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1889-1913

  • نیست هر مطلوب از طالب دریغ  ** جفت تابش شمس و جفت آب میغ 
  • No object of search is withheld from the seeker: the sun is paired with heat and the cloud with water.

  • هست دنیا قهرخانه‌ی کردگار  ** قهر بین چون قهر کردی اختیار  1890
  • The present world is the Creator's penitentiary: since you have chosen (to incur) punishment, suffer punishment!

  • استخوان و موی مقهوران نگر  ** تیغ قهر افکنده اندر بحر و بر 
  • Contemplate the bones and hair of the punished ones (whom) the sword of (Divine) punishment overthrew on sea and land.

  • پر و پای مرغ بین بر گرد دام  ** شرح قهر حق کننده بی‌کلام 
  • Consider the bird's feathers and feet (lying) around the trap and silently expounding (the nature of) God's punishment.

  • مرد او بر جای خرپشته نشاند  ** وآنک کهنه گشت هم پشته نماند 
  • He (the worldling) dies and leaves a (sepulchral) vault to occupy his place; and (in the case of) one who has lain for ages (in the earth), even the vault has disappeared.

  • هر کسی را جفت کرده عدل حق  ** پیل را با پیل و بق را جنس بق 
  • The justice of God hath mated every one (with one of his own kind)—elephant with elephant and gnat with gnat.

  • مونس احمد به مجلس چار یار  ** مونس بوجهل عتبه و ذوالخمار  1895
  • The familiar associates of Ahmad (Mohammed) were the Four Friends, (while) the familiars of Bú Jahl were ‘Utba and Dhu ’l-Khimár.

  • کعبه‌ی جبریل و جانها سدره‌ای  ** قبله‌ی عبدالبطون شد سفره‌ای 
  • The Ka‘ba of Gabriel and the (celestial) spirits is a Lotus-tree; the qibla of the belly-slave is a table-cloth (covered with dishes of food).

  • قبله‌ی عارف بود نور وصال  ** قبله‌ی عقل مفلسف شد خیال 
  • The qibla of the gnostic is the light of union (with God); the qibla of the philosopher's intellect is phantasy.

  • قبله‌ی زاهد بود یزدان بر  ** قبله‌ی مطمع بود همیان زر 
  • The qibla of the ascetic is the Gracious God; the qibla of the flatterer is a purse of gold.

  • قبله‌ی معنی‌وران صبر و درنگ  ** قبله‌ی صورت‌پرستان نقش سنگ 
  • The qibla of the spiritual is patience and long-suffering; the qibla of form worshippers is the image of stone.

  • قبله‌ی باطن‌نشینان ذوالمنن  ** قبله‌ی ظاهرپرستان روی زن  1900
  • The qibla of those who dwell on the inward is the Bounteous One; the qibla of those who worship the outward is a woman's face.

  • هم‌چنین برمی‌شمر تازه و کهن  ** ور ملولی رو تو کار خویش کن 
  • Similarly reckon up new and old (instances); and if you are weary (of doing so), go about your business.

  • رزق ما در کاس زرین شد عقار  ** وآن سگان را آب تتماج و تغار 
  • Our provision (from God) is wine in a golden cup, while those curs have the tutmáj broth and the trough.

  • لایق آنک بدو خو داده‌ایم  ** در خور آن رزق بفرستاده‌ایم 
  • (God says), “To him on whom We have bestowed a (particular) disposition We have sent the appropriate provision accordingly.

  • خوی آن را عاشق نان کرده‌ایم  ** خوی این را مست جانان کرده‌ایم 
  • We have made it that one's disposition to be passionately fond of bread, We have made it this one's disposition to be intoxicated with the Beloved.”

  • چون به خوی خود خوشی و خرمی  ** پس چه از درخورد خویت می‌رمی  1905
  • Since you are pleased and happy with your disposition, then why are you fleeing from that which is appropriate to your disposition?

  • مادگی خوش آمدت چادر بگیر  ** رستمی خوش آمدت خنجر بگیر 
  • (If) feminality pleases you, get a chádar; (if) the prowess of Rustam pleases you, get a dagger.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد وآن فقیر  ** گشته است از زخم درویشی عقیر 
  • This topic hath no end, and (meanwhile) the fakir has been sorely wounded by the blows of penury.

  • قصه‌ی آن گنج‌نامه کی پهلوی قبه‌ای روی به قبله کن و تیر در کمان نه بینداز آنجا کی افتد گنجست 
  • Story of the treasure-scroll (in which it was written), “Beside a certain domed building turn your face towards the qibla (Mecca) and put an arrow to the bow and shoot: the treasure is (buried) at the spot where it falls.”

  • دید در خواب او شبی و خواب کو  ** واقعه‌ی بی‌خواب صوفی‌راست خو 
  • One night he dreamed—but where was sleep? The vision without sleep is familiar to the Súfí—

  • هاتفی گفتش کای دیده تعب  ** رقعه‌ای در مشق وراقان طلب 
  • (That) a heavenly voice said to him, “O you who have seen trouble, search among the (loose) leaves of handwriting sold (as models) by stationers for a certain scroll.

  • خفیه زان وراق کت همسایه است  ** سوی کاغذپاره‌هاش آور تو دست  1910
  • Unobserved by the stationer who is your neighbour, bring your hand into touch with his papers.

  • رقعه‌ای شکلش چنین رنگش چنین  ** بس بخوان آن را به خلوت ای حزین 
  • It is a scroll of such a shape and such a colour: then (as soon as possible) read it in privacy, O sorrowful one.

  • چون بدزدی آن ز وراق ای پسر  ** پس برون رو ز انبهی و شور و شر 
  • When you steal it from the stationer, my lad, then go out of the crowd and the noise and turmoil,

  • تو بخوان آن را به خود در خلوتی  ** هین مجو در خواندن آن شرکتی 
  • And read it by yourself in some lonely place: beware, do not seek any partnership in reading it.