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  • آنک می‌لرزد ز بیم رد او  ** وانک طعنه می‌زند در جد او 
  • Between him who trembles in fear of his (the king's) disapproval and him who intrigues against his fortune (empire)—

  • فرق نبود هر دو یک باشد برش  ** شاه نبود خاک تیره بر سرش 
  • (So that) there is no difference, but both of them are one to him: he is not a king, may dark earth be on his head!

  • ذره‌ای گر جهد تو افزون بود  ** در ترازوی خدا موزون بود  3145
  • If your (devotional) labour exceed (that of another) by a single mote, it (that mote) will be weighed in God's balance.

  • پیش این شاهان هماره جان کنی  ** بی‌خبر ایشان ز غدر و روشنی 
  • You continually work yourself to death in the service of these (worldly) kings, (yet) they are ignorant of (the difference between) treachery and honesty.

  • گفت غمازی که بد گوید ترا  ** ضایع آرد خدمتت را سالها 
  • The words of a tale-bearer who speaks ill of you will cause your service (rendered) during (many) years to be wasted;

  • پیش شاهی که سمیعست و بصیر  ** گفت غمازان نباشد جای‌گیر 
  • (But) the words of tale-bearers do not take their abode in the presence of the King who is hearing and seeing.

  • جمله غمازان ازو آیس شوند  ** سوی ما آیند و افزایند پند 
  • All the tale-bearers are reduced to despair by Him: they come to us and increase (our) bondage.

  • بس جفا گویند شه را پیش ما  ** که برو جف القلم کم کن وفا  3150
  • They speak much abuse of the King before us, saying, ‘Go! The Pen has dried (after writing your destiny). (Therefore) do not keep faith (with Him).’

  • معنی جف القلم کی آن بود  ** که جفاها با وفا یکسان بود 
  • How should the meaning of ‘the Pen has dried’ be (this), that acts of perfidy and acts of faithfulness are alike?

  • بل جفا را هم جفا جف القلم  ** وآن وفا را هم وفا جف القلم 
  • Nay, perfidy (in return) for acts of perfidy: the Pen has dried (on that); and faithfulness (in return) for those acts of faithfulness: the Pen has dried (on that).

  • عفو باشد لیک کو فر امید  ** که بود بنده ز تقوی روسپید 
  • (True), there may be pardon (for the sinner), but where (for him) is the glorious hope that through piety the servant of God may be (spiritually) illumined?

  • دزد را گر عفو باشد جان برد  ** کی وزیر و خازن مخزن شود 
  • If a robber be pardoned, he saves his life, (but) how should he become a vizier and keeper of the treasury?

  • ای امین الدین ربانی بیا  ** کز امانت رست هر تاج و لوا  3155
  • Come, O godly Amínu’ddín, for every tiara and ensign has grown from trustworthiness (amánat).

  • پور سلطان گر برو خاین شود  ** آن سرش از تن بدان باین شود 
  • If the Sultan's son become a traitor to him, on that account his head will be severed from his body;

  • وز غلامی هندوی آرد وفا  ** دولت او را می‌زند طال بقا 
  • And if a Hindú slave show faithfulness, sovereignty will applaud him (and cry), ‘Long may he live!’

  • چه غلام ار بر دری سگ باوفاست  ** در دل سالار او را صد رضاست 
  • What of a slave? If a dog is faithful (in keeping watch) at a door, there are a hundred feelings of satisfaction with him in the heart of the master (of the house).

  • زین چو سگ را بوسه بر پوزش دهد  ** گر بود شیری چه پیروزش کند 
  • Since, because of this (faithfulness), he kisses the mouth of a dog, if he (the faithful one) be a lion, how triumphant he will make him!

  • جز مگر دزدی که خدمتها کند  ** صدق او بیخ جفا را بر کند  3160
  • (Robbers get nothing but pardon), except, to be sure, the robber who performs acts of service (to God) and whose sincerity uproots his (former) perfidy,

  • چون فضیل ره‌زنی کو راست باخت  ** زانک ده مرده به سوی توبه تاخت 
  • Like Fudayl, the brigand who played straight, because he ran with the strength of ten men towards repentance;

  • وآنچنان که ساحران فرعون را  ** رو سیه کردند از صبر و وفا 
  • And as the magicians (who) blackened the face of Pharaoh by their fortitude and faithfulness.

  • دست و پا دادند در جرم قود  ** آن به صد ساله عبادت کی شود 
  • They gave their hands and feet (to be cut off as a penalty) for the crime that entailed retaliation: how should that (degree of faithfulness) be attained by means of a hundred years' devotional service?

  • تو که پنجه سال خدمت کرده‌ای  ** کی چنین صدقی به دست آورده‌ای 
  • You who have served (Him) for fifty years, when have you brought into your possession such a sincerity as this?

  • حکایت آن درویش کی در هری غلامان آراسته‌ی عمید خراسان را دید و بر اسبان تازی و قباهای زربفت و کلاهای مغرق و غیر آن پرسید کی اینها کدام امیرانند و چه شاهانند گفت او را کی اینها امیران نیستند اینها غلامان عمید خراسانند روی به آسمان کرد کی ای خدا غلام پروردن از عمید بیاموز آنجا مستوفی را عمید گویند 
  • Story of the dervish who saw at Herát the well-equipped slaves of the ‘Amíd of Khurásán, mounted on Arab horses and wearing gold-embroidered coats, caps richly ornamented (with silver or gems), etc. He asked, ‘What princes and what kings are these?’ On being told that they were not princes, but the slaves of the ‘Amíd of Khurásán, he turned his face to Heaven, crying, ‘O God, learn from the ‘Amíd how to take care of slaves!’ There (in Khurásán) the State-accountant (Mustawfí) is called ‘Amíd.

  • آن یکی گستاخ رو اندر هری  ** چون بدیدی او غلام مهتری  3165
  • A certain unmannerly (dervish) at Herát, when he saw a nobleman's slave

  • جامه‌ی اطلس کمر زرین روان  ** روی کردی سوی قبله‌ی آسمان 
  • Going about in satin raiment with a belt of gold, would turn his face to Heaven,

  • کای خدا زین خواجه‌ی صاحب منن  ** چون نیاموزی تو بنده داشتن 
  • And cry, ‘O God, why dost not Thou learn from this bountiful Khwája how to keep (Thy) slave?