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  • گفت کم گیرم سر و اشکمبه‌ای ** رفته گیر از گنج جان یک حبه‌ای
  • He said (to himself), “I take little account of a (sheep's) head and belly: suppose that one grain is gone from the spirit's treasure, (what does it matter?)

  • صورت تن گو برو من کیستم ** نقش کم ناید چو من باقیستم
  • Let the bodily form go: who am I (in reality)? Is not the (bodily) figure of small account when I am enduring for ever?

  • چون نفخت بودم از لطف خدا ** نفخ حق باشم ز نای تن جدا 3935
  • Since by the grace of God the (Divine) spirit was breathed into me, I am the breath of God (which is) kept apart from the windpipe of the body,

  • تا نیفتد بانگ نفخش این طرف ** تا رهد آن گوهر از تنگین صدف
  • To the end that the sound of His breathing should not fall in this direction, and that that (spiritual) pearl should escape from the narrow (bodily) shell.

  • چون تمنوا موت گفت ای صادقین ** صادقم جان را برافشانم برین
  • Since God said, ‘Desire death, O ye that are sincere,’ I am sincere: I will lavish my soul upon this (I will sacrifice my life for this object).”

  • ملامت کردن اهل مسجد مهمان عاشق را از شب خفتن در آنجا و تهدید کردن مرورا
  • How the people of the mosque blamed the lover-guest for (his intention of) sleeping the night there and threatened him.

  • قوم گفتندش که هین اینجا مخسپ ** تا نکوبد جانستانت همچو کسپ
  • The people said to him, “Beware! Do not sleep here, lest the Taker of the soul pound thee like the dregs of sesame-grain,

  • که غریبی و نمی‌دانی ز حال ** کاندرین جا هر که خفت آمد زوال
  • For thou art a stranger and ignorant of the fact that any one who sleeps in this place perishes.

  • اتفاقی نیست این ما بارها ** دیده‌ایم و جمله اصحاب نهی 3940
  • This is not an (accidental) occurrence: we and all those possessed of intelligence have ofttimes witnessed this.

  • هر که آن مسجد شبی مسکن شدش ** نیم‌شب مرگ هلاهل آمدش
  • To whomsoever that mosque gave lodging for a single night, poisonous death came to him at midnight.

  • از یکی ما تابه صد این دیده‌ایم ** نه به تقلید از کسی بشنیده‌ایم
  • We have seen this not (only) once but a hundred times: we have not heard it at second-hand from any one.

  • گفت الدین نصیحه آن رسول ** آن نصیحت در لغت ضد غلول
  • The Prophet said, ‘The (Mohammedan) religion is (consists in) sincerity (nasíhat)’: that nasíhat etymologically is the opposite of ghulúl (unfaithfulness).

  • این نصیحت راستی در دوستی ** در غلولی خاین و سگ‌پوستی
  • This nasíhat is ‘to be true in friendship’: in an act of ghulúl you are treacherous and currish.

  • بی خیانت این نصیحت از وداد ** می‌نماییمت مگرد از عقل و داد 3945
  • We are showing this sincerity towards thee, without treachery, from (motives of) love: do not turn away from reason and justice!”

  • جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را
  • The lover's reply to those who chid him.

  • گفت او ای ناصحان من بی ندم ** از جهان زندگی سیر آمدم
  • He said, “O sincere advisers, I have become unrepentantly weary of the world of life.

  • منبلی‌ام زخم جو و زخم‌خواه ** عافیت کم جوی از منبل براه
  • I am an idle vagabond, seeking blows and desiring blows: do not seek rectitude from the vagabond on the road.

  • منبلی نی کو بود خود برگ‌جو ** منبلی‌ام لاابالی مرگ‌جو
  • (I am) not the vagabond who in sooth is a seeker of provender: I am the reckless vagabond (who is) the seeker of death.

  • منبلی نی کو به کف پول آورد ** منبلی چستی کزین پل بگذرد
  • (I am) not the vagabond who gets small money into his palm, (but) the nimble vagabond who would cross this bridge (to the world hereafter)—

  • آن نه کو بر هر دکانی بر زند ** بل جهد از کون و کانی بر زند 3950
  • Not the one who cleaves to every shop; nay, but (the one who) springs away from (phenomenal) existence and strikes upon a mine (of reality).

  • مرگ شیرین گشت و نقلم زین سرا ** چون قفص هشتن پریدن مرغ را
  • Death and migration from this (earthly) abode has become as sweet to me as leaving the cage and flying (is sweet) to the (captive) bird—

  • آن قفص که هست عین باغ در ** مرغ می‌بیند گلستان و شجر
  • The cage that is in the very midst of the garden, (so that) the bird beholds the rose-beds and the trees,

  • جوق مرغان از برون گرد قفص ** خوش همی‌خوانند ز آزادی قصص
  • (While) outside, round the cage, a multitude of birds is sweetly chanting tales of liberty:

  • مرغ را اندر قفص زان سبزه‌زار ** نه خورش ماندست و نه صبر و قرار
  • At (the sight of) that verdant place neither (desire for) food remains to the bird in the cage, nor patience and rest,

  • سر ز هر سوراخ بیرون می‌کند ** تا بود کین بند از پا برکند 3955
  • (But) it puts out its head through every hole, that perchance it may tear off this fetter from its leg.

  • چون دل و جانش چنین بیرون بود ** آن قفص را در گشایی چون بود
  • Since its heart and soul are (already) outside like this, how will it be when you open the cage?”

  • نه چنان مرغ قفص در اندهان ** گرد بر گردش به حلقه گربگان
  • Not such is the bird caged amidst anxieties—cats round about it in a ring:

  • کی بود او را درین خوف و حزن ** آرزوی از قفص بیرون شدن
  • How, in this dread and sorrow, should it have the desire to go out of the cage?

  • او همی‌خواهد کزین ناخوش حصص ** صد قفص باشد بگرد این قفص
  • It wishes that, (to save it) from this unwelcome plucking (of its feathers), there might be a hundred cages round about this cage (in which it is confined).

  • عشق جالینوس برین حیات دنیا بود کی هنر او همینجا بکار می‌آید هنری نورزیده است کی در آن بازار بکار آید آنجا خود را به عوام یکسان می‌بیند
  • The love of (a) Galen is for this present life, for only here does his art avail; he has not practised any art that avails in yonder market: there he sees himself to be the same as the vulgar.

  • آنچنانک گفت جالینوس راد ** از هوای این جهان و از مراد 3960
  • That is even as wise Galen said on account of (his) passion for this world and because of what he desired (in it)—

  • راضیم کز من بماند نیم جان ** که ز کون استری بینم جهان
  • “I am content that (only) half of my vital spirit should remain, so that I may see the world through the arse of a mule.”

  • گربه می‌بیند بگرد خود قطار ** مرغش آیس گشته بودست از مطار
  • He sees around him cats in troops: his bird has despaired of flying;

  • یا عدم دیدست غیر این جهان ** در عدم نادیده او حشری نهان
  • Or he has deemed all except this world to be non-existence and has not perceived in non-existence a hidden resurrection.

  • چون جنین کش می‌کشد بیرون کرم ** می‌گریزد او سپس سوی شکم
  • Like the embryo which (the Divine) Bounty is drawing forth: it is fleeing back towards the belly.

  • لطف رویش سوی مصدر می‌کند ** او مقر در پشت مادر می‌کند 3965
  • (The Divine) Grace is turning its (the embryo's) face towards the place of exit, (while) it (the embryo) is making its abode in the mother's loins,

  • که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کام ** ای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
  • Saying, “Oh, I wonder, if I fall outside of this city and (abode of) pleasure, shall I see with my eye this dwelling-place;

  • یا دری بودی در آن شهر وخم ** که نظاره کردمی اندر رحم
  • Or would there be in that noisome city a door, so that I might gaze into the womb,

  • یا چو چشمه‌ی سوزنی راهم بدی ** که ز بیرونم رحم دیده شدی
  • Or would there be for me a path, (narrow) as the eye of a needle, so that the womb might become visible to me from outside?”

  • آن جنین هم غافلست از عالمی ** همچو جالینوس او نامحرمی
  • That embryo, too, is unaware of a world (outside): it is one unfamiliar (therewith), like Galen.

  • اونداند کن رطوباتی که هست ** آن مدد از عالم بیرونیست 3970
  • It does not know that the humours which exist (in the womb) are supplied (to it) from the external world,

  • آنچنانک چار عنصر در جهان ** صد مدد آرد ز شهر لامکان
  • Even as the four elements in this world obtain a hundred supplies (means of support) from the City beyond space.

  • آب و دانه در قفص گر یافتست ** آن ز باغ و عرصه‌ای درتافتست
  • If it has found water and seeds in its cage, those have appeared (there) from a Garden and Expanse.

  • جانهای انبیا بینند باغ ** زین قفص در وقت نقلان و فراغ
  • The spirits of the prophets behold the Garden from this cage at the time of their being transported and freed (from the body);

  • پس ز جالینوس و عالم فارغند ** همچو ماه اندر فلکها بازغند
  • Hence they are free of Galen and the world: they are shining like the moon in the skies.

  • ور ز جالینوس این گفت افتراست ** پس جوابم بهر جالینوس نیست 3975
  • And if this saying (as related) from Galen is a fiction, then my answer is not for Galen,

  • این جواب آنکس آمد کین بگفت ** که نبودستش دل پر نور جفت
  • (But) this is the answer to the person who said it, for the luminous heart has not been his mate.

  • مرغ جانش موش شد سوراخ‌جو ** چون شنید از گربگان او عرجوا
  • The bird, his spirit, became a mouse seeking a hole, when it heard from the cats (the cry), “Halt ye!”

  • زان سبب جانش وطن دید و قرار ** اندرین سوراخ دنیا موش‌وار
  • On that account his spirit, mouse-like, deemed its home and abode to be in this world-hole.

  • هم درین سوراخ بنایی گرفت ** درخور سوراخ دانایی گرفت
  • In this hole, too, it began to build and acquired a knowledge suitable to the hole;

  • پیشه‌هایی که مرورا در مزید ** کاندرین سوراخ کار آید گزید 3980
  • It chose the trades advantageous to it, which would be of use in this hole.

  • زانک دل بر کند از بیرون شدن ** بسته شد راه رهیدن از بدن
  • Inasmuch as it turned its heart away from (relinquished the desire for) going forth, the way of deliverance from the body was barred.

  • عنکبوت ار طبع عنقا داشتی ** از لعابی خیمه کی افراشتی
  • If the spider had the nature of the ‘Anqá, how should it have reared a tent (made) of some gossamer?