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1324-1348

  • 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!”

  • خواست صوفی تا دو سه مشتش زند  ** سبلت و ریشش یکایک بر کند 
  • The Súfí was about to give him two or three blows with his fist and tear out his moustache and beard piecemeal (but refrained from doing so).

  • خلق رنجور دق و بیچاره‌اند  ** وز خداع دیو سیلی باره‌اند 
  • Mankind are (like) sufferers from phthisis and without a remedy (for their disease), and through the Devil's deception they are passionately addicted to slapping (each other).

  • جمله در ایذای بی‌جرمان حریص  ** در قفای همدگر جویان نقیص 
  • All (of them) are eager to injure the innocent and are seeking (to find) fault behind each others' backs.

  • ای زننده بی‌گناهان را قفا  ** در قفای خود نمی‌بینی جزا 
  • O you who strike the napes of the guiltless, don't you see the retribution (that is coming) behind you?

  • ای هوا را طب خود پنداشته  ** بر ضعیفان صفع را بگماشته  1340
  • O you who fancy that (indulgence of) desire is your (right) medicine and inflict slaps on the weak,

  • بر تو خندید آنک گفتت این دواست  ** اوست که آدم را به گندم رهنماست 
  • He who told you that this is the cure (for your disease) mocked at you: ’tis he that guided Adam to the wheat,

  • که خورید این دانه او دو مستعین  ** بهر دارو تا تکونا خالدین 
  • Saying, “O ye twain who implore help, eat this grain as a remedy that ye may abide (in Paradise) for ever.”

  • اوش لغزانید و او را زد قفا  ** آن قفا وا گشت و گشت این را جزا 
  • He caused him (Adam) to stumble and gave him a slap on the nape: that slap recoiled and became a (penal) retribution for him (the Devil).

  • اوش لغزانید سخت اندر زلق  ** لیک پشت و دستگیرش بود حق 
  • He caused him (Adam) to stumble terribly in backsliding, but God was his (Adam's) support and helper.

  • کوه بود آدم اگر پر مار شد  ** کان تریاقست و بی‌اضرار شد  1345
  • Adam was (like) a mountain: (even) if he was filled with serpents (of sin), he is a mine of the antidote (to snake-poison) and was unhurt.

  • تو که تریاقی نداری ذره‌ای  ** از خلاص خود چرایی غره‌ای 
  • You, who do not possess an atom of the antidote, why are you deluded by your (hope of) deliverance?

  • آن توکل کو خلیلانه ترا  ** وآن کرامت چون کلیمت از کجا 
  • Where, in your case, is trust in God like (the trust of) Khalíl (Abraham), and whence will you get the (Divine) grace like (that bestowed upon) Kalím (Moses),

  • تا نبرد تیغت اسمعیل را  ** تا کنی شه‌راه قعر نیل را 
  • So that your knife should not cut (the throat of) Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) and that you should make the depths of the Nile a (dry) highway?