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  • وعده‌ی فردا و پس‌فردای تو ** انتظار حشرت آمد وای تو
  • Your promise, “To-morrow” and “the day after to-morrow,” has become your waiting on the Day of Congregation: alas for you!

  • منتظر مانی در آن روز دراز ** در حساب و آفتاب جان‌گداز
  • You will remain waiting on that long Day, (engaged) in rendering an account (of your actions) and (standing) in the soul-consuming sun,

  • کسمان را منتظر می‌داشتی ** تخم فردا ره روم می‌کاشتی
  • Because you were wont to keep Heaven waiting and sow the seed of “I will go on the Way to-morrow.”

  • خشم تو تخم سعیر دوزخست ** هین بکش این دوزخت را کین فخست 3480
  • Your anger is the seed of Hell-fire: take heed, extinguish this Hell of yours, for this is a trap.

  • کشتن این نار نبود جز به نور ** نورک اطفا نارنا نحن الشکور
  • The extinction of this fire is not (to be effected) save by the Light: “thy light hath put out our fire, we are the grateful.”

  • گر تو بی نوری کنی حلمی بدست ** آتشت زنده‌ست و در خاکسترست
  • If you are devoid of the Light and do an act of clemency, ’tis evil: your fire (of anger) is (still) alive and is (still lurking) in the embers.

  • آن تکلف باشد و روپوش هین ** نار را نکشد به غیر نور دین
  • Beware! That (clemency) is (mere) ostentation and masking (the truth): nothing will extinguish the fire (of anger) except the Light of Religion.

  • تا نبینی نور دین آمن مباش ** کاتش پنهان شود یک روز فاش
  • Do not be secure till you behold the Light of Religion, for the hidden fire will one day become manifest.

  • نور آبی دان و هم در آب چفس ** چونک داری آب از آتش مترس 3485
  • Deem the Light to be a water, and cleave to the water withal: when you have the water, be not afraid of the fire.

  • آب آتش را کشد کتش بخو ** می‌بسوزد نسل و فرزندان او
  • The water will extinguish the fire, because the fire by its nature burns up its (the water's) progeny and children.

  • سوی آن مرغابیان رو روز چند ** تا ترا در آب حیوانی کشند
  • Go, for a while, to those water-birds, that they may lead you to the Water of Life.

  • مرغ خاکی مرغ آبی هم‌تنند ** لیک ضدانند آب و روغنند
  • The land-bird and the water-bird have the same body (outward appearance), but they are (really) opposites: they are (like) water and oil.

  • هر یکی مر اصل خود را بنده‌اند ** احتیاطی کن بهم ماننده‌اند
  • Each (of them) is devoted to its own origin; have a care (in discriminating between them): they resemble each other (externally),

  • همچنانک وسوسه و وحی الست ** هر دو معقولند لیکن فرق هست 3490
  • Just as both (Satanic) suggestion and Divine inspiration are intelligible, and yet there is a (great) difference (between them).

  • هر دو دلالان بازار ضمیر ** رختها را می‌ستایند ای امیر
  • Both (these) brokers in the market of Conscience extol their wares, O prince.

  • گر تو صراف دلی فکرت شناس ** فرق کن سر دو فکر چون نخاس
  • If you are a spiritual money-changer, one who recognises thought, distinguish the real nature of the two thoughts which resemble slave-dealers (commending the slaves they hope to sell);

  • ور ندانی این دو فکرت از گمان ** لا خلابه گوی و مشتاب و مران
  • And if from (your own) opinion you do not know (the true nature of) these two thoughts, say, “No deception!” and be not in a hurry and do not push forward.

  • حیله دفع مغبون شدن در بیع و شرا
  • The means of preventing one's self from being swindled in sale and purchase.

  • آن یکی یاری پیمبر را بگفت ** که منم در بیعها با غبن جفت
  • A certain friend said to the Prophet, “I am always being swindled in commerce.

  • مکر هر کس کو فروشد یا خرد ** همچو سحرست و ز راهم می‌برد 3495
  • The deceit of every one who sells or buys is like magic and leads me off the track.”

  • گفت در بیعی که ترسی از غرار ** شرط کن سه روز خود را اختیار
  • He (the Prophet) said, “When thou art afraid of being duped in a commercial transaction, stipulate (that thou shalt have) for thyself three days (in which) to choose,

  • که تانی هست از رحمان یقین ** هست تعجیلت ز شیطان لعین
  • For deliberation is assuredly from the Merciful (God); thy haste is from the accursed Devil.”

  • پیش سگ چون لقمه نان افکنی ** بو کند آنگه خورد ای معتنی
  • When you throw a morsel of bread to a dog, he (first) smells, then he eats, O careful one.

  • او ببینی بو کند ما با خرد ** هم ببوییمش به عقل منتقد
  • He smells with the nose, we too (who are endowed) with wisdom smell it (the object submitted to us) with the purified intelligence.

  • با تانی گشت موجود از خدا ** تابه شش روز این زمین و چرخها 3500
  • This earth and the (heavenly) spheres were brought into existence by God with deliberation (extending) to six days;

  • ورنه قادر بود کو کن فیکون ** صد زمین و چرخ آوردی برون
  • Otherwise, He was able—“Be, and it is”—to bring forth a hundred earths and heavens (from non-existence).