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  • تا گلستانشان سوی تو بشکفد ** میوه‌های پخته بر خود وا کفد
  • In order that their rose-garden may open its blossoms to thee, and that the ripe fruits may burst and reveal themselves.

  • هم بر آن در گرد کم از سگ مباش ** با سگ کهف ار شدستی خواجه‌تاش
  • Pace round that same door: do not be less than a dog, if thou hast become (associated as) a fellow-servant with the dog of the Cave,

  • چون سگان هم مر سگان را ناصح‌اند ** که دل اندر خانه‌ی اول ببند 315
  • Because even dogs admonish dogs, saying, “Fix thy heart on thy first home,

  • آن در اول که خوردی استخوان ** سخت گیر و حق گزار آن را ممان
  • Hold fast to the first door where thou didst eat bones, and fulfil thy obligation: do not leave that (debt unpaid).”

  • می‌گزندش تا ز ادب آنجا رود ** وز مقام اولین مفلح شود
  • They keep biting him (the strange dog), that from a sense of duty he may go thither and be prospered by his first abode.

  • می‌گزندش کای سگ طاغی برو ** با ولی نعمتت یاغی مشو
  • They bite him, saying, “O naughty dog, begone! Do not become an enemy to thy benefactor.

  • بر همان در همچو حلقه بسته باش ** پاسبان و چابک و برجسته باش
  • Be attached, like the door-ring, to that same door; keep watch and be nimble and ready to spring.

  • صورت نقض وفای ما مباش ** بی‌وفایی را مکن بیهوده فاش 320
  • Do not be the type of our breaking faith, do not recklessly make (our) disloyalty notorious.

  • مر سگان را چون وفا آمد شعار ** رو سگان را ننگ و بدنامی میار
  • Since fidelity is the badge by which the dogs are known, begone and do not bring opprobrium and ill-fame upon the dogs.”

  • بی‌وفایی چون سگان را عار بود ** بی‌وفایی چون روا داری نمود
  • Inasmuch as unfaithfulness has (always) been a disgrace (even) to dogs, how shouldst thou deem it right to show unfaithfulness?

  • حق تعالی فخر آورد از وفا ** گفت من اوفی بعهد غیرنا
  • The high God hath boasted of faithfulness: He hath said, “Who but I am most faithful in keeping a promise?”

  • بی‌وفایی دان وفا با رد حق ** بر حقوق حق ندارد کس سبق
  • Know that faithfulness (to others when it is accompanied) with rejection of God is unfaithfulness: no one hath precedence over (hath a prior claim to) God's rights.

  • حق مادر بعد از آن شد کان کریم ** کرد او را از جنین تو غریم 325
  • Thy mother's right (only) arose after that Bounteous One had made her indebted (to Him) for thy embryo.

  • صورتی کردت درون جسم او ** داد در حملش ورا آرام و خو
  • He bestowed on thee a form within her body, He gave ease to her during pregnancy and accustomed her (to the burden).

  • همچو جزو متصل دید او ترا ** متصل را کرد تدبیرش جدا
  • She deemed thee as a part joined (to herself); His providence separated (from her) that which was joined.

  • حق هزاران صنعت و فن ساختست ** تا که مادر بر تو مهر انداختست
  • God hath prepared thousands of artifices and contrivances, so that thy mother hath thrown (her) love upon thee.

  • پس حق حق سابق از مادر بود ** هر که آن حق را نداند خر بود
  • Therefore God's right is prior to (that of) the mother: whoever does not recognise that right is an ass.

  • آنک مادر آفرید و ضرع و شیر ** با پدر کردش قرین آن خود مگیر 330
  • (If thou deny it), do not even admit that He created mother, teat, and milk, and united her with the father!

  • ای خداوند ای قدیم احسان تو ** آنک دانم وانک نه هم آن تو
  • O Lord, O Thou whose beneficence is eternal, Thine is both that which I know and that which I know not.

  • تو بفرمودی که حق را یاد کن ** زانک حق من نمی‌گردد کهن
  • Thou didst command, saying, “Remember God, because My right shall never grow old.

  • یاد کن لطفی که کردم آن صبوح ** با شما از حفظ در کشتی نوح
  • Remember the kindness which I did unto you that morn by protecting (you) in the ship (ark) of Noah.

  • پیله بابایانتان را آن زمان ** دادم از طوفان و از موجش امان
  • At that time I gave to the stock of your fathers security from the Flood and from its waves.

  • آب آتش خو زمین بگرفته بود ** موج او مر اوج که را می‌ربود 335
  • Water, like fire in (its deadly) nature, had covered the earth: its waves were sweeping away the highest peaks of the mountains.

  • حفظ کردم من نکردم ردتان ** در وجود جد جد جدتان
  • I protected you, I did not spurn you, in the bodies of the ancestors of the ancestors of your ancestors.

  • چون شدی سر پشت پایت چون زنم ** کارگاه خویش ضایع چون کنم
  • Now that you have come to the head, how should I smite the sole of your foot? How should I let My workshop go to waste?