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  • گفت ما زاغیم همچون زاغ نه ** مست صباغیم مست باغ نه‌‌
  • He (also) said, “We are má zágh (that is, Our eye did not rove), we are not (looking for carrion) like crows (zágh); We are intoxicated with (enraptured by) the Dyer, we are not intoxicated with the garden (of flowers with their many dyes).”

  • چون که مخزنهای افلاک و عقول ** چون خسی آمد بر چشم رسول‌‌ 3955
  • Inasmuch as to the eye of the Prophet the treasuries of the celestial spheres and intelligences seemed (worthless) as a straw,

  • پس چه باشد مکه و شام و عراق ** که نماید او نبرد و اشتیاق‌‌
  • What, then, would Mecca and Syria and ‘Iráq be (worth to him), that he should show fight and longing (to gain possession of them)?

  • آن گمان بر وی ضمیر بد کند ** که قیاس از جهل و حرص خود کند
  • (Only) the evil mind which judges by its own ignorance and cupidity will think that of him (impute that motive to him).

  • آبگینه‌‌ی زرد چون سازی نقاب ** زرد بینی جمله نور آفتاب‌‌
  • When you make yellow glass a veil (between your eyes and the sun), you see all the sunlight yellow.

  • بشکن آن شیشه‌‌ی کبود و زرد را ** تا شناسی گرد را و مرد را
  • Break those blue and yellow glasses, in order that you may know (distinguish) the dust and the man (who is concealed by it).

  • گرد فارس گرد سر افراشته ** گرد را تو مرد حق پنداشته‌‌ 3960
  • The dust (of the body) has lifted up its head (risen) around the (spiritual) horseman: you have fancied the dust to be the man of God.

  • گرد دید ابلیس و گفت این فرع طین ** چون فزاید بر من آتش جبین‌‌
  • Iblís saw (only) the dust, and said, “How should this offspring of clay (Adam) be superior to me of the fiery brow?”

  • تا تو می‌‌بینی عزیزان را بشر ** دان که میراث بلیس است آن نظر
  • So long as thou art regarding the holy (prophets and saints) as men, know that that view is an inheritance from Iblís.

  • گر نه فرزند بلیسی ای عنید ** پس به تو میراث آن سگ چون رسید
  • If thou art not the child of Iblís, O contumacious one, then how has the inheritance of that cur come to thee?

  • من نیم سگ شیر حقم حق پرست ** شیر حق آن است کز صورت برست‌‌
  • “I am not a cur, I am the Lion of God, a worshipper of God: the lion of God is he that has escaped from (phenomenal) form.

  • شیر دنیا جوید اشکاری و برگ ** شیر مولی جوید آزادی و مرگ‌‌ 3965
  • The lion of this world seeks a prey and provision; the lion of the Lord seeks freedom and death.

  • چون که اندر مرگ بیند صد وجود ** همچو پروانه بسوزاند وجود
  • Inasmuch as in death he sees a hundred existences, like the moth he burns away (his own) existence.”

  • شد هوای مرگ طوق صادقان ** که جهودان را بد این دم امتحان‌‌
  • Desire for death became the badge of the sincere, for this word (declaration) was (made) a test for the Jews.

  • در نبی فرمود کای قوم یهود ** صادقان را مرگ باشد گنج و سود
  • He (God) said in the Qur‘án, “O people of the Jews, death is treasure and gain to the sincere.

  • همچنان که آرزوی سود هست ** آرزوی مرگ بردن ز آن به است‌‌
  • Even as there is desire for profit (in the hearts of the worldly), the desire to win death is better than that (in the eyes of the sincere).

  • ای جهودان بهر ناموس کسان ** بگذرانید این تمنا بر زبان‌‌ 3970
  • O Jews, for the sake of (being held in) honour by men of worth, let this wish be uttered on your tongues.”

  • یک جهودی این قدر زهره نداشت ** چون محمد این علم را بر فراشت‌‌
  • Not a single Jew had so much courage (as to respond), when Mohammed raised this banner (gave this challenge).

  • گفت اگر رانید این را بر زبان ** یک یهودی خود نماند در جهان‌‌
  • He said, “If ye utter this on your tongues, truly not one Jew will be left in the world.”

  • پس یهودان مال بردند و خراج ** که مکن رسوا تو ما را ای سراج‌‌
  • Then the Jews brought the property (tribute in kind) and land-tax, saying, “Do not put us to shame, O Lamp (of the world).”

  • این سخن را نیست پایانی پدید ** دست با من ده چو چشمت دوست دید
  • “There is no end in sight to this discourse: give me thy hand, since thine eye hath seen the Friend.”

  • گفتن امیر المؤمنین علی کرم الله وجهه با قرین خود که چون خدو انداختی در روی من نفس من جنبید و اخلاص عمل نماند، مانع کشتن تو آن شد
  • How the Prince of the Faithful, ‘Ali—may God honour his person! said to his antagonist, " When thou didst spit in my face, my fleshly self was aroused and I could no longer act with entire sincerity (towards God): that hindered me from slaying thee." 

  • گفت امیر المؤمنین با آن جوان ** که به هنگام نبرد ای پهلوان‌‌ 3975
  • The Prince of the Faithful said to that youth, “In the hour of battle, O knight,

  • چون خدو انداختی در روی من ** نفس جنبید و تبه شد خوی من‌‌
  • When thou didst spit in my face, my fleshly self was aroused and my good disposition was corrupted.

  • نیم بهر حق شد و نیمی هوا ** شرکت اندر کار حق نبود روا
  • Half (of my fighting) came to be for God's sake, and half (for) idle passion: in God’s affair partnership’ is not allowable.

  • تو نگاریده‌‌ی کف مولاستی ** آن حقی کرده‌‌ی من نیستی‌‌
  • Thou art limned by the hand of the Lord: thou art God's (work), thou art not made by me.