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  • دایما تر و جوانیم و لطیف ** تازه و شیرین و خندان و ظریف
  • We are ever fresh and young and gracious, unfaded and sweet and laughing and debonair.

  • پیش ما صد سال و یکساعت یکیست ** که دراز و کوته از ما منفکیست
  • To us a hundred years are the same as a single hour, for long and short (time) is a thing disjoined from us.

  • آن دراز و کوتهی در جسمهاست ** آن دراز و کوته اندر جان کجاست
  • That length and shortness is in bodies (alone): where is that long and short in the soul?

  • سیصد و نه سال آن اصحاب کهف ** پیششان یک روز بی اندوه و لهف
  • The three hundred and nine years of the Men of the Cave seemed to them one day (that passed) without grief and woe;

  • وانگهی بنمودشان یک روز هم ** که به تن باز آمد ارواح از عدم 2940
  • And (only) then did it seem to them one day even, when their spirits came back from non-existence into their bodies.

  • چون نباشد روز و شب یا ماه و سال ** کی بود سیری و پیری و ملال
  • When there is no day and night and month and year, how should there be satiety and old age and weariness?

  • در گلستان عدم چون بی‌خودیست ** مستی از سغراق لطف ایزدیست
  • Since there is (for us) selflessness in the rose-garden of non-existence, there is (for us) intoxication caused by the goblet of Divine grace.

  • لم یذق لم یدر هر کس کو نخورد ** کی بوهم آرد جعل انفاس ورد
  • Any one that has not drunk (thereof is in the same case as those to whom the saying, ‘Whoso) has not tasted does not know’ (is applicable): how should the dung-beetle conceive the (fragrant) breaths of the rose?

  • نیست موهوم ار بدی موهوم آن ** همچو موهومان شدی معدوم آن
  • It is not conceivable: if it were conceivable, it would become non-existent, like (all) objects of conception.

  • دوزخ اندر وهم چون آرد بهشت ** هیچ تابد روی خوب از خوک زشت 2945
  • How should Hell conceive Paradise? Does a beauteous face shine (forth) at all from an ugly pig?

  • هین گلوی خود مبر هان ای مهان ** این‌چنین لقمه رسیده تا دهان
  • Hark, do not cut your own throat! Take heed, O despicable one, (when) such a morsel as this has reached your mouth.

  • راههای صعب پایان برده‌ایم ** ره بر اهل خویش آسان کرده‌ایم
  • We have brought the hard ways to an end; we have made the way easy for our own people.”

  • مکرر کردن قوم اعتراض ترجیه بر انبیا علیهم‌السلام
  • How the people (of Sabá) repeated their resistance to the (prophets') hope (of converting them and set themselves) against the prophets, on whom be peace.

  • قوم گفتند از شما سعد خودیت ** نحس مایید و ضدیت و مرتدیت
  • The people (of Sabá) said, “If ye bring good luck to yourselves, ye are ill-starred for us and are opposed (to us) and rejected (by us).

  • جان ما فارغ بد از اندیشه‌ها ** در غم افکندید ما را و عنا
  • Our souls were free from cares: ye have cast us into grief and trouble.

  • ذوق جمعیت که بود و اتفاق ** شد ز فال زشتتان صد افتراق 2950
  • Through your evil presage the delightful concord and agreement that existed (amongst us) has been turned into a hundred separations.

  • طوطی نقل شکر بودیم ما ** مرغ مرگ‌اندیش گشتیم از شما
  • (Formerly) we were parrots eating sugar for dessert; (now) through you we have become birds that meditate on death.

  • هر کجا افسانه‌ی غم‌گستریست ** هر کجا آوازه‌ی مستنکریست
  • Wheresoever is a grief-spreading tale, wheresoever is an odious rumour,

  • هر کجا اندر جهان فال بذست ** هر کجا مسخی نکالی ماخذست
  • Wheresoever in the world is an evil presage, wheresoever is a monstrous transformation, a terrible punishment, an infliction of chastisement—

  • در مثال قصه و فال شماست ** در غم‌انگیزی شما را مشتهاست
  • (All those things) are (contained) in the parable of your story and in your evil presage: ye have an appetite for rousing grief.”

  • باز جواب انبیا علیهم السلام
  • How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them once more.

  • انبیا گفتند فال زشت و بد ** از میان جانتان دارد مدد 2955
  • The prophets said, “The foul and evil presage has its support from within your souls.

  • گر تو جایی خفته باشی با خطر ** اژدها در قصد تو از سوی سر
  • If you are asleep in a perilous place, and a dragon is approaching you from a spot close at hand,

  • مهربانی مر ترا آگاه کرد ** که بجه زود ار نه اژدرهات خورد
  • And a kindly person has made you aware (of it), saying, ‘Jump up quickly, or else the dragon will devour you’—

  • تو بگویی فال بد چون می‌زنی ** فال چه بر جه ببین در روشنی
  • If you say, ‘Why are you uttering an evil presage?’ (he will reply), ‘What (evil) presage? Jump up and see in the light of day.

  • از میان فال بد من خود ترا ** می‌رهانم می‌برم سوی سرا
  • I myself will deliver you from the midst of the evil presage and will take you home.’

  • چون نبی آگه کننده‌ست از نهان ** کو بدید آنچ ندید اهل جهان 2960
  • He (such a person) is one that acquaints (you) with things hidden, like the prophet who has seen what the people of this world have not seen.