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3
443-452

  • 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.

  • چون گریزد این زمین از آسمان ** چون کند او خویش را از وی نهان
  • How shall this earth flee from Heaven, how shall it conceal itself from it?

  • هرچه آید ز آسمان سوی زمین ** نه مفر دارد نه چاره نه کمین
  • Whatsoever may come from Heaven to the earth, it (the earth) has no refuge or device or hiding-place.

  • آتش ار خورشید می‌بارد برو ** او بپیش آتشش بنهاده رو 450
  • Is fire from the sun raining upon it, it has laid its face (low) before his fire;

  • ور همی طوفان کند باران برو ** شهرها را می‌کند ویران برو
  • And if the rain is making a flood upon it and devastating the cities upon it,

  • او شده تسلیم او ایوب‌وار ** که اسیرم هرچه می‌خواهی ببار
  • It (the earth) has become resigned to it (Heaven), like Job, saying, “I am captive: bring (on me) whatever thou wilt.”