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980-1004

  • خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن  ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن  980
  • “It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!”

  • شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست  ** عالمش می‌راند از خود جرم چیست 
  • The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?

  • جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست  ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست 
  • “The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.

  • واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین  ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانه‌چین 
  • We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;

  • تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود  ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود 
  • That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”

  • آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر  ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر  985
  • (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence.

  • باز می‌گردند چون استارها  ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها 
  • They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.

  • پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه  ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه 
  • (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.

  • آنک کرد او در رخ خوبانت دنگ  ** نور خورشیدست از شیشه‌ی سه رنگ 
  • That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.

  • شیشه‌های رنگ رنگ آن نور را  ** می‌نمایند این چنین رنگین بما 
  • The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.

  • چون نماند شیشه‌های رنگ‌رنگ  ** نور بی‌رنگت کند آنگاه دنگ  990
  • When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed.

  • خوی کن بی‌شیشه دیدن نور را  ** تا چو شیشه بشکند نبود عمی 
  • Make it thy habit to behold the Light without the glass, in order that when the glass is shattered there may not be blindness (in thee).

  • قانعی با دانش آموخته  ** در چراغ غیر چشم افروخته 
  • Thou art content with knowledge learned (from others): thou hast lit thine eye at another's lamp.

  • او چراغ خویش برباید که تا  ** تو بدانی مستعیری نی‌فتا 
  • He takes away his lamp, that thou mayst know thou art a borrower, not a giver.

  • گر تو کردی شکر و سعی مجتهد  ** غم مخور که صد چنان بازت دهد 
  • If thou hast rendered thanks (to God for what thou hast received) and made the utmost exertion (in doing so), be not grieved (at its loss), for He will give (thee) a hundred such (gifts) in return;

  • ور نکردی شکر اکنون خون گری  ** که شدست آن حسن از کافر بری  995
  • But if thou hast not rendered thanks, weep (tears of) blood now, for that (spiritual) excellence has become quit of (has abandoned) the ungrateful.

  • امة الکفران اضل اعمالهم  ** امة الایمان اصلح بالهم 
  • He (God) causeth the works of the unbelieving people to be lost; He maketh the state of the believing people to prosper.

  • گم شد از بی‌شکر خوبی و هنر  ** که دگر هرگز نبیند زان اثر 
  • From the ungrateful man (his) excellence and knowledge disappear, so that never again does he see a trace of them.

  • خویشی و بی‌خویشی و سکر وداد  ** رفت زان سان که نیاردشان به یاد 
  • (His feelings of) affinity and non-affinity and gratitude and affection vanish in such wise that he cannot remember them;

  • که اضل اعمالهم ای کافران  ** جستن کامست از هر کام‌ران 
  • For, O ingrates, (the words) He causeth their works to be lost are (signify) the flight of (every) object of desire from every one who has obtained his desire (in this world),

  • جز ز اهل شکر و اصحاب وفا  ** که مریشان راست دولت در قفا  1000
  • Excepting the thankful and faithful who are attended by fortune.

  • دولت رفته کجا قوت دهد  ** دولت آینده خاصیت دهد 
  • How should the past fortune bestow strength (on its possessors)? ’Tis the future fortune that bestows a special virtue.

  • قرض ده زین دولت اندر اقرضوا  ** تا که صد دولت ببینی پیش رو 
  • In (obedience to the Divine command) “Lend,” make a loan (to God) from this (worldly) fortune, that thou mayst see a hundred fortunes before thy face.

  • اندکی زین شرب کم کن بهر خویش  ** تا که حوض کوثری یابی به پیش 
  • Diminish a little for thine own sake this (eating and) drinking, that thou mayst find in front (of thee) the basin of Kawthar.

  • جرعه بر خاک وفا آنکس که ریخت  ** کی تواند صید دولت زو گریخت 
  • He who poured a draught on the earth of faithfulness, how should the prey, fortune, be able to flee from him?