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4028-4037

  • مرده‌ای باشم به من حق بنگرد  ** به از آن زنده که باشد دور و رد 
  • (If) I be a dead man and (if) God look on me (with favour), (my case is) better than (that of) the living man who is far (from God) and rejected (by Him).

  • مغز مردی این شناس و پوست آن  ** آن برد دوزخ برد این در جنان 
  • Recognise this (abandonment of sensuality) to be the kernel of manliness, and that (indulgence in sensuality) to be the husk: the latter leads to Hell, the former to Paradise.

  • حفت الجنه مکاره را رسید  ** حفت النار از هوا آمد پدید  4030
  • (The Tradition) “Paradise is encompassed with things disliked” has come (down to us); “Hell-fire is encompassed with sensual desire” has been declared.

  • ای ایاز شیر نر دیوکش  ** مردی خر کم فزون مردی هش 
  • “O Ayáz, fierce demon-killing lion, (thou in whom) the manliness of the ass is inferior (subjugated), the manliness of Reason superior (predominant),

  • آنچ چندین صدر ادراکش نکرد  ** لعب کودک بود پیشت اینت مرد 
  • That which so many eminent persons did not apprehend was to thee child's play: lo, here is the (true) man!

  • ای به دیده لذت امر مرا  ** جان سپرده بهر امرم در وفا 
  • O thou who hast felt the delight of (obeying) my command and hast loyally devoted thy life for the sake of my command,

  • داستان ذوق امر و چاشنیش  ** بشنو اکنون در بیان معنویش 
  • Now hearken to the tale of the savour and relish of (obeying) the (Divine) command (as related) in the (following) spiritual exposition thereof.”

  • دادن شاه گوهر را میان دیوان و مجمع به دست وزیر کی این چند ارزد و مبالغه کردن وزیر در قیمت او و فرمودن شاه او را کی اکنون این را بشکن و گفت وزیر کی این را چون بشکنم الی آخر القصه 
  • How the King (Mahmud), in the midst of (the company present in) the Diwán and assembly-place, put a pearl in the hand of the Vizier and asked him what it was worth; and how the Vizier gave an extremely high estimate of its value; and when the King commanded hi to break it, answered, “How should I break it?” and so forth.

  • شاه روزی جانب دیوان شتافت  ** جمله ارکان را در آن دیوان بیافت  4035
  • One day the King hastened to the Diwán: in the Diwán he found all the courtiers (assembled).

  • گوهری بیرون کشید او مستنیر  ** پس نهادش زود در کف وزیر 
  • He produced a radiant pearl and immediately put it in the palm of the Vizier.

  • گفت چونست و چه ارزد این گهر  ** گفت به ارزد ز صد خروار زر 
  • “How about this pearl?” he asked, “and what is it worth?” He replied, “ is worth more than a hundred ass-loads of gold.”