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438-447

  • چونک جان باشد نیاید لوت کم ** چونک لشکر هست کم ناید علم
  • Whilst there is life (in the body), food will not fail; when there is an army, banners will not fail.”

  • خواجه‌ی حازم بسی عذر آورید ** بس بهانه کرد با دیو مرید
  • The prudent Khwája offered many an excuse and made many a pretext to the (countryman who resembled the) obstinate Devil.

  • گفت این دم کارها دارم مهم ** گر بیایم آن نگردد منتظم 440
  • “At this moment,” said he, “I have serious matters (in hand); if I come (to visit you), they will not be set in order.

  • شاه کار نازکم فرموده است ** ز انتظارم شاه شب نغنوده است
  • The King has charged me with a delicate affair, and because of (anxiously) expecting me he has not slept during the night.

  • من نیارم ترک امر شاه کرد ** من نتانم شد بر شه روی‌زرد
  • I dare not neglect the King's command, I cannot fall into disgrace with the King.

  • هر صباح و هر مسا سرهنگ خاص ** می‌رسد از من همی‌جوید مناص
  • Every morning and evening a special officer arrives and requests of me (desires me to provide) a means of escape (from the difficulty).

  • تو روا داری که آیم سوی ده ** تا در ابرو افکند سلطان گره
  • Do you deem it right that I should go into the country, with the result that the King would knit his brows (in wrath)?

  • بعد از آن درمان خشمش چون کنم ** زنده خود را زین مگر مدفون کنم 445
  • How should I heal (assuage) his anger after that? Surely, by this (offence) I should bury myself alive.”

  • زین نمط او صد بهانه باز گفت ** حیله‌ها با حکم حق نفتاد جفت
  • He related a hundred pretexts of this sort, (but his) expedients did not coincide with God's decree.

  • گر شود ذرات عالم حیله‌پیچ ** با قضای آسمان هیچند هیچ
  • If (all) the atoms of the world contrive expedients, they are naught, naught, against the ordinance of Heaven.