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  • خود نمی‌یابم یکی گوشی که من ** نکته‌ای گویم از آن چشم حسن
  • Verily, I do not find a single ear to which I should tell a mystery concerning that beauteous eye.

  • می‌چکید آن آب محمود جلیل ** می‌ربودی قطره‌اش را جبرئیل 2645
  • (If) the lauded and august water were to trickle (from that eye), Gabriel would (eagerly) carry off its drops,

  • تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویش ** گر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
  • That he might rub them on his wings and beak, if that person of goodly practice give him permission.

  • باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروخت ** فر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
  • The falcon says, “If the anger of the old crone has blazed forth, (yet) it has not consumed my glory and splendour and self-denial and knowledge.

  • باز جانم باز صد صورت تند ** زخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
  • The falcon, (which is) my spirit, will still weave a hundred forms: the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sálih.

  • صالح از یک‌دم که آرد با شکوه ** صد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
  • At a single awful breath that Sálih heaves, the back (womb) of the mountain will bring to birth a hundred such she-camels.”

  • دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دار ** ورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار 2650
  • (My) heart is saying, “Be silent and observe discretion; otherwise, the (Divine) jealousy will end the warp and woof (of thy existence).”

  • غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهان ** ورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
  • His jealousy hath a hundred hidden clemencies; else in one moment it would consume a hundred worlds.

  • نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پند ** تا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
  • Kingly pride seized the place of (left no room for) admonition in him (Pharaoh), so that he wrenched his heart away from the bonds of admonition,

  • که کنم بار رای هامان مشورت ** کوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت
  • Saying, “I will take counsel with Hámán, for he is the support of the kingdom and the pivot of power.”

  • مصطفی را رای‌زن صدیق رب ** رای‌زن بوجهل را شد بولهب
  • The Lord's veracious witness was the counsellor of Mustafá (Mohammed); Bú Lahab became the counsellor of Bú Jahl.

  • عرق جنسیت چنانش جذب کرد ** کان نصیحتها به پیشش گشت سرد 2655
  • The homogeneity rooted in his nature drew him (towards Hámán) so (strongly) that those admonishments (of Ásiya) became irksome to him.

  • جنس سوی جنس صد پره پرد ** بر خیالش بندها را بر درد
  • Congener flies to congener with a hundred wings and rives (all) bounds asunder in the fancy (desire) for him (who is congenial).

  • قصه‌ی آن زن کی طفل او بر سر ناودان غیژید و خطر افتادن بود و از علی کرم‌الله وجهه چاره جست
  • Story of the woman whose child crawled to the top of the water-spout and was in danger of falling; (whereupon) she besought help of ‘Alí Murtadá, may God ennoble his person.

  • یک زنی آمد به پیش مرتضی ** گفت شد بر ناودان طفلی مرا
  • A woman came to Murtadá (‘Alí) and said, “A child belonging to me has gone up on to the water-spout.

  • گرش می‌خوانم نمی‌آید به دست ** ور هلم ترسم که افتد او به پست
  • If I call it, it will not come to my hands; and if I leave it, I am afraid it will fall to the ground.

  • نیست عاقل تا که دریابد چون ما ** گر بگویم کز خطر سوی من آ
  • It is not intelligent, that it should apprehend, like us, if I say, ‘Come to me (and escape) from the danger.’

  • هم اشارت را نمی‌داند به دست ** ور بداند نشنود این هم به دست 2660
  • Moreover, it does not understand signs made by the hand; or if it should understand, it will not hearken: this too is bad (useless).

  • بس نمودم شیر و پستان را بدو ** او همی گرداند از من چشم و رو
  • Many times have I shown to it the milk and the teat, (but) it always turns its eyes and face away from me.

  • از برای حق شمایید ای مهان ** دستگیر این جهان و آن جهان
  • For God's sake—(since) ye, O noble ones, are those who give succour in this world and that (other) world—

  • زود درمان کن که می‌لرزد دلم ** که بدرد از میوه‌ی دل بسکلم
  • Quickly apply the remedy, for my heart is trembling lest I be torn painfully from the fruit of my heart.”

  • گفت طفلی را بر آور هم به بام ** تا ببیند جنس خود را آن غلام
  • He (‘Alí) said, “Take another child up to the roof, in order that the boy may see his congener,

  • سوی جنس آید سبک زان ناودان ** جنس بر جنس است عاشق جاودان 2665
  • And come nimbly from the water-spout to his congener: congener is ever in love with congener.”

  • زن چنان کرد و چو دید آن طفل او ** جنس خود خوش خوش بدو ورد آورد
  • The woman did so, and when her child saw its congener, it turned its face towards it with delight

  • سوی بام آمد ز متن ناودان ** جاذب هر جنس را هم جنس دان
  • And came from the ridge of the water-spout to the roof: know that a congener attracts every congener.

  • غژغژان آمد به سوی طفل طفل ** وا رهید او از فتادن سوی سفل
  • The child came crawling along to the (other) child: it was saved from falling to (the ground) below.

  • زان بود جنس بشر پیغامبران ** تا بجنسیت رهند از ناودان
  • The prophets are of humankind for this reason, that they (humankind), through the homogeneity (of the prophets with them), may be saved from the water-spout.

  • پس بشر فرمود خود را مثلکم ** تا به جنس آیید و کم گردید گم 2670
  • Therefore he (the Prophet) called himself a man like you, that ye might come to your congener and might not become lost;

  • زانک جنسیت عجایب جاذبیست ** جاذبش جنسست هر جا طالبیست
  • For homogeneity is a wondrous attractor: wheresoever there is a seeker, his congener is attracting him.

  • عیسی و ادریس بر گردون شدند ** با ملایک چونک هم‌جنس آمدند
  • Jesus and Idrís ascended to heaven, since they were homogeneous with the angels.

  • باز آن هاروت و ماروت از بلند ** جنس تن بودند زان زیر آمدند
  • Again, Hárút and Márút were homogeneous with the body: hence they descended from on high.

  • کافران هم جنس شیطان آمده ** جانشان شاگرد شیطانان شده
  • The infidels have become homogeneous with Satan: their spirits have become disciples of the devils.

  • صد هزاران خوی بد آموخته ** دیده‌های عقل و دل بر دوخته 2675
  • They have learned a hundred thousand evil dispositions; they have sewn up the eyes of intellect and heart.

  • کمترین خوشان به زشتی آن حسد ** آن حسد که گردن ابلیس زد
  • Their least ugly disposition is envy—that envy which smote the neck of (destroyed) Iblís.

  • زان سگان آموخته حقد و حسد ** که نخواهد خلق را ملک ابد
  • From those curs they have learned hatred and envy, for he (Satan) does not wish the kingdom everlasting (to be granted) to (God's) creatures.

  • هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست ** از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست
  • When he sees, on left or right, any one perfect, colic comes to him and pain arises (in him) from envy,

  • زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته
  • Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.

  • هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم 2680
  • Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others.

  • از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد
  • Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,

  • مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون
  • And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.

  • جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد
  • God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.

  • خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش
  • He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.

  • خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند 2685
  • God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds.

  • کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی
  • He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.

  • صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
  • He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.

  • هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
  • For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.

  • هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را
  • For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.

  • خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش 2690
  • Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.

  • هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
  • Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.

  • این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
  • Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;

  • زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در
  • For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.