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  • عام اگر خفاش طبعند و مجاز  ** یوسفا داری تو آخر چشم باز 
  • If the vulgar are bats by nature and unreal (unspiritual), thou, at least, O Joseph, hast the eye of the falcon.

  • گر خفاشی رفت در کور و کبود  ** باز سلطان دیده را باری چه بود 
  • If a bat went into the blind and blue (the world of darkness and misery), (’tis no wonder, but) after all what ailed the falcon that had seen the Sultan?”

  • پس ادب کردش بدین جرم اوستاد  ** که مساز از چوب پوسیده عماد 
  • Therefore the (Divine) Master punished him for this sin, saying, “Do not make thy prop of rotten wood”;

  • لیک یوسف را به خود مشغول کرد  ** تا نیاید در دلش زان حبس درد 
  • But He caused Joseph to be engrossed with Him, to the end that his heart should not be pained by that imprisonment.

  • آن‌چنانش انس و مستی داد حق  ** که نه زندان ماند پیشش نه غسق  3415
  • God gave him such intimate joy and rapture that neither the prison nor the mirk (of his dungeon) remained (visible) to him.

  • نیست زندانی وحش‌تر از رحم  ** ناخوش و تاریک و پرخون و وخم 
  • There is no prison more frightful than the womb—noisome and dark and full of blood and unhealthy;

  • چون گشادت حق دریچه سوی خویش  ** در رحم هر دم فزاید تنت بیش 
  • (Yet), when God has opened for you a window in His direction, your body (hidden) in the womb grows more (and more) every moment,

  • اندر آن زندان ز ذوق بی‌قیاس  ** خوش شکفت از غرس جسم تو حواس 
  • And in that prison, from the immeasurable delight (which you feel therein), the senses blossom happily from the plant, your body.

  • زان رحم بیرون شدن بر تو درشت  ** می‌گریزی از زهارش سوی پشت 
  • ’Tis grievous to you to go forth from the womb: you are fleeing from her (your mother's) pubes towards her back.

  • راه لذت از درون دان نه از برون  ** ابلهی دان جستن قصر و حصون  3420
  • Know that the way of (spiritual) pleasure is from within, not from without: know that it is folly to seek palaces and castles.

  • آن یکی در کنج مسجد مست و شاد  ** وآن دگر در باغ ترش و بی‌مراد 
  • One man is enraptured and delighted in the nook of a mosque, while another is morose and disappointed in a garden.

  • قصر چیزی نیست ویران کن بدن  ** گنج در ویرانیست ای میر من 
  • The palace (body) is nothing: ruin your body! The treasure lies in the ruin, O my prince.

  • این نمی‌بینی که در بزم شراب  ** مست آنگه خوش شود کو شد خراب 
  • Don't you see that at the wine-feast the drunkard becomes happy (only) when he becomes ruined (senseless)?

  • گرچه پر نقش است خانه بر کنش  ** گنج جو و از گنج آبادان کنش 
  • Although the (bodily) house is full of pictures, demolish it: seek the treasure, and with the treasure put it (the house) into good repair.

  • خانه‌ی پر نقش تصویر و خیال  ** وین صور چون پرده بر گنج وصال  3425
  • ’Tis a house filled with pictures of imagination and fancy, and these forms (ideas) are as a veil over the treasure of union (with God).

  • پرتو گنجست و تابش‌های زر  ** که درین سینه همی‌جوشد صور 
  • ’Tis the radiance of the Treasure and the splendours of the (spiritual) gold that cause the forms (ideas) to surge up in this breast.

  • هم ز لطف و عکس آب با شرف  ** پرده شد بر روی آب اجزای کف 
  • ’Tis from the purity and translucence of the noble Water that the particles of foam have veiled the face of the Water.

  • هم ز لطف و جوش جان با ثمن  ** پرده‌ای بر روی جان شد شخص تن 
  • ’Tis from the purity and (ceaseless) agitation of the precious Spirit that the bodily figure has veiled the face of the Spirit.

  • پس مثل بشنو که در افواه خاست  ** که اینچ بر ماست ای برادر هم ز ماست 
  • Hearken, then, to the adage that issued from the mouths (of men)—“this which is (cast) upon us, O brother, is (derived) from us.”

  • زین حجاب این تشنگان کف‌پرست  ** ز آب صافی اوفتاده دوردست  3430
  • Because of this veil, these thirsty ones who are (so) fond of the foam have got out of reach of the pure Water.

  • آفتابا با چو تو قبله و امام  ** شب‌پرستی و خفاشی می‌کنیم 
  • “O (Divine) Sun, notwithstanding (that we have) a qibla (object of adoration) and Imám like Thee, we worship the night and behave in the manner of bats.

  • سوی خود کن این خفاشان را مطار  ** زین خفاشیشان بخر ای مستجار 
  • Make these bats to fly towards Thee and redeem them from this bat-like disposition, O Thou whose protection is implored!

  • این جوان زین جرم ضالست و مغیر  ** که بمن آمد ولی او را مگیر 
  • This youth (the Amír), by (committing) this sin, has gone astray and trespassed (against Thee), for he came to me (for help); but do not chastise him.”

  • در عماد الملک این اندیشه‌ها  ** گشته جوشان چون اسد در بیشه‌ها 
  • In the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk these thoughts were raging like a lion (rushing) through the jungles.

  • ایستاده پیش سلطان ظاهرش  ** در ریاض غیب جان طایرش  3435
  • His exterior (person) stood before the Sultan, (but) his soaring spirit was in the meadows of the Unseen.

  • چون ملایک او به اقلیم الست  ** هر دمی می‌شد به شرب تازه مست 
  • Like the angels, he was momently being intoxicated with fresh draughts (of spiritual wine) in the realm of Alast;

  • اندرون سور و برون چون پر غمی  ** در تن هم‌چون لحد خوش عالمی 
  • Inwardly (merry as) a wedding-feast, but outwardly like a man filled with sorrow; a delectable world (concealed) in a tomb-like body.

  • او درین حیرت بد و در انتظار  ** تا چه پیدا آید از غیب و سرار 
  • He was in this (state of) bewilderment and waiting to see what would appear from the (world of) things occult and mysterious,

  • اسپ را اندر کشیدند آن زمان  ** پیش خوارمشاه سرهنگان کشان 
  • (When) at that time the officers brought the horse along into the presence of the Khwárizmsháh.

  • الحق اندر زیر این چرخ کبود  ** آن‌چنان کره به قد و تگ نبود  3440
  • Verily beneath this azure sky there was no (other) colt like that in (tallness and comeliness of) figure and in fleetness.

  • می‌ربودی رنگ او هر دیده را  ** مرحب آن از برق و مه زاییده را 
  • Its colour (splendid appearance) dazzled every eye: (all would exclaim), “Hail to the (steed) born of the lightning and the moon!”

  • هم‌چو مه هم‌چون عطارد تیزرو  ** گوییی صرصر علف بودش نه جو 
  • It moved as swiftly as the moon and Mercury: you might say that its fodder was the sarsar wind, not barley.

  • ماه عرصه‌ی آسمان را در شبی  ** می‌برد اندر مسیر و مذهبی 
  • The moon traverses the expanse of heaven in one night during a single journey and course.

  • چون به یک شب مه برید ابراج را  ** از چه منکر می‌شوی معراج را 
  • Since the moon traversed the signs of the zodiac in one night, wherefore wilt thou disbelieve the Ascension (of the Prophet)?

  • صد چو ماهست آن عجب در یتیم  ** که به یک ایماء او شد مه دو نیم  3445
  • That wondrous orphan Pearl is as a hundred moons, for at a nod from him the moon became (split in) two halves.

  • آن عجب کو در شکاف مه نمود  ** هم به قدر ضعف حس خلق بود 
  • (Even) the marvel which he displayed in splitting the moon was only according to the measure of the weakness of the perception possessed by the (common) people.

  • کار و بار انبیا و مرسلون  ** هست از افلاک و اخترها برون 
  • The work and business of the prophets and (Divine) messengers is beyond the skies and the stars.

  • تو برون رو هم ز افلاک و دوار  ** وانگهان نظاره کن آن کار و بار 
  • Do thou also go beyond (transcend) the skies and the revolving (orb), and then contemplate that work and business.

  • در میان بیضه‌ای چون فرخ‌ها  ** نشنوی تسبیح مرغان هوا 
  • (Whilst) thou art inside the egg, like chicks, thou canst not hear the glorification of God by the birds of the (supermundane) air.

  • معجزات این‌جا نخواهد شرح گشت  ** ز اسپ و خوارمشاه گو و سرگذشت  3450
  • The miracles (of the Prophet) will not be set forth here: tell of the horse and the Khwárizmsháh and what happened.

  • آفتاب لطف حق بر هر چه تافت  ** از سگ و از اسپ فر کهف یافت 
  • Whatsoever the sun of God's grace shines upon, whether it be dog or horse, gains (is endowed with) the glory of the Cave;

  • تاب لطفش را تو یکسان هم مدان  ** سنگ را و لعل را داد او نشان 
  • Yet deem not the radiance of His grace to be uniform: it has given a sign (distinctive character) to the pebble and the ruby.

  • لعل را زان هست گنج مقتبس  ** سنگ را گرمی و تابانی و بس 
  • From that (radiance) the ruby has a borrowed treasure, (while) the pebble has only heat and brightness.

  • آنک بر دیوار افتد آفتاب  ** آن‌چنان نبود کز آب و اضطراب 
  • (The radiance of) the sun falling on a wall is not the same as (when it is reflected) from water and quivering movement.

  • چون دمی حیران شد از وی شاه فرد  ** روی خود سوی عماد الملک کرد  3455
  • After the peerless king had been astounded by (gazing at) it (the horse) for a moment, he turned his face to the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk,

  • کای اچی بس خوب اسپی نیست این  ** از بهشتست این مگر نه از زمین 
  • Saying, “O vizier, is not this an exceedingly beautiful horse? Surely it belongs to Paradise, not to the earth.”

  • پس عماد الملک گفتش ای خدیو  ** چون فرشته گردد از میل تو دیو 
  • Thereupon the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk said to him, “O emperor, a demon is made angelic by thy (fond) inclination.

  • در نظر آنچ آوری گردید نیک  ** بس گش و رعناست این مرکب ولیک 
  • That on which thou lookest (fondly) becomes (appears good (to thee). This steed is very handsome and graceful, and yet

  • هست ناقص آن سر اندر پیکرش  ** چون سر گاوست گویی آن سرش 
  • The head is a blemish in its (elegant) form: you might say that its head is like the head of an ox.”

  • در دل خوارمشه این دم کار کرد  ** اسپ را در منظر شه خوار کرد  3460
  • These words worked on the heart of the Khwárizmsháh and caused the horse to be cheap in the king's sight.