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1330-1354

  • اندرین گفتن بدند و موج تیز ** بر سر کنعان زد وشد ریز ریز 1330
  • They were (engaged) in this talk when a fierce billow dashed upon Canaan's head, and he was shivered to fragments.

  • نوح گفت ای پادشاه بردبار ** مر مرا خر مرد و سیلت برد بار
  • Noah said, “O long-suffering King, my ass is dead, and Thy Flood hath carried away the load.

  • وعده کردی مر مرا تو بارها ** که بیابد اهلت از طوفان رها
  • Many times Thou didst promise me, saying, ‘Thy family shall be saved from the Deluge.’

  • دل نهادم بر امیدت من سلیم ** پس چرا بربود سیل از من گلیم
  • I (in) simple (faith) fixed my heart on hope of Thee: why, then, has the Flood swept my garment away from me?”

  • گفت او از اهل و خویشانت نبود ** خود ندیدی تو سپیدی او کبود
  • He (God) said, “He was not of thy family and kinsfolk: didst not thou thyself see (that) thou art white, he blue?”

  • چونک دندان تو کرمش در فتاد ** نیست دندان بر کنش ای اوستاد 1335
  • When the worm (of decay) has fallen upon thy tooth, it is not a tooth (any more): tear it out, O master.

  • تا که باقی تن نگردد زار ازو ** گرچه بود آن تو شو بیزار ازو
  • In order that the rest of thy body may not be made miserable by it, become quit of it, although it was (once) thine.

  • گفت بیزارم ز غیر ذات تو ** غیر نبود آنک او شد مات تو
  • He (Noah) said, “I am quit of aught other than Thy Essence; he that has died in Thee is not other (than Thou).

  • تو همی دانی که چونم با تو من ** بیست چندانم که با باران چمن
  • Thou knowest how I am to Thee: I am (to Thee) as the orchard to the rain, and twenty times as much—

  • زنده از تو شاد از تو عایلی ** مغتذی بی واسطه و بی حایلی
  • Living by Thee, rejoicing because of Thee, a pauper receiving sustenance without any medium or intervention;

  • متصل نه منفصل نه ای کمال ** بلک بی چون و چگونه و اعتلال 1340
  • Not united, not separated, O Perfection; nay, devoid of quality or description or causation.

  • ماهیانیم و تو دریای حیات ** زنده‌ایم از لطفت ای نیکو صفات
  • We are the fishes, and Thou the Sea of Life: we live by Thy favour, O Thou whose attributes are excellent.

  • تو نگنجی در کنار فکرتی ** نی به معلولی قرین چون علتی
  • Thou art not contained in the bosom of any thought, nor art Thou joined with the effect, as a cause.

  • پیش ازین طوفان و بعد این مرا ** تو مخاطب بوده‌ای در ماجرا
  • Before this Flood and after it, Thou hast been the object of my address in (every) colloquy.

  • با تو می‌گفتم نه با ایشان سخن ** ای سخن‌بخش نو و آن کهن
  • I was speaking with Thee, not with them, O Thou that art the Giver of speech (both) newly and of old.

  • نه که عاشق روز و شب گوید سخن ** گاه با اطلال و گاهی با دمن 1345
  • Is it not the case that the lover, day and night, converses now with the ruins (of the beloved's abode), now with the traces (of her habitation)?

  • روی با اطلال کرده ظاهرا ** او کرا می‌گوید آن مدحت کرا
  • To outward seeming, he has turned his face towards the ruins, (but) to whom is he (really) saying that song of praise, to whom?

  • شکر طوفان را کنون بگماشتی ** واسطه‌ی اطلال را بر داشتی
  • Thanks (be to Thee)! Now Thou hast let loose the Flood and removed the ruins which stood between (me and Thee).

  • زانک اطلال لیم و بد بدند ** نه ندایی نه صدایی می‌زدند
  • (I thank Thee) because they were vile and evil ruins, uttering neither a cry nor an echo.

  • من چنان اطلال خواهم در خطاب ** کز صدا چون کوه واگوید جواب
  • I desire such ruins to speak with as answer back, like the mountain, by an echo,

  • تا مثنا بشنوم من نام تو ** عاشقم برنام جان آرام تو 1350
  • So that I may hear Thy name redoubled, (for) I am in love with Thy soul-soothing name.

  • هرنبی زان دوست دارد کوه را ** تا مثنا بشنود نام ترا
  • That is why every prophet holds the mountains dear: (’tis) that he may hear Thy name redoubled.

  • آن که پست مثال سنگ لاخ ** موش را شاید نه ما را در مناخ
  • That low mountain, resembling stony ground, is suitable for a mouse, not for us, as a resting-place.

  • من بگویم او نگردد یار من ** بی صدا ماند دم گفتار من
  • (When) I speak, it does not join with me: the breath of my speech remains without (any) echo.

  • با زمین آن به که هموارش کنی ** نیست همدم با قدم یارش کنی
  • ’Tis better that thou level it with the earth; it is not in accord with thy breath (voice): thou shouldst join it with thy foot.”