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1241-1265

  • بد عمر را نام اینجا بت پرست ** لیک مومن بود نامش در الست‌‌
  • Here the name of ‘Umar was ‘idolater,’ but in Alast. his name was ‘believer.’

  • آن که بد نزدیک ما نامش منی ** پیش حق این نقش بد که با منی‌‌
  • That of which the name, with us, was ‘seed’ was, in the sight of God, this figure (of thee) who art (now) with me.

  • صورتی بود این منی اندر عدم ** پیش حق موجود نه بیش و نه کم‌‌
  • This ‘seed’ was a form (idea) in non-existence (potentiality), existent with God, neither more nor less (than the form in which it appeared externally).

  • حاصل آن آمد حقیقت نام ما ** پیش حضرت کان بود انجام ما
  • In brief, that which is our end is really our name with God.

  • مرد را بر عاقبت نامی نهد ** نه بر آن کاو عاریت نامی نهد 1245
  • He bestows on a man a name according to his final state, not according to that (state) to which He gives the name of ‘a loan.’

  • چشم آدم چون به نور پاک دید ** جان و سر نامها گشتش پدید
  • Inasmuch as the eye of Adam saw by means of the Pure Light, the soul and inmost sense of the names became evident to him.

  • چون ملک انوار حق در وی بیافت ** در سجود افتاد و در خدمت شتافت‌‌
  • Since the angels perceived in him the rays of God, they fell in worship and hastened to do homage.

  • مدح این آدم که نامش می‌‌برم ** قاصرم گر تا قیامت بشمرم‌‌
  • If until the Resurrection I reckon up the praise of this Adam whose name I am celebrating, I fall short (of what is due).

  • این همه دانست و چون آمد قضا ** دانش یک نهی شد بر وی خطا
  • All this he knew; (yet) when the Divine destiny came, he was at fault in the knowledge of a single prohibition,

  • کای عجب نهی از پی تحریم بود ** یا به تاویلی بد و توهیم بود 1250
  • Wondering whether the prohibition was for the purpose of making unlawful (the thing prohibited), or whether it admitted of an interpretation and was a cause of perplexity.

  • در دلش تاویل چون ترجیح یافت ** طبع در حیرت سوی گندم شتافت‌‌
  • When (the view that it admitted of) interpretation prevailed in his mind, his nature hastened in bewilderment towards the wheat.

  • باغبان را خار چون در پای رفت ** دزد فرصت یافت، کالا برد تفت‌‌
  • When the thorn went into the foot of the gardener (Adam), the thief (Satan) found an opportunity and quickly carried off the goods.

  • چون ز حیرت رست باز آمد به راه ** دید برده دزد رخت از کارگاه‌‌
  • As soon as he escaped from bewilderment, he returned into the (right) road; (then) he saw that the thief had carried off the wares from the shop.

  • ربنا إنا ظلمنا گفت و آه ** یعنی آمد ظلمت و گم گشت راه‌‌
  • He cried, ‘O Lord, we have done wrong,’ and ‘Alas,’ that is to say, ‘darkness came and the way was lost.’

  • پس قضا ابری بود خورشید پوش ** شیر و اژدرها شود زو همچو موش‌‌ 1255
  • Divine destiny, then, is a cloud that covers the sun: thereby lions and dragons become as mice.

  • من اگر دامی نبینم گاه حکم ** من نه تنها جاهلم در راه حکم‌‌
  • If I (the hoopoe) do not see a snare in the hour of Divine ordainment, ’tis not I alone who am ignorant in the course of Divine ordainment.”

  • ای خنک آن کاو نکو کاری گرفت ** زور را بگذاشت او زاری گرفت‌‌
  • Oh, happy he that clave to righteousness, he (that) let (his own) strength go and took to supplication!

  • گر قضا پوشد سیه همچون شبت ** هم قضا دستت بگیرد عاقبت‌‌
  • If the Divine destiny shrouds thee in black like night, yet the Divine destiny will take thy hand (and guide thee) at the last.

  • گر قضا صد بار قصد جان کند ** هم قضا جانت دهد درمان کند
  • If the Divine destiny a hundred times attempts thy life, yet the Divine destiny gives thee life and heals thee.

  • این قضا صد بار اگر راهت زند ** بر فراز چرخ خرگاهت زند 1260
  • This Divine destiny, if a hundred times it waylays thee, (nevertheless) pitches thy tent on the top of Heaven.

  • از کرم دان این که می‌‌ترساندت ** تا به ملک ایمنی بنشاندت‌‌
  • Know that this is from the loving kindness (of God), that He terrifies thee in order that He may establish thee in the kingdom of security.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد گشت دیر ** گوش کن تو قصه‌‌ی خرگوش و شیر
  • This subject hath no end. ’Tis late. Hearken (now) to the story of the hare and the lion.

  • پای واپس کشیدن خرگوش از شیر چون نزدیک چاه رسید
  • How the hare drew back from the lion when he approached the well.

  • چون که نزد چاه آمد شیر دید ** کز ره آن خرگوش ماند و پا کشید
  • When the lion came near the well, he saw that the hare lagged on the way and stepped back.

  • گفت پا واپس کشیدی تو چرا ** پای را واپس مکش پیش اندر آ
  • He said, “Why have you stepped back? Do not step back, come on!”

  • گفت کو پایم که دست و پای رفت ** جان من لرزید و دل از جای رفت‌‌ 1265
  • The hare said, “Where is my (power to move a) foot? for (both) hand and foot are gone. My soul trembles and my heart (courage) has fled.