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  • هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر می‌کنند
  • Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).

  • وقت تنگ و می‌رود آب فراخ ** پیش از آن کز هجر گردی شاخ شاخ 4300
  • The time is restricted, and the abundant water is flowing away: (drink) ere, through being parted (from it), you fall to pieces.

  • شهره کاریزیست پر آب حیات ** آب کش تا بر دمد از تو نبات
  • There is a famous conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the Water, in order that verdure may grow up from you.

  • آب خضر از جوی نطق اولیا ** می‌خوریم ای تشنه‌ی غافل بیا
  • We are drinking the water of Khizr from the river of the speech of the saints: come, O heedless thirsty man!

  • گر نبینی آب کورانه بفن ** سوی جو آور سبو در جوی زن
  • If you do not see the water, artfully after the fashion of the blind bring the jug to the river, and dip it in the river.

  • چون شنیدی کاندرین جو آب هست ** کور را تقلید باید کار بست
  • Forasmuch as you have heard that there is water in this river-bed, (go and try): the blind man must practise conformity.

  • جو فرو بر مشک آب‌اندیش را ** تا گران بینی تو مشک خویش را 4305
  • Carry down to the river the water-skin that has thoughts of the water, so that you may find your water-skin heavy.

  • چون گران دیدی شوی تو مستدل ** رست از تقلید خشک آنگاه دل
  • When you have found it heavy, you will be led to infer (the truth): at that moment your heart is delivered from dry conformity.

  • گر نبیند کور آب جو عیان ** لیک داند چون سبو بیند گران
  • If the blind man does not see the river-water ocularly, yet he knows, when he finds the jug heavy,

  • که ز جو اندر سبو آبی برفت ** کین سبک بود و گران شد ز آب و زفت
  • That some water has gone from the river into the jug; for this (jug) was light, and (now) it has become heavy and swollen with water;

  • زانک هر بادی مرا در می‌ربود ** باد می‌نربایدم ثقلم فزود
  • “Because,” (he will say), “every wind used to sweep me away, (but now) the wind does not sweep me away: my weight has increased.”

  • مر سفیهان را رباید هر هوا ** زانک نبودشان گرانی قوی 4310
  • The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because they have no weight (ballast) of (intellectual) faculties.

  • کشتی بی‌لنگر آمد مرد شر ** که ز باد کژ نیابد او حذر
  • The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he finds no precaution (means of defence) against the perverse (contrary) wind.

  • لنگر عقلست عاقل را امان ** لنگری در یوزه کن از عاقلان
  • To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.

  • او مددهای خرد چون در ربود ** از خزینه در آن دریای جود
  • Since he (the Sage) has borne away the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl-treasury of that Sea of Bounty,

  • زین چنین امداد دل پر فن شود ** بجهد از دل چشم هم روشن شود
  • By such succours (replenishments) the heart is filled with knowledge: it (that knowledge) shoots from the heart, and the eye too becomes illuminated,

  • زانک نور از دل برین دیده نشست ** تا چو دل شد دیده‌ی تو عاطلست 4315
  • Because the light from the heart has settled upon this eye so that your eye, having become the heart, is (physically) inactive.

  • دل چو بر انوار عقلی نیز زد ** زان نصیبی هم بدو دیده دهد
  • When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.

  • پس بدان کاب مبارک ز آسمان ** وحی دلها باشد و صدق بیان
  • Know, then, that the blessed Water from Heaven is the inspiration of (men's) hearts and the true explanation (of every mystery).

  • ما چو آن کره هم آب جو خوریم ** سوی آن وسواس طاعن ننگریم
  • Let us also, like that foal, drink the water of the stream; let us pay no regard to the evil suggestions of the railer.

  • پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر
  • (If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.

  • آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند 4320
  • When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs?

  • بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش
  • The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.

  • باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد
  • Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.

  • خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو
  • He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?

  • خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی
  • Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.

  • نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید
  • At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”

  • پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت 4325
  • Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal.

  • تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک
  • Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”

  • تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد
  • When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,

  • که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی
  • “Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.

  • بی‌نوا گردی ز یاران وابری ** خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری
  • You will become destitute, you will be cut off from friends, you will be despised, you will feel sorry.”

  • تو ز بیم بانگ آن دیو لعین ** وا گریزی در ضلالت از یقین
  • From fear of the outcry of that accursed Devil you flee away from certain truth into error,

  • که هلا فردا و پس فردا مراست ** راه دین پویم که مهلت پیش ماست 4330
  • Saying, “Ho, to-morrow is mine and after to-morrow: I will run in the Way of religion, I have (plenty of) time.”

  • مرگ بینی باز کو از چپ و راست ** می‌کشد همسایه را تا بانگ خاست
  • Then again you see Death killing your neighbours on left and right, so that the cry (of lamentation) is raised.

  • باز عزم دین کنی از بیم جان ** مرد سازی خویشتن را یک زمان
  • Now, in fear of (your) life, you resolve to be religious: for a while, you make yourself a (true) man;

  • پس سلح بر بندی از علم و حکم ** که من از خوفی نیارم پای کم
  • So you put on the armour of knowledge and wisdom, saying, “I will not shrink from any danger.”

  • باز بانگی بر زند بر تو ز مکر ** که بترس و باز گرد از تیغ فقر
  • Again he (the Devil) deceitfully cries out at you—“Be afraid and turn away from the sword of poverty!”

  • باز بگریزی ز راه روشنی ** آن سلاح علم و فن را بفکنی 4335
  • Once more you flee from the Way of Light and cast off that armour of knowledge and virtue.

  • سالها او را به بانگی بنده‌ای ** در چنین ظلمت نمد افکنده‌ای
  • (For many) years, you are a slave to him because of a cry: you have laid down the blanket (have lain down to rest) in such darkness as this!

  • هیبت بانگ شیاطین خلق را ** بند کردست و گرفته حلق را
  • Dread of the cry of the devils has bound the people and taken hold of their throats,

  • تا چنان نومید شد جانشان ز نور ** که روان کافران ز اهل قبور
  • Till their souls have become as hopeless of the Light as the spirits of the infidels who dwell in the tombs.

  • این شکوه بانگ آن ملعون بود ** هیبت بانگ خدایی چون بود
  • Such is the terror of the cry of that accursed one: how (great) must be the dread of the Divine cry!

  • هیبت بازست بر کبک نجیب ** مر مگس را نیست زان هیبت نصیب 4340
  • Dread of the falcon is (falling) upon the noble partridge: the fly hath no portion of that dread,

  • زانک نبود باز صیاد مگس ** عنکبوتان می مگس گیرند و بس
  • Because the falcon is not a hunter of flies: only spiders catch flies.

  • عنکبوت دیو بر چون تو ذباب ** کر و فر دارد نه بر کبک و عقاب
  • The spider, (which is) the Devil, hath dominion over flies like you, not over the partridge and the eagle.

  • بانگ دیوان گله‌بان اشقیاست ** بانگ سلطان پاسبان اولیاست
  • The cry of the devils is the drover of the damned; the cry of the Lord is the guardian of the (blessed) saints,

  • تا نیامیزد بدین دو بانگ دور ** قطره‌ای از بحر خوش با بحر شور
  • To the end that, by reason of these two cries (being) far distant (from each other), not a drop of the sweet sea may mingle with the briny sea.

  • رسیدن بانگ طلسمی نیم‌شب مهمان مسجد را
  • How the talismanic cry came at midnight to (the ears of) the guest in the mosque.

  • بشنو اکنون قصه‌ی آن بانگ سخت ** که نرفت از جا بدان آن نیکبخت 4345
  • Now hear the tale of the terrible cry, by which that good-fortuned man was not dismayed.

  • گفت چون ترسم چو هست این طبل عید ** تا دهل ترسد که زخم او را رسید
  • He said, “How should I fear? for this is the drum of the Festival. Let the drum fear, since blows belong to it.

  • ای دهلهای تهی بی قلوب ** قسمتان از عید جان شد زخم چوب
  • O empty drums without hearts, your share in the festival of the spirit is (naught but) blows of the (drum-)stick.

  • شد قیامت عید و بی‌دینان دهل ** ما چو اهل عید خندان همچو گل
  • The Resurrection is the Festival, and the irreligious are the drum: we, like the festive folk, are laughing as the rose.”