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1974-1998

  • حارسی از گرگ جستن شرط نیست ** جستن از غیر محل ناجستنیست
  • Tis not a (just) condition to demand of a wolf (that he should perform) the task of a watchman (shepherd): to demand (anything) from the wrong place is a negation of the demand.

  • من ترا بی‌هیچ شکی دشمنم ** من ترا کی ره نمایم ره زنم 1975
  • Without any doubt I am an enemy to you: how should I show you the way? I am a highwayman.

  • هر که باشد همنشین دوستان ** هست در گلخن میان بوستان
  • Whoever is sitting with friends is amidst a flower-garden (though he be) in a bath-furnace.

  • هر که با دشمن نشیند در زمن ** هست او در بوستان در گولخن
  • Whoever in the world sits with an enemy, he is in a bath-furnace (though he be) in a flower-garden.

  • دوست را مازار از ما و منت ** تا نگردد دوست خصم و دشمنت
  • Vex not your friend by egoism, lest your friend become your adversary and enemy.

  • خیر کن با خلق بهر ایزدت ** یا برای راحت جان خودت
  • Do good unto the people for your God's sake or for the peace of your own soul,

  • تا هماره دوست بینی در نظر ** در دلت ناید ز کین ناخوش صور 1980
  • That you may always see (them) friendly in your sight, and that ugly ideas arising from hatred may not come into your heart.

  • چونک کردی دشمنی پرهیز کن ** مشورت با یار مهرانگیز کن
  • Since you have behaved with enmity (towards me), abstain (from consulting me): consult a friend who arouses (your) affection.”

  • گفت می‌دانم ترا ای بوالحسن ** که توی دیرینه دشمن‌دار من
  • He replied, “I know you, O Bu ’l-Hasan, to be one who has long deemed me an enemy;

  • لیک مرد عاقلی و معنوی ** عقل تو نگذاردت که کژ روی
  • But you are a reasonable and spiritual man: your reason will not allow you to go crookedly (play false).”

  • طبع خواهد تا کشد از خصم کین ** عقل بر نفس است بند آهنین
  • The (carnal) nature desires to take revenge on its adversary: the reason is an iron chain upon the flesh.

  • آید و منعش کند وا داردش ** عقل چون شحنه‌ست در نیک و بدش 1985
  • It comes and prevents it (the flesh) and restrains it: the reason is like a police-inspector for it in its good and evil (actions).

  • عقل ایمانی چو شحنه‌ی عادلست ** پاسبان و حاکم شهر دلست
  • The reason that is allied to Faith is like a just police-inspector: it is the guardian and magistrate of the city of the heart.

  • هم‌چو گربه باشد او بیدارهوش ** دزد در سوراخ ماند هم‌چو موش
  • It is mentally alert like a cat: the thief remains in the hole, like a mouse.

  • در هر آنجا که برآرد موش دست ** نیست گربه یا که نقش گربه است
  • Wherever the mouse gets the upper hand, no cat is there, or (at least) there is (only) the (unreal) form of a cat.

  • گربه‌ی چه شیر شیرافکن بود ** عقل ایمانی که اندر تن بود
  • What cat (is to be compared with the reason)? The Faith-regarding reason which is in the body is the lion that overthrows the lions.

  • غره‌ی او حاکم درندگان ** نعره‌ی او مانع چرندگان 1990
  • Its roar is the magistrate (controller) of the tearing (carnivorous) animals; its shout is the preventer of the browsing (herbivorous) animals.

  • شهر پر دزدست و پر جامه‌کنی ** خواه شحنه باش گو و خواه نی
  • (If) the city is full of thieves and clothes-robbers, let there be a police-inspector if you will, or let there be none.

  • امیر کردن رسول علیه‌السلام جوان هذیلی را بر سریه‌ای کی در آن پیران و جنگ آزمودگان بودند
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, appointed a youth of Hudhayl to be commander of an expeditionary force in which there were elders and veteran warriors.

  • یک سریه می‌فرستادش رسول ** به هر جنگ کافر و دفع فضول
  • The Prophet was sending a force to fight against the unbelievers and repel insolence.

  • یک جوانی را گزید او از هذیل ** میر لشکر کردش و سالار خیل
  • He chose a youth of Hudhayl and appointed him commander of the army and leader of the cavalry.

  • اصل لشکر بی‌گمان سرور بود ** قوم بی‌سرور تن بی‌سر بود
  • The foundation of an army is unquestionably the chief in command: a people without a chief are a body without a head.

  • این همه که مرده و پژمرده‌ای ** زان بود که ترک سرور کرده‌ای 1995
  • That you are (spiritually) dead and decrepit—all this is because you have abandoned the chief.

  • از کسل وز بخل وز ما و منی ** می‌کشی سر خویش را سر می‌کنی
  • On account of laziness and avarice and egoism you are drawing your head back (behaving in a headstrong manner) and making yourself the head.

  • هم‌چو استوری که بگریزد ز بار ** او سر خود گیرد اندر کوهسار
  • (You are) like the beast that flees from the burden: it takes its head (goes its own way) into the mountains.

  • صاحبش در پی دوان کای خیره سر ** هر طرف گرگیست اندر قصد خر
  • Its master is running after it, crying, “O giddy-headed one, on every side there is a wolf in quest of an ass.