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1526-1575

  • گر ترش رو بودن آمد شکر و بس ** پس چو سرکه شکر گویی نیست کس‌‌
  • If thanksgiving is only to look sour, then there is no thanks-giver like vinegar.

  • سرکه را گر راه باید در جگر ** گو بشو سرکنگبین او از شکر
  • If vinegar wants (to find) the way to the liver, let it become oxymel by (being mixed with) sugar.

  • معنی اندر شعر جز با خبط نیست ** چون قلاسنگ است اندر ضبط نیست‌‌
  • The meaning in poetry has no sureness of direction: it is like the sling, it is not under control.

  • در معنی آن که من أراد أن یجلس مع الله فلیجلس مع أهل التصوف‌‌
  • On the inner sense of “Let him who desires to sit with God sit with the Súfís.”

  • آن رسول از خود بشد زین یک دو جام ** نه رسالت یاد ماندش نه پیام‌‌
  • The ambassador became beside himself from these one or two cups (of spiritual discourse): neither embassage nor message remained in his memory.

  • واله اندر قدرت الله شد ** آن رسول اینجا رسید و شاه شد 1530
  • He became distraught at the power of God. The ambassador arrived at this place (state) and became a king.

  • سیل چون آمد به دریا بحر گشت ** دانه چون آمد به مزرع گشت کشت‌‌
  • When the torrent reached the sea, it became the sea; when the seed reached the cornland, it became the crop of corn.

  • چون تعلق یافت نان با بو البشر ** نان مرده زنده گشت و با خبر
  • When the bread attained to connexion with Man, the dead bread became living and endowed with knowledge.

  • موم و هیزم چون فدای نار شد ** ذات ظلمانی او انوار شد
  • When the wax and firewood were devoted to the fire, their dark essence became (filled with) light.

  • سنگ سرمه چون که شد در دیده‌‌گان ** گشت بینایی شد آن جا دیدبان‌‌
  • When the (powdered) stone of antimony went into the eyes, it turned to sight and there became a scout (one who observes the enemy from some point of vantage).

  • ای خنک آن مرد کز خود رسته شد ** در وجود زنده‌‌ای پیوسته شد 1535
  • Oh, happy is the man who was freed from himself and united with the existence of a living one!

  • وای آن زنده که با مرده نشست ** مرده گشت و زندگی از وی بجست‌‌
  • Alas for the living one who consorted with the dead! He became dead, and life sped away from him.

  • چون تو در قرآن حق بگریختی ** با روان انبیا آمیختی‌‌
  • When you have fled (for refuge) to the Qur’án of God, you have mingled with the spirit of the prophets.

  • هست قرآن حالهای انبیا ** ماهیان بحر پاک کبریا
  • The Qur’án is (a description of) the states of the prophets, (who are) the fishes of the holy sea of (Divine) Majesty.

  • ور بخوانی و نه‌‌ای قرآن پذیر ** انبیا و اولیا را دیده گیر
  • And if you read and do not accept (take to heart) the Qur’án, suppose you have seen the prophets and saints (what will that avail you?);

  • ور پذیرایی چو بر خوانی قصص ** مرغ جانت تنگ آید در قفص‌‌ 1540
  • But if you are accepting (the Qur’án), when you read the stories (of the prophets), the bird, your soul, will be distressed in its cage.

  • مرغ کاو اندر قفس زندانی است ** می‌‌نجوید رستن از نادانی است‌‌
  • The bird that is a prisoner in a cage, (if it) is not seeking to escape, ’tis from ignorance.

  • روحهایی کز قفسها رسته‌‌اند ** انبیای رهبر شایسته‌‌اند
  • The spirits which have escaped from their cages are the prophets, (those) worthy guides.

  • از برون آوازشان آید ز دین ** که ره رستن ترا این است این‌‌
  • From without comes their voice, (telling) of religion, (and crying), “This, this is the way of escape for thee.

  • ما به دین رستیم زین ننگین قفس ** جز که این ره نیست چاره‌‌ی این قفس‌‌
  • By this we escaped from this narrow cage: there is no means of escape from this cage but this way,

  • خویش را رنجور سازی زار زار ** تا ترا بیرون کنند از اشتهار 1545
  • (That) thou shouldst make thyself ill, exceedingly wretched, in order that thou mayst be let out from (the cage of) reputation.”

  • که اشتهار خلق بند محکم است ** در ره این از بند آهن کی کم است‌‌
  • Worldly reputation is a strong chain: in the Way how is this less than a chain of iron?

  • قصه‌‌ی بازرگان که طوطی محبوس او او را پیغام داد به طوطیان هندوستان هنگام رفتن به تجارت‌‌
  • The story of the merchant to whom the captive parrot gave a message for the parrots of India on the occasion of his going (thither) to trade.

  • بود بازرگانی او را طوطیی ** در قفس محبوس زیبا طوطیی‌‌
  • There was a merchant, and he had a parrot imprisoned in a cage, a pretty parrot.

  • چون که بازرگان سفر را ساز کرد ** سوی هندستان شدن آغاز کرد
  • When the merchant made ready for travel and was about to depart to India,

  • هر غلام و هر کنیزک را ز جود ** گفت بهر تو چه آرم گوی زود
  • Because of his generosity he said to each male slave and each handmaid, “What shall I bring (home) for you? Tell (me) quickly.”

  • هر یکی از وی مرادی خواست کرد ** جمله را وعده بداد آن نیک مرد 1550
  • Each one asked him for some object of desire: that good man gave his promise to them all.

  • گفت طوطی را چه خواهی ارمغان ** کارمت از خطه‌‌ی هندوستان‌‌
  • He said to the parrot, “What present would you like me to bring for you from the land of India?”

  • گفتش آن طوطی که آن جا طوطیان ** چون ببینی کن ز حال من بیان‌‌
  • The parrot said to him, “When thou seest the parrots there, explain my plight (and say),

  • کان فلان طوطی که مشتاق شماست ** از قضای آسمان در حبس ماست‌‌
  • ‘Such and such a parrot, who is longing for you, is in my prison by the destiny of Heaven.

  • بر شما کرد او سلام و داد خواست ** وز شما چاره و ره ارشاد خواست‌‌
  • She salutes you and asks for justice and desires (to learn) from you the means and way of being rightly guided.

  • گفت می‌‌شاید که من در اشتیاق ** جان دهم اینجا بمیرم در فراق‌‌ 1555
  • She says, “Is it meet that I in yearning (after you) should give up the ghost and die here in separation?

  • این روا باشد که من در بند سخت ** گه شما بر سبزه گاهی بر درخت‌‌
  • Is this right—(that) I (should be) in grievous bondage, while ye are now on green plants, now on trees?

  • این چنین باشد وفای دوستان ** من در این حبس و شما در بوستان‌‌
  • The faith kept by friends, is it like this?—I in this prison and ye in the rose-garden.

  • یاد آرید ای مهان زین مرغ زار ** یک صبوحی در میان مرغزار
  • O ye noble ones, call to mind this piteous bird, (and drink in memory of me) a morning-draught amongst the meadows!

  • یاد یاران یار را میمون بود ** خاصه کان لیلی و این مجنون بود
  • Happy it is for a friend to be remembered by friends, in particular when that (beloved) is Laylá and this (lover) Majnún.

  • ای حریفان بت موزون خود ** من قدحها می‌‌خورم پر خون خود 1560
  • O ye who consort with your charming and adored one, am I to be drinking cups filled with my own blood?

  • یک قدح می نوش کن بر یاد من ** گر همی‌‌خواهی که بدهی داد من‌‌
  • (O thou who art my beloved), quaff one cup of wine in memory of me, if thou art unwilling to do me justice,

  • یا به یاد این فتاده‌‌ی خاک بیز ** چون که خوردی جرعه ای بر خاک ریز
  • Or (at least), when thou hast drunk, spill one draught on the earth in memory of this fallen one who sifts dust.

  • ای عجب آن عهد و آن سوگند کو ** وعده‌‌های آن لب چون قند کو
  • Oh, where, I wonder, is that covenant and oath? Where are the promises of that lip like candy?

  • گر فراق بنده  از بد بندهگی است ** چون تو با بدبندگی پس فرق چیس
  • If thy having forsaken thy slave is because of (his) ill service (to thee)—when thou doest ill to the ill-doer, then what is the difference (between master and slave)?

  • ای بدی که تو کنی در خشم و جنگ ** با طرب تر از سماع و بانگ چنگ‌‌ 1565
  • Oh, the ill thou doest in wrath and quarrel is more delightful than music and the sound of the harp.

  • ای جفای تو ز دولت خوبتر ** و انتقام تو ز جان محبوبتر
  • Oh, thy cruelty is better than felicity, and thy vengeance dearer than life.

  • نار تو این است نورت چون بود ** ماتم این تا خود که سورت چون بود
  • This is thy fire: how (what) must be thy light! This is (thy) mourning, so how (what) indeed must be thy festival!

  • از حلاوتها که دارد جور تو ** وز لطافت کس نیابد غور تو
  • In respect of the sweetnesses which thy cruelty hath, and in respect of thy beauty, no one gets to the bottom of thee.

  • نالم و ترسم که او باور کند ** وز کرم آن جور را کمتر کند
  • I complain, and (yet) I fear lest he believe me and from kindness make that cruelty less.

  • عاشقم بر قهر و بر لطفش به جد ** بو العجب من عاشق این هر دو ضد 1570
  • I am exceedingly enamoured of his violence and his gentleness: ’tis marvelous (that) I (am) in love with both these contraries.

  • و الله ار زین خار در بستان شوم ** همچو بلبل زین سبب نالان شوم‌‌
  • By God, if (I escape) from this thorn (of sorrow) and enter the garden (of joy), because of this I shall begin to moan like the nightingale.

  • این عجب بلبل که بگشاید دهان ** تا خورد او خار را با گلستان‌‌
  • This is a wondrous nightingale that opens his mouth to eat thorns and roses together.

  • این چه بلبل این نهنگ آتشی است ** جمله ناخوشها ز عشق او را خوشی است‌‌
  • What nightingale is this? (Nay), ’tis a fiery monster: because of (his) love all unsweet things are sweetness to him.

  • عاشق کل است و خود کل است او ** عاشق خویش است و عشق خویش جو
  • He is a lover of the Universal, and he himself is the Universal: he is in love with himself and seeking his own love.”’”

  • صفت اجنحه‌‌ی طیور عقول الهی‌‌
  • Description of the wings of the birds that are Divine Intelligences.

  • قصه‌‌ی طوطی جان زین سان بود ** کو کسی کو محرم مرغان بود 1575
  • Such-like is the tale of the parrot which is the soul: where is that one who is the confidant of (the spiritual) birds?