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1884-1908

  • گفت بهلول آن یکی درویش را ** چونی ای درویش واقف کن مرا
  • Buhlúl said to a certain dervish, “How art thou, O dervish? Inform me.”

  • گفت چون باشد کسی که جاودان ** بر مراد او رود کار جهان 1885
  • He said, “How should that one be, according to whose desire the work of the world goes on?—

  • سیل و جوها بر مراد او روند ** اختران زان سان که خواهد آن شوند
  • According to whose desire the torrents and rivers flow, and the stars move in such wise as he wills;

  • زندگی و مرگ سرهنگان او ** بر مراد او روانه کو بکو
  • And Life and Death are his officers, going to and fro according to his desire.

  • هر کجا خواهد فرستد تعزیت ** هر کجا خواهد ببخشد تهنیت
  • He sends (what entails) condolence wheresoever he will; he bestows (what entails) felicitation wheresoever he will.

  • سالکان راه هم بر گام او ** ماندگان از راه هم در دام او
  • The travellers on the Way (go) according to his pleasure; they that have lost the Way (are fallen) in his snare.

  • هیچ دندانی نخندد در جهان ** بی رضا و امر آن فرمان‌روان 1890
  • No tooth flashes with laughter in the world without the approval and command of that imperial personage.”

  • گفت ای شه راست گفتی همچنین ** در فر و سیمای تو پیداست این
  • He (Buhlúl) said, “O King, thou hast spoken truly: ’tis even so: this is manifest in thy (spiritual) radiance and (glorious) aspect.

  • این و صد چندینی ای صادق ولیک ** شرح کن این را بیان کن نیک نیک
  • Thou art this and a hundred times as much, O veracious one; but expound this (mystery) and explain it very well,

  • آنچنانک فاضل و مرد فضول ** چون به گوش او رسد آرد قبول
  • In such fashion that (both) the virtuous (wise) and the man given to vanity (folly) may assent when it comes to their ears.

  • آنچنانش شرح کن اندر کلام ** که از آن هم بهره یابد عقل عام
  • Expound it in thy discourse in such a way that the understanding of the vulgar may profit thereby.”

  • ناطق کامل چو خوان‌پاشی بود ** خوانش بر هر گونه‌ی آشی بود 1895
  • The perfect speaker is like one who distributes trays of viands, and on whose table is every sort of food,

  • که نماند هیچ مهمان بی نوا ** هر کسی یابد غذای خود جدا
  • So that no guest remains without provisions, (but) each one gets his (proper) nourishment separately:

  • همچو قرآن که بمعنی هفت توست ** خاص را و عام را مطعم دروست
  • (Such a speaker is) like the Qur’án which is sevenfold in meaning, and in which there is food for the elect and for the vulgar.

  • گفت این باری یقین شد پیش عام ** که جهان در امر یزدانست رام
  • He (the dervish) said, “This at least is evident to the vulgar, that the world is subject to the command of God.

  • هیچ برگی در نیفتد از درخت ** بی قضا و حکم آن سلطان بخت
  • No leaf drops from a tree without the predestination and ordainment of that Ruler of Fortune.

  • از دهان لقمه نشد سوی گلو ** تا نگوید لقمه را حق که ادخلوا 1900
  • No morsel goes from the mouth towards the gullet till God says to that morsel, ‘Enter!’

  • میل و رغبت کان زمام آدمیست ** جنبش آن رام امر آن غنیست
  • The inclination and desire which is Man's nose-rein—its movement is subject to the command of that Self-sufficient One.

  • در زمینها و آسمانها ذره‌ای ** پر نجنباند نگردد پره‌ای
  • In (all) the earths and heavens not an atom moves a wing, not a straw turns,

  • جز به فرمان قدیم نافذش ** شرح نتوان کرد و جلدی نیست خوش
  • Save by His eternal and effectual command. To expound (this) is impossible, and presumption is not good.

  • کی شمرد برگ درختان را تمام ** بی‌نهایت کی شود در نطق رام
  • Who may number all the leaves of the trees? How may the Infinite become amenable to speech?

  • این قدر بشنو که چون کلی کار ** می‌نگردد جز بامر کردگار 1905
  • Hear this much, (however): since all action (in the universe) only comes to pass by the command of the Maker,

  • چون قضای حق رضای بنده شد ** حکم او را بنده‌ی خواهنده شد
  • When the predestination of God becomes the pleasure of His servant, he (the servant) becomes a willing slave to His decree,

  • بی تکلف نه پی مزد و ثواب ** بلک طبع او چنین شد مستطاب
  • Without tasking himself, and not on account of the (future) reward and recompense; nay, his nature has become so goodly.

  • زندگی خود نخواهد بهر خوذ ** نه پی ذوقی حیات مستلذ
  • He does not desire his life for himself nor to the end that he may enjoy the life that is found sweet (by others).