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  • خواجه بر جست و بیامد ناشکفت ** روستایی را گریبانش گرفت
  • The Khwája sprang up, and losing patience he seized the countryman by his collar,

  • کابله طرار شید آورده‌ای ** بنگ و افیون هر دو با هم خورده‌ای
  • Crying, “O fool and cutpurse, thou hast shown hypocrisy: thou hast eaten both beng and opium together.

  • در سه تاریکی شناسی باد خر ** چون ندانی مر مرا ای خیره‌سر 665
  • Amidst three darknesses thou knowest the wind of the ass: how dost not thou know me, O giddy-head?

  • آنک داند نیمشب گوساله را ** چون نداند همره ده‌ساله را
  • He that knows a colt at midnight, how should he not know his own ten years' comrade?”

  • خویشتن را عارف و واله کنی ** خاک در چشم مروت می‌زنی
  • Thou art feigning to be a gnostic and distraught (with love of God): thou art throwing dust in the eyes of generosity,

  • که مرا از خویش هم آگاه نیست ** در دلم گنجای جز الله نیست
  • Saying, “I have no consciousness even of myself: in my heart there is no room for aught but God.

  • آنچ دی خوردم از آنم یاد نیست ** این دل از غیر تحیر شاد نیست
  • I have no recollection of what I ate yesterday: this heart takes joy in nothing except bewilderment.

  • عاقل و مجنون حقم یاد آر ** در چنین بی‌خویشیم معذور دار 670
  • I am sane and maddened by God: remember (this), and (since I am) in such a state of selflessness, hold me excusable.

  • آنک مرداری خورد یعنی نبید ** شرع او را سوی معذوران کشید
  • He that eats carrion, that is to say, (drinks) date-wine—the (religious) Law enrols him amongst those who are excused.

  • مست و بنگی را طلاق و بیع نیست ** همچو طفلست او معاف و معتقیست
  • The drunkard and eater of beng has not (the right of) divorce or barter; he is even as a child: he is a person absolved and emancipated.

  • مستیی کید ز بوی شاه فرد ** صد خم می در سر و مغز آن نکرد
  • The intoxication that arises from the scent of the unique King—a hundred vats of wine never wrought that (intoxication) in head and brain.

  • پس برو تکلیف چون باشد روا ** اسب ساقط گشت و شد بی دست و پا
  • To him (the God-intoxicated man), then, how should the obligation (to keep the Law) be applicable? The horse is fallen (out of account) and has become unable to move.

  • بار کی نهد در جهان خرکره را ** درس کی دهد پارسی بومره را 675
  • Who in the world would lay a load upon the ass-colt? Who would give lessons in Persian to Bú Murra?

  • بار بر گیرند چون آمد عرج ** گفت حق لیس علی الاعمی حرج
  • When lameness comes, the load is taken off: God hath said,It is no sin in the blind.

  • سوی خود اعمی شدم از حق بصیر ** پس معافم از قلیل و از کثیر
  • I have become blind in regard to myself, seeing by (the grace of) God: therefore I am absolved from the small (obligation) and from the great.”

  • لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
  • Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,

  • که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
  • Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).

  • باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد 680
  • Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation.

  • این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
  • In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.

  • صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
  • There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”

  • گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
  • If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).

  • چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
  • When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,

  • که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ 685
  • Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him.

  • گر نبودی امتحان هر بدی ** هر مخنث در وغا رستم بدی
  • Were there not a testing of every vicious person, every effeminate would be a Rustam in the fray.

  • خود مخنث را زره پوشیده گیر ** چون ببیند زخم گردد چون اسیر
  • Even suppose that the effeminate has put on a coat of mail: as soon as he feels the blow, he will become as a captive.