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2808-2817

  • چشم شه بر چشم باز دل زدست  ** چشم بازش سخت با همت شدست 
  • The King's eye hath smitten the eye of the falcon-heart, and its falcon-eye hath become mightily aspiring,

  • تا ز بس همت که یابید از نظر  ** می‌نگیرد باز شه جز شیر نر 
  • So that, because of the great aspiration which it has gained from the (King's) look, the royal falcon will (now) catch (hunt) nothing but the fierce lion.

  • شیر چه کان شاه‌باز معنوی  ** هم شکار تست و هم صیدش توی  2810
  • What (of the) lion? The spiritual royal falcon is Thy quarry and at the same time Thou art its prey.

  • شد صفیر باز جان در مرج دین  ** نعره‌های لا احب الافلین 
  • The call uttered by the falcon-soul in the meadow of devotion is cries of “I love not them that set.”

  • باز دل را که پی تو می‌پرید  ** از عطای بی‌حدت چشمی رسید 
  • From Thy infinite bounty there came an (inward) eye to the falcon-soul that was flying for Thy sake.

  • یافت بینی بوی و گوش از تو سماع  ** هر حسی را قسمتی آمد مشاع 
  • From Thee its nose gained (the inward sense of) smell, and its ear the (inward) hearing: to each sense was allotted a portion (of the spiritual sense that was) distributed (amongst them all).

  • هر حسی را چون دهی ره سوی غیب  ** نبود آن حس را فتور مرگ و شیب 
  • Since Thou givest to each sense the means of access to the Unseen, that (spiritual) sense is not subject to the frailty of death and hoary eld.

  • مالک الملکی به حس چیزی دهی  ** تا که بر حس‌ها کند آن حس شهی  2815
  • Thou art the Lord of the kingdom: Thou givest to the (spiritual) sense something (peculiar to itself), so that that sense exercises sovereignty over (all) the senses.

  • حکایت شب دزدان کی سلطان محمود شب در میان ایشان افتاد کی من یکی‌ام از شما و بر احوال ایشان مطلع شدن الی آخره 
  • Story of the night-thieves with whom Sultan Mahmúd fell in during the night (and joined them), saying, “I am one of you”; and how he became acquainted with their affairs, etc.

  • شب چو شه محمود برمی‌گشت فرد  ** با گروهی قوم دزدان باز خورد 
  • While King Mahmúd was roaming about alone at night he encountered a band of thieves.

  • پس بگفتندش کیی ای بوالوفا  ** گفت شه من هم یکی‌ام از شما 
  • Thereupon they said to him, “Who art thou, O honest man?” “I am one of you,” replied the King.