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1043-1067

  • گر مکیسی کردیی در بیع بیش  ** دادمی من جمله ملک و مال خویش 
  • If thou hadst haggled in the sale more (excessively than thou didst), I would have given the whole of my property and riches;

  • ور مکاس افزودیی من ز اهتمام  ** دامنی زر کردمی از غیر وام 
  • And if thou hadst (then) increased thy demands, I would have borrowed a skirtful of gold in my anxiety (to purchase him).

  • سهل دادی زانک ارزان یافتی  ** در ندیدی حقه را نشکافتی  1045
  • Thou gavest (him) up easily because thou gottest (him) cheap: thou didst not see the pearl, thou didst not split the casket.

  • حقه سربسته جهل تو بداد  ** زود بینی که چه غبنت اوفتاد 
  • Thy folly gave (me) a sealed casket: thou wilt soon see what a swindle has befallen thee.

  • حقه‌ی پر لعل را دادی به باد  ** هم‌چو زنگی در سیه‌رویی تو شاد 
  • Thou hast given away a casket full of rubies and, like the negro, thou art rejoicing in thy blackness of face (disastrous plight).

  • عاقبت وا حسرتا گویی بسی  ** بخت ودولت را فروشد خود کسی 
  • In the end thou wilt utter many a ‘woe is me!’ Does any one, forsooth, sell (his) fortune and felicity?

  • بخت با جامه‌ی غلامانه رسید  ** چشم بدبختت به جز ظاهر ندید 
  • Fortune came (to thee) in the garb of a slave, (but) thy unlucky eye saw only the surface.

  • او نمودت بندگی خویشتن  ** خوی زشتت کرد با او مکر و فن  1050
  • He showed unto thee his slavery (alone): thy wicked nature practiced cunning and deceit with him.

  • این سیه‌اسرار تن‌اسپید را  ** بت‌پرستانه بگیر ای ژاژخا 
  • (Now), O driveller, take idolatrously this (slave) whose secret thoughts are black though his body is white.

  • این ترا و آن مرا بردیم سود  ** هین لکم دین ولی دین ای جهود 
  • This one for thee, that one for me: we (both) have profited. Hark, unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion, O Jew.”

  • خود سزای بت‌پرستان این بود  ** جلش اطلس اسپ او چوبین بود 
  • Truly this is meet for idolaters: his (the idolater's) horse-cloth is (of) satin (while) his horse is made of wood.

  • هم‌چو گور کافران پر دود و نار  ** وز برون بر بسته صد نقش و نگار 
  • It (the object of his worship) is like the tomb of infidels—full of smoke and fire (within), (while) on the outside it is decked with a hundred (beautiful) designs and ornaments;

  • هم‌چو مال ظالمان بیرون جمال  ** وز درونش خون مظلوم و وبال  1055
  • (Or) like the wealth of tyrants—fair externally, (but) within it (intrinsically) the blood of the oppressed and (future) woe;

  • چون منافق از برون صوم و صلات  ** وز درون خاک سیاه بی‌نبات 
  • (Or) like the hypocrite (who) externally (is engaged in) fasting and prayer, (while) inwardly (he resembles) black loam without vegetation;

  • هم‌چو ابری خالیی پر قر و قر  ** نه درو نفع زمین نه قوت بر 
  • (Or) like a cloud empty (of rain), full of thunderclaps, wherein is neither benefit to the earth nor nourishment for the wheat;

  • هم‌چو وعده‌ی مکر و گفتار دروغ  ** آخرش رسوا و اول با فروغ 
  • (Or) like a promise (full) of guile and lying words, of which the end is shameful though its beginning is splendid.

  • بعد از آن بگرفت او دست بلال  ** آن ز زخم ضرس محنت چون خلال 
  • Afterwards he (the Siddíq) took the hand of Bilál, who was (thin) as a toothpick from the blows inflicted by the tooth of tribulation.

  • شد خلالی در دهانی راه یافت  ** جانب شیرین‌زبانی می‌شتافت  1060
  • He became (like) a toothpick and found his way into a mouth: he was hastening towards a man of sweet tongue.

  • چون بدید آن خسته روی مصطفی  ** خر مغشیا فتاد او بر قفا 
  • When that (sorely) wounded one beheld the face of Mustafá (Mohammed), he fell down in a swoon, he fell on his back.

  • تا بدیری بی‌خود و بی‌خویش ماند  ** چون به خویش آمد ز شادی اشک راند 
  • For a long time he remained unconscious and beside himself: when he came to himself, he shed tears for joy.

  • مصطفی‌اش در کنار خود کشید  ** کس چه داند بخششی کو را رسید 
  • Mustafá clasped him to his bosom: how should any one know the bounty that was bestowed on him?

  • چون بود مسی که بر اکسیر زد  ** مفلسی بر گنج پر توفیر زد 
  • How is it with a piece of copper that has touched the elixir? How with an insolvent who has hit upon an ample treasure?

  • ماهی پژمرده در بحر اوفتاد  ** کاروان گم شده زد بر رشاد  1065
  • (’Twas as though) a fish parched (for want of water) fell into the sea, (or) a caravan that had lost its way struck the right road.

  • آن خطاباتی که گفت آن دم نبی  ** گر زند بر شب بر آید از شبی 
  • If the words which the Prophet addressed (to him) at that moment should fall upon (the ears of) Night, it (Night) would cease from being night;

  • روز روشن گردد آن شب چون صباح  ** من نتوانم باز گفت آن اصطلاح 
  • Night would become day radiant as dawn: I cannot express (the real meaning of) that mystic allocution.