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  • گفت چون فرمود آن شاه مطاع  ** من کی بودم تا کنم زان امتناع 
  • He replied, “When that sovereign who is obeyed (by all) gave the order, who was I that I should resist it?

  • تو جهود از امر موسی سر کشی  ** گر بخواند در خوشی یا ناخوشی  2495
  • Will you, Jew, rebel against the command of Moses if he summon you (either) in a fair cause or a foul?

  • تو مسیحی هیچ از امر مسیح  ** سر توانی تافت در خیر و قبیح 
  • Can you, Christian, ever spurn the command of Christ (whether) for good or evil?

  • من ز فخر انبیا سر چون کشم  ** خورده‌ام حلوا و این دم سرخوشم 
  • How, (then), should I rebel against the Glory of the prophets? I have eaten the halwá and now I am happy.”

  • پس بگفتندش که والله خواب راست  ** تو بدیدی وین به از صد خواب ماست 
  • Then they said to him, “By God, you have dreamed a true dream, and ’tis better than a hundred dreams of ours.

  • خواب تو بیداریست ای بو بطر  ** که به بیداری عیانستش اثر 
  • Your dreaming is waking, O gleeful one, for its effect (reality) is made evident by (your) waking (and eating the sweetmeat).”

  • در گذر از فضل و از جهدی و فن  ** کار خدمت دارد و خلق حسن  2500
  • Abandon eminence and (worldly) energy and skill: what matters is service (rendered to God) and a goodly disposition.

  • بهر این آوردمان یزدان برون  ** ما خلقت الانس الا یعبدون 
  • For this (object) God brought us forth (from non-existence): “I did not create mankind except to serve Me.”

  • سامری را آن هنر چه سود کرد  ** کان فن از باب اللهش مردود کرد 
  • How did that knowledge (of his) profit Sámirí, whom the skill (shown in making the golden Calf) banished from God's door?

  • چه کشید از کیمیا قارون ببین  ** که فرو بردش به قعر خود زمین 
  • What did Qárún gain by his alchemy? See how the earth bore him down to its abyss.

  • بوالحکم آخر چه بر بست از هنر  ** سرنگون رفت او ز کفران در سقر 
  • What, after all, did Bu ’l-Hakam (Abú Jahl) get from (intellectual) knowledge? On account of his unbelief he went headlong into Hell.

  • خود هنر آن داد که دید آتش عیان  ** نه کپ دل علی النار الدخان  2505
  • Know that (true) knowledge consists in seeing fire plainly, not in prating that smoke is evidence of fire.

  • ای دلیلت گنده‌تر پیش لبیب  ** در حقیقت از دلیل آن طبیب 
  • O you whose evidence in the eyes of the Sage is really more stinking than the evidence of the physician,

  • چون دلیلت نیست جز این ای پسر  ** گوه می‌خور در کمیزی می‌نگر 
  • Since you have no evidence but this, O son, eat dung and inspect urine!

  • ای دلیل تو مثال آن عصا  ** در کفت دل علی عیب العمی 
  • O you whose evidence is like the staff in your hand (which) indicates that you suffer from blindness,

  • غلغل و طاق و طرنب و گیر و دار  ** که نمی‌بینم مرا معذور دار 
  • (All this) noise and pompous talk and assumption of authority (only means), “I cannot see: (kindly) excuse me.”

  • منادی کردن سید ملک ترمد کی هر کی در سه یا چهار روز به سمرقند رود به فلان مهم خلعت و اسپ و غلام و کنیزک و چندین زر دهم و شنیدن دلقک خبر این منادی در ده و آمدن به اولاقی نزد شاه کی من باری نتوانم رفتن 
  • How the Sayyid, the King of Tirmid, proclaimed that he would give robes of honour and horses and slave-boys and slave-girls and a large sum in gold to any one who would go on urgent business to Samarcand (and complete the journey) in three or four days; and how Dalqak, having heard the news of this proclamation in the country (where he then was), came post-haste to the king, saying, “I, at all events, cannot go.”

  • سید ترمد که آنجا شاه بود  ** مسخره‌ی او دلقک آگاه بود  2510
  • The sagacious Dalqak was the buffoon (court-jester) of the Sayyid of Tirmid, who reigned in that place (city).

  • داشت کاری در سمرقند او مهم  ** جست‌الاقی تا شود او مستتم 
  • He (the king) had an urgent affair in Samarcand, and wanted a courier in order that he might conclude it.

  • زد منادی هر که اندر پنج روز  ** آردم زانجا خبر بدهم کنوز 
  • (Therefore) he proclaimed that he would bestow (his) treasures on any one who should bring him news from there in five days.

  • دلقک اندر ده بد و آن را شنید  ** بر نشست و تا بترمد می‌دوید 
  • Dalqak was in the country and heard of that (proclamation): he mounted (a horse) and galloped to Tirmid.

  • مرکبی دو اندر آن ره شد سقط  ** از دوانیدن فرس را زان نمط 
  • Two horses dropped (dead) on the way because of his galloping in that (furious) manner.

  • پس به دیوان در دوید از گرد راه  ** وقت ناهنگام ره جست او به شاه  2515
  • Then, (fresh) from the dust of the road, he ran into the council-chamber and demanded admission to the king at an untimely hour.

  • فجفجی در جمله‌ی دیوان فتاد  ** شورشی در وهم آن سلطان فتاد 
  • A whispered rumour arose in the council, and a (feeling of) agitation came into the mind of the Sultan.

  • خاص و عام شهر را دل شد ز دست  ** تا چه تشویش و بلا حادث شدست 
  • The hearts of the nobles and populace of the city were stricken with panic, (for they wondered) what disturbance and calamity had occurred,

  • یا عدوی قاهری در قصد ماست  ** یا بلایی مهلکی از غیب خاست 
  • (Saying), “Either a conquering enemy is about to attack us or a deadly calamity has emerged from the Unseen,