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  • بعد قصه گفتنش گفت ای فلان ** هین چه آوردی تو ما را ارمغان‌‌ 3170
  • After he (Joseph) had told him his story, he (Joseph) said, “Now, O so-and-so, what traveller's gift hast thou brought for me?”

  • بر در یاران تهی دست ای فتی ** هست چون بی‌‌گندمی در آسیا
  • O youth, he who is empty-handed at the door of friends is like a man without wheat in the mill.

  • حق تعالی خلق را گوید به حشر ** ارمغان کو از برای روز نشر
  • God, exalted is He, will say to the people at the gathering (for Judgement), “Where is your present for the Day of Resurrection?

  • جئتمونا و فرادی بی‌‌نوا ** هم بدان سان که خلقناکم کذا
  • Ye have come to Us and alone without provision, just in the same guise as We created you.

  • هین چه آوردید دست آویز را ** ارمغانی روز رستاخیز را
  • Hark, what have ye brought as an offering—a gift on homecoming for the Day when ye rise from the dead?

  • یا امید باز گشتنتان نبود ** وعده‌‌ی امروز باطلتان نمود 3175
  • Or had ye no hope of returning? Did the promise of (meeting Me) to-day seem vain to you?”

  • وعده‌‌ی مهمانی‌‌اش را منکری ** پس ز مطبخ خاک و خاکستر بری‌‌
  • Dost thou (O reader) disbelieve in the promise of being His guest? Then from the kitchen (of His bounty) thou wilt get (only) dust and ashes.

  • ور نه‌‌ای منکر چنین دست تهی ** در در آن دوست چون پا می‌‌نهی‌‌
  • And if thou art not disbelieving, how with such empty hands art thou setting foot in the Court of that Friend?

  • اندکی صرفه بکن از خواب و خور ** ارمغان بهر ملاقاتش ببر
  • Refrain thyself a little from sleep and food: bring the gift for thy meeting with Him.

  • شو قلیل النوم مما یهجعون ** باش در اسحار از یستغفرون‌‌
  • Become scant of sleep (like them that) were slumbering (but a small part of the night); in the hours of dawn be of (those who) were asking pardon of God.

  • اندکی جنبش بکن همچون جنین ** تا ببخشندت حواس نور بین‌‌ 3180
  • Stir a little, like the embryo, in order that thou mayst be given the senses which behold the Light,

  • وز جهان چون رحم بیرون روی ** از زمین در عرصه‌‌ی واسع شوی‌‌
  • And mayst go forth from this womb-like world and mayst go from the earth into a wide expanse.

  • آن که ارض الله واسع گفته‌‌اند ** عرصه‌‌ای دان کانبیا در رفته‌‌اند
  • Know that the saying, “God's earth is wide,” refers to an exceedingly sublime expanse belonging to the prophets.

  • دل نگردد تنگ ز آن عرصه‌‌ی فراخ ** نخل تر آن جا نگردد خشک شاخ‌‌
  • The heart is not oppressed by that spacious expanse: there the fresh boughs of the palm-tree do not become dry.

  • حاملی تو مر حواست را کنون ** کند و مانده می‌‌شوی و سر نگون‌‌
  • At present thou art bearing (the burden of) thy senses: thou art becoming weary and exhausted and (ready to fall) headlong.

  • چون که محمولی نه حامل وقت خواب ** ماندگی رفت و شدی بی‌‌رنج و تاب‌‌ 3185
  • Since, at the time of sleep, thou art borne (on high), and art not bearing (the burden), thy fatigue is gone and thou art free from pain and anguish.

  • چاشنیی دان تو حال خواب را ** پیش محمولی حال اولیا
  • Regard the time of sleep as a (mere) taste (sample) in comparison with the state in which the saints are borne (on high).

  • اولیا اصحاب کهفند ای عنود ** در قیام و در تقلب هم رقود
  • The saints are (like) the Men of the Cave, O obstinate one: they are asleep (even) in rising up and turning to and fro.

  • می‌‌کشدشان بی‌‌تکلف در فعال ** بی‌‌خبر ذات الیمین ذات الشمال‌‌
  • He (God) is drawing them, without their taking trouble to act, without consciousness (on their part), to the right hand and to the left.

  • چیست آن ذات الیمین فعل حسن ** چیست آن ذات الشمال اشغال تن‌‌
  • What is that right hand? Good deeds. What is that left hand? The affairs of the body.

  • می‌‌رود این هر دو کار از انبیا ** بی‌‌خبر زین هر دو ایشان چون صدا 3190
  • These two (kinds of) actions proceed from the prophets, (while) they are unconscious of them both, like the echo:

  • گر صدایت بشنواند خیر و شر ** ذات کوه از هر دو باشد بی‌‌خبر
  • If the echo causes thee to hear good and evil, the mountain itself is unconscious of either.

  • گفتن مهمان یوسف علیه السلام را که آینه آوردمت ارمغان تا هر باری که در وی نگری روی خوب خود بینی مرا یاد کنی‌‌
  • How the guest said to Joseph, “I have brought thee the gift of a mirror, so that whenever thou lookest in it thou wilt see thine own fair face and remember me.”

  • گفت یوسف هین بیاور ارمغان ** او ز شرم این تقاضا زد فغان‌‌
  • Joseph said, “Come, produce the gift.” He (the guest), on account of shame (confusion) at this demand, sobbed aloud.

  • گفت من چند ارمغان جستم ترا ** ارمغانی در نظر نامد مرا
  • “How many a gift,” said he, “did I seek for thee! No (worthy) gift came into my sight.

  • حبه‌‌ای را جانب کان چون برم ** قطره‌‌ای را سوی عمان چون برم‌‌
  • How should I bring a grain (of gold) to the mine? How should I bring a drop (of water) to the (Sea of) ‘Umán?