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3136-3160

  • گر سیاهی بر شتر مشک آورد ** سوی میر خود به زودی می‌برد
  • For a negro on camelback will (presently) bring a water-skin, (which) he is conveying with all speed to his master.

  • آن شتربان سیه را با شتر ** سوی من آرید با فرمان مر
  • Bring to me that negro camel-driver along with the camel by force, if need be.”

  • سوی کثبان آمدند آن طالبان ** بعد یکساعت بدیدند آنچنان
  • Those seekers approached the sandhills: after a short while they saw ’twas even so:

  • بنده‌ای می‌شد سیه با اشتری ** راویه پر آب چون هدیه‌بری
  • A negro slave was going with a camel, the water-skin filled with water, like one bearing a gift.

  • پس بدو گفتند می‌خواند ترا ** این طرف فخر البشر خیر الوری 3140
  • Then they said to him, “The Pride of mankind, the Best of created beings, invites thee (to come) in this direction.”

  • گفت من نشناسم او را کیست او ** گفت او آن ماه‌روی قندخو
  • He said, “I do not know him: who is he?” He (the spokesman) said, “He is that moon-faced sweet-natured one.”

  • نوعها تعریف کردندش که هست ** گفت مانا او مگر آن شاعرست
  • They described to him the diverse qualities which exist (in the Prophet): he said, “Belike he is that poet (wizard)

  • که گروهی را زبون کرد او بسحر ** من نیایم جانب او نیم شبر
  • Who subdued a multitude by magic: I will not come half a span towards him.”

  • کش‌کشانش آوریدند آن طرف ** او فغان برداشت در تشنیع و تف
  • Dragging him along, they brought him thither: he raised an outcry in revilement and heat (of anger).

  • چون کشیدندش به پیش آن عزیز ** گفت نوشید آب و بردارید نیز 3145
  • When they dragged him before that venerable one, he (the Prophet) said, “Drink ye the water and carry it away withal.”

  • جمله را زان مشک او سیراب کرد ** اشتران و هر کسی زان آب خورد
  • He satisfied the thirst of them all from that water-skin: the camels and every person drank of that water.

  • راویه پر کرد و مشک از مشک او ** ابر گردون خیره ماند از رشک او
  • From his (the negro's) water-skin he filled large and small water-skins: from jealousy of him the clouds in the sky were distraught.

  • این کسی دیدست کز یک راویه ** سرد گردد سوز چندان هاویه
  • Has any one seen (such a wonder as) this, that the burning glow of so many Hells (of thirst) should be cooled by a single water-skin?

  • این کسی دیدست کز یک مشک آب ** گشت چندین مشک پر بی اضطراب
  • Has any one seen (such a wonder as) this, that all these water-skins were filled from a single water-skin without trouble?

  • مشک خود روپوش بود و موج فضل ** می‌رسید از امر او از بحر اصل 3150
  • The water-skin itself was a veil, and (in reality) at his (the Prophet's) command the waves of (Divine) bounty were coming (to them) from the Sea of origin.

  • آب از جوشش همی‌گردد هوا ** و آن هوا گردد ز سردی آبها
  • “Water by boiling is converted into air, and that air by cold is turned into water.”

  • بلک بی علت و بیرون زین حکم ** آب رویانید تکوین از عدم
  • Nay, (it is not so); without cause and beyond these maxims of (natural) philosophy the (Divine) act of bringing into existence produced the water from non-existence.

  • تو ز طفلی چون سببها دیده‌ای ** در سبب از جهل بر چفسیده‌ای
  • Inasmuch as you have observed (secondary) causes from your childhood, through ignorance you have stuck to the (secondary) cause.

  • با سببها از مسبب غافلی ** سوی این روپوشها زان مایلی
  • (Being occupied) with causes you are forgetful of the Causer: hence you are inclining towards these veils.

  • چون سببها رفت بر سر می‌زنی ** ربنا و ربناها می‌کنی 3155
  • When (all secondary) causes are gone, you will beat your head and cry many a time, “O our Lord! O our Lord!”

  • رب می‌گوید برو سوی سبب ** چون ز صنعم یاد کردی ای عجب
  • The Lord will say, “Betake thyself to the (secondary) cause! How hast thou remembered My work? Oh, wonderful!”

  • گفت زین پس من ترا بینم همه ** ننگرم سوی سبب و آن دمدمه
  • He (the believer in secondary causes) says, “Henceforth I will behold Thee entirely: I will not look towards the cause and that deception (by which I was led astray).”

  • گویدش ردوا لعادوا کار تست ** ای تو اندر توبه و میثاق سست
  • He (God) will reply to him, “Thy case is (described in the text), ‘(If) they were sent back (to the world), they would surely return (to what they were forbidden to do),’ O thou who art weak in thy repentance and covenant;

  • لیک من آن ننگرم رحمت کنم ** رحمتم پرست بر رحمت تنم
  • But I will not regard that, I will show mercy: My mercy is abounding, I will be intent on mercy.

  • ننگرم عهد بدت بدهم عطا ** از کرم این دم چو می‌خوانی مرا 3160
  • I will not regard thy bad promise, I from loving kindness will bestow the gift at this (very) moment, since thou art calling unto Me.”