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2775-2799

  • حاجت او فهمشان شد بی‌‌مقال ** کار ایشان بد عطا پیش از سؤال‌‌ 2775
  • Without speech (on his part) they perceived what he wanted: it was their practice to give before being asked.

  • پس بدو گفتند یا وجه العرب ** از کجایی چونی از راه و تعب‌‌
  • Then they said to him, “O chief of the Arabs, whence dost thou come? How art thou after the journey and fatigue?”

  • گفت وجهم گر مرا وجهی دهید ** بی‌‌وجوهم چون پس پشتم نهید
  • He said, “I am a chief, if ye give me any countenance (favour); I am without means (of winning respect) when ye put me behind your backs.

  • ای که در روتان نشان مهتری ** فرتان خوشتر ز زر جعفری‌‌
  • O ye in whose faces are the marks of eminence, O ye whose splendour is more pleasing than the gold of Ja‘far,

  • ای که یک دیدارتان دیدارها ** ای نثار دینتان دینارها
  • O ye, one sight of whom is (worth many) sights, O ye on whose religion pieces of gold are scattered (as largesse),

  • ای همه ینظر بنور الله شده ** از بر حق بهر بخشش آمده‌‌ 2780
  • O ye, all of whom have become seeing by the light of God, who have come from the King for the sake of munificence,

  • تا زنید آن کیمیاهای نظر ** بر سر مسهای اشخاص بشر
  • That ye may cast the elixir of your looks upon the copper of human individuals,

  • من غریبم از بیابان آمدم ** بر امید لطف سلطان آمدم‌‌
  • I am a stranger: I have come from the desert: I have come in hope of (gaining) the grace of the Sultan.

  • بوی لطف او بیابانها گرفت ** ذره‌‌های ریگ هم جانها گرفت‌‌
  • The scent of his grace covered (took entire possession of) the deserts: even the grains of sand were ensouled (thereby).

  • تا بدین جا بهر دینار آمدم ** چون رسیدم مست دیدار آمدم‌‌
  • I came all the way to this place for the sake of dinars: as soon as I arrived, I became drunken with sight (contemplation).”

  • بهر نان شخصی سوی نانوا دوید ** داد جان چون حسن نانوا را بدید 2785
  • A person ran to the baker for bread: on seeing the beauty of the baker, he gave up the ghost.

  • بهر فرجه شد یکی تا گلستان ** فرجه‌‌ی او شد جمال باغبان‌‌
  • A certain man went to the rose-garden to take his pleasure, and found it in the beauty of the gardener,

  • همچو اعرابی که آب از چه کشید ** آب حیوان از رخ یوسف چشید
  • Like the desert Arab who drew water from the well and tasted the Water of Life from the (lovely) face of Joseph.

  • رفت موسی کاتش آرد او به دست ** آتشی دید او که از آتش برست‌‌
  • Moses went to fetch fire: he beheld such a Fire (the Burning Bush) that he escaped from (searching after) fire.

  • جست عیسی تا رهد از دشمنان ** بردش آن جستن به چارم آسمان‌‌
  • Jesus sprang up, to escape from his enemies: that spring carried him to the Fourth Heaven.

  • دام آدم خوشه‌‌ی گندم شده ** تا وجودش خوشه‌‌ی مردم شده‌‌ 2790
  • The ear of wheat became a trap for Adam, so that his existence became the wheat-ear (seed and origin) of mankind.

  • باز آید سوی دام از بهر خور ** ساعد شه یابد و اقبال و فر
  • The falcon comes to the snare for food: it finds the fore-arm (wrist) of the King and fortune and glory.

  • طفل شد مکتب پی کسب هنر ** بر امید مرغ با لطف پدر
  • The child went to school to acquire knowledge, in hope of (getting) its father's pretty bird (as a prize);

  • پس ز مکتب آن یکی صدری شده ** ماهگانه داده و بدری شده‌‌
  • Then, by (going to) school, that child rose to the top, paid monthly fees (to his teacher), and became perfect (in knowledge).

  • آمده عباس حرب از بهر کین ** بهر قمع احمد و استیز دین‌‌
  • ‘Abbás had come to war for vengeance’ sake, for the purpose of subduing Ahmad (Mohammed) and opposing the (true) religion:

  • گشته دین را تا قیامت پشت و رو ** در خلافت او و فرزندان او 2795
  • He and his descendants in the Caliphate became a back and front (complete support) to the (true) religion until the Resurrection.

  • من بر این در طالب چیز آمدم ** صدر گشتم چون به دهلیز آمدم‌‌
  • “I came to this court in quest of wealth: as soon as I entered the portico I became (a spiritual) chief.

  • آب آوردم به تحفه بهر نان ** بوی نانم برد تا صدر جنان‌‌
  • I brought water as a gift for the sake of (getting) bread: hope of bread led me to the highest place in Paradise.

  • نان برون راند آدمی را از بهشت ** نان مرا اندر بهشتی در سرشت‌‌
  • Bread drove an Adam forth from Paradise: bread caused me to mix (made me consort) with those who belong to Paradise.

  • رستم از آب و ز نان همچون ملک ** بی‌‌غرض گردم بر این در چون فلک‌‌
  • I have been freed, like the angels, from water and bread (materiality): without (any worldly) object of desire I move round this court, like the (revolving) sphere of heaven.”