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  • 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.”

  • بی‌‌غرض نبود به گردش در جهان ** غیر جسم و غیر جان عاشقان‌‌ 2800
  • Nothing in the world is without object (disinterested) in its movement (activity) except the bodies and the souls of (God's) lovers.

  • در بیان آن که عاشق دنیا بر مثال عاشق دیواری است که بر او تاب آفتاب زند و جهد و جهاد نکرد تا فهم کند که آن تاب و رونق از دیوار نیست از قرص آفتاب است در آسمان چهارم لاجرم کلی دل بر دیوار نهاد چون پرتو آفتاب به آفتاب پیوست او محروم ماند ابدا و حیل بينهم و بين ما يشتهون
  • Showing that the lover of this world is like the lover of a wall on which the sunbeams strike, who makes no effort and exertion to perceive that the radiance and splendour do not proceed from the wall, but from the orb of the sun in the Fourth Heaven; consequently he sets his whole heart on the wall, and when the sunbeams rejoin the sun (at sunset), he is left for ever in despair: “and a bar is placed between them and that which they desire.”

  • عاشقان کل نه این عشاق جزو ** ماند از کل آن که شد مشتاق جزو
  • The lovers of the Whole are not those who love the part: he that longed for the part failed to attain unto the Whole.

  • چون که جزوی عاشق جزوی شود ** زود معشوقش به کل خود رود
  • When a part falls in love with a part, the object of its love soon goes (returns) to its own whole.

  • ریش گاو بنده‌‌ی غیر آمد او ** غرقه شد کف در ضعیفی در زد او
  • He (the lover of the particular) became the laughing-stock of another's slave: he became (like a man who was) drowning and clung to some one weak (and powerless to help him).

  • نیست حاکم تا کند تیمار او ** کار خواجه‌‌ی خود کند یا کار او
  • He (the loved slave) possesses no authority, that he should care for him: shall he do his own master's business or his (the lover's)?

  • مثل عرب إذا زنیت فازن بالحرة و إذا سرقت فاسرق الدرة
  • The Arabic proverb, “If you commit fornication, commit it with a free woman, and if you steal, steal a pearl.”

  • فازن بالحرة پی این شد مثل ** فاسرق الدرة بدین شد منتقل‌‌ 2805
  • Hence (the saying), “Commit fornication with a free woman,” became proverbial; (and the words) “steal a pearl” were transferred (metaphorically) to this (meaning).

  • بنده سوی خواجه شد او ماند زار ** بوی گل شد سوی گل او ماند خار
  • The slave (the loved one) went away to his master: he (the lover) was left in misery. The scent of the rose went (back) to the rose: he remained as the thorn.

  • او بمانده دور از مطلوب خویش ** سعی ضایع رنج باطل پای ریش‌‌
  • He was left far from the object of his desire—his labour lost, his toil useless, his foot wounded,

  • همچو صیادی که گیرد سایه‌‌ای ** سایه کی گردد و را سرمایه‌‌ای‌‌
  • Like the hunter who catches a shadow—how should the shadow become his property?

  • سایه‌‌ی مرغی گرفته مرد سخت ** مرغ حیران گشته بر شاخ درخت‌‌
  • The man has grasped tightly the shadow of a bird, (while) the bird on the branch of the tree is fallen into amazement,

  • کاین مدمغ بر که می‌‌خندد عجب ** اینت باطل اینت پوسیده سبب‌‌ 2810
  • (Thinking), “I wonder who this crack-brained fellow is laughing at? Here's folly for you, here's a rotten cause!”

  • ور تو گویی جزو پیوسته‌‌ی کل است ** خار می‌‌خور خار مقرون گل است‌‌
  • And if you say that the part is connected with the whole, (then) eat thorns: the thorn is connected with the rose.

  • جز ز یک رو نیست پیوسته به کل ** ور نه خود باطل بدی بعث رسل‌‌
  • Except from one point of view, it (the part) is not connected with the whole: otherwise, indeed, the mission of the prophets would be vain,

  • چون رسولان از پی پیوستن‌‌اند ** پس چه پیوندندشان چون یک تن‌‌اند
  • Inasmuch as the prophets are (sent) in order to connect (the part with the whole): how, then, should they (the prophets) connect them when they are (already) one body?

  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای غلام ** روز بی‌‌گه شد حکایت کن تمام‌‌
  • This discourse hath no end. O lad, the day is late: conclude the tale.

  • سپردن عرب هدیه را یعنی سبو را به غلامان خلیفه‌‌
  • How the Arab delivered the gift, that is, the jug to the Caliph's servants.

  • آن سبوی آب را در پیش داشت ** تخم خدمت را در آن حضرت بکاشت‌‌ 2815
  • He presented the jug of water, he sowed the seed of homage in that (exalted) court.

  • گفت این هدیه بدان سلطان برید ** سایل شه را ز حاجت واخرید
  • “Bear this gift,” said he, “to the Sultan, redeem the King's suitor from indigence.

  • آب شیرین و سبوی سبز و نو ** ز آب بارانی که جمع آمد به گو
  • ’Tis sweet water and a new green jug—some of the rain-water that collected in the ditch.”

  • خنده می‌‌آمد نقیبان را از آن ** لیک پذرفتند آن را همچو جان‌‌
  • The officials smiled at that, but they accepted it (the jug) as (though it were precious as) life,

  • ز آن که لطف شاه خوب با خبر ** کرده بود اندر همه ارکان اثر
  • Because the graciousness of the good and wise King had made a mark (impressed itself) on all the courtiers.

  • خوی شاهان در رعیت جا کند ** چرخ اخضر خاک را خضرا کند 2820
  • The disposition of kings settles (becomes implanted) in their subjects: the green sky makes the earth verdant.

  • شه چو حوضی دان حشم چون لوله‌‌ها ** آب از لوله روان در کوله‌‌ها
  • Regard the king as a reservoir, his retainers as the pipes: the water runs through the pipe into the ponds (receptacles).

  • چون که آب جمله از حوضی است پاک ** هر یکی آبی دهد خوش ذوقناک‌‌
  • When the water in all (the pipes) is from a pure reservoir, every single one gives sweet water, pleasant to taste;

  • ور در آن حوض آب شور است و پلید ** هر یکی لوله همان آرد پدید
  • But if the water in the reservoir is brackish and dirty, every pipe brings the same to view,