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  • چون شکاری می‌نمایدشان ز دور ** جمله حمله می‌فزایند آن طیور
  • When an object of chase appears to them from afar, all those birds (the perceptions) increase (the speed of) their onset.

  • چونک ناپیدا شود حیران شوند ** همچو جغدان سوی هر ویران شوند
  • When it vanishes from sight, they become lost: like owls, they go to every wilderness,

  • منتظر چشمی به هم یک چشم باز ** تا که پیدا گردد آن صید به ناز
  • Waiting, with one eye closed and one eye open, that the delectable prey may appear.

  • چون بماند دیر گویند از ملال ** صید بود آن خود عجب یا خود خیال
  • When it tarries long, they say (from weariness), “We wonder whether it was a (real) prey or a phantom.”

  • مصلحت آنست تا یک ساعتی ** قوتی گیرند و زور از راحتی 3730
  • The right course is that, for a short while, they should gather come strength and vigour by (taking) a rest.

  • گر نبودی شب همه خلقان ز آز ** خویشتن را سوختندی ز اهتزاز
  • If there were no night, on account of cupidity all people would consume themselves by the agitation (of pursuit).

  • از هوس وز حرص سود اندوختن ** هر کسی دادی بدن را سوختن
  • From desire and greed of amassing gain, every one would give his body to be consumed.

  • شب پدید آید چو گنج رحمتی ** تا رهند ازحرص خود یکساعتی
  • Night appears, like a treasure of mercy, that they may be delivered from their greed for a short while.

  • چونک قبضی آیدت ای راه‌رو ** آن صلاح تست آتش دل مشو
  • When a feeling of (spiritual) contraction comes over you, O traveller, ’tis (for) your good: do not become afire (with grief) in your heart,

  • زآنک در خرجی در آن بسط و گشاد ** خرج را دخلی بباید زاعتداد 3735
  • For in that (contrary state of) expansion and delight you are spending: the expenditure (of enthusiasm) requires an income of (painful) preparation (to balance it).

  • گر هماره فصل تابستان بدی ** سوزش خورشید در بستان شدی
  • If it were always the season of summer, the blazing heat of the sun would penetrate the garden

  • منبتش را سوختی از بیخ و بن ** که دگر تازه نگشتی آن کهن
  • And burn up from root and bottom the soil whence its plants grow, so that the old (withered) ones would never again become fresh.

  • گر ترش‌رویست آن دی مشفق است ** صیف خندانست اما محرقست
  • If December is sour-faced, (yet) it is kind; summer is laughing, but (none the less) it is burning (destroying).

  • چونک قبض آید تو در وی بسط بین ** تازه باش و چین میفکن در جبین
  • When (spiritual) contraction comes, behold expansion therein: be fresh (cheerful) and do not let wrinkles fall on your brow.

  • کودکان خندان و دانایان ترش ** غم جگر را باشد و شادی ز شش 3740
  • Children are laughing, and sages are sour: sorrow appertains to the liver, and joy arises from the lungs.

  • چشم کودک همچو خر در آخرست ** چشم عاقل در حساب آخرست
  • The eye of the child, like (that of) the ass, is (fixed) on the stall; the eye of the wise man is (engaged) in reckoning the end.

  • او در آخر چرب می‌بیند علف ** وین ز قصاب آخرش بیند تلف
  • He (the child) sees the rich fodder in the stall, while this (wise man) sees his ultimate end to be death by (the hand of) the Butcher.

  • آن علف تلخست کین قصاب داد ** بهر لحم ما ترازویی نهاد
  • That fodder is bitter (in the end), for this Butcher gave it: He set up a pair of scales for our flesh.

  • رو ز حکمت خور علف کان را خدا ** بی غرض دادست از محض عطا
  • Go, eat the fodder of wisdom which God hath given (us) disinterestedly from pure bounty.

  • فهم نان کردی نه حکمت ای رهی ** زانچ حق گفتت کلوا من رزقه 3745
  • O slave (to your lusts), you have understood bread, not wisdom, (to be meant) in that (text) which God hath spoken unto you—Eat ye of His provision.

  • رزق حق حکمت بود در مرتبت ** کان گلوگیرت نباشد عاقبت
  • God's provision in the (present) stage (of your existence) is wisdom that will not choke you at the last (in the world hereafter).

  • این دهان بستی دهانی باز شد ** کو خورنده‌ی لقمه‌های راز شد
  • (If) you have closed this (bodily) mouth, another mouth is opened, which becomes an eater of the morsels of (spiritual) mysteries.

  • گر ز شیر دیو تن را وابری ** در فطام اوبسی نعمت خوردی
  • If you cut off your body from the Devil's milk, by (thus) weaning it you will enjoy much felicity.

  • ترک‌جوشش شرح کردم نیم‌خام ** از حکیم غزنوی بشنو تمام
  • I have given a half-raw (imperfect) explanation of it, (like) the Turcomans' ill-boiled meat: hear (it) in full from the Sage of Ghazna.

  • در الهی‌نامه گوید شرح این ** آن حکیم غیب و فخرالعارفین 3750
  • In the Iláhí-náma that Sage of the Unseen and Glory of them that know (God) explains this (matter).