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1144-1168

  • مرغشان را بیضه‌ها زرین بدست ** نیم‌شب جانشان سحرگه بین شدست
  • The eggs laid by their bird (spirit) are golden: at midnight their spirit hath beheld the dawn.

  • هر چه گویم من به جان نیکوی قوم ** نقص گفتم گشته ناقص‌گوی قوم 1145
  • Whatsoever I say with (all) my soul in praise of the company (of the prophets), I have depreciated (them): I have become a disparager of the company.

  • مسجد اقصی بسازید ای کرام ** که سلیمان باز آمد والسلام
  • O ye noble. (seekers of God), build “the Farther Mosque,” for Solomon hath returned—and peace (be with you)!

  • ور ازین دیوان و پریان سر کشند ** جمله را املاک در چنبر کشند
  • And if the demons and genies refuse this (service)’, the angels will drag them all into bondage.

  • دیو یک دم کژ رود از مکر و زرق ** تازیانه آیدش بر سر چو برق
  • (If) the demon once make a false step on account of deceit and hypocrisy, the whip comes (down) on his head like lightning.

  • چون سلیمان شو که تا دیوان تو ** سنگ برند از پی ایوان تو
  • Become like Solomon, in order that thy demons may hew stone for thy palace.

  • چون سلیمان باش بی‌وسواس و ریو ** تا ترا فرمان برد جنی و دیو 1150
  • Be devoid, like Solomon, of thoughts which tempt to evil-doing and of fraud, that genie and demon may obey thy command.

  • خاتم تو این دلست و هوش دار ** تا نگردد دیو را خاتم شکار
  • This heart is thy seal—and take heed lest the seal fall a prey to the demon!

  • پس سلیمانی کند بر تو مدام ** دیو با خاتم حذر کن والسلام
  • (For) then the demon possessing the seal will always exercise the sway of Solomon over thee: beware (of him), and peace (be with thee)!

  • آن سلیمانی دلا منسوخ نیست ** در سر و سرت سلیمانی کنیست
  • O heart, that sway of Solomon is not abrogated : in thy head and inmost consciousness is one that exercises the sway of Solomon.

  • دیو هم وقتی سلیمانی کند ** لیک هر جولاهه اطلس کی تند
  • The demon too exercises the sway of Solomon for a time, but how should every weaver weave satin?

  • دست جنباند چو دست او ولیک ** در میان هر دوشان فرقیست نیک 1155
  • He (the weaver of common cloth) moves his hand like his (the satin-weaver’s) hand, but there is a good difference between the two of them:

  • قصه‌ی شاعر و صله دادن شاه و مضاعف کردن آن وزیر بوالحسن نام
  • Story of the poet and how the king gave him a reward and how the vizier, whose name was Bu ’l-Hasan, made it many times greater.

  • شاعری آورد شعری پیش شاه ** بر امید خلعت و اکرام و جاه
  • A poet brought a poem before the king in hope of (receiving) robes of honour and bounty and rank.

  • شاه مکرم بود فرمودش هزار ** از زر سرخ و کرامات و نثار
  • The king was munificent: he ordered him (to receive) a thousand (dinars) of red gold and bounties and largesse.

  • پس وزیرش گفت کین اندک بود ** ده هزارش هدیه وا ده تا رود
  • Then the vizier said to him, “This is (too) little: bestow (on him) a gift of ten thousand (dinars), that he may depart (satisfied).

  • از چنو شاعر نس از تو بحردست ** ده هزاری که بگفتم اندکست
  • From a poet like him intellect (displays itself); from thee, whose hand is like the ocean (in bounty), the (sum of) ten thousand (dinars) which I mentioned is little.”

  • فقه گفت آن شاه را و فلسفه ** تا برآمد عشر خرمن از کفه 1160
  • He argued and reasoned with the king until the tithe on the threshed grain was made up out of the unthreshed ears of corn (which remain on the threshing-floor).

  • ده هزارش داد و خلعت درخورش ** خانه‌ی شکر و ثنا گشت آن سرش
  • He (the king) gave him the ten thousand (dinars) and the robes of honour suitable to him: his head became a house of thanksgiving and praise.

  • پس تفحص کرد کین سعی کی بود ** شاه را اهلیت من کی نمود
  • Then he made inquiry, saying, “Whose work was this? Who declared my merit to the king?”

  • پس بگفتندش فلان‌الدین وزیر ** آن حسن نام و حسن خلق و ضمیر
  • So they told him, “(It was) —— al-Dín, the vizier, he whose name is Hasan and whose disposition and heart are good (hasan).”

  • در ثنای او یکی شعری دراز ** بر نبشت و سوی خانه رفت باز
  • He wrote a long poem in praise of him (the vizier) and returned home.

  • بی‌زبان و لب همان نعمای شاه ** مدح شه می‌کرد و خلعتهای شاه 1165
  • Without tongue or lip (mutely) that bounty of the king and those robes of honour bestowed by the king were praising the king.

  • باز آمدن آن شاعر بعد چند سال به امید همان صله و هزار دینار فرمودن بر قاعده‌ی خویش و گفتن وزیر نو هم حسن نام شاه را کی این سخت بسیارست و ما را خرجهاست و خزینه خالیست و من او را بده یک آن خشنود کنم
  • How after several years the poet came back in the hope of (receiving) the same reward, and how the king according to his custom ordered a thousand dinars to be given to him, and how the new vizier, who was also named Hasan, said to the king, "This is very much: we have (great) expenses and the treasury is empty, and I will satisfy him with a tenth of that (sum)."

  • بعد سالی چند بهر رزق و کشت ** شاعر از فقر و عوز محتاج گشت
  • After some years the poet, on account of poverty and destitution, became in need for daily bread and seed-produce (the means of livelihood).

  • گفت وقت فقر و تنگی دو دست ** جست و جوی آزموده بهترست
  • He said, “At the time of poverty and close-handedness (want), it is better to seek out one who has been tried.

  • درگهی را که آزمودم در کرم ** حاجت نو را بدان جانب برم
  • The court which I have tried in regard to generosity—I will carry the new request to the same quarter.”