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  • گام زان سان نه که نابینا نهد ** تا که پا از چاه و از سگ وا رهد
  • Step in the same fashion as a blind man steps, in order that your foot may escape from the pit and the dog.

  • لرز لرزان و بترس و احتیاط ** می‌نهد پا تا نیفتد در خباط 280
  • He (the blind man) plants his foot tremblingly and with fear and precaution, so that he may not fall into derangement.

  • ای ز دودی جسته در ناری شده ** لقمه جسته لقمه‌ی ماری شده
  • O you who have jumped away from some smoke and fallen into a fire, you who have sought a mouthful (of food) and become a mouthful for a snake,

  • قصه‌ی اهل سبا و طاغی کردن نعمت ایشان را و در رسیدن شومی طغیان و کفران در ایشان و بیان فضیلت شکر و وفا
  • (Story of the people of Sabá and how prosperity made them forward.)

  • تو نخواندی قصه‌ی اهل سبا ** یا بخواندی و ندیدی جز صدا
  • You have not read the story of the people of Sabá, or you have read it and seen (heard) naught but the echo.

  • از صدا آن کوه خود آگاه نیست ** سوی معنی هوش که را راه نیست
  • The mountain itself (which produces the echo) is not aware of the echo: the mind of the mountain hath no way (of access) to the meaning.

  • او همی بانگی کند بی گوش و هوش ** چون خمش کردی تو او هم شد خموش
  • Without ear and mind, it goes on making a noise; when you are silent, it also becomes silent.

  • داد حق اهل سبا را بس فراغ ** صد هزاران قصر و ایوانها و باغ 285
  • God bestowed on the people of Sabá much ease—myriads of castles and palaces and orchards.

  • شکر آن نگزاردند آن بد رگان ** در وفا بودند کمتر از سگان
  • (But) those bad-natured ones rendered no thanks for that (bounty): in fidelity they were less than dogs.

  • مر سگی را لقمه‌ی نانی ز در ** چون رسد بر در همی‌بندد کمر
  • When to a dog there comes from the door a piece of bread, he will gird up his loins at the door.

  • پاسبان و حارس در می‌شود ** گرچه بر وی جور و سختی می‌رود
  • He will become the watcher and guardian of the door, even though violence and hard treatment befall him.

  • هم بر آن در باشدش باش و قرار ** کفر دارد کرد غیری اختیار
  • Still will he stay and abide at that door: he will deem it ingratitude to prefer another.

  • ور سگی آید غریبی روز و شب ** آن سگانش می‌کنند آن دم ادب 290
  • And (again), if a strange dog come by day or night (to a quarter of the town), the dogs there will at once teach him a lesson,

  • که برو آنجا که اول منزلست ** حق آن نعمت گروگان دلست
  • Saying, “Begone to the place that is thy first lodging: obligation for that kindness is the heart's pledge (which it must redeem).”

  • می‌گزندش که برو بر جای خویش ** حق آن نعمت فرو مگذار بیش
  • They will bite him, saying, “Begone to thy place, do not any more leave (unpaid) the obligation for that kindness.”

  • از در دل و اهل دل آب حیات ** چند نوشیدی و وا شد چشمهات
  • From the door of the spirit and spiritual men how long didst thou drink the water of life, and thine eyes were opened!

  • بس غذای سکر و وجد و بی‌خودی ** از در اهل دلان بر جان زدی
  • Much food from the door of the spiritual, (in the form) of (mystical) intoxication and ecstasy and selflessness, didst thou cast upon thy soul.

  • باز این در را رها کردی ز حرص ** گرد هر دکان همی‌گردی ز حرص 295
  • Afterwards, through greed, thou didst abandon that door, and (now), through greed, thou art going round about every shop.

  • بر در آن منعمان چرب‌دیگ ** می‌دوی بهر ثرید مردریگ
  • For the sake of worthless tharíd thou art running to the doors of those (worldly) patrons whose pots are (full of) fat.

  • چربش اینجا دان که جان فربه شود ** کار نااومید اینجا به شود
  • Know that here (where the saints abide) the (meaning of) “fat” is that the soul becomes fat (flourishing), and (know that) here the plight of the desperate is made good.

  • جمع آمدن اهل آفت هر صباحی بر در صومعه‌ی عیسی علیه السلام جهت طلب شفا به دعای او
  • How the smitten would assemble every morning at the door of the (monastic) cell of Jesus, on whom be peace, craving to be healed through his prayer.

  • صومعه‌ی عیسیست خوان اهل دل ** هان و هان ای مبتلا این در مهل
  • The table of the spiritual is (like) the cell of Jesus: O afflicted one, beware, beware! Do not forsake this door!

  • جمع گشتندی ز هر اطراف خلق ** از ضریر و لنگ و شل و اهل دلق
  • From all sides the people would gather—blind and lame and palsied and clothed in rags—

  • بر در آن صومعه‌ی عیسی صباح ** تا بدم اوشان رهاند از جناح 300
  • At the door of the cell of Jesus in the morning, that he by his breath might deliver them from tribulation.

  • او چو فارغ گشتی از اوراد خویش ** چاشتگه بیرون شدی آن خوب‌کیش
  • As soon as he finished his litanies, that man of goodly religion (Jesus) would go forth at morning tide,

  • جوق جوقی مبتلا دیدی نزار ** شسته بر در در امید و انتظار
  • And would see troops of afflicted feeble folk seated at the door in hope and expectancy.

  • گفتی ای اصحاب آفت از خدا ** حاجت این جملگانتان شد روا
  • (Then) he would say, “O ye that are smitten, the wants of all you here present have been granted by God.