوسف کش ز تقدیر عجب ** نرتع و نلعب ببرد از ظل آب
  • Like Joseph, whom by the wondrous (act of Divine) predestination (the words). “Let us frolic and play” carried off from his father’s shadow (protection).
  • آن نه بازی بلک جانبازیست آن ** حیله و مکر و دغاسازیست آن
  • That is not (joyful) play; nay, ‘tis play with one’s life, ‘tis cunning and deceit and contrivance of fraud.
  • هرچه از یارت جدا اندازد آن ** مشنو آن را کان زیان دارد زیان
  • Whatsoever would fling you asunder from the Friend, do not listen to it, for it holds loss, loss.
  • گر بود آن سود صد در صد مگیر ** بهر زر مگسل ز گنجور ای فقیر 420
  • (Even) if the gain be a hundred hundredfold, do not accept it: do not, for the sake of the gold, break with the dervish (who is) the treasurer (of the Divine bounty)!
  • این شنو که چند یزدان زجر کرد ** گفت اصحاب نبی را گرم و سرد
  • Hear how many a rebuke, hot and cold (kindly and severe), God addressed to the Companions of the Prophet,
  • زانک بر بانگ دهل در سال تنگ ** جمعه را کردند باطل بی درنگ
  • Because, in a year of distress (famine), at the sound of the drum they (quitted) without tarrying (and) made void the Friday congregation,
  • تا نباید دیگران ارزان خرند ** زان جلب صرفه ز ما ایشان برند
  • “Lest” (so they said) “others should buy cheap and get the advantage over us in respect of those imported goods.”
  • ماند پیغامبر بخلوت در نماز ** با دو سه درویش ثابت پر نیاز
  • The Prophet was left alone in prayer with two or three poor men firm (in their faith) and full of supplication.
  • گفت طبل و لهو و بازرگانیی ** چونتان ببرید از ربانیی 425
  • He (God) said, “How did the drum and the pastime and a trading affair sunder you from a man of God?