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65-89

  • پس بد مطلق نباشد در جهان ** بد به نسبت باشد این را هم بدان 65
  • Hence there is no absolute evil in the world: evil is relative. Know this (truth) also.

  • در زمانه هیچ زهر و قند نیست ** که یکی را پا دگر را بند نیست
  • In (the realm of) Time there is no poison or sugar that is not a foot (support) to one and a fetter (injury) to another—

  • مر یکی را پا دگر را پای‌بند ** مر یکی را زهر و بر دیگر چو قند
  • To one a foot, to another a fetter; to one a poison and to another (sweet and wholesome) like sugar.

  • زهر مار آن مار را باشد حیات ** نسبتش با آدمی باشد ممات
  • Snake-poison is life to the snake, (but) it is death in relation to man.

  • خلق آبی را بود دریا چو باغ ** خلق خاکی را بود آن مرگ و داغ
  • The sea is as a garden to the water-creatures; to the creatures of earth it is death and a (painful) brand.

  • همچنین بر می‌شمر ای مرد کار ** نسبت این از یکی کس تا هزار 70
  • Reckon up likewise, O man of experience, (instances of) this relativity from a single individual to a thousand.

  • زید اندر حق آن شیطان بود ** در حق شخصی دگر سلطان بود
  • Zayd, in regard to that (particular) one, may be a devil, (but) in regard to another person he may be a (beneficent) sultan.

  • آن بگوید زید صدیق سنیست ** وین بگوید زید گبر کشتنیست
  • That one will say that Zayd is an exalted siddíq (saint), and this one will say that Zayd is an infidel who ought to be killed.

  • زيد يك ذات است بر آن يك جنان ** او بر اين ديگر همه رنج و زيان
  • Zayd is one person—to that one (he is as) a shield, (while) to this other one (he is) wholly pain and loss.

  • گر تو خواهی کو ترا باشد شکر ** پس ورا از چشم عشاقش نگر
  • If you wish that to you he should be (as) sugar, then look on him with the eye of lovers.

  • منگر از چشم خودت آن خوب را ** بین به چشم طالبان مطلوب را 75
  • Do not look on that Beauteous One with your own eye: behold the Sought with the eye of seekers.

  • چشم خود بر بند زان خوش‌چشم تو ** عاریت کن چشم از عشاق او
  • Shut your own eye to that Sweet-eyed One: borrow an eye from His lovers.

  • بلک ازو کن عاریت چشم و نظر ** پس ز چشم او بروی او نگر
  • Nay, borrow eye and sight from Him, and then look on His face with His eye,

  • تا شوی آمن ز سیری و ملال ** گفت کان الله له زین ذوالجلال
  • So that you may be secure from satiety and weariness: on this account the Almighty said, “God shall belong to him:

  • چشم او من باشم و دست و دلش ** تا رهد از مدبریها مقبلش
  • I shall be his eye and hand and heart,” to the end that His fortunate one should escape from adversities.

  • هر چه مکرو هست چون شد او دلیل ** سوی محبوبت حبیبست و خلیل 80
  • Whatsoever is loathed is a lover and friend when it becomes thy guide towards thy beloved.

  • حکایت آن واعظ کی هر آغاز تذکیر دعای ظالمان و سخت‌دلان و بی‌اعتقادان کردی
  • Story of the preacher who at the beginning of every exhortation used to pray for the unjust and hard-hearted and irreligious.

  • آن یکی واعظ چو بر تخت آمدی ** قاطعان راه را داعی شدی
  • A certain preacher, whenever he mounted the pulpit, would begin to pray for the highway robbers (who plunder and maltreat the righteous).

  • دست برمی‌داشت یا رب رحم ران ** بر بدان و مفسدان و طاغیان
  • He would lift up his hand, (crying), “O Lord, let mercy fall upon evil men and corrupters and insolent transgressors,

  • بر همه تسخرکنان اهل خیر ** برهمه کافردلان و اهل دیر
  • Upon all who make a mock of the good people, upon all whose hearts are unbelieving and those who dwell in the Christian monastery.”

  • می‌نکردی او دعا بر اصفیا ** می‌نکردی جز خبیثان را دعا
  • He would not pray for the pure; he would pray for none but the wicked.

  • مر ورا گفتند کین معهود نیست ** دعوت اهل ضلالت جود نیست 85
  • They said to him, “This is unknown (extraordinary): ’tis no generosity to pray for the people of unrighteousness.”

  • گفت نیکویی ازینها دیده‌ام ** من دعاشان زین سبب بگزیده‌ام
  • He replied, “I have seen (experienced) goodness from these folk: for this reason I have chosen to pray for them.

  • خبث و ظلم و جور چندان ساختند ** که مرا از شر به خیر انداختند
  • They wrought so much wickedness and injustice and oppression that they cast (drove) me forth from evil into good.

  • هر گهی که رو به دنیا کردمی ** من ازیشان زخم و ضربت خوردمی
  • Whenever I turned my face towards this world, I suffered blows and beating from them,

  • کردمی از زخم آن جانب پناه ** باز آوردندمی گرگان به راه
  • And took refuge from the blows Yonder: the wolves were always bringing me back into the (right) Way.