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3103-3127

  • صد دریچه و در سوی مرگ لدیغ ** می‌کند اندر گشادن ژیغ ژیغ
  • A hundred windows and doors facing towards mordant death are ever creaking as they are opened,

  • ژیغ‌ژیغ تلخ آن درهای مرگ ** نشنود گوش حریص از حرص برگ
  • (But) from greed for (worldly) provision the ear of the covetous does not hear the harsh creaking of those doors of death.

  • از سوی تن دردها بانگ درست ** وز سوی خصمان جفا بانگ درست 3105
  • From the side of the body, pains are the noise of the door; and from the side of enemies, maltreatment is the noise of the door.

  • جان سر بر خوان دمی فهرست طب ** نار علتها نظر کن ملتهب
  • My dear friend, read for one moment the table of contents of (books on) Medicine; look at the flaming fire of diseases!

  • زان همه غرها درین خانه رهست ** هر دو گامی پر ز کزدمها چهست
  • Through all those tumours (maladies) there is a way (for death) into this house: at every two steps there is a pit full of scorpions.

  • باد تندست و چراغم ابتری ** زو بگیرانم چراغ دیگری
  • (The king said), “The wind is fierce and my lamp is a docked (imperfect) one: I will light another lamp from it,

  • تا بود کز هر دو یک وافی شود ** گر به باد آن یک چراغ از جا رود
  • So that maybe one complete (lamp) will arise from them both, if that one lamp be put out by the wind,”

  • هم‌چو عارف کن تن ناقص چراغ ** شمع دل افروخت از بهر فراغ 3110
  • Like the gnostic who, for the sake of (gaining) freedom from care, has lit the candle of the heart (spirit) from this defective lamp of the body,

  • تا که روزی کین بمیرد ناگهان ** پیش چشم خود نهد او شمع جان
  • In order that, one day when this (bodily lamp) dies of a sudden, he may place before his eye the candle of the spirit.

  • او نکرد این فهم پس داد از غرر ** شمع فانی را بفانیی دگر
  • He (the king) did not understand this; therefore in his heedlessness he applied the perishing candle to another perishable.

  • عروس آوردن پادشاه فرزند خود را از خوف انقطاع نسل
  • How the king brought his son a bride for fear of his race coming to an end.

  • پس عروسی خواست باید بهر او ** تا نماید زین تزوج نسل رو
  • (The king said to himself), “It is necessary, then, to seek a bride for him, that from this marriage offspring may appear,

  • گر رود سوی فنا این باز باز ** فرخ او گردد ز بعد باز باز
  • (So that) if this falcon (my son) return to the state of mortality his young may become a falcon after (the death of) the falcon,

  • صورت او باز گر زینجا رود ** معنی او در ولد باقی بود 3115
  • (And that) if the form of this falcon go from here, his inward meaning may endure in his son.

  • بهر این فرمود آن شاه نبیه ** مصطفی که الولد سر ابیه
  • On account of this, that renowned (spiritual) king, Mustafá (Mohammed), said, ‘The son is the marrow of his father.’

  • بهر این معنی همه خلق از شغف ** می‌بیاموزند طفلان را حرف
  • For this reason all people, (being moved) by heartfelt love, teach their children (their own) trades,

  • تا بماند آن معانی در جهان ** چون شود آن قالب ایشان نهان
  • To the end that these inward meanings may remain in the world when that body of theirs becomes hidden.

  • حق به حکمت حرصشان دادست جد ** بهر رشد هر صغیر مستعد
  • God in His wisdom has given them intense desire for the right guidance of every little one capable (of learning).

  • من هم از بهر دوام نسل خویش ** جفت خواهم پور خود را خوب کیش 3120
  • I too, for the purpose of (ensuring) the continuance of my race, will seek for my son a wife of good principles.

  • دختری خواهم ز نسل صالحی ** نی ز نسل پادشاهی کالحی
  • I will seek a girl who is the offspring of a righteous man, not the offspring of a stern-visaged king.”

  • شاه خود این صالحست آزاد اوست ** نی اسیر حرص فرجست و گلوست
  • This righteous man is himself a king, he is free, he is not the prisoner of lust and gluttony.

  • مر اسیران را لقب کردند شاه ** عکس چون کافور نام آن سیاه
  • They (the people) have given (those) prisoners the title of “king” by inversion, just as Káfúr (Camphor) is the name of that negro.

  • شد مفازه بادیه‌ی خون‌خوار نام ** نیکبخت آن پیس را کردند عام
  • The blood-drinking (deadly) wilderness is named mafáza (place of safety); the vulgar call the leper Níkbakht (Fortunatus).

  • بر اسیر شهوت و حرص و امل ** بر نوشته میر یا صدر اجل 3125
  • They have described the prisoner of lust and anger and ambition by the name of Mír or Sadr-i ajall (most honourable prince).

  • آن اسیران اجل را عام داد ** نام امیران اجل اندر بلاد
  • To those prisoners of Doom (asírán-i ajal) the vulgar in (all) the lands have given the title of “most honourable Amírs” (amírán-i ajall).

  • صدر خوانندش که در صف نعال ** جان او پستست یعنی جاه و مال
  • They call high-placed (Sadr) him whose soul is (placed) low in the vestibule, that is to say, (worldly) power and riches.