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1014-1063

  • زاهد چندین هزاران ساله را ** پوز بندی ساخت آن گوساله را
  • He (God) made the ascetic of six hundred thousand years (Iblís) a muzzle for that young calf (Adam),

  • تا نتاند شیر علم دین کشید ** تا نگردد گرد آن قصر مشید 1015
  • That he (Adam) might not be able to drink the milk of knowledge of religion, and that he might not roam around that lofty castle.

  • علمهای اهل حس شد پوز بند ** تا نگیرد شیر ز آن علم بلند
  • The sciences of the followers of (external) sense became a muzzle, so that he (the believer in sense-perception) might not receive milk from that sublime knowledge.

  • قطره‌‌ی دل را یکی گوهر فتاد ** کان به دریاها و گردونها نداد
  • (But) into the blood-drop (core) of the heart there fell a jewel which He (God) gave not to the seas and skies.

  • چند صورت آخر ای صورت پرست ** جان بی‌‌معنیت از صورت نرست‌‌
  • How long (this regard for) form? After all, O form-worshipper, has thy reality-lacking soul not (yet) escaped from form?

  • گر به صورت آدمی انسان بدی ** احمد و بو جهل خود یکسان بدی‌‌
  • If a human being were a man in virtue of form, Ahmad (Mohammed) and Bú Jahl would be just the same.

  • نقش بر دیوار مثل آدم است ** بنگر از صورت چه چیز او کم است‌‌ 1020
  • The painting on the wall is like Adam: see from the (pictured) form what thing in it is wanting.

  • جان کم است آن صورت با تاب را ** رو بجو آن گوهر کمیاب را
  • The spirit is wanting in that resplendent form: go, seek that jewel rarely found!

  • شد سر شیران عالم جمله پست ** چون سگ اصحاب را دادند دست‌‌
  • The heads of all the lions in the world were laid low when They (God) gave a hand to (bestowed favour on) the dog of the Companions (of the Cave).

  • چه زیان استش از آن نقش نفور ** چون که جانش غرق شد در بحر نور
  • What loss does it suffer from that abhorred shape, inasmuch as its spirit was plunged in the ocean of light?

  • وصف صورت نیست اندر خامه‌‌ها ** عالم و عادل بود در نامه‌‌ها
  • ’Tis not in pens to describe (the outward) form: (what is written) in letters is (qualities like) “learned” and “just”;

  • عالم و عادل همه معنی است بس ** کش نیابی در مکان و پیش و پس‌‌ 1025
  • (And qualities like) “learned” and “just” are only the spiritual essence which thou wilt not find in (any) place or in front or behind.

  • می‌‌زند بر تن ز سوی لامکان ** می‌‌نگنجد در فلک خورشید جان‌‌
  • The sun of the spirit strikes (with its beams) on the body from the quarter where (the relation of) place does not exist: it (that sun) is not contained in the sky.

  • ذکر دانش خرگوش و بیان فضیلت و منافع دانستن‌‌
  • An account of the knowledge of the hare and an explanation of the excellence and advantages of knowledge.

  • این سخن پایان ندارد هوش دار ** گوش سوی قصه‌‌ی خرگوش دار
  • This topic hath no end. Give heed! Attend to the story of the hare.

  • گوش خر بفروش و دیگر گوش خر ** کاین سخن را در نیابد گوش خر
  • Sell your asinine (corporeal) ear and buy another ear, for the asinine ear will not apprehend this discourse.

  • رو تو روبه بازی خرگوش بین ** مکر و شیر اندازی خرگوش بین‌‌
  • Go, behold the foxy tricks played by the hare; behold the cunning of the hare and how he overthrew the lion.

  • خاتم ملک سلیمان است علم ** جمله عالم صورت و جان است علم‌‌ 1030
  • Knowledge is the seal of the kingdom of Solomon: the whole world is form, and knowledge is the spirit.

  • آدمی را زین هنر بی‌‌چاره گشت ** خلق دریاها و خلق کوه و دشت‌‌
  • Because of this virtue, the creatures of the seas and those of mountain and plain are helpless before man.

  • زو پلنگ و شیر ترسان همچو موش ** زو نهنگ و بحر در صفرا و جوش‌‌
  • Of him the pard and lion are afraid, like the mouse; from him the leviathan and the sea are in pallor and agitation.

  • زو پری و دیو ساحلها گرفت ** هر یکی در جای پنهان جا گرفت‌‌
  • From him peri and demon took to the shores (sought refuge): each took abode in some hiding-place.

  • آدمی را دشمن پنهان بسی است ** آدمی با حذر عاقل کسی است‌‌
  • Man hath many a secret enemy: the cautious man is a wise one.

  • خلق پنهان زشتشان و خوبشان ** می‌‌زند در دل بهر دم کوبشان‌‌ 1035
  • (There are) hidden creatures, evil and good: at every instant their blows are striking on the heart.

  • بهر غسل ار در روی در جویبار ** بر تو آسیبی زند در آب خار
  • If you go into the river to wash yourself, a thorn in the water inflicts a hurt upon you.

  • گر چه پنهان خار در آب است پست ** چون که در تو می‌‌خلد دانی که هست‌‌
  • Although the thorn is hidden low in the water, you know it is there, since it is pricking you.

  • خار خار وحیها و وسوسه ** از هزاران کس بود نی یک کسه‌‌
  • The pricks of (angelic) inspirations and (satanic) temptations are from thousands of beings, not (only) from one.

  • باش تا حسهای تو مبدل شود ** تا ببینیشان و مشکل حل شود
  • Wait (patiently) for your (bodily) senses to be transmuted, so that you may see them (the hidden beings), and the difficulty may be solved,

  • تا سخنهای کیان رد کرده‌‌ای ** تا کیان را سرور خود کرده‌‌ای‌‌ 1040
  • So that (you may see) whose words you have rejected and whom you have made your captain.

  • باز طلبیدن نخجیران از خرگوش سر اندیشه‌‌ی او را
  • How the beasts requested the hare to tell the secret of his thought.

  • بعد از آن گفتند کای خرگوش چست ** در میان آر آن چه در ادراک تست‌‌
  • Afterwards they said, “O nimble hare, communicate what is in thy apprehension.

  • ای که با شیری تو در پیچیده‌‌ای ** باز گو رایی که اندیشیده‌‌ای‌‌
  • O thou who hast grappled with a lion, declare the plan which thou hast thought of.

  • مشورت ادراک و هشیاری دهد ** عقلها مر عقل را یاری دهد
  • Counsel gives perception and understanding: the mind is helped by (other) minds.

  • گفت پیغمبر بکن ای رایزن ** مشورت کالمستشار موتمن‌‌
  • The Prophet said, ‘O adviser, take counsel (with the trustworthy), for he whose counsel is sought is trusted.’”

  • منع کردن خرگوش راز را از ایشان‌‌
  • How the hare withheld the secret from them.

  • گفت هر رازی نشاید باز گفت ** جفت طاق آید گهی گه طاق جفت‌‌ 1045
  • He said, “One ought not to say forth every secret: sometimes the even number turns out to be odd, and sometimes the odd number to be even.”

  • از صفا گر دم زنی با آینه ** تیره گردد زود با ما آینه‌‌
  • If from guilelessness you breathe words to a mirror, the mirror at once becomes dim to us.

  • در بیان این سه کم جنبان لبت ** از ذهاب و از ذهب وز مذهبت‌‌
  • Do not move your lip in explanation of these three things, (namely) concerning your departure and your gold and your religion;

  • کین سه را خصم است بسیار و عدو ** در کمینت ایستد چون داند او
  • For to these three there is many an adversary and foe standing in wait for you when he knows (about any of them).

  • ور بگویی با یکی دو الوداع ** کل سر جاوز الاثنین شاع‌‌
  • And if you tell (only) one or two (a few people), farewell (to your secret): every secret that goes beyond the twain (who share it) is published abroad.

  • گر دو سه پرنده را بندی به هم ** بر زمین مانند محبوس از الم‌‌ 1050
  • If you tie two or three birds together, they will remain on the ground, imprisoned by grief;

  • مشورت دارند سرپوشیده خوب ** در کنایت با غلط افکن مشوب‌‌
  • (But in truth) they hold a consultation well-disguised and mingled, in its (apparent) significance, with that which casts error (into the mind of any one who observes them).

  • مشورت کردی پیمبر بسته سر ** گفته ایشانش جواب و بی‌‌خبر
  • (Similarly) the Prophet used to take counsel, (speaking) cryptically, and they (his companions) would answer him and (would be) without knowledge (of his real meaning).

  • در مثالی بسته گفتی رای را ** تا نداند خصم از سر پای را
  • He would speak his opinion in a covert parable, in order that the adversary might not know foot from head.

  • او جواب خویش بگرفتی از او ** وز سؤالش می‌‌نبردی غیر بو
  • He (the Prophet) would receive his answer from him (the adversary), while the other would not catch the smell (drift) of his question.

  • قصه‌‌ی مکر خرگوش‌‌
  • The story of the hare's stratagem.

  • ساعتی تاخیر کرد اندر شدن ** بعد از آن شد پیش شیر پنجه زن‌‌ 1055
  • He delayed awhile in going, then he went before the lion who rends (his prey) with claws.

  • ز آن سبب کاندر شدن او ماند دیر ** خاک را می‌‌کند و می‌‌غرید شیر
  • Because he tarried late in going, the lion was tearing up the earth and roaring.

  • گفت من گفتم که عهد آن خسان ** خام باشد خام و سست و نارسان‌‌
  • “I said,” cried the lion, “that the promise of those vile ones would be vain—vain and frail and unfulfilled.

  • دمدمه‌‌ی ایشان مرا از خر فگند ** چند بفریبد مرا این دهر چند
  • Their palaver has duped me: how long will this Time deceive me, how long?”

  • سخت درماند امیر سست ریش ** چون نه پس بیند نه پیش از احمقیش‌‌
  • The prince that hath no strength in his beard is left sorely in the lurch when by reason of his folly he looks neither backwards nor forwards.

  • راه هموار است و زیرش دامها ** قحط معنی در میان نامها 1060
  • The road is smooth, and under it are pitfalls: amidst the names there is a dearth of meaning.

  • لفظها و نامها چون دامهاست ** لفظ شیرین ریگ آب عمر ماست‌‌
  • Words and names are like pitfalls: the sweet (flattering) word is the sand for (the sand that sucks up) the water of our life.

  • آن یکی ریگی که جوشد آب ازو ** سخت کمیاب است رو آن را بجو
  • The one sand whence water gushes is seldom to be found: go, seek it.

  • منبع حکمت شود حکمت طلب ** فارغ آید او ز تحصیل و سبب‌‌
  • He that searches after wisdom becomes a fountain of wisdom; he becomes independent of acquisition and (ways and) means.