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1678-1702

  • صاحب ده پادشاه جسمهاست ** صاحب دل شاه دلهای شماست‌‌
  • He that owns a village is king over bodies; he that owns a heart is king over your hearts.

  • فرع دید آمد عمل بی‌‌هیچ شک ** پس نباشد مردم الا مردمک‌‌
  • Without any doubt, action (practice) is a branch of (subordinate to) seeing (theory): therefore Man is nothing but “the little man” (the pupil of the eye).

  • من تمام این نیارم گفت از آن ** منع می‌‌آید ز صاحب مرکزان‌‌ 1680
  • I dare not expound the whole of this (subject): hindrance thereto is coming from those who are at the centre.

  • چون فراموشی خلق و یادشان ** با وی است و او رسد فریادشان‌‌
  • Inasmuch as the forgetfulness and recollection of (God's) creatures are with him (depend on the perfect saint), and he comes at their call for help,

  • صد هزاران نیک و بد را آن بهی ** می‌‌کند هر شب ز دلهاشان تهی‌‌
  • Every night that glorious one is emptying from their hearts hundreds of thousands of good and evil (thoughts),

  • روز دلها را از آن پر می‌‌کند ** آن صدفها را پر از در می‌‌کند
  • (While) in the daytime he is filling their hearts therewith— he is filling those oyster-shells with pearls.

  • آن همه اندیشه‌‌ی پیشانها ** می‌‌شناسند از هدایت جانها
  • By (Divine) guidance (after sleep is past) all those thoughts of former things recognize the spirits (to which they were attached).

  • پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو 1685
  • Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means.

  • پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد
  • The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.

  • پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز
  • On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).

  • پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب‌‌
  • After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.

  • پیشه‌‌ها و اندیشه‌‌ها در وقت صبح ** هم بدانجا شد که بود آن حسن و قبح‌‌
  • At the hour of dawn the handicrafts and thoughts went to the same place where that good and evil (formerly) were.

  • چون کبوترهای پیک از شهرها ** سوی شهر خویش آرد بهرها 1690
  • Like carrier pigeons, they bring things useful (to know) from (other) cities to their own city.

  • شنیدن آن طوطی حرکت آن طوطیان و مردن آن طوطی در قفس و نوحه‌‌ی خواجه بر وی‌‌
  • How the parrot heard what those parrots had done, and died in the cage, and how the merchant made lament for her.

  • چون شنید آن مرغ کان طوطی چه کرد ** پس بلرزید اوفتاد و گشت سرد
  • When the bird heard what that (other) parrot had done, thereupon she trembled, fell, and became cold.

  • خواجه چون دیدش فتاده همچنین ** بر جهید و زد کله را بر زمین‌‌
  • The merchant, seeing her thus fallen, sprang up and dashed his cap on the ground.

  • چون بدین رنگ و بدین حالش بدید ** خواجه بر جست و گریبان را درید
  • When he saw her in this guise and in this state, the merchant sprang up and tore the breast of his garment.

  • گفت ای طوطی خوب خوش حنین ** این چه بودت این چرا گشتی چنین‌‌
  • He said, “O beautiful parrot with thy sweet cry, what is this that has happened to thee? Why hast thou become like this?

  • ای دریغا مرغ خوش آواز من ** ای دریغا هم دم و هم راز من‌‌ 1695
  • Oh, alas for my sweet-voiced bird! Oh, alas for my bosom-friend and confidant!

  • ای دریغا مرغ خوش الحان من ** راح روح و روضه و ریحان من‌‌
  • Oh, alas for my melodious bird, the wine of my spirit and my garden and my sweet basil!

  • گر سلیمان را چنین مرغی بدی ** کی خود او مشغول آن مرغان شدی‌‌
  • Had Solomon possessed a bird like this, how indeed should he have become occupied with those (other) birds?

  • ای دریغا مرغ کارزان یافتم ** زود روی از روی او بر تافتم‌‌
  • Oh, alas for the bird which I gained cheaply, and (so) soon turned my face away from her countenance!

  • ای زبان تو بس زیانی بر وری ** چون تویی گویا چه گویم من ترا
  • O tongue, thou art a great damage (very injurious) to mankind, (but) since thou art speaking, what should I say to thee?

  • ای زبان هم آتش و هم خرمنی ** چند این آتش در این خرمن زنی‌‌ 1700
  • O tongue, thou art both the fire and the stack: how long wilt thou dart this fire upon this stack?

  • در نهان جان از تو افغان می‌‌کند ** گر چه هر چه گویی‌‌اش آن می‌‌کند
  • Secretly my soul is groaning because of thee, although it is doing whatsoever thou biddest it.

  • ای زبان هم گنج بی‌‌پایان تویی ** ای زبان هم رنج بی‌‌درمان تویی‌‌
  • O tongue, thou art a treasure without end. O tongue, thou art also a disease without remedy.