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1311-1335

  • چون نیابی این سعادت در ضمیر  ** پس ز ظاهر هر دم استدلال گیر 
  • Since you do not feel this bliss in your inmost heart, then continually seek the clue to it from outside,

  • که اثرها بر مشاعر ظاهرست  ** وین اثرها از مثر مخبرست 
  • For effects are apparent to the senses, and these effects give information concerning their producer.

  • هست پنهان معنی هر داروی  ** هم‌چو سحر و صنعت هر جادوی 
  • The virtue of every drug is hidden like magic and the art of any sorcerer;

  • چون نظر در فعل و آثارش کنی  ** گرچه پنهانست اظهارش کنی 
  • (But) when you regard its action and effects, you bring it to light (even) though it is hidden.

  • قوتی کان اندرونش مضمرست  ** چون به فعل آید عیان و مظهرست  1315
  • The potency that is concealed within it is clearly seen and made manifest when it comes into action.

  • چون به آثار این همه پیدا شدت  ** چون نشد پیدا ز تاثیر ایزدت 
  • Since all these things are revealed to you by means of effects, how is not God revealed to you by the production of effects?

  • نه سببها و اثرها مغز و پوست  ** چون بجویی جملگی آثار اوست 
  • Causes and effects, (both) kernel and husk—are not the whole (of them), when you investigate, effects produced by Him?

  • دوست گیری چیزها را از اثر  ** پس چرا ز آثاربخشی بی‌خبر 
  • You make friends with things because of the effect (which they produce): why, then, are you ignorant of Him who produces (all) effects?

  • از خیالی دوست گیری خلق را  ** چون نگیری شاه غرب و شرق را 
  • You make friends with people on the ground of a phantasy: why do not you make friends with the King of west and east?

  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای قباد  ** حرص ما را اندرین پایان مباد  1320
  • This topic hath no end. O (spiritual) emperor, may there be no end to our desire for this (mystic knowledge)!

  • رجوع به قصه‌ی رنجور 
  • Returning to the Story of the sick man.

  • باز گرد و قصه‌ی رنجور گو  ** با طبیب آگه ستارخو 
  • Return (from the digression) and tell the story of the sick man and the wise physician whose nature was to palliate.

  • نبض او بگرفت و واقف شد ز حال  ** که امید صحت او بد محال 
  • He felt his pulse and ascertained his state (of health): (he saw) that it was absurd to hope for his recovery.

  • گفت هر چت دل بخواهد آن بکن  ** تا رود از جسمت این رنج کهن 
  • He said, “Do whatever your heart desires, in order that this old malady may quit your body.

  • هرچه خواهد خاطر تو وا مگیر  ** تا نگردد صبر و پرهیزت زحیر 
  • Do not withhold anything that your inclination craves, lest your self-restraint and abstinence turn to gripes.

  • صبر و پرهیز این مرض را دان زیان  ** هرچه خواهد دل در آرش در میان  1325
  • Know that self-restraint and abstinence are injurious to this disease: proffer to your heart whatever it may desire.

  • این چنین رنجور را گفت ای عمو  ** حق تعالی اعملوا ما شتم 
  • O uncle, (it was) in reference to a sick man like this (that) God most High said, ‘Do what ye will.”

  • گفت رو هین خیر بادت جان عم  ** من تماشای لب جو می‌روم 
  • He (the sick man) said, “(Now) go; look you, my dear nephew, I am going for a walk on the bank of the river.”

  • بر مراد دل همی‌گشت او بر آب  ** تا که صحت را بیابد فتح باب 
  • He was strolling beside the water, as his heart desired, in order that he might find the door to health opened to him.

  • بر لب جو صوفیی بنشسته بود  ** دست و رو می‌شست و پاکی می‌فزود 
  • On the river-bank a Súfí was seated, washing his hands and face and cleansing himself more and more.

  • او قفااش دید چون تخییلیی  ** کرد او را آرزوی سیلیی  1330
  • He saw the nape of his (the Súfí's) neck and, like a crazy man, felt a longing to give it a slap;

  • بر قفای صوفی حمزه‌پرست  ** راست می‌کرد از برای صفع دست 
  • (So) he raised his hand to inflict a blow on the nape of the pottage-worshipping Súfí,

  • کارزو را گر نرانم تا رود  ** آن طبیبم گفت کان علت شود 
  • Saying (to himself), “The physician told me it would make me ill if I would not let my desire have its way.

  • سیلیش اندر برم در معرکه  ** زانک لا تلقوا بایدی تهلکه 
  • I will give him a slap in quarrel, for (God hath said), ‘Do not cast yourselves with your own hands into destruction.’

  • تهلکه‌ست این صبر و پرهیز ای فلان  ** خوش بکوبش تن مزن چون دیگران 
  • O such-and-such, this self-restraint and abstinence is (thy) destruction: give him a good blow, do not keep quiet like the others.”

  • چون زدش سیلی برآمد یک طراق  ** گفت صوفی هی هی ای قواد عاق  1335
  • When he slapped him, there was the sound of a crack: the Súfí cried, “Hey, hey, O rascally pimp!”