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  • زین سبب فرمود حق صلوا علیه  ** که محمد بود محتال الیه 
  • For this reason God hath said, ‘Do ye bless him (the Prophet),’ for Mohammed was one to whom (the attributes of Divine Providence) were transferred.

  • در قیامت بنده را گوید خدا  ** هین چه کردی آنچ دادم من ترا 
  • At the Resurrection God will say to His servant, ‘Hark, what have you done with that which I bestowed on you?’

  • گوید ای رب شکر تو کردم به جان  ** چون ز تو بود اصل آن روزی و نان  3260
  • He will reply, ‘O Lord, I gave thanks to Thee with (all) my soul, since the source of my daily provision and bread was in Thee.’

  • گویدش حق نه نکردی شکر من  ** چون نکردی شکر آن اکرام‌فن 
  • (Then) God will say to him, ‘Nay, you did not give thanks to Me, inasmuch as you did not give thanks to him who made a practice of generosity.

  • بر کریمی کرده‌ای ظلم و ستم  ** نه ز دست او رسیدت نعمتم 
  • You have done wrong and injustice to a generous man: did not My bounty come to you by his hand?’”

  • چون به گور آن ولی‌نعمت رسید  ** گشت گریان زار و آمد در نشید 
  • When he (the debtor) arrived at the tomb of his benefactor, he began to weep bitterly and broke into loud lamentation.

  • گفت ای پشت و پناه هر نبیل  ** مرتجی و غوث ابناء السبیل 
  • He said, “O thou who wert the support and refuge of every noble (righteous) man and the hope and helper of wayfarers,

  • ای غم ارزاق ما بر خاطرت  ** ای چو رزق عام احسان و برت  3265
  • O thou on whose heart the care for our means of livelihood (lay constantly), O thou whose beneficence and charity were (like) the universal provision of sustenance,

  • ای فقیران را عشیره و والدین  ** در خراج و خرج و در ایفاء دین 
  • O thou who wert (as) kinsfolk and parents to the poor in (paying) their taxes and expenses and in discharging their debts,

  • ای چو بحر از بهر نزدیکان گهر  ** داده و تحفه سوی دوران مطر 
  • O thou who, like the sea, gavest pearls for those near (to thee) and (didst send) rain as a gift to those afar,

  • پشت ما گرم از تو بود ای آفتاب  ** رونق هر قصر و گنج هر خراب 
  • Our backs were warmed by thee, O sun (who wert) the splendour in every palace and the treasure in every ruin.

  • ای در ابرویت ندیده کس گره  ** ای چو میکائیل راد و رزق‌ده 
  • O thou in whose eyebrow none ever saw knots (wrinkles), O thou (who wert) generous and bountiful as (the archangel) Michael,

  • ای دلت پیوسته با دریای غیب  ** ای به قاف مکرمت عنقای غیب  3270
  • O thou whose heart was connected with the Sea of the Unseen, O thou who wert the invisible ‘Anqá on the Qáf (mountain) of munificence,

  • یاد ناورده که از مالم چه رفت  ** سقف قصد همتت هرگز نکفت 
  • Who never tookest thought how much of thy wealth had gone, and the roof of the azimuth (amplitude) of thy magnanimity was never cloven,

  • ای من و صد هم‌چو من در ماه و سال  ** مر ترا چون نسل تو گشته عیال 
  • O thou to whom in (every) month and year I and a hundred like me had become a family (tenderly cared for) like thine own children,

  • نقد ما و جنس ما و رخت ما  ** نام ما و فخر ما و بخت ما 
  • Thou wert our ready money and our movables and our furniture, our fame and our glory and our fortune.

  • تو نمردی ناز و بخت ما بمرد  ** عیش ما و رزق مستوفی بمرد 
  • Thou art not dead; (but) our luxury and fortune are dead, our happy life is dead and the sustenance that was provided in full measure.

  • واحد کالالف در رزم و کرم  ** صد چو حاتم گاه ایثار نعم  3275
  • (Thou wert) a single person like (equivalent to) a thousand in warfare and in generosity; (thou wert) as a hundred Hátims in the hour of lavishing bounties unselfishly.

  • حاتم ار مرده به مرده می‌دهد  ** گردگان‌های شمرده می‌دهد 
  • If Hátim bestows dead (worldly goods) on the (spiritually) dead (worldlings), he (is like one who) bestows a certain number of walnuts (on children).

  • تو حیاتی می‌دهی در هر نفس  ** کز نفیسی می‌نگنجد در نفس 
  • Thou at every moment art bestowing a life that, because of its preciousness, cannot be contained in breath (words).

  • تو حیاتی می‌دهی بس پایدار  ** نقد زر بی‌کساد و بی‌شمار 
  • Thou art bestowing a life exceedingly enduring, real gold coin exempt from depreciation and beyond count.

  • وارثی نا بوده یک خوی ترا  ** ای فلک سجده کنان کوی ترا 
  • There exists no heir (even) to one (noble) disposition of thine, O thou to whose abode Heaven is bowing in worship.

  • خلق را از گرگ غم لطفت شبان  ** چون کلیم الله شبان مهربان  3280
  • Thy grace is the shepherd of all who have been created, (guarding them) from the wolf of pain—a loving shepherd like God's Kalím (Moses).”

  • گوسفندی از کلیم الله گریخت  ** پای موسی آبله شد نعل ریخت 
  • One sheep fled from God's Kalím: the feet of Moses were blistered (in following it) and his shoes dropped off.

  • در پی او تا به شب در جست و جو  ** وان رمه غایب شده از چشم او 
  • (He continued) searching after it till nightfall, and (meanwhile) the flock had vanished from his sight.