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1843-1867

  • کوه یحیی را نه سوی خویش خواند ** قاصدانش را به زخم سنگ راند
  • Did not the mountain call Yahyá (John the Baptist) to itself and drive off his pursuers with blows of stone?

  • گفت ای یحیی بیا در من گریز ** تا پناهت باشم از شمشیر تیز
  • “O Yahyá,” it said, “come, take refuge in me, that I may be thy shelter from the sharp sword.”

  • وداع کردن طوطی خواجه را و پریدن‌‌
  • How the parrot bade farewell to the merchant and flew away.

  • یک دو پندش داد طوطی بی‌‌نفاق ** بعد از آن گفتش سلام الفراق‌‌ 1845
  • The parrot gave him one or two counsels devoid of hypocrisy and after that bade him the farewell of parting.

  • خواجه گفتش فی أمان الله برو ** مر مرا اکنون نمودی راه نو
  • The merchant said to her, “Go, God protect thee! Just now thou hast shown to me a new Way.”

  • خواجه با خود گفت کاین پند من است ** راه او گیرم که این ره روشن است‌‌
  • Said the merchant to himself, “This is the counsel for me; I will take her Way, for this Way is shining with light.

  • جان من کمتر ز طوطی کی بود ** جان چنین باید که نیکو پی بود
  • How should my soul be meaner than the parrot? The soul ought to follow a good track like this.”

  • مضرت تعظیم خلق و انگشت نمای شدن‌‌
  • The harmfulness of being honoured by the people and of becoming conspicuous.

  • تن قفس شکل است تن شد خار جان ** در فریب داخلان و خارجان‌‌
  • The body is cage-like: the body, amidst the cajoleries of those who come in and go out, became a thorn to the soul.

  • اینش گوید من شوم هم راز تو ** و آنش گوید نی منم انباز تو 1850
  • This one says to him, “I will be thy confidant,” and that one says, “Nay, I am thy partner.”

  • اینش گوید نیست چون تو در وجود ** در جمال و فضل و در احسان و جود
  • This one says to him, “There is none in existence like thee for beauty and eminence and for kindness and liberality.”

  • آنش گوید هر دو عالم آن تست ** جمله جانهامان طفیل جان تست‌‌
  • That one says to him, “Both the worlds are thine, all our souls are thy soul's parasites.”

  • او چو بیند خلق را سر مست خویش ** از تکبر می‌‌رود از دست خویش‌‌
  • When he sees the people intoxicated with (desire for) him, because of arrogance he loses self-control.

  • او نداند که هزاران را چو او ** دیو افکنده ست اندر آب جو
  • He does not know that the Devil has cast thousands like him into the water of the river (of destruction).

  • لطف و سالوس جهان خوش لقمه‌‌ای است ** کمترش خور کان پر آتش لقمه‌‌ای است‌‌ 1855
  • The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it (eat it not), for it is a morsel full of fire.

  • آتشش پنهان و ذوقش آشکار ** دود او ظاهر شود پایان کار
  • Its fire is hidden and its taste is manifest: its smoke becomes visible in the end.

  • تو مگو آن مدح را من کی خورم ** از طمع می‌‌گوید او پی می‌‌برم‌‌
  • Do not say, “How should I swallow that praise? He is speaking from desire (for reward): I am on his track (and see quite well what he is after).”

  • مادحت گر هجو گوید بر ملا ** روزها سوزد دلت ز آن سوزها
  • If your belauder should satirise you in public, your heart would burn for (many) days on account of those scorches (of vituperation).

  • گر چه دانی کاو ز حرمان گفت آن ** کان طمع که داشت از تو شد زیان‌‌
  • Although you know that he (only) said it in disappointment because the hopes he had of you brought him no gain,

  • آن اثر می‌‌ماندت در اندرون ** در مدیح این حالتت هست آزمون‌‌ 1860
  • (Yet) the effect thereof is remaining within you. The same experience happens to you in the case of praise.

  • آن اثر هم روزها باقی بود ** مایه‌‌ی کبر و خداع جان شود
  • The effect of that too lasts for many days and becomes a source of arrogance and deception of the soul,

  • لیک ننماید چو شیرین است مدح ** بد نماید ز آن که تلخ افتاد قدح‌‌
  • But it does not show itself, because praise is sweet; (in the case of blame) the evil shows itself, because blame is bitter.

  • همچو مطبوخ است و حب کان را خوری ** تا به دیری شورش و رنج اندری‌‌
  • It (blame) is like (bitter) decoctions and pills which you swallow and for a long time you are in disturbance and pain,

  • ور خوری حلوا بود ذوقش دمی ** این اثر چون آن نمی‌‌پاید همی‌‌
  • Whereas, if you eat halwá (sweetmeat), its taste is momentary: this effect, like the other, is not enduring for ever.

  • چون نمی‌‌پاید همی‌‌پاید نهان ** هر ضدی را تو به ضد او بدان‌‌ 1865
  • Since it does not endure (perceptibly), it endures imperceptibly: recognise every opposite by means of its opposite.

  • چون شکر پاید نهان تاثیر او ** بعد حینی دمل آرد نیش جو
  • When the effect of sugar endures (remains latent), after a while it produces boils that call for the lancet.

  • نفس از بس مدحها فرعون شد ** کن ذلیل النفس هونا لا تسد
  • The fleshly soul was made a Pharaoh by (receiving) many praises: be lowly of spirit through meekness, do not domineer.