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2154-2203

  • سنگها اندر کف بو جهل بود ** گفت ای احمد بگو این چیست زود
  • There were some pebbles in the hand of Bú Jahl: “O Ahmad,” said he, “tell quickly what this is.

  • گر رسولی چیست در مشتم نهان ** چون خبر داری ز راز آسمان‌‌ 2155
  • If thou art the Messenger (of God), what is hidden in my fist? (Speak), since thou hast knowledge of the mysteries of Heaven.”

  • گفت چون خواهی بگویم کان چهاست ** یا بگویند آن که ما حقیم و راست‌‌
  • He said, “How dost thou wish (me to do)? Shall I say what those (hidden) things are, or shall they declare that I am truthful and right?”

  • گفت بو جهل این دوم نادرتر است ** گفت آری حق از آن قادرتر است‌‌
  • Bú Jahl said, “This second (thing) is more extraordinary.” “Yes,” said the Prophet, “(but) God hath greater power than that.”

  • از میان مشت او هر پاره سنگ ** در شهادت گفتن آمد بی‌‌درنگ‌‌
  • Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith.

  • لا إله گفت و إلا الله گفت ** گوهر احمد رسول الله سفت‌‌
  • Each said, “There is no god” and (each) said, “except Allah”; (each) threaded the pearl of “Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.”

  • چون شنید از سنگها بو جهل این ** زد ز خشم آن سنگها را بر زمین‌‌ 2160
  • When Bú Jahl heard this from the pebbles, in his anger he dashed those pebbles on the ground.

  • بقیه‌‌ی قصه‌‌ی مطرب و پیغام رسانیدن عمر به او آن چه هاتف آواز داد
  • The rest of the story of the minstrel, and how the Commander of the Faithful, ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, conveyed to him the message spoken by the heavenly voice.

  • باز گرد و حال مطرب گوش دار ** ز آن که عاجز گشت مطرب ز انتظار
  • Turn back and hear the plight of the minstrel, for the minstrel had (now) become desperate from waiting (so long).

  • بانگ آمد مر عمر را کای عمر ** بنده‌‌ی ما را ز حاجت باز خر
  • The voice (of God) came to ‘Umar, saying, “O ‘Umar, redeem Our servant from want.

  • بنده‌‌ای داریم خاص و محترم ** سوی گورستان تو رنجه کن قدم‌‌
  • We have a servant, a favourite and highly esteemed one: take the trouble to go on foot to the graveyard.

  • ای عمر برجه ز بیت المال عام ** هفت صد دینار در کف نه تمام‌‌
  • O ‘Umar, spring up and put in thy hand full seven hundred dínárs from the public treasury.

  • پیش او بر کای تو ما را اختیار ** این قدر بستان کنون معذور دار 2165
  • Carry them to him (and say), ‘O thou who art Our choice, accept this sum now and excuse (Us for offering such a small gift).

  • این قدر از بهر ابریشم بها ** خرج کن چون خرج شد اینجا بیا
  • Spend this amount on the price (purchase) of silk: when it is spent, come here (again).’”

  • پس عمر ز آن هیبت آواز جست ** تا میان را بهر این خدمت ببست‌‌
  • Then ‘Umar in awe of that voice sprang up that he might gird his loins for this service.

  • سوی گورستان عمر بنهاد رو ** در بغل همیان دوان در جستجو
  • ‘Umar set his face towards the graveyard with the purse under his arm, running in search (of God's favourite).

  • گرد گورستان دوانه شد بسی ** غیر آن پیر او ندید آن جا کسی‌‌
  • Long did he run round about the graveyard: he saw there no one but that old man.

  • گفت این نبود دگر باره دوید ** مانده گشت و غیر آن پیر او ندید 2170
  • He said, “This is not he,” and ran once more. He became tired out and saw none but the old man.

  • گفت حق فرمود ما را بنده‌‌ای است ** صافی و شایسته و فرخنده‌‌ای است‌‌
  • He said, “God said, ‘We have a servant: he is a pure and worthy and blessed one.’

  • پیر چنگی کی بود خاص خدا ** حبذا ای سر پنهان حبذا
  • How should an old harper be the chosen of God? O Hidden Mystery, how excellent, how excellent art Thou!”

  • بار دیگر گرد گورستان بگشت ** همچو آن شیر شکاری گرد دشت‌‌
  • Once again he wandered about the graveyard, like the hunting lion about the desert.

  • چون یقین گشتش که غیر پیر نیست ** گفت در ظلمت دل روشن بسی است‌‌
  • When it became certain to him that none was there except the old man, he said, “Many an illumined heart is (to be found) in darkness.”

  • آمد او با صد ادب آن جا نشست ** بر عمر عطسه فتاد و پیر جست‌‌ 2175
  • He came and sat down there (beside him) with a hundred marks of respect. ‘Umar happened to sneeze, and the old man sprang to his feet.

  • مر عمر را دید و ماند اندر شگفت ** عزم رفتن کرد و لرزیدن گرفت‌‌
  • He saw ‘Umar and stood fixed in amazement: he resolved to go and began to tremble (with fear).

  • گفت در باطن خدایا از تو داد ** محتسب بر پیرکی چنگی فتاد
  • He said within himself, “O God, help, I beseech thee! The Inspector has fallen upon a poor old harper.”

  • چون نظر اندر رخ آن پیر کرد ** دید او را شرمسار و روی زرد
  • When ‘Umar looked on the old man's countenance, he saw him ashamed and pale.

  • پس عمر گفتش مترس از من مرم ** کت بشارتها ز حق آورده‌‌ام‌‌
  • Then ‘Umar said to him, “Fear not, do not flee from me, for I have brought thee glad tidings from God.

  • چند یزدان مدحت خوی تو کرد ** تا عمر را عاشق روی تو کرد 2180
  • How often has God praised thy disposition, so that He has made ‘Umar in love with thy face!

  • پیش من بنشین و مهجوری مساز ** تا به گوشت گویم از اقبال راز
  • Sit down beside me and do not make separation (between us), that I may say into thine ear the secret (message) from (the Divine) favour.

  • حق سلامت می‌‌کند می‌‌پرسدت ** چونی از رنج و غمان بی‌‌حدت‌‌
  • God sends thee greeting and asks thee how thou farest in thy distress and boundless sorrows.

  • نک قراضه‌‌ی چند ابریشم بها ** خرج کن این را و باز اینجا بیا
  • Lo, here are some pieces of gold to pay for silk. Spend them and come back to this place.”

  • پیر لرزان گشت چون این را شنید ** دست می‌‌خایید و بر خود می‌‌تپید
  • The old man trembled when he heard this, biting his hand and quivering all over,

  • بانگ می‌‌زد کای خدای بی‌‌نظیر ** بس که از شرم آب شد بی‌‌چاره پیر 2185
  • Crying, “O God who hast no like!” inasmuch as the poor old man was melted with shame.

  • چون بسی بگریست و از حد رفت درد ** چنگ را زد بر زمین و خرد کرد
  • After he had wept long and his grief had gone beyond (all) bounds, he dashed his harp on the earth and broke it to bits.

  • گفت ای بوده حجابم از اله ** ای مرا تو راه زن از شاه راه‌‌
  • He said, “O thou (harp) that hast been to me a curtain (debarring me) from God, O thou (that hast been) to me a brigand (cutting me off) from the King's highway,

  • ای بخورده خون من هفتاد سال ** ای ز تو رویم سیه پیش کمال‌‌
  • O thou that hast drunk my blood for seventy years, O thou because of whom my face is black (disgraced) before (the Divine) perfection!

  • ای خدای با عطای با وفا ** رحم کن بر عمر رفته در جفا
  • Have mercy, O bounteous God who keepest faith, on a life passed in iniquity!

  • داد حق عمری که هر روزی از آن ** کس نداند قیمت آن در جهان‌‌ 2190
  • God gave (me) a life, the value of every single day whereof none in the world can know.

  • خرج کردم عمر خود را دم‌‌به‌‌دم ** در دمیدم جمله را در زیر و بم‌‌
  • I have spent my life, breath by breath: I have breathed it all away in treble and bass.

  • آه کز یاد ره و پرده‌‌ی عراق ** رفت از یادم دم تلخ فراق‌‌
  • Ah me, that in minding the (musical) mode and rhythm of ‘Iráq the bitter moment of parting (from this world) went out of my mind (was forgotten).

  • وای کز تری زیر افکند خرد ** خشک شد کشت دل من دل بمرد
  • Alas that from the liquid freshness of the minor zírafgand the seed sown in my heart dried up, and my heart died.

  • وای کز آواز این بیست و چهار ** کاروان بگذشت و بی‌‌گه شد نهار
  • Alas that from (my preoccupation with) the sound of these four-and-twenty (melodies) the caravan passed and the day grew late.”

  • ای خدا فریاد زین فریادخواه ** داد خواهم نه ز کس زین داد خواه‌‌ 2195
  • O God, help (me) against this (self of mine) that is seeking help (from Thee): I seek justice (redress) from no one (else, but only) from this justice-seeking (self).

  • داد خود از کس نیابم جز مگر ** ز آن که او از من به من نزدیکتر
  • I shall not get justice for myself from any one except, surely, from Him who is nearer to me than I;

  • کاین منی از وی رسد دم دم مرا ** پس و را بینم چو این شد کم مرا
  • For this “I-hood” comes to me from Him moment by moment: therefore when this has failed me, I see (only) Him,

  • همچو آن کاو با تو باشد زر شمر ** سوی او داری نه سوی خود نظر
  • As (when you are with) one who is counting out gold to you, you keep your gaze (directed) towards him, not towards yourself.

  • گردانیدن عمر نظر او را از مقام گریه که هستی است به مقام استغراق که نیستی است‌‌
  • How ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, bade him (the harper) turn his gaze from the stage of weeping, which is (self-) existence, to the stage of absorption (in God).

  • پس عمر گفتش که این زاری تو ** هست هم آثار هشیاری تو
  • Then ‘Umar said to him, “This wailing of thine is also (one of) the marks of thy sobriety (self-consciousness).

  • راه فانی گشته راهی دیگر است ** ز آن که هشیاری گناهی دیگر است‌‌ 2200
  • The way of him that has passed away (from self-consciousness) is another way, because sobriety is another sin.

  • هست هشیاری ز یاد ما مضی ** ماضی و مستقبلت پرده‌‌ی خدا
  • Sobriety exists (arises) from recollection of what is past: past and future are to thee a curtain (separating thee) from God.

  • آتش اندر زن به هر دو تا به کی ** پر گره باشی از این هر دو چو نی‌‌
  • Cast fire on them both: how long, because of these twain, wilt thou be full of knots (joints) like a reed?

  • تا گره با نی بود هم راز نیست ** همنشین آن لب و آواز نیست‌‌
  • Whilst the reed is knotted, it is not a sharer of secrets: it is not the companion of the (flute-player's) lip and voice.