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1055-1064

  • هم‌چو مرغ مرده‌شان بگرفته یار ** تا کند او جنس ایشان را شکار 1055
  • The Friend has taken them, like a dead bird, that (by means of them) He may hunt down their congeners.

  • مرغ مرده مضطر اندر وصل و بین ** خوانده‌ای القلب بین اصبعین
  • The dead bird is compelled (deprived of volition) in respect of being united or separated: you have read (the Hadíth), “The heart is between two fingers (of the Merciful God).”

  • مرغ مرده‌ش را هر آنک شد شکار ** چون ببیند شد شکار شهریار
  • Every one that has fallen a prey to His dead bird (will perceive), when he sees (the truth), (that) he has fallen a prey to the King.

  • هر که او زین مرغ مرده سر بتافت ** دست آن صیاد را هرگز نیافت
  • Whoever turned his head away from this dead bird never gained the hand of that Hunter.

  • گوید او منگر به مرداری من ** عشق شه بین در نگهداری من
  • It (the dead bird) says, “Do not regard my being a carcase: see the King's love (shown) in preserving me.

  • من نه مردارم مرا شه کشته است ** صورت من شبه مرده گشته است 1060
  • I am not a carcase: the King hath killed me: my appearance has become like (that of) the dead.

  • جنبشم زین پیش بود از بال و پر ** جنبشم اکنون ز دست دادگر
  • My former motion was by means of wing and pinion: now my motion proceeds from the hand of the (Divine) Judge.

  • جنبش فانیم بیرون شد ز پوست ** جنبشم باقیست اکنون چون ازوست
  • My perishable motion has gone forth from my skin: now my motion is everlasting, since it proceeds from Him.

  • هر که کژ جنبد به پیش جنبشم ** گرچه سیمرغست زارش می‌کشم
  • If any one move crookedly (misbehave) in the presence of my motion, I will kill him miserably, (even) though he is the Símurgh.

  • هین مرا مرده مبین گر زنده‌ای ** در کف شاهم نگر گر بنده‌ای
  • Beware! If thou art (spiritually) alive, do not deem me dead; if thou art a (devoted) slave (of God), regard me (as being) in the hand of the King.