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  • نیکبختی را چو حق رنجی دهد ** رخت را نزدیکتر وا می‌نهد
  • (Whereas), when God brings some trouble on a good-fortuned (blessed) man, he always (approaches and) abides nearer (to God).

  • بددلان از بیم جان در کارزار ** کرده اسباب هزیمت اختیار
  • In battle the pusillanimous from fear for their lives have chosen the means (resource) of flight,

  • پردلان در جنگ هم از بیم جان ** حمله کرده سوی صف دشمنان
  • (While) the courageous, also from fear for their lives, have charged towards the ranks of the enemy.

  • رستمان را ترس و غم وا پیش برد ** هم ز ترس آن بددل اندر خویش مرد
  • Rustams (heroes) are borne onward by (their) fear and pain; from fear, too, the man of infirm spirit dies within himself.

  • چون محک آمد بلا و بیم جان ** زان پدید آید شجاع از هر جبان 2920
  • Tribulation and fear for one's life are like a touchstone: thereby the brave man is distinguished from every coward.

  • وحی کردن حق به موسی علیه‌السلام کی ای موسی من کی خالقم تعالی ترا دوست می‌دارم
  • How God made a revelation to Moses, on whom be peace, saying, "O Moses, I who am the exalted Creator love thee."

  • گفت موسی را به وحی دل خدا ** کای گزیده دوست می‌دارم ترا
  • God spoke to Moses by inspiration of the heart, saying, “O chosen one, I love thee.”

  • گفت چه خصلت بود ای ذوالکرم ** موجب آن تا من آن افزون کنم
  • He (Moses) said, “O Bountiful One, (tell me) what disposition (in me) is the cause of that, in order that I may augment it.”

  • گفت چون طفلی به پیش والده ** وقت قهرش دست هم در وی زده
  • He (God) said, “Thou art like a child in the presence of its mother: when she chastises it, it still lays hold of her.

  • خود نداند که جز او دیار هست ** هم ازو مخمور هم از اوست مست
  • It does not even know that there is any one in the world except her: it is both afflicted with headache (sorrow) by her and intoxicated (with joy) by her.

  • مادرش گر سیلیی بر وی زند ** هم به مادر آید و بر وی تند 2925
  • If its mother give it a slap, still it comes to its mother and clings to her.

  • از کسی یاری نخواهد غیر او ** اوست جمله شر او و خیر او
  • It does not seek help from any one but her: she is all its evil and its good.

  • خاطر تو هم ز ما در خیر و شر ** التفاتش نیست جاهای دگر
  • Thy heart, likewise, in good or evil (plight) never turns from Me to other quarters.

  • غیر من پیشت چون سنگست و کلوخ ** گر صبی و گر جوان و گر شیوخ
  • In thy sight all besides Me are as stones and clods, whether (they be) boys or youths or old men.”

  • هم‌چنانک ایاک نعبد در حنین ** در بلا از غیر تو لانستعین
  • Just as Thee we worship in yearning entreaty, (so) in tribulation we ask help of none but Thee.

  • هست این ایاک نعبد حصر را ** در لغت و آن از پی نفی ریا 2930
  • This Thee we worship is (used) idiomatically for the purpose of (expressing) appropriation, and that (appropriation) is for the purpose of negating hypocrisy.

  • هست ایاک نستعین هم بهر حصر ** حصر کرده استعانت را و قصر
  • Of Thee we ask help also is for the purpose of appropriation: he (who recites these words) appropriates and restricts the asking of help,

  • که عبادت مر ترا آریم و بس ** طمع یاری هم ز تو داریم و بس
  • Meaning, “We perform worship to Thee alone; we have hope of help from Thee alone.”

  • خشم کردن پادشاه بر ندیم و شفاعت کردن شفیع آن مغضوب علیه را و از پادشاه درخواستن و پادشاه شفاعت او قبول کردن و رنجیدن ندیم از این شفیع کی چرا شفاعت کردی
  • How a king was enraged with his boon-companion, and an intercessor interceded on behalf of the object of (the king's) anger and begged the king (to pardon the offender); and how (when) the king accepted his intercession, the boon-companion resented the action of the intercessor and asked, "Why did you intercede?"

  • پادشاهی بر ندیمی خشم کرد ** خواست تا از وی برآرد دود و گرد
  • A king was enraged with a boon-companion and was about to reduce him to smoke and dust.

  • کرد شه شمشیر بیرون از غلاف ** تا زند بر وی جزای آن خلاف
  • The king drew his sword from the scabbard that he might inflict upon him the punishment for that disobedience.

  • هیچ کس را زهره نه تا دم زند ** یا شفیعی بر شفاعت بر تند 2935
  • No one had the courage to utter a word nor any intercessor to venture on intercession,

  • جز عمادالملک نامی در خواص ** در شفاعت مصطفی‌وارانه خاص
  • Except one amongst the courtiers named ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk, (who was) privileged in respect of intercession, like Mustafá (Mohammed).

  • بر جهید و زود در سجده فتاد ** در زمان شه تیغ قهر از کف نهاد
  • He sprang up and at once prostrated himself: the king immediately put away from his hand the sword of vengeance,

  • گفت اگر دیوست من بخشیدمش ** ور بلیسی کرد من پوشیدمش
  • And said, “If he is the (very) Devil, I forgive him; and if he has done a satanic deed, I cover it up.

  • چونک آمد پای تو اندر میان ** راضیم گر کرد مجرم صد زیان
  • Since thou hast intervened, I am satisfied, (even) if the culprit has committed a hundred acts of harm.

  • صد هزاران خشم را توانم شکست ** که ترا آن فضل و آن مقدار هست 2940
  • I can break (annul) a hundred thousand angers, seeing that thou hast such excellence and such worth;

  • لابه‌ات را هیچ نتوانم شکست ** زآنک لابه‌ی تو یقین لابه‌ی منست
  • (But) nowise can I break (annul) thy supplication, because thy supplication is assuredly my supplication.

  • گر زمین و آسمان بر هم زدی ** ز انتقام این مرد بیرون نامدی
  • (Even) if he had thrown earth and heaven into confusion, this man would not have escaped from (my) vengeance;

  • ور شدی ذره به ذره لابه‌گر ** او نبردی این زمان از تیغ سر
  • And if (the whole world) atom by atom had become a suppliant (for his release), he would not have saved his head from the sword at this moment.

  • بر تو می‌ننهیم منت ای کریم ** لیک شرح عزت تست ای ندیم
  • We confer no obligation on thee (by this), O noble one; but (on the contrary) ’tis (only) to explain thy honour (the honour in which I hold thee), O boon-companion.

  • این نکردی تو که من کردم یقین ** ایی صفاتت در صفات ما دفین 2945
  • Thou didst not make this (intercession), for assuredly I made it, O thou whose qualities are buried in my qualities.

  • تو درین مستعملی نی عاملی ** زانک محمول منی نی حاملی
  • In this (matter) thou art the one employed to do the work, not the (prime) doer (of it), inasmuch as thou art borne by me and art not (thyself) the bearer.

  • ما رمیت اذ رمیت گشته‌ای ** خویشتن در موج چون کف هشته‌ای
  • Thou hast become (the instrument of my action, according to the text) Thou didst not throw when thou threwest: like the foam, thou hast abandoned thyself in the wave.

  • لا شدی پهلوی الا خانه‌گیر ** این عجب که هم اسیری هم امیر
  • Thou hast become ‘not’; (now) take up thy abode beside ‘except.’ This is wonderful, that thou art both a prisoner and a prince.

  • آنچ دادی تو ندای شاه داد ** اوست بس الله اعلم بالرشاد
  • Thou didst not give what thou gavest: the king gave it. He alone is. God best knoweth the right course.”

  • وآن ندیم رسته از زخم و بلا ** زین شفیع آزرد و برگشت از ولا 2950
  • And the boon-companion who had been delivered from the stroke of calamity was offended with this intercessor and drew back from (his former) fealty.

  • دوستی ببرید زان مخلص تمام ** رو به حایط کرد تا نارد سلام
  • He cut off all (relations of) friendship with that sincere man, and turned his face to the wall in order that he might not give (him) the salaam.

  • زین شفیع خویشتن بیگانه شد ** زین تعجب خلق در افسانه شد
  • He became estranged from his intercessor; in astonishment at this the people began to talk,

  • که نه مجنونست یاری چون برید ** از کسی که جان او را وا خرید
  • Saying, “(If) he is not mad, how did he cut off friendly relations with the person who redeemed his life?

  • وا خریدش آن دم از گردن زدن ** خاک نعل پاش بایستی شدن
  • He (the intercessor) redeemed (saved) him from beheading at that moment: he (the culprit) ought to have become the dust of his (the intercessor's) shoe.

  • بازگونه رفت و بیزاری گرفت ** با چنین دلدار کین‌داری گرفت 2955
  • He has gone the reverse way and has taken (the course of) renouncing (his friend): he has taken to cherishing enmity against a beloved like this.”

  • پس ملامت کرد او را مصلحی ** کیین جفا چون می‌کنی با ناصحی
  • Then a certain mentor reproached him, saying, “Why are you acting so unjustly towards a loyal friend?

  • جان تو بخرید آن دلدار خاص ** آن دم از گردن زدن کردت خلاص
  • That elect beloved redeemed your life and saved you from beheading at that moment.

  • گر بدی کردی نبایستی رمید ** خاصه نیکی کرد آن یار حمید
  • If he had done evil (towards you), you ought not to have turned away (from him; but) that praiseworthy friend was especially your benefactor.”

  • گفت بهر شاه مبذولست جان ** او چرا آید شفیع اندر میان
  • He replied, “Life is freely given for the king's sake: why should he come as an intercessor between (us)?

  • لی مع‌الله وقت بود آن دم مرا ** لا یسع فیه نبی مجتبی 2960
  • At that moment mine was (the state described by the words) —‘I am with God in a state wherein no chosen prophet is my peer.’

  • من نخواهم رحمتی جز زخم شاه ** من نخواهم غیر آن شه را پناه
  • I desire no mercy but the blows of the king; I desire no refuge except that king.

  • غیر شه را بهر آن لا کرده‌ام ** که به سوی شه تولا کرده‌ام
  • I have naughted all besides the king for the reason that I have devoted myself to the king.

  • گر ببرد او به قهر خود سرم ** شاه بخشد شصت جان دیگرم
  • The king, if he behead me in his wrath, will bestow on me sixty other lives.

  • کار من سربازی و بی‌خویشی است ** کار شاهنشاه من سربخشی است
  • ’Tis my business to hazard (and lose) my head and to be selfless; ’tis the business of my sovereign king to give (me) a (new) head.”

  • فخر آن سر که کف شاهش برد ** ننگ آن سر کو به غیری سر برد 2965
  • Honour to the head that is severed by the King's hand! Shame on the head that betakes itself to another!