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  • واقف از سوز و لهیب آن وفود  ** مصلحت آن بد که خشک آورده بود 
  • (He was) well acquainted with the burning and flaming (passion) of those who came to his court, (but) in his wisdom he had ignored them and kept silence.

  • در میان جانشان بود آن سمی  ** لک قاصد کرده خود را اعجمی 
  • That exalted (monarch) was in the midst (depths) of their souls, but he had purposely feigned to be unfamiliar (with them).

  • صورت آتش بود پایان دیگ  ** معنی آتش بود در جان دیگ 
  • The form (appearance) of the fire is beneath the kettle; the spirit (reality) of the fire is in the soul of the kettle.

  • صورتش بیرون و معنیش اندرون  ** معنی معشوق جان در رگ چو خون  4400
  • Its form is outside and its spirit inside: the spirit (real nature) of the soul's Beloved is (in the soul) like blood in the veins.

  • شاه‌زاده پیش شه زانو زده  ** ده معرف شارح حالش شده 
  • The prince knelt before the King, (while) ten announcers gave a description of his state.

  • گرچه شه عارف بد از کل پیش پیش  ** لیک می‌کردی معرف کار خویش 
  • Although the King knew it all long ago, yet the announcer was performing the duties of his office.

  • در درون یک ذره نور عارفی  ** به بود از صد معرف ای صفی 
  • O sincere man, a single atom of the light of (mystic) knowledge within (thee) is better than a hundred announcers.

  • گوش را رهن معرف داشتن  ** آیت محجوبیست و حزر و ظن 
  • To confine one's attention to the announcer is a mark of being debarred (from access to real knowledge) and of (being preoccupied with) conjecture and (mere) opinion.

  • آنک او را چشم دل شد دیدبان  ** دید خواهد چشم او عین العیان  4405
  • He whose scout is his inward eye—his eye will behold with the very acme of clairvoyance.

  • با تواتر نیست قانع جان او  ** بل ز چشم دل رسد ایقان او 
  • His soul is not content with traditional authority; nay, his feeling of (absolute) certainty comes from the inward eye.

  • پس معرف پیش شاه منتجب  ** در بیان حال او بگشود لب 
  • Then the announcer opened his lips to describe his (the eldest brother's) plight in the presence of the elect King.

  • گفت شاها صید احسان توست  ** پادشاهی کن که بی بیرون شوست 
  • He said, “O King, he is fallen a prey to thy beneficence: show kingly favour (to him), for he has no means of escape.

  • دست در فتراک این دولت زدست  ** بر سر سرمست او بر مال دست 
  • He has clutched the saddle-strap of this empire: stroke his distraught head with thy (royal) hand!”

  • گفت شه هر منصبی و ملکتی  ** که التماسش هست یابد این فتی  4410
  • The King replied, “This youth will obtain (from me) every high dignity and sovereignty that he seeks.

  • بیست چندان ملک کو شد زان بری  ** بخشمش اینجا و ما خود بر سری 
  • I will bestow on him here (and now) twenty times as many kingdoms as he has relinquished, and myself into the bargain.”

  • گفت تا شاهیت در وی عشق کاشت  ** جز هوای تو هوایی کی گذاشت 
  • He (the announcer) said, “Since thy royal majesty sowed in him the seed of love, how could it leave (in him) any passion except passion for thee?

  • بندگی تش چنان درخورد شد  ** که شهی اندر دل او سرد شد 
  • ’Tis so agreeable to him to be thy slave that kingship has become cold comfort to his heart.

  • شاهی و شه‌زادگی در باختست  ** از پی تو در غریبی ساختست 
  • He has gambled away kingship and princedom: for thy sake he has put up with living in exile.

  • صوفیست انداخت خرقه وجد در  ** کی رود او بر سر خرقه دگر  4415
  • He is a Súfí: he has flung away his mantle in ecstasy: how should he turn again to his mantle?

  • میل سوی خرقه‌ی داده و ندم  ** آنچنان باشد که من مغبون شدم 
  • To hanker for the given away mantle and repent (of having given it) is as much as to say, ‘I have been swindled:

  • باز ده آن خرقه این سو ای قرین  ** که نمی‌ارزید آن یعنی بدین 
  • Put the mantle back here, O comrade, for that (ecstasy) was not worth it, that is, (not worth) this (mantle).’

  • دور از عاشق که این فکر آیدش  ** ور بیاید خاک بر سر بایدش 
  • Far be it from a lover that such a thought should occur to him; and if it do, dust ought to be (sprinkled) on his head.

  • عشق ارزد صد چو خرقه کالبد  ** که حیاتی دارد و حس و خرد 
  • Love is worth a hundred mantles like that of the body, which contains a (principle of) life and sensation and reason;

  • خاصه خرقه‌ی ملک دنیا کابترست  ** پنج دانگ مستیش درد سرست  4420
  • Especially the mantle of worldly dominion, which is cut short (exiguous): a pennyworth of intoxication with it is (results in) headache.

  • ملک دنیا تن‌پرستان را حلال  ** ما غلام ملک عشق بی‌زوال 
  • Worldly dominion is lawful (only) to those who indulge the body: we (lovers) are devoted to the everlasting kingdom of Love.

  • عامل عشقست معزولش مکن  ** جز به عشق خویش مشغولش مکن 
  • He (the prince) is Love's agent: do not deprive him of his employment, do not let him be employed in aught but loving thee.

  • منصبی کانم ز ریت محجبست  ** عین معزولیست و نامش منصبست 
  • The office (business) that veils me from (the sight of) thy face is the very essence of unemployment, though it is called ‘office.’

  • موجب تاخیر اینجا آمدن  ** فقد استعداد بود و ضعف فن 
  • The cause of (his) delay in coming hither was lack of capability and defect of skill.”

  • بی ز استعداد در کانی روی  ** بر یکی حبه نگردی محتوی  4425
  • (If) you go into a mine without (having) capability, you will not gain possession of a single grain (of gold),

  • هم‌چو عنینی که بکری را خرد  ** گرچه سیمین‌بر بود کی بر خورد 
  • Tanquam vir veneri inhabilis qui virginem emit: ea, etsi pectus argenteum (candidum) sit, frui quo pacto poterit? [Like an impotent man who buys a virgin (for a slave): even if she is a silver-breasted (beauty), how can he enjoy (her sexually)?]

  • چون چراغی بی ز زیت و بی فتیل  ** نه کثیرستش ز شمع و نه قلیل 
  • (The incapable man is) like a lamp without oil or wick that gets neither much nor little from the (flaming) taper.

  • در گلستان اندر آید اخشمی  ** کی شود مغزش ز ریحان خرمی 
  • (If) one who cannot smell enter a garden, how should his brain (nose) be delighted by the fragrant herbs?—

  • هم‌چو خوبی دلبری مهمان غر  ** بانگ چنگ و بربطی در پیش کر 
  • Tanquam formosa et venusta hospita viri debilis; (and) like the sound of a harp or lute in the ears of the deaf; [Like a beautiful (and) charming woman (who is) the guest of a feeble (impotent) man; (and like) the sound of a harp or lute in the ears of the deaf;]

  • هم‌چو مرغ خاک که آید در بحار  ** زان چه یابد جز هلاک و جز خسار  4430
  • (And) like the land-bird that falls into great waters: what should it find there but death and perdition?

  • هم‌چو بی‌گندم شده در آسیا  ** جز سپیدی ریش و مو نبود عطا 
  • (And) like one who, having no wheat, goes to a mill: nothing will be given to him except the whitening of his beard and hair (with flour).

  • آسیای چرخ بر بی‌گندمان  ** موسپیدی بخشد و ضعف میان 
  • The celestial mill bestows on those who have no wheat (only) whiteness of hair and weakness in the loins;

  • لیک با باگندمان این آسیا  ** ملک‌بخش آمد دهد کار و کیا 
  • But on those who bring wheat with them this mill bestows empire and gives them sovereign power.

  • اول استعداد جنت بایدت  ** تا ز جنت زندگانی زایدت 
  • You must first be qualified for Paradise in order that from Paradise the (everlasting) life may be born to you.

  • طفل نو را از شراب و از کباب  ** چه حلاوت وز قصور و از قباب  4435
  • What pleasure has the new-born child in wine and roast-meat and palaces and domes?

  • حد ندارد این مثل کم جو سخن  ** تو برو تحصیل استعداد کن 
  • These parables have no limit: do not seek (more) words (of this kind): go and acquire capability!

  • بهر استعداد تا اکنون نشست  ** شوق از حد رفت و آن نامد به دست 
  • (The announcer said), “He tarried until now for the sake of capability (qualification), (but) ere it was acquired his longing burst (all) bounds.”

  • گفت استعداد هم از شه رسد  ** بی ز جان کی مستعد گردد جسد 
  • He (the prince) said, “Capability too is imparted by the King: how should the body be made capable without (the intervention of) the soul?”

  • لطف‌های شه غمش را در نوشت  ** شد که صید شه کند او صید گشت 
  • (Then) the favours of the King did away with his anguish: he had gone to hunt the King: he became the King's prey.

  • هر که در اشکار چون تو صید شد  ** صید را ناکرده قید او قید شد  4440
  • (The announcer said), “Whosoever goes in chase of a quarry like thee does not catch his quarry till he is himself caught.”

  • هرکه جویای امیری شد یقین  ** پیش از آن او در اسیری شد رهین 
  • ’Tis certain that every seeker of princedom is thrown into captivity before (he gains) it.

  • عکس می‌دان نقش دیباجه‌ی جهان  ** نام هر بنده‌ی جهان خواجه‌ی جهان 
  • Know that what is depicted on this mundane frontispiece is preposterous: every slave to the world is named “lord of the world.”

  • ای تن کژ فکرت معکوس‌رو  ** صد هزار آزاد را کرده گرو 
  • O wrong-thinking perversely-acting body, thou that hast enthralled a hundred thousand freemen,

  • مدتی بگذار این حیلت پزی  ** چند دم پیش از اجل آزاد زی 
  • Abandon this guileful plotting for a time: live free a few moments ere thou die;

  • ور در آزادیت چون خر راه نیست  ** هم‌چو دلوت سیر جز در چاه نیست  4445
  • For if, like the (heavily-laden) ass, thou hast no way of attaining to freedom, thy movement, like that of the bucket, can only be (down) into the well.

  • مدتی رو ترک جان من بگو  ** رو حریف دیگری جز من بجو 
  • Go, take leave of my spirit for awhile: go, seek another companion instead of me.