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  • از شما کی کدیه‌ی زر می‌کنیم ** ما شما را کیمیاگر می‌کنیم
  • How shall we beg gold of you? We (can) make you (spiritual) alchemists.

  • ترک آن گیرید گر ملک سباست ** که برون آب و گل بس ملکهاست 660
  • Abandon (all) that, (even) if it is the kingdom of Saba, for beyond (this) water and earth there are many kingdoms.”

  • تخته‌بندست آن که تختش خوانده‌ای ** صدر پنداری و بر در مانده‌ای
  • That which thou hast called a throne is (really) a splint- bandage: thou deemest (it) the seat of honour, but (in truth) thou hast remained at the door.

  • پادشاهی نیستت بر ریش خود ** پادشاهی چون کنی بر نیک و بد
  • (If) thou hast not sovereignty over thine own beard, how wilt thou exercise sovereignty over good and evil?

  • بی‌مراد تو شود ریشت سپید ** شرم دار از ریش خود ای کژ امید
  • Without thy wish, thy beard grows white: be ashamed of thy beard, O thou whose hopes are perverse.

  • مالک الملک است هر کش سر نهد ** بی‌جهان خاک صد ملکش دهد
  • He (God) is the Possessor of the Kingdom: whosoever lays his head before Him, to him He gives a hundred kingdoms without the terrestrial world;

  • لیک ذوق سجده‌ای پیش خدا ** خوشتر آید از دو صد دولت ترا 665
  • But the (inward) savour of a single prostration before God will be more sweet to thee than two hundred empires:

  • پس بنالی که نخواهم ملکها ** ملک آن سجده مسلم کن مرا
  • Then thou wilt cry (in humble entreaty), “I desire not kingdoms: commit unto me the kingdom of that prostration.”

  • پادشاهان جهان از بدرگی ** بو نبردند از شراب بندگی
  • The kings of the world, because of their evil nature, got no scent of the wine of service (to God);

  • ورنه ادهم‌وار سرگردان و دنگ ** ملک را برهم زدندی بی‌درنگ
  • Otherwise, dizzy and dumbfounded like (Ibráhim son of) Adham, without delay they would have dashed their sovereignty to pieces.

  • لیک حق بهر ثبات این جهان ** مهرشان بنهاد بر چشم و دهان
  • But (this they do not inasmuch as), for the maintenance of this world, God set a seal upon their eyes and mouths,

  • تا شود شیرین بریشان تخت و تاج ** که ستانیم از جهانداران خراج 670
  • To the end that throne and crown should be sweet to them, "for" (they say) "we will exact tribute from the rulers of the world."

  • از خراج ار جمع آری زر چو ریگ ** آخر آن از تو بماند مردریگ
  • If by way of tribute thou amass gold as (though it were) sand, at last it will be left behind thee as an inheritance.

  • همره جانت نگردد ملک و زر ** زر بده سرمه ستان بهر نظر
  • Sovereignty and gold will not accompany thy spirit on its journey: give thy gold away, get collyrium for thy sight,

  • تا ببینی کین جهان چاهیست تنگ ** یوسفانه آن رسن آری به چنگ
  • In order that thou mayst see that this world is a narrow well, and that, like Joseph, thou mayst grasp that rope,

  • تا بگوید چون ز چاه آیی به بام ** جان که یا بشرای هذا لی غلام
  • So that, when thou comest from the well (up) to the roof, the Soul will say, “Oh, good news for met This is a youth for me.”

  • هست در چاه انعکاسات نظر ** کمترین آنک نماید سنگ زر 675
  • In the well (of this world) there are optical inversions, the least (of which is) that stones appear to be gold.

  • وقت بازی کودکان را ز اختلال ** می‌نماید آن خزفها زر و مال
  • To children at play-time, from infirmity (of mind), those potsherds (with which they play) appear to be gold and riches.

  • عارفانش کیمیاگر گشته‌اند ** تا که شد کانها بر ایشان نژند
  • His (God’s) knowers have become alchemists, so that mines (of gold) have become worthless in their eyes.

  • دیدن درویش جماعت مشایخ را در خواب و درخواست کردن روزی حلال بی‌مشغول شدن به کسب و از عبادت ماندن و ارشاد ایشان او را و میوه‌های تلخ و ترش کوهی بر وی شیرین شدن به داد آن مشایخ
  • How a dervish saw in dream a company of Shaykhs and begged for a daily portion of lawful food (which he should receive) without being occupied with earning (it) and being (thereby) incapacitated from devotional service; and how they directed him, and how the sour and bitter mountain-fruit became sweet to him through the bounty of those Shaykhs.

  • آن یکی درویش گفت اندر سمر ** خضریان را من بدیدم خواب در
  • A certain dervish said in the night-talk, “I saw in dream those (saints who are) connected with Khizr.

  • گفتم ایشان را که روزی حلال ** از کجا نوشم که نبود آن وبال
  • I said to them, ‘Whence shall I (get to) eat a daily portion of lawful food that is not pernicious?’

  • مر مرا سوی کهستان راندند ** میوه‌ها زان بیشه می‌افشاندند 680
  • They took me along towards the mountainous country: they were shaking down the fruit from (the trees in) the forest,

  • که خدا شیرین بکرد آن میوه را ** در دهان تو به همتهای ما
  • Saying, ‘God hath made the fruit (to taste) sweet in thy mouth because of our benedictions.

  • هین بخور پاک و حلال و بی‌حساب ** بی صداع و نقل و بالا و نشیب
  • Come, eat (food that is) clean and lawful, and free of reckoning, without trouble and change of place and (going) up and down.’

  • پس مرا زان رزق نطقی رو نمود ** ذوق گفت من خردها می‌ربود
  • Then from that daily provision there appeared in me a (gift of) speech: (the spiritual) savour of my words was transporting (the people's) minds.

  • گفتم این فتنه‌ست ای رب جهان ** بخششی ده از همه خلقان نهان
  • I said, ‘This is a temptation: O Lord of the world, bestow (on me) a gift hidden from all (Thy) creatures!’

  • شد سخن از من دل خوش یافتم ** چون انار از ذوق می‌بشکافتم 685
  • Speech departed from (forsook) me; I gained a joyous heart: I was bursting with rapture, like the pomegranate;

  • گفتم ار چیزی نباشد در بهشت ** غیر این شادی که دارم در سرشت
  • I said, ‘If there be naught in Paradise (for me) but this delight which I have within my nature,

  • هیچ نعمت آرزو ناید دگر ** زین نپردازم به حور و نیشکر
  • No other blessing will be desired (by me): I will not be diverted from this (delight) by the houris and sugar-cane (of Paradise).’

  • مانده بود از کسب یک دو حبه‌ام ** دوخته در آستین جبه‌ام
  • Of my (former) earnings one or two small pieces (of money) had remained with me, sewn in the sleeve of my jubba.

  • نیت کردن او کی این زر بدهم بدان هیزم‌کش چون من روزی یافتم به کرامات مشایخ و رنجیدن آن هیزم‌کش از ضمیر و نیت او
  • How he formed an intention, saying, ‘I will give this money to that carrier of firewood, since I have obtained daily provision through the miraculous gifts of the Shaykhs’; and how the carrier of firewood was offended by his secret thought and intention.

  • آن یکی درویش هیزم می‌کشید ** خسته و مانده ز بیشه در رسید
  • A poor man was carrying firewood: he approached (me), weary and exhausted, from the forest.

  • پس بگفتم من ز روزی فارغم ** زین سپس از بهر رزقم نیست غم 690
  • So I said (to myself), ‘I am independent of (earning) daily bread: henceforth I have no anxiety for the daily portion.

  • میوه‌ی مکروه بر من خوش شدست ** رزق خاصی جسم را آمد به دست
  • The loathed fruit has become sweet to me: a special provision for my body has come to hand.

  • چونک من فارغ شدستم از گلو ** حبه‌ای چندست این بدهم بدو
  • Since I have been freed from the (cravings of the) gullet, here are some small pieces of money: I will give him these.

  • بدهم این زر را بدین تکلیف‌کش ** تا دو سه روزک شود از قوت خوش
  • I will give this money to this toil-worn man, that for two or three brief days he may be made happy by food.’

  • خود ضمیرم را همی‌دانست او ** زانک سمعش داشت نور از شمع هو
  • He himself was knowing my mind, because his (inward) hearing had illumination from the candle of Hú (God).

  • بود پیشش سر هر اندیشه‌ای ** چون چراغی در درون شیشه‌ای 695
  • To him the secret of every thought was as a lamp within a glass.

  • هیچ پنهان می‌نشد از وی ضمیر ** بود بر مضمون دلها او امیر
  • No mental conception was hidden from him: he was ruler over the contents of (men's) hearts.

  • پس همی منگید با خود زیر لب ** در جواب فکرتم آن بوالعجب
  • Therefore that wondrous man was muttering to himself under his breath in answer to my (unspoken) thought,

  • که چنین اندیشی از بهر ملوک ** کیف تلقی الرزق ان لم یرزقوک
  • ‘Thou thinkest so concerning the (spiritual) kings: how shouldst thou meet (receive) the daily provision unless they provide thee (with it)?’

  • من نمی‌کردم سخن را فهم لیک ** بر دلم می‌زد عتابش نیک نیک
  • I was not understanding his words, but his rebuke smote my heart mightily.

  • سوی من آمد به هیبت هم‌چو شیر ** تنگ هیزم را ز خود بنهاد زیر 700
  • He approached me with awful mien, like a lion, and laid down his bundle of firewood.

  • پرتو حالی که او هیزم نهاد ** لرزه بر هر هفت عضو من فتاد
  • (Through) the influence of the ecstatic state in which he laid down the firewood, a trembling fell upon all my seven limbs.

  • گفت یا رب گر ترا خاصان هی‌اند ** که مبارک‌دعوت و فرخ‌پی‌اند
  • He said, ‘O Lord, if Thou hast elect ones whose prayers are blessed and whose feet (comings and goings) are auspicious,

  • لطف تو خواهم که میناگر شود ** این زمان این تنگ هیزم زر شود
  • I entreat that Thy grace may become an alchemist (may work a transmutation) and that this bundle of firewood may be turned into gold at this moment.’

  • در زمان دیدم که زر شد هیزمش ** هم‌چو آتش بر زمین می‌تافت خوش
  • Immediately I saw that his firewood was turned into gold, gleaming brightly on the ground, like fire.

  • من در آن بی‌خود شدم تا دیرگه ** چونک با خویش آمدم من از وله 705
  • Thereat I became beside myself for a long while. When I came to myself (again) out of (that) bewilderment,

  • بعد از آن گفت ای خداگر آن کبار ** بس غیورند و گریزان ز اشتهار
  • He said afterwards, ‘O God, if those great ones (the saints) are very jealous and are fleeing from celebrity,

  • باز این را بند هیزم ساز زود ** بی‌توقف هم بر آن حالی که بود
  • At once, without delay, make this (gold) a bundle of firewood again, just as it was (before).’

  • در زمان هیزم شد آن اغصان زر ** مست شد در کار او عقل و نظر
  • Immediately those branches of gold turned into firewood: the intellect and the sight were intoxicated (amazed) at his (miraculous) work.