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1531-1580

  • ماند یک قسم دگر اندر جهاد ** نیم حیوان نیم حی با رشاد
  • There remains another sort (of men: they are engaged) in warfare: (they are) half animal, half (spiritually) alive and endowed with good guidance.

  • روز و شب در جنگ و اندر کش‌مکش ** کرده چالیش آخرش با اولش
  • Day and night in strife and mutual struggle, his (such a one's) last (state) battles with his first.

  • چالیش عقل با نفس هم چون تنازع مجنون با ناقه میل مجنون سوی حره میل ناقه واپس سوی کره چنانک گفت مجنون هوا ناقتی خلفی و قدامی الهوی و انی و ایاها لمختلفان
  • The battle of the reason against the flesh is like the contention of Majnún with his she camel: Majnún's inclination is towards the noble woman (Laylá), while the she camel's inclination is (to go) back towards her foal, as Majnún said (in verse): "My she-camel's love is behind me, while my love is in front of me; and verily I and she are discordant."

  • هم‌چو مجنون‌اند و چون ناقه‌ش یقین ** می‌کشد آن پیش و این واپس به کین
  • Assuredly they (the reason and the flesh) are like Majnún and his she-camel: that one is pulling forward and this one backward in (mutual) enmity.

  • میل مجنون پیش آن لیلی روان ** میل ناقه پس پی کره دوان
  • Majnún's desire is speeding to the presence of that (beloved) Laylá; the she camel's desire is running back after her foal.

  • یک دم ار مجنون ز خود غافل بدی ** ناقه گردیدی و واپس آمدی 1535
  • If Majnún forgot himself for one moment, the she-camel would turn and go back.

  • عشق و سودا چونک پر بودش بدن ** می‌نبودش چاره از بی‌خود شدن
  • Since his body was full of love and passion, he had no resource but to become beside himself.

  • آنک او باشد مراقب عقل بود ** عقل را سودای لیلی در ربود
  • That which is regardful was (ever) reason: passion for Laylá carried (his) reason away.

  • لیک ناقه بس مراقب بود و چست ** چون بدیدی او مهار خویش سست
  • But the she-camel was very regardful and alert: whenever she saw her toggle slack

  • فهم کردی زو که غافل گشت و دنگ ** رو سپس کردی به کره بی‌درنگ
  • She would at once perceive that he had become heedless and dazed, and would turn her face back to the foal without delay.

  • چون به خود باز آمدی دیدی ز جا ** کو سپس رفتست بس فرسنگها 1540
  • When he came to himself again, he would see on the spot that she had gone back many leagues.

  • در سه روزه ره بدین احوالها ** ماند مجنون در تردد سالها
  • In these conditions Majnún remained going to and fro for years on a three days' journey.

  • گفت ای ناقه چو هر دو عاشقیم ** ما دو ضد پس همره نالایقیم
  • He said, “O camel, since we both are lovers, therefore we two contraries are unsuitable fellow-travellers.

  • نیستت بر وفق من مهر و مهار ** کرد باید از تو صحبت اختیار
  • Thy affection and toggle (propensity) are not in accord with me: it behoves (me) to choose parting from thy companionship.”

  • این دو همره یکدگر را راه‌زن ** گمره آن جان کو فرو ناید ز تن
  • These two fellow-travellers (the reason and the flesh) are brigands waylaying each other: lost is the spirit that does not dismount from the body.

  • جان ز هجر عرش اندر فاقه‌ای ** تن ز عشق خاربن چون ناقه‌ای 1545
  • The spirit, because of separation from the highest Heaven, is in a (great) want; the body, on account of passion for the thorn-shrub (of sensual pleasure), is like a she-camel.

  • جان گشاید سوی بالا بالها ** در زده تن در زمین چنگالها
  • The spirit unfolds its wings (to fly) upwards; the body has stuck its claws in the earth.

  • تا تو با من باشی ای مرده‌ی وطن ** پس ز لیلی دور ماند جان من
  • “So long as thou art with me, O thou who art mortally enamoured of thy home, then my spirit will remain far from Laylá.

  • روزگارم رفت زین گون حالها ** هم‌چو تیه و قوم موسی سالها
  • From experiences of this kind my life-time, for many years, has gone (to waste), like (that of) the people of Moses in the desert.

  • خطوتینی بود این ره تا وصال ** مانده‌ام در ره ز شستت شصت سال
  • This journey to union was (only) a matter of two steps: because of thy noose I have remained sixty years on the way.

  • راه نزدیک و بماندم سخت دیر ** سیر گشتم زین سواری سیرسیر 1550
  • The way is near (not far), but I have tarried very late: I have become sick of this riding, sick, sick.”

  • سرنگون خود را از اشتر در فکند ** گفت سوزیدم ز غم تا چندچند
  • He (Majnún) threw himself headlong from the camel. He said, “I am consumed with grief: how long, how long?”

  • تنگ شد بر وی بیابان فراخ ** خویشتن افکند اندر سنگلاخ
  • The wide desert became (too) narrow for him: he flung himself on the stony place.

  • آنچنان افکند خود را سخت زیر ** که مخلخل گشت جسم آن دلیر
  • He flung himself down so violently that the body of that courageous man was cracked.

  • چون چنان افکند خود را سوی پست ** از قضا آن لحظه پایش هم شکست
  • When he flung himself to the ground thus, at that moment also by (Divine) destiny his leg broke.

  • پای را بر بست و گفتا گو شوم ** در خم چوگانش غلطان می‌روم 1555
  • He tied up his leg and said, “I will become a ball, I will go rolling along in the curve of His bat.”

  • زین کند نفرین حکیم خوش‌دهن ** بر سواری کو فرو ناید ز تن
  • For this cause the sweet-mouthed Sage utters a curse on the rider who does not dismount from the body.

  • عشق مولی کی کم از لیلی بود ** گوی گشتن بهر او اولی بود
  • How should love for the Lord be inferior to love for Laylá? To become a ball for His sake is more worthy.

  • گوی شو می‌گرد بر پهلوی صدق ** غلط غلطان در خم چوگان عشق
  • Become a ball, turn on the side which is sincerity, (and go) rolling, rolling in the curve of the bat of Love,

  • کین سفر زین پس بود جذب خدا ** وان سفر بر ناقه باشد سیر ما
  • For henceforth this journey is (accomplished by means of) the pull of God, while that (former) journey on the she-camel is our progression (made by our own efforts).

  • این چنین سیریست مستثنی ز جنس ** کان فزود از اجتهاد جن و انس 1560
  • Such is the extraordinary mode of progression which transcends the utmost exertion of the Jinn and mankind.

  • این چنین جذبیست نی هر جذب عام ** که نهادش فضل احمد والسلام
  • Such is the pull—not every common pull—to which Ahmad (Mohammed) awarded the pre-eminence. And (now) farewell!

  • نوشتن آن غلام قصه‌ی شکایت نقصان اجری سوی پادشاه
  • How the slave wrote to the King a statement complaining of the reduction of his allowance

  • قصه کوته کن برای آن غلام ** که سوی شه بر نوشتست او پیام
  • Cut short the discourse (on these topics) for the sake of (re turning to the story of) the slave who has written a message to the King

  • قصه پر جنگ و پر هستی و کین ** می‌فرستد پیش شاه نازنین
  • He is sending to the gracious King a statement filled with wrangling and self-conceit and hatred.

  • کالبد نامه‌ست اندر وی نگر ** هست لایق شاه را آنگه ببر
  • The body is (like) a letter: look into it (and see) whether it is worthy of the King; then take it (to Him).

  • گوشه‌ای رو نامه را بگشا بخوان ** بین که حرفش هست در خورد شهان 1565
  • Go into a corner, open the letter, read (it), see whether its‘ words are suitable to kings.

  • گر نباشد درخور آن را پاره کن ** نامه‌ی دیگر نویس و چاره کن
  • If it be not suitable, tear it in pieces and write another letter and remedy (the fault).

  • لیک فتح نامه‌ی تن زپ مدان ** ورنه هر کس سر دل دیدی عیان
  • But do not think it is easy to open the letter which is the body; otherwise every one would plainly see the secret of the heart.

  • نامه بگشادن چه دشوارست و صعب ** کار مردانست نه طفلان کعب
  • How hard and difficult is it to open the letter! ‘Tis a task for men, not for children playing at knuckle

  • جمله بر فهرست قانع گشته‌ایم ** زانک در حرص و هوا آغشته‌ایم
  • We have all become satisfied with (reading) the table of contents, because we are steeped in cupidity and vain desire.

  • باشد آن فهرست دامی عامه را ** تا چنان دانند متن نامه را 1570
  • The table of contents is a snare for the vulgar, that they may think the text of the scroll is like that (table).

  • باز کن سرنامه را گردن متاب ** زین سخن والله اعلم بالصواب
  • Open the title-page, do not turn your neck aside from these words—and God best knoweth the right course.

  • هست آن عنوان چو اقرار زبان ** متن نامه‌ی سینه را کن امتحان
  • That title is like a declaration made by the tongue: examine the text of the scroll, namely, the bosom (your inward self),

  • که موافق هست با اقرار تو ** تا منافق‌وار نبود کار تو
  • (And see) whether it is in agreement with your declaration, in order that your actions may not be hypocritical.

  • چون جوالی بس گرانی می‌بری ** زان نباید کم که در وی بنگری
  • When you are carrying a very heavy sack, you must not fail to look into it,

  • که چه داری در جوال از تلخ و خوش ** گر همی ارزد کشیدن را بکش 1575
  • (To see) what of sour and sweet you have in the sack. If it is worth bringing along, bring it;

  • ورنه خالی کن جوالت را ز سنگ ** باز خر خود را ازین بیگار و ننگ
  • Otherwise, empty your sack of the stones (in it), and redeem yourself from this fruitless toil and disgrace.

  • در جوال آن کن که می‌باید کشید ** سوی سلطانان و شاهان رشید
  • Put in the sack that (only) which must be brought to righteous sultans and kings.

  • حکایت آن فقیه با دستار بزرگ و آنک بربود دستارش و بانگ می‌زد کی باز کن ببین کی چه می‌بری آنگه ببر
  • Story of the divine with a big turban and the man who carried it off, and how he (the divine) shouted, “Undo it and see what you are taking: then take it (if you wish)!”

  • یک فقیهی ژنده‌ها در چیده بود ** در عمامه‌ی خویش در پیچیده بود
  • A certain divine had collected some old rags and wound them in his turban,

  • تا شود زفت و نماید آن عظیم ** چون در آید سوی محفل در حطیم
  • In order that it might become big and look grand when he came into the assembly in the Hatím.

  • ژنده‌ها از جامه‌ها پیراسته ** ظاهرا دستار از آن آراسته 1580
  • He had clipped the rags from (various) garments and outwardly embellished the turban with them.