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  • که خنوسش چون خنوس قنفذست ** چون سر قنفذ ورا آمد شذست
  • For his khunús is like the khunús of the hedgehog: like the head of the hedgehog, he pops in and out;

  • که خدا آن دیو را خناس خواند ** کو سر آن خارپشتک را بماند 4060
  • For God hath called the Devil Khannás (the slinker), because he resembles the head of the little hedgehog.

  • می نهان گردد سر آن خارپشت ** دم‌بدم از بیم صیاد درشت
  • The head of the hedgehog is continually being hidden because of its fear of the cruel hunter,

  • تا چو فرصت یافت سر آرد برون ** زین چنین مکری شود مارش زبون
  • Until, when it has found an opportunity, it puts out its head: by such a stratagem the snake becomes its prey.

  • گرنه نفس از اندرون راهت زدی ** ره‌زنان را بر تو دستی کی بدی
  • If the fleshly soul had not waylaid you from within, how would the brigands have any power to lay a hand upon you?

  • زان عوان مقتضی که شهوتست ** دل اسیر حرص و آز و آفتست
  • On account of the exigent myrmidon, who is Lust, the heart is captive to greed and cupidity and bane.

  • زان عوان سر شدی دزد و تباه ** تا عوانان را به قهر تست راه 4065
  • On account of that inward myrmidon you have become thievish and depraved, so that the way is (open) for the (external) myrmidons to coerce you.

  • در خبر بشنو تو این پند نکو ** بیم جنبیکم لکم اعدی عدو
  • Hearken to this good counsel in the Traditions (of the Prophet)—“Your worst enemy is between your two sides.”

  • طمطراق این عدو مشنو گریز ** کو چو ابلیسست در لج و ستیز
  • Do not listen to the pompous talk of this enemy, (but) flee, for she is like Iblís in obstinately wrangling and quarrelling.

  • بر تو او از بهر دنیا و نبرد ** آن عذاب سرمدی را سهل کرد
  • For the sake of this world and for contention's sake she has made the everlasting torment (seem) easy (of small account) to you.

  • چه عجب گر مرگ را آسان کند ** او ز سحر خویش صد چندان کند
  • What wonder, if she makes death (seem) easy? By her magic she does a hundred times as much (as this).

  • سحر کاهی را به صنعت که کند ** باز کوهی را چو کاهی می‌تند 4070
  • Magic makes a straw a mountain by artifice; (or) again, it weaves a mountain like a straw.

  • زشتها را نغز گرداند به فن ** نغزها را زشت گرداند به ظن
  • It makes ugly things beautiful by means of sleight; it makes beautiful things ugly by means of (false) opinion.

  • کار سحر اینست کو دم می‌زند ** هر نفس قلب حقایق می‌کند
  • The work of magic is this, that it breathes (incantations) and at every breath (moment) transforms realities.

  • آدمی را خر نماید ساعتی ** آدمی سازد خری را وآیتی
  • At one time it shows a man in the guise of an ass, (at another time) it makes an ass (look like) a man and a notable.

  • این چنین ساحر درون تست و سر ** ان فی الوسواس سحرا مستتر
  • Such a magician is within you and latent: truly, there is a concealed magic in temptation (exerted by the fleshly soul);

  • اندر آن عالم که هست این سحرها ** ساحران هستند جادویی‌گشا 4075
  • (But) in the world in which are these magic arts, there are magicians who defeat sorcery.

  • اندر آن صحرا که رست این زهر تر ** نیز روییدست تریاق ای پسر
  • In the plain where this fresh (virulent) poison grew, there has also grown the antidote, O son.

  • گویدت تریاق از من جو سپر ** که ز زهرم من به تو نزدیکتر
  • The antidote says to you, “Seek from me a shield, for I am nearer than the poison to thee.

  • گفت او سحرست و ویرانی تو ** گفت من سحرست و دفع سحر او
  • Her (the fleshly soul's) words are magic and thy ruin; my words are (lawful) magic and the counter-charm to her magic.”

  • مکرر کردن عاذلان پند را بر آن مهمان آن مسجد مهمان کش
  • How the fault-finders repeated their advice to the guest of the guest-killing mosque.

  • گفت پیغامبر که ان فی البیان ** سحرا و حق گفت آن خوش پهلوان
  • The Prophet said, “Verily, there is a magic in eloquence”; and that goodly hero spake the truth.

  • هین مکن جلدی برو ای بوالکرم ** مسجد و ما را مکن زین متهم 4080
  • “Hey, do not commit a foolhardy act, (but) depart, O generous man, and do not make the mosque and us suspected on this account;

  • که بگوید دشمنی از دشمنی ** آتشی در ما زند فردا دنی
  • For an enemy will speak form enmity, and to-morrow the villain will rouse a fire (of suspicion) against us,

  • که بتاسانید او را ظالمی ** بر بهانه‌ی مسجد او بد سالمی
  • Saying, ‘Some wicked man strangled him, (knowing that) on the pretext of the mosque he was safe (from suspicion),

  • تا بهانه‌ی قتل بر مسجد نهد ** چونک بدنامست مسجد او جهد
  • So that he might impute the murder to the mosque and, since the mosque has a bad name, might escape.’

  • تهمتی بر ما منه ای سخت‌جان ** که نه‌ایم آمن ز مکر دشمنان
  • Do not lay any suspicion upon us, O man of valiant spirit, for we are not secure from the craft of (our) enemies.

  • هین برو جلدی مکن سودا مپز ** که نتان پیمود کیوان را بگز 4085
  • Come now, depart! Do not be foolhardy, do not cherish vain desire, for it is impossible to measure (the planet) Saturn by the ell.

  • چون تو بسیاران بلافیده ز بخت ** ریش خود بر کنده یک یک لخت لخت
  • Many like thee have prated of (their) luck, (and in the end) they have torn out their beards, one by one, piecemeal.

  • هین برو کوتاه کن این قیل و قال ** خویش و ما را در میفکن در وبال
  • Hey, begone ! Cut short this palaver ! Do not cast thyself and us into woe!"

  • جواب گفتن مهمان ایشان را و مثل آوردن بدفع کردن حارس کشت به بانگ دف از کشت شتری را کی کوس محمودی بر پشت او زدندی
  • How the guest answered them and adduced the parable of the guardian of the cornfield who, by making a noise with the tomtom, sought to drive away from the cornfield a camel on whose back they were beating the big kettle-drum of (Sultan) Mahmúd.

  • گفت ای یاران از آن دیوان نیم ** که ز لا حولی ضعیف آید پیم
  • He said, “O friends, I am not one of the devils, that (the strength of) my sinews should fail at a single lá hawl.

  • کودکی کو حارس کشتی بدی ** طبلکی در دفع مرغان می‌زدی
  • A boy, who was the guardian of a cornfield, used to beat a tomtom in order to keep off the birds,

  • تا رمیدی مرغ زان طبلک ز کشت ** کشت از مرغان بد بی خوف گشت 4090
  • So that the birds, at (the sound of) the tomtom, were scared away from the field, and the field became safe from evil birds.

  • چونک سلطان شاه محمود کریم ** برگذر زد آن طرف خیمه‌ی عظیم
  • When the Sultan, the noble King Mahmúd, pitched a great tent in that neighbourhood as he passed on the way

  • با سپاهی همچو استاره‌ی اثیر ** انبه و پیروز و صفدر ملک‌گیر
  • With an army like the stars of heaven (in number), numerous and victorious, one that pierces the ranks (of the enemy) and takes possession of empire—

  • اشتری بد کو بدی حمال کوس ** بختیی بد پیش‌رو همچون خروس
  • There was a camel that carried the kettle-drum: ’twas a Bactrian (camel), going in front (of the army) like a cock:

  • بانگ کوس و طبل بر وی روز و شب ** می‌زدی اندر رجوع و در طلب
  • Day and night he (the driver) used loudly to beat the big kettle-drum and the (ordinary) drum on its back in returning (from an expedition) and in setting out.

  • اندر آن مزرع در آمد آن شتر ** کودک آن طبلک بزد در حفظ بر 4095
  • That camel entered the cornfield, and the boy beat his tom--tom to protect the corn.

  • عاقلی گفتش مزن طبلک که او ** پخته‌ی طبلست با آنشست خو
  • An intelligent man said to him, ‘Don't beat the tomtom, for he (the camel) is well-seasoned by the drum; he is accustomed to it.

  • پیش او چه بود تبوراک تو طفل ** که کشد او طبل سلطان بیست کفل
  • What is thy little tomtom, child, to him, since he carries the Sultan's drum twenty times the size?’

  • عاشقم من کشته‌ی قربان لا ** جان من نوبتگه طبل بلا
  • I am a lover, one who has been sacrificed to Naught: my soul is the band-stand for the drum of tribulation.

  • خود تبوراکست این تهدیدها ** پیش آنچ دیده است این دیدها
  • Verily, these threats (of yours) are (as) a little tomtom beside that which these eyes (of mine) have seen.

  • ای حریفان من از آنها نیستم ** کز خیالاتی درین ره بیستم 4100
  • O comrades, I am not one of those (without experience), that because of idle fancies I should halt on the Way.

  • من چو اسماعیلیانم بی‌حذر ** بل چو اسمعیل آزادم ز سر
  • I am unafraid (of death), like the Ismá‘ílís; nay, like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) I am free from (care for my) head.

  • فارغم از طمطراق و از ریا ** قل تعالوا گفت جانم را بیا
  • I am done with pomp and ostentation. ‘Say, come ye’: He (the Beloved) said to my soul, ‘Come.’”

  • گفت پیغامبر که جاد فی السلف ** بالعطیه من تیقن بالخلف
  • The Prophet has said that one who feels sure of the recompense will give generously beforehand.

  • هر که بیند مر عطا را صد عوض ** زود دربازد عطا را زین غرض
  • Whoever sees a hundred compensations for the gift will at once give away the gift with this object (in view).

  • جمله در بازار از آن گشتند بند ** تا چو سود افتاد مال خود دهند 4105
  • All have become tied (to their business) in the bazaar (this world), to the end that when (the chance of) gain occurs they may give their money.

  • زر در انبانها نشسته منتظر ** تا که سود آید ببذل آید مصر
  • With gold in their money-bags, they are seated expectantly (in the hope) that the gain may come and that he who persists (in waiting) may begin to squander (his gold).

  • چون ببیند کاله‌ای در ربح بیش ** سرد گردد عشقش از کالای خویش
  • When he sees a piece of merchandise exceeding (his own) in profit, his fondness for his own goods becomes chilled;

  • گرم زان ماندست با آن کو ندید ** کاله‌های خویش را ربح و مزید
  • (For hitherto) he has remained enamoured of those, because he perceived no profit and advantage superior to his own goods.