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1046-1070

  • گفته‌ایم این را ولی باری دگر ** شد مکرر بهر تاکید خبر
  • We have (already) related this, but it is repeated (here) once again in order to strengthen (the effect of) the story.

  • کور گفتش آخر آن یاران تو ** بر کهند این دم شکاری صیدجو
  • The blind man said to it (the dog), “Why, at this moment your friends are hunting and seeking prey on the mountain.

  • قوم تو در کوه می‌گیرند گور ** در میان کوی می‌گیری تو کور
  • Your kinsfolk are catching onagers in the mountains: you are catching blind men in the streets.”

  • ترک این تزویر گو شیخ نفور ** آب شوری جمع کرده چند کور
  • O recalcitrant Shaykh, abandon this imposture: thou art (like) briny water, having gathered some blind men (around thee),

  • کین مریدان من و من آب شور ** می‌خورند از من همی گردند کور 1050
  • (As though implicitly thou wert) saying, “These are my disciples, and I am (like) briny water: they drink of me and become blind.”

  • آب خود شیرین کن از بحر لدن ** آب بد را دام این کوران مکن
  • Sweeten thy water with the esoteric Sea: do not make the foul water a snare for these blind ones.

  • خیز شیران خدا بین گورگیر ** تو چو سگ چونی بزرقی کورگیر
  • Arise, behold the lions of God who catch the onager: how art thou, like a dog, catching the blind with a (display of) hypocrisy?

  • گور چه از صید غیر دوست دور ** جمله شیر و شیرگیر و مست نور
  • What onager (do they catch)? They are far from hunting aught but the Beloved. They all are lions and lion-catchers and intoxicated with the Light (of God).

  • در نظاره صید و صیادی شه ** کرده ترک صید و مرده در وله
  • In contemplation of the chase and hunting of the King, they have abandoned the chase and have become dead in bewilderment.

  • هم‌چو مرغ مرده‌شان بگرفته یار ** تا کند او جنس ایشان را شکار 1055
  • The Friend has taken them, like a dead bird, that (by means of them) He may hunt down their congeners.

  • مرغ مرده مضطر اندر وصل و بین ** خوانده‌ای القلب بین اصبعین
  • The dead bird is compelled (deprived of volition) in respect of being united or separated: you have read (the Hadíth), “The heart is between two fingers (of the Merciful God).”

  • مرغ مرده‌ش را هر آنک شد شکار ** چون ببیند شد شکار شهریار
  • Every one that has fallen a prey to His dead bird (will perceive), when he sees (the truth), (that) he has fallen a prey to the King.

  • هر که او زین مرغ مرده سر بتافت ** دست آن صیاد را هرگز نیافت
  • Whoever turned his head away from this dead bird never gained the hand of that Hunter.

  • گوید او منگر به مرداری من ** عشق شه بین در نگهداری من
  • It (the dead bird) says, “Do not regard my being a carcase: see the King's love (shown) in preserving me.

  • من نه مردارم مرا شه کشته است ** صورت من شبه مرده گشته است 1060
  • I am not a carcase: the King hath killed me: my appearance has become like (that of) the dead.

  • جنبشم زین پیش بود از بال و پر ** جنبشم اکنون ز دست دادگر
  • My former motion was by means of wing and pinion: now my motion proceeds from the hand of the (Divine) Judge.

  • جنبش فانیم بیرون شد ز پوست ** جنبشم باقیست اکنون چون ازوست
  • My perishable motion has gone forth from my skin: now my motion is everlasting, since it proceeds from Him.

  • هر که کژ جنبد به پیش جنبشم ** گرچه سیمرغست زارش می‌کشم
  • If any one move crookedly (misbehave) in the presence of my motion, I will kill him miserably, (even) though he is the Símurgh.

  • هین مرا مرده مبین گر زنده‌ای ** در کف شاهم نگر گر بنده‌ای
  • Beware! If thou art (spiritually) alive, do not deem me dead; if thou art a (devoted) slave (of God), regard me (as being) in the hand of the King.

  • مرده زنده کرد عیسی از کرم ** من به کف خالق عیسی درم 1065
  • Jesus, by his grace, made the dead to be living: I am in the hand of the Creator of Jesus.

  • کی بمانم مرده در قبضه‌ی خدا ** بر کف عیسی مدار این هم روا
  • How should I remain dead in the grasp of God? Likewise, do not hold this to be possible in (the case of) the hand of ‘Jesus.’

  • عیسی‌ام لیکن هر آنکو یافت جان ** از دم من او بماند جاودان
  • I am ‘Jesus’; but every one that hath gained life from (been revived by) my breath will remain unto everlasting.

  • شد ز عیسی زنده لیکن باز مرد ** شاد آنکو جان بدین عیسی سپرد
  • He (the dead man) was made living by Jesus, but died again. Happy is he that gave up his life to this ‘Jesus.’

  • من عصاام در کف موسی خویش ** موسیم پنهان و من پیدا به پیش
  • I am the staff in the hand of my ‘Moses’: my ‘Moses’ is hidden, while I am visible in presence.

  • بر مسلمانان پل دریا شوم ** باز بر فرعون اژدها شوم 1070
  • For the true believers I become a bridge across the sea; for Pharaoh, again, I become a dragon.”