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  • 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.

  • گوسفند از ماندگی شد سست و ماند  ** پس کلیم الله گرد از وی فشاند 
  • The (lost) sheep was enfeebled and exhausted by fatigue: then God's Kalím shook the dust off it,

  • کف همی‌مالید بر پشت و سرش  ** می‌نواخت از مهر هم‌چون مادرش 
  • And stroked its back and head with his hand, fondling it lovingly like a mother.

  • نیم ذره طیرگی و خشم نی  ** غیر مهر و رحم و آب چشم نی  3285
  • Not (even) half a mite of irritation and anger, nothing but love and pity and tears!

  • گفت گیرم بر منت رحمی نبود  ** طبع تو بر خود چرا استم نمود 
  • He said (to the sheep), “I grant you (naturally) had no pity on me, (but) why did your nature show (such) cruelty to itself?”

  • با ملایک گفت یزدان آن زمان  ** که نبوت را نمی‌زیبد فلان 
  • At that moment God said to the angels, “So-and-so is suitable for prophethood.”

  • مصطفی فرمود خود که هر نبی  ** کرد چوپانیش برنا یا صبی 
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) himself has said that every prophet herded sheep as a young man or boy,

  • بی‌شبانی کردن و آن امتحان  ** حق ندادش پیشوایی جهان 
  • (And that) without his having been a shepherd and (having undergone) that trial, God did not bestow on him the leadership of the world.

  • گفت سایل هم تو نیز ای پهلوان  ** گفت من هم بوده‌ام دهری شبان  3290
  • A questioner said, “Even thou, O man of might?” “I too,” he replied, “was a shepherd for a long while.”

  • تا شود پیدا وقار و صبرشان  ** کردشان پیش از نبوت حق شبان 
  • In order that their (the prophets') calmness and fortitude should be displayed, God made them shepherds before (investing them with) prophethood.

  • هر امیری کو شبانی بشر  ** آن‌چنان آرد که باشد متمر 
  • Every prince who performs the task of shepherding mankind in such wise that he obeys the Commandments (of God),

  • حلم موسی‌وار اندر رعی خود  ** او به جا آرد به تدبیر و خرد 
  • (And) in tending them with foresight and understanding shows a forbearance like that of Moses,