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.

جز اشارت که ازین می‌بایدم ** که تو دادی اصل این را از عدم

(’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.

خوردم و دانه بیاوردم نشان ** که ازین نعمت به سوی ما کشان

I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’

پس دعای خشک هل ای نیک‌بخت ** که فشاند دانه می‌خواهد درخت

Abandon, then, the dry (verbal) prayer, O fortunate one; for the tree demands (presupposes) the scattering of seed.

گر نداری دانه ایزد زان دعا ** بخشدت نخلی که نعم ما سعی

(But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’

هم‌چو مریم درد بودش دانه نی ** سبز کرد آن نخل را صاحب‌فنی 1190

Like Mary: she had (heartfelt) pain, but no seed: an artful One made green that (withered) palm-tree (for her sake).

زانک وافی بود آن خاتون راد ** بی‌مرادش داد یزدان صد مراد

Because that noble Lady was loyal (to God), God gave unto her a hundred desires without desire on her part.

آن جماعت را که وافی بوده‌اند ** بر همه اصنافشان افزوده‌اند

The company who have been loyal are given superiority over all (other) sorts (of men).

گشت دریاها مسخرشان و کوه ** چار عنصر نیز بنده‌ی آن گروه

Seas and mountains are made subject to them; the four elements also are the slaves of that class.

این خود اکرامیست از بهر نشان ** تا ببینند اهل انکار آن عیان

This (miraculous power) is only a favour (conferred on them) for a sign, to the end that the disbelievers may see it plainly.

آن کرامتهای پنهانشان که آن ** در نیاید در حواس و در بیان 1195

Those hidden graces of theirs, which come not into (the perception of) the senses or into description—

کار آن دارد خود آن باشد ابد ** دایما نه منقطع نه مسترد

Those are the (real) matter: those are enduring for ever, they are neither cut off nor reclaimed.

مناجات

Prayer.

ای دهنده‌ی قوت و تمکین و ثبات ** خلق را زین بی‌ثباتی ده نجات

O Giver of (spiritual) nutriment and steadfastness and stability, give Thy creatures deliverance from this instability.

اندر آن کاری که ثابت بودنیست ** قایمی ده نفس را که منثنیست

Grant unto the soul—for it is bent (crooked)—to stand upright (to persevere with rectitude) in the work wherein it ought to be stable.

صبرشان بخش و کفه‌ی میزان گران ** وا رهانشان از فن صورتگران

Bestow patience upon them and heavy balance-scales: deliver them from the guile of impostors;

وز حسودی بازشان خر ای کریم ** تا نباشند از حسد دیو رجیم 1200

And redeem them from envy, O Gracious One, lest from envy they be devils accursed.

در نعیم فانی مال و جسد ** چون همی‌سوزند عامه از حسد

How do the vulgar burn with envy for the fleeting happiness of riches and (pleasures of) the body!

پادشاهان بین که لشکر می‌کشند ** از حسد خویشان خود را می‌کشند

Behold the kings, how they lead armies (to battle) and slay their own kinsmen because of envy.

عاشقان لعبتان پر قذر ** کرده قصد خون و جان همدگر

The lovers of filthy dolls (darlings) have sought each other's blood and life.