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  • شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود 1325
  • At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image.

  • هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند
  • Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.

  • ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌
  • O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!

  • مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند
  • The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.

  • پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود
  • You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.

  • گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌ 1330
  • Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else).

  • مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود
  • If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?

  • چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌
  • Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.

  • اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌
  • Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!

  • تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور
  • Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.

  • آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست‌‌ 1335
  • All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine.

  • گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود
  • If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.

  • این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بی‌‌داد یا رب داد تست‌‌
  • This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.

  • بی‌‌طلب تو این طلب‌‌مان داده‌‌ای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشاده‌‌ای‌‌
  • Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.

  • مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد
  • How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.

  • چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت‌‌
  • When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.

  • شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار 1340
  • Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow,

  • دست می‌‌زد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ‌‌
  • Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.

  • شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد
  • Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;

  • برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند
  • The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;

  • با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** می‌‌سراید هر بر و برگی جدا
  • With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,

  • که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی‌‌ 1345
  • Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.”

  • جانهای بسته اندر آب و گل ** چون رهند از آب و گلها شاد دل‌‌
  • (Even so) the spirits bound in clay, when they escape glad at heart from their (prisons of) clay,

  • در هوای عشق حق رقصان شوند ** همچو قرص بدر بی‌‌نقصان شوند
  • Begin to dance in the air of Divine Love and become flawless like the full moon's orb,

  • جسمشان در رقص و جانها خود مپرس ** و آن که گرد جان از آنها خود مپرس‌‌
  • Their bodies dancing, and their souls—nay, do not ask (how their souls fare); and of that which surrounds the soul—nay, do not ask of those things!

  • شیر را خرگوش در زندان نشاند ** ننگ شیری کاو ز خرگوشی بماند
  • The hare lodged the lion in prison. Shame on a lion who was discomfited by a hare!