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  • گفت قول تست برهان و درست ** خصم من بادست و او در حکم تست
  • It (the gnat) said, “Thy words are an argument (conclusive) and sound. My adversary is the Wind, and he is in thy jurisdiction.”

  • بانگ زد آن شه که ای باد صبا ** پشه افغان کرد از ظلمت بیا
  • The King shouted, “O East-wind, the gnat complains of thy injustice: come!

  • هین مقابل شو تو و خصم و بگو ** پاسخ خصم و بکن دفع عدو
  • Hark, come face to face with thy adversary and reply to thy adversary and rebut thy opponent.”

  • باد چون بشنید آمد تیز تیز ** پشه بگرفت آن زمان راه گریز
  • When the Wind heard (the summons), he came very rapidly: the gnat at once took to flight.

  • پس سلیمان گفت ای پشه کجا ** باش تا بر هر دو رانم من قضا 4655
  • Then Solomon said, “O gnat, where (art thou going)? Stop, that I may pass judgement on (you) both.”

  • گفت ای شه مرگ من از بود اوست ** خود سیاه این روز من از دود اوست
  • It (the gnat) answered, “O King, my death is from his being: verily, this day of mine is black from his smoke.

  • او چو آمد من کجا یابم قرار ** کو بر آرد از نهاد من دمار
  • Since he has come, where shall I find rest? for he wrings the (vital) breath out of my body.”

  • همچنین جویای درگاه خدا ** چون خدا آمد شود جوینده لا
  • Even such is the seeker of the Court of God: when God comes, the seeker is naughted.

  • گرچه آن وصلت بقا اندر بقاست ** لیک ز اول آن بقا اندر فناست
  • Although that union (with God) is immortality on immortality, yet at first that immortality (baqá) consists in dying to self (faná).

  • سایه‌هایی که بود جویای نور ** نیست گردد چون کند نورش ظهور 4660
  • The reflexions that are seeking the Light are naughted when His Light appears.