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818-842

  • رستم ارچه با سر و سبلت بود ** دام پاگیرش یقین شهوت بود
  • Though Rustam have (a huge) head and moustache, lust will certainly be the snare to catch his feet.

  • همچو من از مستی شهوت ببر ** مستی شهوت ببین اندر شتر
  • Be cut off, like me, from the intoxication of lust: look at the intoxication of lust in the camel!

  • باز این مستی شهوت در جهان ** پیش مستی ملک دان مستهان 820
  • Know, again, that this intoxication of lust in the (terrestrial) world is (to be) deemed of small account beside the intoxication of the angels.

  • مستی آن مستی این بشکند ** او به شهوت التفاتی کی کند
  • The intoxication of that one (the angel) breaks (reduces to insignificance) the intoxication of this one (the human being): how should he (the angel) show any propensity to lust?

  • آب شیرین تا نخوردی آب شور ** خوش بود خوش چون درون دیده نور
  • Until you have drunk sweet water, briny water is sweet, sweet as the light in the eye;

  • قطره‌ای از باده‌های آسمان ** بر کند جان را ز می وز ساقیان
  • (But) a single drop of the wines of Heaven causes the soul to be rapt away from the wine and cupbearers (of this world)—

  • تا چه مستیها بود املاک را ** وز جلالت روحهای پاک را
  • So that (you may imagine) what intoxications befall the angels and the spirits purified by the Divine glory,

  • که به بوی دل در آن می بسته‌اند ** خم باده‌ی این جهان بشکسته‌اند 825
  • Who have set their hearts on that wine at one smell (of it), and have broken the jar of this world's wine;—

  • جز مگر آنها که نومیدند و دور ** همچو کفاری نهفته در قبور
  • Except, maybe, them that are in despair and far (from God), (outcasts) like infidels hidden (buried) in graves,

  • ناامید از هر دو عالم گشته‌اند ** خارهای بی‌نهایت کشته‌اند
  • (Them that) have lost all hope of both worlds and have sown thorns without end.

  • پس ز مستیها بگفتند ای دریغ ** بر زمین باران بدادیمی چو میغ
  • Therefore they (Hárút and Márút), because of their feelings of intoxication, said, “Alas, we would rain upon the earth, like clouds;

  • گستریدیمی درین بی‌داد جا ** عدل و انصاف و عبادات و وفا
  • We would spread in this place of injustice (a carpet of) justice and equity and devotions and faithfulness.”

  • این بگفتند و قضا می‌گفت بیست ** پیش پاتان دام ناپیدا بسیست 830
  • This they said, and the Divine decree was saying (to them), “Stop! Before your feet there is many an unseen pitfall.”

  • هین مدو گستاخ در دشت بلا ** هین مران کورانه اندر کربلا
  • Beware, do not run boldly into the desert of woe! Beware, do not push on blindly into the Karbalá (of tribulation),

  • که ز موی و استخوان هالکان ** می‌نیابد راه پای سالکان
  • For because of the hair and bones of the perished the travellers' feet find no way.

  • جمله‌ی راه استخوان و موی و پی ** بس که تیغ قهر لاشی کرد شی
  • The whole way is (covered with) bones and hair and sinews: many is the thing that the sword of Vengeance hath made nothing.

  • گفت حق که بندگان جفت عون ** بر زمین آهسته می‌رانند و هون
  • God hath said that (His) servants (who are) attended by (His) help walk on the earth quietly and meekly.

  • پا برهنه چون رود در خارزار ** جز بوقفه و فکرت و پرهیزگار 835
  • How should a bare-footed man go into the thorn-thicket save with halting and reflection and cautiously?

  • این قضا می‌گفت لیکن گوششان ** بسته بود اندر حجاب جوششان
  • The Decree was saying this (to them), but their ears were closed in the (muffling) veil of their hotheadedness.

  • چشمها و گوشها را بسته‌اند ** جز مر آنها را که از خود رسته‌اند
  • (All) eyes and ears have been closed, except for them that have escaped from themselves.

  • جز عنایت که گشاید چشم را ** جز محبت که نشاند خشم را
  • Who but Grace shall open the eyes? Who but Love shall allay the (Divine) Wrath?

  • جهد بی توفیق خود کس را مباد ** در جهان والله اعلم بالسداد
  • Truly, may no one in the world have toil without (God's) prospering (it)! And God best knoweth the right course.

  • قصه‌ی خواب دیدن فرعون آمدن موسی را علیه السلام و تدارک اندیشیدن
  • The Story of Pharaoh's dream of the coming of Moses, on whom be peace, and how he took thought to relieve himself (of the threatened danger).

  • جهد فرعونی چو بی توفیق بود ** هرچه او می‌دوخت آن تفتیق بود 840
  • Inasmuch as Pharaoh's toil was unblest (by God), whatsoever he would stitch, that (stitching) was (in effect an act of) ripping asunder.

  • از منجم بود در حکمش هزار ** وز معبر نیز و ساحر بی‌شمار
  • He had a thousand astrologers at his beck, and also a countless multitude of dream-interpreters and magicians.

  • مقدم موسی نمودندش بخواب ** که کند فرعون و ملکش را خراب
  • There was shown to him in a dream the coming of Moses, who would destroy Pharaoh and his kingdom.