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713-737

  • پس غنیمت دار آن توفیق را ** چون بیابی صحبت صدیق را
  • Therefore, when you gain companionship with the siddíq (true saint), deem that Divine favour (conferred on you) to be a precious opportunity.

  • نه چو آن ابله که یابد قرب شاه ** سهل و آسان در فتد آن دم ز راه
  • (Do) not (be) like the fool who wins the favour of the King, and then lightly and easily falls away from the path (of favour).

  • چون ز قربانی دهندش بیشتر ** پس بگوید ران گاوست این مگر 715
  • When more of (the King's) favour is bestowed on him, then he says, “Surely this is the thigh of an ox.”

  • نیست این از ران گاو ای مفتری ** ران گاوت می‌نماید از خری
  • This does not consist of the thigh of an ox, O deviser of falsehood: to you it appears to be the thigh of an ox because you are an ass.

  • بذل شاهانه‌ست این بی رشوتی ** بخشش محضست این از رحمتی
  • This is a royal gift devoid of any corruption: this is pure munificence (springing) from a (great) mercy,

  • تحریض سلیمان علیه‌السلام مر رسولان را بر تعجیل به هجرت بلقیس بهر ایمان
  • [How Solomon, on whom be peace, urged the envoys to hasten the emigration of Bilqís (from her kingdom) for the Faith’s sake.]

  • هم‌چنان که شه سلیمان در نبرد ** جذب خیل و لشکر بلقیس کرد
  • Even as in (the spiritual) warfare King Solomon drew the cavalry and foot-soldiers of Bilqís (towards him),

  • که بیایید ای عزیزان زود زود ** که برآمد موجها از بحر جود
  • Saying, “O honoured men, come quickly, quickly, for the waves have risen from the sea of bounty.

  • سوی ساحل می‌فشاند بی‌خطر ** جوش موجش هر زمانی صد گهر 720
  • At every moment the surge of its waves is scattering shorewards a hundred pearls without danger (to those who seek them).

  • الصلا گفتیم ای اهل رشاد ** کین زمان رضوان در جنت گشاد
  • We cry (you) welcome, O people of righteousness, for now Rizwan hath opened the gate of Paradise.”

  • پس سلیمان گفت ای پیکان روید ** سوی بلقیس و بدین دین بگروید
  • Then Solomon said, “O couriers, go to Bilqís and believe in this Religion.

  • پس بگوییدش بیا اینجا تمام ** زود که ان الله یدعوا بالسلام
  • Then bid her come hither with all speed, for verily God inviteth to the (abode of) peace.”

  • هین بیا ای طالب دولت شتاب ** که فتوحست این زمان و فتح باب
  • Hark, come speedily, O seeker of felicity, for now is (the time for) manifestations (of spiritual grace) and the opening of the door.

  • ای که تو طالب نه‌ای تو هم بیا ** تا طلب یابی ازین یار وفا 725
  • O thou who art not a seeker, come thou also, that thou mayst gain (the gift of) seeking (felicity) from this faithful Friend.

  • سبب هجرت ابراهیم ادهم قدس الله سره و ترک ملک خراسان
  • The cause of the emigration of (Ibráhím son of) Adham, may God sanctify his spirit, and his abandoning the kingdom of Khurásán.

  • ملک برهم زن تو ادهم‌وار زود ** تا بیابی هم‌چو او ملک خلود
  • Quickly dash to pieces the kingdom (of this world), like (Ibráhím son of) Adham, that like him thou mayst gain the kingdom of everlasting life.

  • خفته بود آن شه شبانه بر سریر ** حارسان بر بام اندر دار و گیر
  • At night that king was asleep on his throne, (while) on the roof (of the palace) the guards were exercising authority.

  • قصد شه از حارسان آن هم نبود ** که کند زان دفع دزدان و رنود
  • The king's purpose in (having) the guards was not that he might thereby keep off robbers and ne’er-do-wells.

  • او همی دانست که آن کو عادلست ** فارغست از واقعه آمن دلست
  • He knew that the man who is just is free from (fear of) attack and secure in his heart.

  • عدل باشد پاسبان گامها ** نه به شب چوبک‌زنان بر بامها 730
  • Justice is the guardian of pleasures; not men who beat their rattles on the roofs at night.

  • لیک بد مقصودش از بانگ رباب ** هم‌چو مشتاقان خیال آن خطاب
  • But his object in (listening to) the sound of the rebeck was, like (that of) ardent lovers (of God), (to bring into his mind) the phantasy of that (Divine) allocution;

  • ناله‌ی سرنا و تهدید دهل ** چیزکی ماند بدان ناقور کل
  • (For) the shrill noise of the clarion and the menace of the drum somewhat resemble that universal trumpet.

  • پس حکیمان گفته‌اند این لحنها ** از دوار چرخ بگرفتیم ما
  • Hence philosophers have said that we received these harmonies from the revolution of the (celestial) sphere,

  • بانگ گردشهای چرخست این که خلق ** می‌سرایندش به طنبور و به حلق
  • (And that) this (melody) which people sing with pandore and throat is the sound of the revolutions of the sphere;

  • مومنان گویند که آثار بهشت ** نغز گردانید هر آواز زشت 735
  • (But) the true believers say that the influences of Paradise made every unpleasant sound to be beautiful.

  • ما همه اجزای آدم بوده‌ایم ** در بهشت آن لحنها بشنوده‌ایم
  • We all have been parts of Adam, we have heard those melodies in Paradise.

  • گرچه بر ما ریخت آب و گل شکی ** یادمان آمد از آنها چیزکی
  • Although the water and earth (of our bodies) have caused a doubt to fall upon us, something of those (melodies) comes (back) to our memory;