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  • مادرش پرسید کای کره چرا ** می‌رمی هر ساعتی زین استقا 4295
  • Its mother asked, “O foal, why art thou always refusing to drink this water?”

  • گفت کره می‌شخولند این گروه ** ز اتفاق بانگشان دارم شکوه
  • The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of their shouts.

  • پس دلم می‌لرزد از جا می‌رود ** ز اتفاق نعره خوفم می‌رسد
  • Therefore my heart is trembling and jumping: dread of the occurrence of the outcry is coming on me.”

  • گفت مادر تا جهان بودست ازین ** کارافزایان بدند اندر زمین
  • The mother said, “Ever since the world existed, there have been busybodies of this sort on the earth.”

  • هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر می‌کنند
  • Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).

  • وقت تنگ و می‌رود آب فراخ ** پیش از آن کز هجر گردی شاخ شاخ 4300
  • The time is restricted, and the abundant water is flowing away: (drink) ere, through being parted (from it), you fall to pieces.

  • شهره کاریزیست پر آب حیات ** آب کش تا بر دمد از تو نبات
  • There is a famous conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the Water, in order that verdure may grow up from you.

  • آب خضر از جوی نطق اولیا ** می‌خوریم ای تشنه‌ی غافل بیا
  • We are drinking the water of Khizr from the river of the speech of the saints: come, O heedless thirsty man!

  • گر نبینی آب کورانه بفن ** سوی جو آور سبو در جوی زن
  • If you do not see the water, artfully after the fashion of the blind bring the jug to the river, and dip it in the river.

  • چون شنیدی کاندرین جو آب هست ** کور را تقلید باید کار بست
  • Forasmuch as you have heard that there is water in this river-bed, (go and try): the blind man must practise conformity.

  • جو فرو بر مشک آب‌اندیش را ** تا گران بینی تو مشک خویش را 4305
  • Carry down to the river the water-skin that has thoughts of the water, so that you may find your water-skin heavy.

  • چون گران دیدی شوی تو مستدل ** رست از تقلید خشک آنگاه دل
  • When you have found it heavy, you will be led to infer (the truth): at that moment your heart is delivered from dry conformity.

  • گر نبیند کور آب جو عیان ** لیک داند چون سبو بیند گران
  • If the blind man does not see the river-water ocularly, yet he knows, when he finds the jug heavy,

  • که ز جو اندر سبو آبی برفت ** کین سبک بود و گران شد ز آب و زفت
  • That some water has gone from the river into the jug; for this (jug) was light, and (now) it has become heavy and swollen with water;

  • زانک هر بادی مرا در می‌ربود ** باد می‌نربایدم ثقلم فزود
  • “Because,” (he will say), “every wind used to sweep me away, (but now) the wind does not sweep me away: my weight has increased.”

  • مر سفیهان را رباید هر هوا ** زانک نبودشان گرانی قوی 4310
  • The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because they have no weight (ballast) of (intellectual) faculties.

  • کشتی بی‌لنگر آمد مرد شر ** که ز باد کژ نیابد او حذر
  • The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he finds no precaution (means of defence) against the perverse (contrary) wind.

  • لنگر عقلست عاقل را امان ** لنگری در یوزه کن از عاقلان
  • To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.

  • او مددهای خرد چون در ربود ** از خزینه در آن دریای جود
  • Since he (the Sage) has borne away the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl-treasury of that Sea of Bounty,

  • زین چنین امداد دل پر فن شود ** بجهد از دل چشم هم روشن شود
  • By such succours (replenishments) the heart is filled with knowledge: it (that knowledge) shoots from the heart, and the eye too becomes illuminated,

  • زانک نور از دل برین دیده نشست ** تا چو دل شد دیده‌ی تو عاطلست 4315
  • Because the light from the heart has settled upon this eye so that your eye, having become the heart, is (physically) inactive.

  • دل چو بر انوار عقلی نیز زد ** زان نصیبی هم بدو دیده دهد
  • When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.

  • پس بدان کاب مبارک ز آسمان ** وحی دلها باشد و صدق بیان
  • Know, then, that the blessed Water from Heaven is the inspiration of (men's) hearts and the true explanation (of every mystery).

  • ما چو آن کره هم آب جو خوریم ** سوی آن وسواس طاعن ننگریم
  • Let us also, like that foal, drink the water of the stream; let us pay no regard to the evil suggestions of the railer.

  • پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر
  • (If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.