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1161-1185

  • سر مدزد از سر فراز تاج‌ده  ** کو ز پای دل گشاید صد گره 
  • Do not steal thy head away from the crown-giving one whose head is exalted, for he will untie a hundred knots from the foot of thy heart.

  • با کی گویم در همه ده زنده کو  ** سوی آب زندگی پوینده کو 
  • Whom shall I tell? Where in the village is any (spiritually) living one? Where is any one that runs towards the Water of Life?

  • تو به یک خواری گریزانی ز عشق  ** تو به جز نامی چه می‌دانی ز عشق 
  • Thou art fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation: what dost thou know of Love except the name?

  • عشق را صد ناز و استکبار هست  ** عشق با صد ناز می‌آید به دست 
  • Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.

  • عشق چون وافیست وافی می‌خرد  ** در حریف بی‌وفا می‌ننگرد  1165
  • Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade.

  • چون درختست آدمی و بیخ عهد  ** بیخ را تیمار می‌باید به جهد 
  • Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.

  • عهد فاسد بیخ پوسیده بود  ** وز ثمار و لطف ببریده بود 
  • A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.

  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 
  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;

  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 
  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.

  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او  1170
  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel.

  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 
  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’

  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود 
  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.

  • هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست  ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست 
  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.

  • گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا  ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا 
  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.

  • چون وفاات نیست باری دم مزن  ** که سخن دعویست اغلب ما و من 
  • When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’

  • این سخن در سینه دخل مغزهاست  ** در خموشی مغز جان را صد نماست  1175
  • These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold.

  • چون بیامد در زبان شد خرج مغز  ** خرج کم کن تا بماند مغز نغز 
  • When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).

  • مرد کم گوینده را فکرست زفت  ** قشر گفتن چون فزون شد مغز رفت 
  • The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.

  • پوست افزون بود لاغر بود مغز  ** پوست لاغر شد چو کامل گشت و نغز 
  • (When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.

  • بنگر این هر سه ز خامی رسته را  ** جوز را و لوز را و پسته را 
  • Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.

  • هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود  ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود  1180
  • Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous.

  • چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا  ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا 
  • When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.

  • از وفای حق تو بسته دیده‌ای  ** اذکروا اذکرکم نشنیده‌ای 
  • You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.

  • گوش نه اوفوا به عهدی گوش‌دار  ** تا که اوفی عهدکم آید ز یار 
  • Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.

  • عهد و قرض ما چه باشد ای حزین  ** هم‌چو دانه‌ی خشک کشتن در زمین 
  • What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.

  • نه زمین را زان فروغ و لمتری  ** نه خداوند زمین را توانگری  1185
  • From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth.