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1909-1958

  • هاتفی گفتش کای دیده تعب  ** رقعه‌ای در مشق وراقان طلب 
  • (That) a heavenly voice said to him, “O you who have seen trouble, search among the (loose) leaves of handwriting sold (as models) by stationers for a certain scroll.

  • خفیه زان وراق کت همسایه است  ** سوی کاغذپاره‌هاش آور تو دست  1910
  • Unobserved by the stationer who is your neighbour, bring your hand into touch with his papers.

  • رقعه‌ای شکلش چنین رنگش چنین  ** بس بخوان آن را به خلوت ای حزین 
  • It is a scroll of such a shape and such a colour: then (as soon as possible) read it in privacy, O sorrowful one.

  • چون بدزدی آن ز وراق ای پسر  ** پس برون رو ز انبهی و شور و شر 
  • When you steal it from the stationer, my lad, then go out of the crowd and the noise and turmoil,

  • تو بخوان آن را به خود در خلوتی  ** هین مجو در خواندن آن شرکتی 
  • And read it by yourself in some lonely place: beware, do not seek any partnership in reading it.

  • ور شود آن فاش هم غمگین مشو  ** که نیابد غیر تو زان نیم جو 
  • But even if it (the secret) be divulged, do not be anxious, for none but you will get (so much as) half a barley-corn thereof.

  • ور کشد آن دیر هان زنهار تو  ** ورد خود کن دم به دم لاتقنطوا  1915
  • And if it (the affair) be long drawn out, beware and take heed! Make (the text) do not ye despair your litany at every moment.”

  • این بگفت و دست خود آن مژده‌ور  ** بر دل او زد که رو زحمت ببر 
  • The (heavenly) announcer of the good news said this and put his hand on his (the fakir's) heart, saying, “Go, endure the toil.”

  • چون به خویش آمد ز غیبت آن جوان  ** می‌نگنجید از فرح اندر جهان 
  • When the youth came back to himself after the absence, on account of his joy he could not be contained in the world.

  • زهره‌ی او بر دریدی از قلق  ** گر نبودی رفق و حفظ و لطف حق 
  • Had it not been for the tender care and protection and favour of God, his gallbladder would have burst from agitation.

  • یک فرح آن کز پس شصد حجاب  ** گوش او بشنید از حضرت جواب 
  • One (cause of) joy was this, that after (having passed through) six hundred veils his ear had heard the answer (to his prayer) from the (Divine) Presence.

  • از حجب چون حس سمعش در گذشت  ** شد سرافراز و ز گردون بر گذشت  1920
  • When his auditory sense had pierced through the veils, he raised his head aloft and passed beyond the skies,

  • که بود کان حس چشمش ز اعتبار  ** زان حجاب غیب هم یابد گذار 
  • (Thinking) that maybe, by taking the lesson to heart, his sense of sight would also find a passage through the veil of the Unseen,

  • چون گذاره شد حواسش از حجاب  ** پس پیاپی گرددش دید و خطاب 
  • And that when (both) his senses had passed through the veil, his vision and allocution (from God) would then be continuous.

  • جانب دکان وراق آمد او  ** دست می‌برد او به مشقش سو به سو 
  • (So) he came to the stationer's shop and (for some time) was laying his hand here and there on his (the stationer's) models for writing.

  • پیش چشمش آمد آن مکتوب زود  ** با علاماتی که هاتف گفته بود 
  • Suddenly that piece of script, with the distinctive marks which the heavenly voice had mentioned, caught his eye.

  • در بغل زد گفت خواجه خیر باد  ** این زمان وا می‌رسم ای اوستاد  1925
  • He slipped it under his arm and said, “Good-bye, Khwája: I will come back presently, O master.”

  • رفت کنج خلوتی و آن را بخواند  ** وز تحیر واله و حیران بماند 
  • He went into a solitary nook and read it and remained lost in bewilderment and amazement,

  • که بدین سان گنج‌نامه‌ی بی‌بها  ** چون فتاده ماند اندر مشقها 
  • (Wondering) how a priceless treasure-scroll of this sort had fallen and been left among the (stationer's) papers.

  • باز اندر خاطرش این فکر جست  ** کز پی هر چیز یزدان حافظست 
  • (Then) again the thought darted into his mind, that God is the guardian for everything,

  • کی گذارد حافظ اندر اکتناف  ** که کسی چیزی رباید از گزاف 
  • (And) how should the Guardian, in (His) circumspection, let any one recklessly carry off anything?

  • گر بیابان پر شود زر و نقود  ** بی رضای حق جوی نتوان ربود  1930
  • Though the desert be filled with gold and (silver) money, not a single mite can be taken away without God's approval;

  • ور بخوانی صد صحف بی سکته‌ای  ** بی قدر یادت نماند نکته‌ای 
  • And though you read a hundred volumes without a pause, you will not remember a single point (of argument) without the Divine decree;

  • ور کنی خدمت نخوانی یک کتاب  ** علمهای نادره یابی ز جیب 
  • But if you serve God and do not read a single book, you will learn rare sciences from your (own) bosom.

  • شد ز جیب آن کف موسی ضو فشان  ** کان فزون آمد ز ماه آسمان 
  • The hand of Moses was spreading from his bosom a radiance that surpassed the moon in the sky,

  • کانک می‌جستی ز چرخ با نهیب  ** سر بر آوردستت ای موسی ز جیب 
  • Saying (implicitly), “That which thou wert seeking from the terrible celestial sphere hath uprisen, O Moses, from thy own bosom,

  • تا بدانی که آسمانهای سمی  ** هست عکس مدرکات آدمی  1935
  • In order that thou mayst know that the lofty heavens are the reflexion of the perceptive (rational) faculties of Man.”

  • نی که اول دست برد آن مجید  ** از دو عالم پیشتر عقل آفرید 
  • Is it not (the case) that the hand of the Glorious God created Reason first (of all), before (the creation of) the two worlds?

  • این سخن پیدا و پنهانست بس  ** که نباشد محرم عنقا مگس 
  • This discourse is clear (to some) and exceedingly recondite (to others), for the fly is not intimate with the ‘Anqá.

  • باز سوی قصه باز آ ای پسر  ** قصه‌ی گنج و فقیر آور به سر 
  • O son, return once more to the tale: bring the tale of the treasure and the fakir  to an end.

  • تمامی قصه‌ی آن فقیر و نشان جای آن گنج 
  • Conclusion of the Story of the fakir and (a description of) the signs indicating the position of the treasure.

  • اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این  ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین 
  • This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.

  • آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست  ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست  1940
  • (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert.

  • پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر  ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار 
  • Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.

  • چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد  ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد 
  • When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”

  • پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی  ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا 
  • Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,

  • زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد  ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد 
  • And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;

  • کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر  ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر  1945
  • (But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure.

  • هم‌چنین هر روز تیر انداختی  ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی 
  • Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.

  • چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام  ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام 
  • Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.

  • فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه 
  • How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.

  • پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین  ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین 
  • Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,

  • عرضه کردند آن سخن را زیردست  ** که فلانی گنج‌نامه یافتست 
  • And submitted the matter (to him) secretly, saying that such-and-such an one had found a treasure-scroll.

  • چون شنید این شخص کین با شه رسید  ** جز که تسلیم و رضا چاره ندید  1950
  • When this person (the fakir) heard that it had come to (the knowledge of) the king, he saw no remedy but resignation and acquiescence;

  • پیش از آنک اشکنجه بیند زان قباد  ** رقعه را آن شخص پیش او نهاد 
  • (So), ere he should suffer (torture on) the rack by order of the Emperor, that person laid the note (of the treasure) before him,

  • گفت تا این رقعه را یابیده‌ام  ** گنج نه و رنج بی‌حد دیده‌ام 
  • Saying, “(Ever) since I found this scroll, I have seen no treasure but (only) infinite trouble.

  • خود نشد یک حبه از گنج آشکار  ** لیک پیچیدم بسی من هم‌چو مار 
  • Not even a single mite of treasure has been discovered, but I have writhed very much, like a snake.

  • مدت ماهی چنینم تلخ‌کام  ** که زیان و سود این بر من حرام 
  • During a (whole) month I have been in bitter distress like this, for loss or gain (accruing) from this (treasure-scroll) is forbidden to me.

  • بوک بختت بر کند زین کان غطا  ** ای شه پیروزجنگ و دزگشا  1955
  • Maybe thy fortune will disclose (to thee) this mine (of riches), O king (who art) victorious in war and the conqueror of fortresses.”

  • مدت شش ماه و افزون پادشاه  ** تیر می‌انداخت و برمی‌کند چاه 
  • For six long months and more the king shot arrows and dug pits (where the arrows fell).

  • هرکجا سخته کمانی بود چست  ** تیر داد انداخت و هر سو گنج جست 
  • Wherever an energetic drawer of the strongbow was (to be found), he (the king) gave (him) arrows to shoot and searched for the treasure in every direction.

  • غیر تشویش و غم و طامات نی  ** هم‌چو عنقا نام فاش و ذات نی 
  • (The result was) nothing but vexation and grief and futilities: as (in the case of) the ‘Anqá, the name (of the treasure) was known to all, but the essence (reality) was non-existent.

  • نومید شدن آن پادشاه از یافتن آن گنج و ملول شدن او از طلب آن 
  • How the king despaired of finding the treasure and became weary of searching for it.