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آن رهی که پخته سازد میوه را ** و آن رهی که دل دهد کالیوه را
- And the way whereby it ripens the fruit, and the way whereby it gives heart to one distraught (with fear).
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باز گو ای باز پر افروخته ** با شه و با ساعدش آموخته
- “Say it forth, O falcon with shining wings who hast learned (to be familiar) with the King and with his fore-arm.
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باز گو ای باز عنقا گیر شاه ** ای سپاه اشکن به خود نی با سپاه
- Say it forth, O royal falcon that dost catch the ‘Anqá, O thou that dost vanquish an army by thyself, not with (the aid of) an army.
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امت وحدی یکی و صد هزار ** باز گو ای بنده بازت را شکار 3785
- Thou alone art the (whole) community, thou art one and a hundred thousand. Say it forth, O thou to whose falcon thy slave has fallen a prey.
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در محل قهر این رحمت ز چیست ** اژدها را دستدادن راه کیست
- Wherefore this mercy in the place of vengeance? Whose way is it to give the hand to a dragon?”
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جواب گفتن امیر المؤمنین که سبب افکندن شمشیر از دست چه بود در آن حالت
- How the Prince of the Faithful made answer (and explained) what was the reason of his dropping the sword from his hand on that occasion.
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گفت من تیغ از پی حق میزنم ** بندهی حقم نه مأمور تنم
- He said, “I am wielding the sword for God's sake, I am the servant of God, I am not under the command of the body.
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شیر حقم نیستم شیر هوا ** فعل من بر دین من باشد گوا
- I am the Lion of God, I am not the lion of passion: my deed bears witness to my religion.
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ما رمیت إذ رمیتم در حراب ** من چو تیغم و آن زننده آفتاب
- In war I am (manifesting the truth of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest: I am (but) as the sword, and the wielder is the (Divine) Sun.
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رخت خود را من ز ره برداشتم ** غیر حق را من عدم انگاشتم 3790
- I have removed the baggage of self out of the way, I have deemed (what is) other than God to be non-existence.
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سایهام من کدخدایم آفتاب ** حاجبم من نیستم او را حجاب
- I am a shadow, the Sun is my lord; I am the chamberlain, I am not the curtain (which prevents approach) to Him.
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من چو تیغم پر گهرهای وصال ** زنده گردانم نه کشته در قتال
- I am filled with the pearls of union, like a (jewelled) sword: in battle I make (men) living, not slain.
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خون نپوشد گوهر تیغ مرا ** باد از جا کی برد میغ مرا
- Blood does not cover the sheen of my sword: how should the wind sweep away my clouds?
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که نیم کوهم ز حلم و صبر و داد ** کوه را کی در رباید تند باد
- I am not a straw, I am a mountain of forbearance and patience and justice: how should the fierce wind carry off the mountain?”
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آن که از بادی رود از جا خسی است ** ز آن که باد ناموافق خود بسی است 3795
- That which is removed from its place by a wind is rubbish, for indeed the contrary winds are many.
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باد خشم و باد شهوت باد آز ** برد او را که نبود اهل نماز
- The wind of anger and the wind of lust and the wind of greed swept away him that performed not the (ritual) prayers.
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کوهم و هستی من بنیاد اوست ** ور شود چون کاه بادم یاد اوست
- “I am a mountain, and my being is His building; and if I become like a straw, my wind (the wind that moves me) is recollection of Him.
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جز به باد او نجنبد میل من ** نیست جز عشق احد سر خیل من
- My longing is not stirred save by His wind; my captain is naught but love of the One.
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خشم بر شاهان شه و ما را غلام ** خشم را هم بستهام زیر لگام
- Anger is king over kings, and to me it is a slave: even anger I have bound under the bridle.
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تیغ حلمم گردن خشمم زده ست ** خشم حق بر من چو رحمت آمده ست 3800
- The sword of my forbearance hath smitten the neck of my anger; the anger of God hath come on me like mercy.
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غرق نورم گر چه سقفم شد خراب ** روضه گشتم گر چه هستم بو تراب
- I am plunged in light although my roof is ruined; I have become a garden although I am (styled) Bú Turáb (the father of dust).
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چون در آمد علتی اندر غزا ** تیغ را دیدم نهان کردن سزا
- Since a motive (other than God) entered (my heart) in the (holy) war, I deemed it right to sheathe my sword,
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تا احب لله آید نام من ** تا که ابغض لله آید کام من
- That my name may be he loves for God's sake, that my desire may be he hates for God's sake,
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تا که اعطا لله آید جود من ** تا که امسک لله آید بود من
- That my generosity may be he gives for God's sake, that my being may be he withholds for God's sake.
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بخل من لله عطا لله و بس ** جمله للهام نیم من آن کس 3805
- My stinginess is for God's sake, my bounty is for God's sake alone: I belong entirely to God, I do not belong to any one (else);
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و آن چه لله میکنم تقلید نیست ** نیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست
- And that which I am doing for God's sake is not (done in) conformity, it is not fancy and opinion, it is naught but intuition.
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ز اجتهاد و از تحری رستهام ** آستین بر دامن حق بستهام
- I have been freed from effort and search, I have tied my sleeve to the skirt of God.
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گر همیپرم همیبینم مطار ** ور همیگردم همیبینم مدار
- If I am flying, I behold the place to which I soar; and if I am circling, I behold the axis on which I revolve;
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ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجا ** ماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا
- And if I am dragging a burden, I know whither: I am the moon, and the Sun is in front of me as the guide.”
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بیش از این با خلق گفتن روی نیست ** بحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست 3810
- There is no means (possibility) of communicating more than this to the people: in the river there is no room for the Sea.
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پست میگویم به اندازهی عقول ** عیب نبود این بود کار رسول
- I speak low according to the measure of (their) understandings: ’tis no fault, this is the practice of the Prophet.
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از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو
- “I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”
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در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا
- In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.
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گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه
- (Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.
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بندهی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق 3815
- In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude,
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کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر
- For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.
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بندهی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص
- The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.
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در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست
- He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.
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در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمییابم رسن
- He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
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بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود 3820
- I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed.
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این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است
- (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
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خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست
- They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.
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چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بندهی غول نیست
- Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).
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گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر
- (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.
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چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ 3825
- “Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in!
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اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق
- Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.
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اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر
- Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.
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رستهای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو
- Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).
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تو منی و من توام ای محتشم ** تو علی بودی علی را چون کشم
- Thou art I and I am thou, O illustrious one: thou wert ‘Alí— how should I kill ‘Alí?
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معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتی ** آسمان پیمودهای در ساعتی 3830
- Thou hast committed a sin better than any act of piety, thou hast traversed Heaven in a single moment.”
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بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مرد ** نی ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد
- Very fortunate (was) the sin which the man committed: do not rose-leaves spring from a thorn?