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  • تا به دریا سیر اسپ و زین بود  ** بعد ازینت مرکب چوبین بود 
  • As far as the sea, ’tis a journey on horseback: after this you (must) have a wooden horse.

  • مرکب چوبین به خشکی ابترست  ** خاص آن دریاییان را رهبرست 
  • The wooden horse is no good on the dry land: it carries exclusively those who voyage on the sea.

  • این خموشی مرکب چوبین بود  ** بحریان را خامشی تلقین بود 
  • The wooden horse is this (mystical) silence: (this) silence gives instruction to the sea-folk.

  • هر خموشی که ملولت می‌کند  ** نعره‌های عشق آن سو می‌زند  4625
  • Every (such) silent one who wearies you is (really) uttering shrieks of love Yonder.

  • تو همی‌گویی عجب خامش چراست  ** او همی‌گوید عجب گوشش کجاست 
  • You say, “I wonder why he is silent”; he says (to himself), “How strange! Where is his ear?

  • من ز نعره کر شدم او بی‌خبر  ** تیزگوشان زین سمر هستند کر 
  • I am deafened by the shrieks, (yet) he is unaware (of them).” The (apparently) sharp-eared are (in fact) deaf to this (mystical) converse.

  • آن یکی در خواب نعره می‌زند  ** صد هزاران بحث و تلقین می‌کند 
  • (For example), some one cries aloud in his dream and gives a hundred thousand discussions and communications,

  • این نشسته پهلوی او بی‌خبر  ** خفته خود آنست و کر زان شور و شر 
  • (While) this (other), sitting beside him, is unaware (of it): ’tis really he who is asleep and deaf to (all) that turmoil and tumult.

  • وان کسی کش مرکب چوبین شکست  ** غرقه شد در آب او خود ماهیست  4630
  • And he whose wooden horse is shattered and sunk in the water (of the sea), he in sooth is the fish.

  • نه خموشست و نه گویا نادریست  ** حال او را در عبارت نام نیست 
  • He is neither silent nor speaking: he is a marvel: there is no name to describe his state.

  • نیست زین دو هر دو هست آن بوالعجب  ** شرح این گفتن برونست از ادب 
  • He does not belong to these two (categories), (and yet) that prodigy is (really) both: to explain this would transgress the limits of due reverence.

  • این مثال آمد رکیک و بی‌ورود  ** لیک در محسوس ازین بهتر نبود 
  • This comparison is poor and unsuccessful, but in the sensible (world) there was none better than this (to be found).

  • متوفی شدن بزرگین از شه‌زادگان و آمدن برادر میانین به جنازه‌ی برادر کی آن کوچکین صاحب‌فراش بود از رنجوری و نواختن پادشاه میانین را تا او هم لنگ احسان شد ماند پیش پادشاه صد هزار از غنایم غیبی و غنی بدو رسید از دولت و نظر آن شاه مع تقریر بعضه 
  • The death of the eldest prince, and how the middle brother came to his funeral—for the youngest was confined to his bed by illness; and how the King treated the middle brother with great affection, so that he too was crippled (captivated) by his kindness; (and how) he remained with the King, and a hundred thousand spoils (precious gifts), from the unseen and visible worlds, were conferred upon him by the fortune and favour of the King; with an exposition of some part thereof.

  • کوچکین رنجور بود و آن وسط  ** بر جنازه‌ی آن بزرگ آمد فقط 
  • The youngest (brother) was ill, and (so) the middle one came alone to the funeral of the eldest.

  • شاه دیدش گفت قاصد کین کیست  ** که از آن بحرست و این هم ماهیست  4635
  • (When) the King espied him, he said with a purpose, “Who is this?—for he is of that sea, and he too is a fish.”

  • پس معرف گفت پور آن پدر  ** این برادر زان برادر خردتر 
  • Then the announcer said, “He is a son of the same father: this brother is younger than that (deceased) brother.”

  • شه نوازیدش که هستی یادگار  ** کرد او را هم بدان پرسش شکار 
  • The King greeted him affectionately, saying, “Thou art a keepsake (from thy brother to me)”; and by this enquiry (gracious attention) made him too his prey.

  • از نواز شاه آن زار حنیذ  ** در تن خود غیر جان جانی بدیذ 
  • In consequence of the kindness shown (to him) by the King, that wretched man, (who was) roasted (in the fire of love), found in his body a soul other than the (animal) soul.

  • در دل خود دید عالی غلغله  ** که نیابد صوفی آن در صد چله 
  • He felt within his heart a sublime emotion which the Súfí does not experience during a hundred chilas.

  • عرصه و دیوار و کوه سنگ‌بافت  ** پیش او چون نار خندان می‌شکافت  4640
  • Court-yard and wall and mountain woven of stone seemed to split open before him like a laughing (bursting) pomegranate.

  • ذره ذره پیش او هم‌چون قباب  ** دم به دم می‌کرد صدگون فتح باب 
  • One by one, the atoms (of the universe) were momently opening their doors to him, like tents, in a hundred diverse ways.

  • باب گه روزن شدی گاه شعاع  ** خاک گه گندم شدی و گاه صاع 
  • The door would become now the window, now the sunbeams; the earth would become now the wheat, now the bushel.

  • در نظرها چرخ بس کهنه و قدید  ** پیش چشمش هر دمی خلق جدید 
  • In (men's) eyes the heavens are very old and threadbare; in his eye ’twasa new creation at every moment.

  • روح زیبا چونک وا رست از جسد  ** از قضا بی شک چنین چشمش رسد 
  • When the beauteous spirit is delivered from the body, no doubt an eye like this will be conferred upon it by (Divine) destiny.

  • صد هزاران غیب پیشش شد پدید  ** آنچ چشم محرمان بیند بدید  4645
  •  A hundred thousand mysteries were revealed to him: he beheld that which the eyes of the initiated behold.

  • آنچ او اندر کتب بر خوانده بود  ** چشم را در صورت آن بر گشود 
  • He opened (the inward) eye (and gazed) on the (ideal) form of that which he had (only) read in books.