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  • من روان گشتم شما را خیر باد  ** در سفر یک دم مبادا روح شاد 
  • I depart. May good be with you! May your spirit during its (earthly) journey never rejoice (even) for a moment,

  • تا که زوتر جانب معدن رود  ** کین خوشی اندر سفر ره‌زن شود 
  • So that it may the sooner go towards its native home! for this (worldly) pleasure waylays (the traveller) on his journey.”

  • زن پشیمان شد از آن گفتار سرد  ** چون رمید و رفت آن مهمان فرد 
  • When the distinguished guest started up and went off, the wife was sorry for (having spoken) those unsympathetic words.

  • زن بسی گفتش که آخر ای امیر  ** گر مزاحی کردم از طیبت مگیر 
  • Many a time the wife said to him, “Why, O Amír, if I made a merry jest, don't take offence.”

  • سجده و زاری زن سودی نداشت  ** رفت و ایشان را در آن حسرت گذاشت  3670
  • The wife's supplication and lament were of no avail: he departed and left them to grieve.

  • جامه ازرق کرد زان پس مرد و زن  ** صورتش دیدند شمعی بی‌لگن 
  • Afterwards the husband and wife clad themselves in blue: they deemed his (radiant) form to be a candle without a basin.

  • می‌شد و صحرا ز نور شمع مرد  ** چون بهشت از ظلمت شب گشته فرد 
  • He was going (on his way), and by that man's candle-light the desert was isolated, like Paradise, from the darkness of night.

  • کرد مهمان خانه خانه‌ی خویش را  ** از غم و از خجلت این ماجرا 
  • He (the husband) made his house a guest-house in sorrow and shame for this (calamitous) event.

  • در درون هر دو از راه نهان  ** هر زمان گفتی خیال میهمان 
  • In the hearts of them both, (coming) by the hidden way, the phantom of the guest was saying continually,

  • که منم یار خضر صد گنج و جود  ** می‌فشاندم لیک روزیتان نبود  3675
  • “I am the friend of Khadir: I would have scattered a hundred treasures of munificence (over you), but ’twas not your appointed portion.”

  • تمثیل فکر هر روزینه کی اندر دل آید به مهمان نو کی از اول روز در خانه فرود آید و فضیلت مهمان‌نوازی و ناز مهمان کشیدن و تحکم و بدخویی کند به خداوند خانه 
  • Comparing the daily thoughts that come into the heart with the new guests who from the beginning of the day alight in the house and behave with arrogance and ill-temper towards the master of the house; and concerning the merit of treating the guest with kindness and of suffering his haughty airs patiently.

  • هر دمی فکری چو مهمان عزیز  ** آید اندر سینه‌ات هر روز نیز 
  • Every day, too, at every moment a (different) thought comes, like an honoured guest, into thy bosom.

  • فکر را ای جان به جای شخص دان  ** زانک شخص از فکر دارد قدر و جان 
  • O (dear) soul, regard thought as a person, since (every) person derives his worth from thought and spirit.

  • فکر غم گر راه شادی می‌زند  ** کارسازیهای شادی می‌کند 
  • If the thought of sorrow is waylaying (spoiling) joy, (yet) it is making preparations for joy.

  • خانه می‌روبد به تندی او ز غیر  ** تا در آید شادی نو ز اصل خیر 
  • It violently sweeps thy house clear of (all) else, in order that new joy from the source of good may enter in.

  • می‌فشاند برگ زرد از شاخ دل  ** تا بروید برگ سبز متصل  3680
  • It scatters the yellow leaves from the bough of the heart, in order that incessant green leaves may grow.

  • می‌کند بیخ سرور کهنه را  ** تا خرامد ذوق نو از ما ورا 
  • It uproots the old joy, in order that new delight may march in from the Beyond.

  • غم کند بیخ کژ پوسیده را  ** تا نماید بیخ رو پوشیده را 
  • Sorrow pulls up the crooked rotten (root), in order that it may disclose the root that is veiled from sight.

  • غم ز دل هر چه بریزد یا برد  ** در عوض حقا که بهتر آورد 
  • Whatsoever (things) sorrow may cause to be shed from the heart or may take away (from it), assuredly it will bring better in exchange,

  • خاصه آن را که یقینش باشد این  ** که بود غم بنده‌ی اهل یقین 
  • Especially for him who knows with certainty (intuitively) that sorrow is the servant of the possessors of (intuitive) certainty.

  • گر ترش‌رویی نیارد ابر و برق  ** رز بسوزد از تبسمهای شرق  3685
  • Unless the clouds and the lightning show a frowning aspect, the vines will be burnt by the smiles of the sun.

  • سعد و نحس اندر دلت مهمان شود  ** چون ستاره خانه خانه می‌رود 
  • Good and ill fortune become guests in thy heart: like the star (planet), they go from house to house.

  • آن زمان که او مقیم برج تست  ** باش هم‌چون طالعش شیرین و چست 
  • At the time when it (the auspicious or inauspicious star) is residing in thy mansion, adapt thyself to it and be agreeable, like its ascendant,

  • تا که با مه چون شود او متصل  ** شکر گوید از تو با سلطان دل 
  • So that, when it rejoins the Moon, it may speak gratefully of thee to the Lord of the heart.

  • هفت سال ایوب با صبر و رضا  ** در بلا خوش بود با ضیف خدا 
  • Job, the (prophet who was) patient and well-pleased (with God), showed sweetness to God's guest during seven years (spent) in tribulation,

  • تا چو وا گردد بلای سخت‌رو  ** پیش حق گوید به صدگون شکر او  3690
  • To the end that when the stern-visaged tribulation should turn back (on its way to God), it might give thanks to him in God's presence in a hundred fashions,