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3916-3925

  • پس کشیدندش به شه بی‌اختیار  ** شست در مجلس ترش چون زهر و مار 
  • So they brought him to the king, (for) he had no choice (power to resist): he sat down in the hall, (looking) sour as poison and snakes.

  • عرضه کردش می نپذرفت او به خشم  ** از شه و ساقی بگردانید چشم 
  • (When) he (the cup-bearer) offered him wine, he angrily refused it and averted his eyes from the king and the cup-bearer,

  • که به عمر خود نخوردستم شراب  ** خوشتر آید از شرابم زهر ناب 
  • Saying, “I have never drunk wine in my life: rank poison would please me better than wine.

  • هین به جای می به من زهری دهید  ** تا من از خویش و شما زین وا رهید 
  • Hey, give me some poison instead of the wine, that I may be delivered from myself and ye from this (impoliteness).”

  • می نخورده عربده آغاز کرد  ** گشته در مجلس گران چون مرگ و درد  3920
  • Without having drunk wine, he began to make a row and became as disagreeable to the company as death and (its) pangs.

  • هم‌چو اهل نفس و اهل آب و گل  ** در جهان بنشسته با اصحاب دل 
  • (This is) like (the behaviour of) carnal earthly-minded people in the world when they sit (associate) with spiritual folk.

  • حق ندارد خاصگان را در کمون  ** از می احرار جز در یشربون 
  • God keeps His elect (ever) drinking secretly the wine of the free.

  • عرضه می‌دارند بر محجوب جام  ** حس نمی‌یابد از آن غیر کلام 
  • They offer the cup to one who is veiled (uninitiated), (but his) perception apprehends naught thereof except the (literal) words.

  • رو همی گرداند از ارشادشان  ** که نمی‌بیند به دیده دادشان 
  • He averts his face from their guidance because he does not see their gift with his eye.

  • گر ز گوشش تا به حلقش ره بدی  ** سر نصح اندر درونشان در شدی  3925
  • If there were a passage from his ear to his throat, the hidden meaning of their admonition would have entered his inward parts.