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1526-1550

  • گر ترش رو بودن آمد شکر و بس ** پس چو سرکه شکر گویی نیست کس‌‌
  • If thanksgiving is only to look sour, then there is no thanks-giver like vinegar.

  • سرکه را گر راه باید در جگر ** گو بشو سرکنگبین او از شکر
  • If vinegar wants (to find) the way to the liver, let it become oxymel by (being mixed with) sugar.

  • معنی اندر شعر جز با خبط نیست ** چون قلاسنگ است اندر ضبط نیست‌‌
  • The meaning in poetry has no sureness of direction: it is like the sling, it is not under control.

  • در معنی آن که من أراد أن یجلس مع الله فلیجلس مع أهل التصوف‌‌
  • On the inner sense of “Let him who desires to sit with God sit with the Súfís.”

  • آن رسول از خود بشد زین یک دو جام ** نه رسالت یاد ماندش نه پیام‌‌
  • The ambassador became beside himself from these one or two cups (of spiritual discourse): neither embassage nor message remained in his memory.

  • واله اندر قدرت الله شد ** آن رسول اینجا رسید و شاه شد 1530
  • He became distraught at the power of God. The ambassador arrived at this place (state) and became a king.

  • سیل چون آمد به دریا بحر گشت ** دانه چون آمد به مزرع گشت کشت‌‌
  • When the torrent reached the sea, it became the sea; when the seed reached the cornland, it became the crop of corn.

  • چون تعلق یافت نان با بو البشر ** نان مرده زنده گشت و با خبر
  • When the bread attained to connexion with Man, the dead bread became living and endowed with knowledge.

  • موم و هیزم چون فدای نار شد ** ذات ظلمانی او انوار شد
  • When the wax and firewood were devoted to the fire, their dark essence became (filled with) light.

  • سنگ سرمه چون که شد در دیده‌‌گان ** گشت بینایی شد آن جا دیدبان‌‌
  • When the (powdered) stone of antimony went into the eyes, it turned to sight and there became a scout (one who observes the enemy from some point of vantage).

  • ای خنک آن مرد کز خود رسته شد ** در وجود زنده‌‌ای پیوسته شد 1535
  • Oh, happy is the man who was freed from himself and united with the existence of a living one!

  • وای آن زنده که با مرده نشست ** مرده گشت و زندگی از وی بجست‌‌
  • Alas for the living one who consorted with the dead! He became dead, and life sped away from him.

  • چون تو در قرآن حق بگریختی ** با روان انبیا آمیختی‌‌
  • When you have fled (for refuge) to the Qur’án of God, you have mingled with the spirit of the prophets.

  • هست قرآن حالهای انبیا ** ماهیان بحر پاک کبریا
  • The Qur’án is (a description of) the states of the prophets, (who are) the fishes of the holy sea of (Divine) Majesty.

  • ور بخوانی و نه‌‌ای قرآن پذیر ** انبیا و اولیا را دیده گیر
  • And if you read and do not accept (take to heart) the Qur’án, suppose you have seen the prophets and saints (what will that avail you?);

  • ور پذیرایی چو بر خوانی قصص ** مرغ جانت تنگ آید در قفص‌‌ 1540
  • But if you are accepting (the Qur’án), when you read the stories (of the prophets), the bird, your soul, will be distressed in its cage.

  • مرغ کاو اندر قفس زندانی است ** می‌‌نجوید رستن از نادانی است‌‌
  • The bird that is a prisoner in a cage, (if it) is not seeking to escape, ’tis from ignorance.

  • روحهایی کز قفسها رسته‌‌اند ** انبیای رهبر شایسته‌‌اند
  • The spirits which have escaped from their cages are the prophets, (those) worthy guides.

  • از برون آوازشان آید ز دین ** که ره رستن ترا این است این‌‌
  • From without comes their voice, (telling) of religion, (and crying), “This, this is the way of escape for thee.

  • ما به دین رستیم زین ننگین قفس ** جز که این ره نیست چاره‌‌ی این قفس‌‌
  • By this we escaped from this narrow cage: there is no means of escape from this cage but this way,

  • خویش را رنجور سازی زار زار ** تا ترا بیرون کنند از اشتهار 1545
  • (That) thou shouldst make thyself ill, exceedingly wretched, in order that thou mayst be let out from (the cage of) reputation.”

  • که اشتهار خلق بند محکم است ** در ره این از بند آهن کی کم است‌‌
  • Worldly reputation is a strong chain: in the Way how is this less than a chain of iron?

  • قصه‌‌ی بازرگان که طوطی محبوس او او را پیغام داد به طوطیان هندوستان هنگام رفتن به تجارت‌‌
  • The story of the merchant to whom the captive parrot gave a message for the parrots of India on the occasion of his going (thither) to trade.

  • بود بازرگانی او را طوطیی ** در قفس محبوس زیبا طوطیی‌‌
  • There was a merchant, and he had a parrot imprisoned in a cage, a pretty parrot.

  • چون که بازرگان سفر را ساز کرد ** سوی هندستان شدن آغاز کرد
  • When the merchant made ready for travel and was about to depart to India,

  • هر غلام و هر کنیزک را ز جود ** گفت بهر تو چه آرم گوی زود
  • Because of his generosity he said to each male slave and each handmaid, “What shall I bring (home) for you? Tell (me) quickly.”

  • هر یکی از وی مرادی خواست کرد ** جمله را وعده بداد آن نیک مرد 1550
  • Each one asked him for some object of desire: that good man gave his promise to them all.