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606-630

  • گفت یزدانت فمنکم مومن ** باز منکم کافر گبر کهن‏
  • Your God has said, “(Some) of you (are) believing”; (and) again, “(Some) of you (are) unbelieving” (as) an old fire-worshipper.

  • همچو گاوی نیمه‏ی چپش سیاه ** نیمه‏ی دیگر سپید همچو ماه‏
  • (He is) like an ox, his left half black, the other half white as the moon.

  • هر که این نیمه ببیند رد کند ** هر که آن نیمه ببیند کد کند
  • Whoever sees the former half spurns (him); whoever sees the latter half seeks (after him).

  • یوسف اندر چشم اخوان چون ستور ** هم وی اندر چشم یعقوبی چو حور
  • Joseph was like a beast of burden in the eyes of his brethren; at the same time in the eyes of a Jacob he was like a houri.

  • از خیال بد مر او را زشت دید ** چشم فرع و چشم اصلی ناپدید 610
  • Through evil fancy the (bodily) derivative eye and the original unseen eye (of the mind) regarded him (Joseph) as ugly.

  • چشم ظاهر سایه‏ی آن چشم دان ** هر چه آن بیند بگردد این بد آن‏
  • Know that the outward eye is the shadow of that (inward) eye: whatever that (inward) eye may see, this (outward) eye turns to that (eye).

  • تو مکانی اصل تو در لامکان ** این دکان بر بند و بگشا آن دکان‏
  • You are of where, (but) your origin is in Nowhere: shut up this shop and open that shop.

  • شش جهت مگریز زیرا در جهات ** ششدره است و ششدره مات است مات‏
  • Do not flee to the (world of the) six directions, because in directions there is the shashdara, and the shashdara is mate, mate.

  • شکایت کردن اهل زندان پیش وکیل قاضی از دست آن مفلس
  • How the prisoners laid a complaint of the insolvent's high-handedness before the agent of the Cadi.

  • با وکیل قاضی ادراک‏مند ** اهل زندان در شکایت آمدند
  • The prisoners came to complain to the Cadi's agent, (who was) possessed of discernment,

  • که سلام ما به قاضی بر کنون ** باز گو آزار ما زین مرد دون‏ 615
  • Saying, “Take now our salutations to the Cadi and relate (to him) the sufferings inflicted on us by this vile man;

  • کاندر این زندان بماند او مستمر ** یاوه تاز و طبل‏خوار است و مضر
  • For he has remained in this prison continuously, and he is an idle gad-about, a lickspittle, and a nuisance.

  • چون مگس حاضر شود در هر طعام ** از وقاحت بی‏صلا و بی‏سلام‏
  • Like a fly, he impudently appears at every meal without invitation and without salaam.

  • پیش او هیچ است لوت شصت کس ** کر کند خود را اگر گوییش بس‏
  • To him the food of sixty persons is nothing; he feigns himself deaf if you say to him, ‘Enough!’

  • مرد زندان را نیاید لقمه‏ای ** ور به صد حیلت گشاید طعمه‏ای‏
  • No morsel reaches the (ordinary) man in prison, or if by means of a hundred contrivances he discover some food,

  • در زمان پیش آید آن دوزخ گلو ** حجتش این که خدا گفتا کلوا 620
  • That hell-throat at once comes forward (with) this (as) his argument, that God has said, ‘Eat ye.’

  • زین چنین قحط سه ساله داد داد ** ظل مولانا ابد پاینده باد
  • Justice, justice against such a three years' famine! May the shadow of our lord endure for ever!

  • یا ز زندان تا رود این گاومیش ** یا وظیفه کن ز وقفی لقمه‏ایش‏
  • Either let this buffalo go from prison, or make him a regular allowance of food from a trust-fund.

  • ای ز تو خوش هم ذکور و هم اناث ** داد کن المستغاث المستغاث‏
  • O thou by whom both males and females are (made) happy, do justice! Thy help is invoked and besought.”

  • سوی قاضی شد وکیل با نمک ** گفت با قاضی شکایت یک به یک‏
  • The courteous agent went to the Cadi and related the complaint to him point by point.

  • خواند او را قاضی از زندان به پیش ** پس تفحص کرد از اعیان خویش‏ 625
  • The Cadi called him (the insolvent) from the prison into his presence, and (then) inquired (about him) from his own officers.

  • گشت ثابت پیش قاضی آن همه ** که نمودند از شکایت آن رمه‏
  • All the complaints which that flock (of prisoners) had set forth were proved to the Cadi.

  • گفت قاضی خیز از این زندان برو ** سوی خانه‏ی مرده‏ریگ خویش شو
  • The Cadi said (to him), “Get up and depart from this prison: go to the house which is your inherited property.”

  • گفت خان و مان من احسان تست ** همچو کافر جنتم زندان تست‏
  • He replied, “My house and home consist in thy beneficence; as (in the case of) an infidel, thy prison is my Paradise.

  • گر ز زندانم برانی تو به رد ** خود بمیرم من ز تقصیری و کد
  • If thou wilt drive me from the prison and turn me out, verily I shall die of destitution and beggary.”

  • همچو ابلیسی که می‏گفت ای سلام ** رب أنظرنی إلی یوم القیام‏ 630
  • (He pleaded) like the Devil, who was saying, “O Preserver, O my Lord, grant me a respite till the day of Resurrection;