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1241-1290

  • آن کلامی که بدادی سنگ شیر ** از خوشی آن کلام بی‌نظیر
  • That Word (which was such) that from the sweetness of that incomparable Word the rock would have yielded milk.

  • چون بهامان که وزیرش بود او ** مشورت کردی که کینش بود خو
  • Whenever he took counsel with Hámán, who was his vizier and whose nature it was to hate,

  • پس بگفتی تا کنون بودی خدیو ** بنده گردی ژنده‌پوشی را بریو
  • Then he (Hámán) would say, “Until now thou hast been the Khedive: wilt thou become, through deception, the slave to a wearer of rags?”

  • هم‌چو سنگ منجنیقی آمدی ** آن سخن بر شیشه خانه‌ی او زدی
  • Those words would come like a stone shot by a mangonel (ballista) and strike upon his glass house.

  • هر چه صد روز آن کلیم خوش‌خطاب ** ساختی در یک‌دم او کردی خراب 1245
  • All that the Kalím of sweet address built up in a hundred days he (Hámán) would destroy in one moment.

  • عقل تو دستور و مغلوب هواست ** در وجودت ره‌زن راه خداست
  • Thy intellect is the vizier and is overcome by sensuality: in (the realm of) thy being it is a brigand (that attacks thee) on the Way to God.

  • ناصحی ربانیی پندت دهد ** آن سخن را او به فن طرحی نهد
  • (If) a godly monitor give thee good advice, it will artfully put those words (of his) aside,

  • کین نه بر جایست هین از جا مشو ** نیست چندان با خود آ شیدا مشو
  • Saying, “These (words) are not well-founded: take heed, don't be carried away (by them); they are not (worth) so much: come to thyself (be sensible), don't be crazed.”

  • وای آن شه که وزیرش این بود ** جای هر دو دوزخ پر کین بود
  • Alas for the king whose vizier is this (carnal intellect): the place (abode) of them both is vengeful Hell.

  • شاد آن شاهی که او را دست‌گیر ** باشد اندر کار چون آصف وزیر 1250
  • Happy is the king whose helper in affairs is a vizier like Ásaf.

  • شاه عادل چون قرین او شود ** نام آن نور علی نور این بود
  • When the just king is associated with him, his (the king's) name is light upon light.

  • چون سلیمان شاه و چون آصف وزیر ** نور بر نورست و عنبر بر عبیر
  • A king like Solomon and a vizier like Ásaf are light upon light and ambergris upon ‘abír.

  • شاه فرعون و چو هامانش وزیر ** هر دو را نبود ز بدبختی گزیر
  • (When) the king (is like) Pharaoh and his vizier like Hámán, ill-fortune is inevitable for both.

  • پس بود ظلمات بعضی فوق بعض ** نه خرد یار و نه دولت روز عرض
  • Then it is (a case of) darkness, one part over another: neither intellect nor fortune shall be their friend on the Day of Judgement.

  • من ندیدم جز شقاوت در لام ** گر تو دیدستی رسان از من سلام 1255
  • I have not seen aught but misery in the vile: if thou hast seen (aught else), convey (to them) the salaam (of felicitation) from me.

  • هم‌چو جان باشد شه و صاحب چو عقل ** عقل فاسد روح را آرد بنقل
  • The king is as the spirit, and the vizier as the intellect: the corrupt intellect brings the spirit into movement (towards corruption).

  • آن فرشته‌ی عقل چون هاروت شد ** سحرآموز دو صد طاغوت شد
  • When the angelical intellect became a Hárút, it became the teacher in magic to two hundred devils.

  • عقل جزوی را وزیر خود مگیر ** عقل کل را ساز ای سلطان وزیر
  • Do not take the particular (individual) intellect as thy vizier: make the Universal Intellect thy vizier, O king.

  • مر هوا را تو وزیر خود مساز ** که برآید جان پاکت از نماز
  • Do not make sensuality thy vizier, else thy pure spirit will cease from prayer,

  • کین هوا پر حرص و حالی‌بین بود ** عقل را اندیشه یوم دین بود 1260
  • For this sensuality is full of greed and sees (only) the immediate present, (whereas) the Intellect takes thought for the Day of Judgement.

  • عقل را دو دیده در پایان کار ** بهر آن گل می‌کشد او رنج خار
  • The two eyes of the Intellect are (fixed) on the end of things: it endures the pain of the thorn for the sake of that Rose

  • که نفرساید نریزد در خزان ** باد هر خرطوم اخشم دور از آن
  • Which does not fade and drop in autumn—far from it be the wind (breath) of every nose that cannot smell!

  • نشستن دیو بر مقام سلیمان علیه‌السلام و تشبه کردن او به کارهای سلیمان علیه‌السلام و فرق ظاهر میان هر دو سلیمان و دیو خویشتن را سلیمان بن داود نام کردن
  • How the Demon sat on the place (throne) of Solomon, on whom be peace, and imitated his actions; and concerning the manifest difference between the two Solomons, and how the Demon called himself Solomon son of David.

  • ورچه عقلت هست با عقل دگر ** یار باش و مشورت کن ای پدر
  • Even if thou hast intellect, associate and consult with another intellect, O father.

  • با دو عقل از بس بلاها وا رهی ** پای خود بر اوج گردونها نهی
  • With two intellects thou wilt be delivered from many afflictions: thou wilt plant thy foot on the summit of the heavens.

  • دیو گر خود را سلیمان نام کرد ** ملک برد و مملکت را رام کرد 1265
  • If the Demon called himself Solomon and won the kingdom and made the empire subject (to him),

  • صورت کار سلیمان دیده بود ** صورت اندر سر دیوی می‌نمود
  • (It was because) he had seen (and imitated) the form of Solomon's action; (but) within the form the spirit of demonry was appearing.

  • خلق گفتند این سلیمان بی‌صفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست
  • The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”

  • او چو بیداریست این هم‌چون وسن ** هم‌چنانک آن حسن با این حسن
  • He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.

  • دیو می‌گفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن
  • The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.

  • دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست 1270
  • God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net!

  • گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار
  • If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”

  • دیوشان از مکر این می‌گفت لیک ** می‌نمود این عکس در دلهای نیک
  • The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.

  • نیست بازی با ممیز خاصه او ** که بود تمییز و عقلش غیب‌گو
  • There is no playing tricks with the discerning man, especially (with) him whose discernment and intelligence speak of the Unseen.

  • هیچ سحر و هیچ تلبیس و دغل ** می‌نبندد پرده بر اهل دول
  • No magic and no imposture and fraud will bind a veil upon the owners of (spiritual) empire.

  • پس همی گفتند با خود در جواب ** بازگونه می‌روی ای کژ خطاب 1275
  • Hence they were saying to themselves in reply (to the Demon), “Thou art going upside down, O thou who art addressed falsely (by the name of Solomon).

  • بازگونه رفت خواهی همچنین ** سوی دوزخ اسفل اندر سافلین
  • Upside down likewise thou wilt go Hellward, the lowest among the low.

  • او اگر معزول گشتست و فقیر ** هست در پیشانیش بدر منیر
  • If he (Solomon) has been deposed and reduced to poverty, (yet) the radiant full-moon is on his forehead.

  • تو اگر انگشتری را برده‌ای ** دوزخی چون زمهریر افسرده‌ای
  • If thou hast carried off the (royal) signet-ring, (yet) thou art (as) a Hell frozen like (the region of) piercing cold.

  • ما ببوش و عارض و طاق و طرنب ** سر کجا که خود همی ننهیم سنب
  • On account of (the Demon's) ostentation and vain show and pomp and grandeur how (should we lay) the head (in obeisance before him)? for we will not lay (before him) even a hoof.

  • ور به غفلت ما نهیم او را جبین ** پنجه‌ی مانع برآید از زمین 1280
  • And if heedlessly we should lay the forehead (on the ground in homage) to him, a preventing hand will rise up from the earth,

  • که منه آن سر مرین سر زیر را ** هین مکن سجده مرین ادبار را
  • (As though to say), ‘Do not lay the head before this headlong-fallen one; beware, do not bow down to this ill-fated wretch!’”

  • کردمی من شرح این بس جان‌فزا ** گر نبودی غیرت و رشک خدا
  • I would have given a very soul-quickening exposition of this (story), were it not for the indignation and jealousy of God.

  • هم قناعت کن تو بپذیر این قدر ** تا بگویم شرح این وقتی دگر
  • Still, be content and accept this (insufficient) amount, that I may explain (the whole of) this at another time.

  • نام خود کرده سلیمان نبی ** روی‌پوشی می‌کند بر هر صبی
  • He (the Demon), having called himself by the name of the prophet Solomon, makes it a mask to deceive every (foolish) boy.

  • در گذر از صورت و از نام خیز ** از لقب وز نام در معنی گریز 1285
  • Pass on from the (outward) form and rise beyond the name: flee from title and from name (and enter) into reality.

  • پس بپرس از حد او وز فعل او ** در میان حد و فعل او را بجو
  • Inquire, then, about his (spiritual) degree and his (interior) actions: in the midst of his degree and actions seek (to discover) him.

  • درآمدن سلیمان علیه‌السلام هر روز در مسجد اقصی بعد از تمام شدن جهت عبادت و ارشاد عابدان و معتکفان و رستن عقاقیر در مسجد
  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, entered the Farther Mosque daily, after its completion, for the purpose of worshipping and directing the worshippers and devotees; and how medicinal herbs grew in the Mosque.

  • هر صباحی چون سلیمان آمدی ** خاضع اندر مسجد اقصی شدی
  • Every morning, when Solomon came and made supplication in the Farther Mosque.

  • نوگیاهی رسته دیدی اندرو ** پس بگفتی نام و نفع خود بگو
  • He saw that a new plant had grown there; then he would say, “Tell thy name and use.

  • تو چه دارویی چیی نامت چیست ** تو زیان کی و نفعت بر کیست
  • What medicine art thou? What art thou? What is thy name? To whom art thou hurtful and for whom is thy usefulness?”

  • پس بگفتی هر گیاهی فعل و نام ** که من آن را جانم و این را حمام 1290
  • Then every plant would tell its effect and name, saying “I am life to that one, and death to this one.