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2857-2866

  • When he (the Arab) embarked in the boat and beheld the Tigris, he was prostrating himself in shame and bowing (his head),
  • چون به کشتی درنشست و دجله دید ** سجده می‌‌کرد از حیا و می‌‌خمید

  • Saying, “Oh, wonderful is the kindness of this bounteous King, and ’tis (even) more wonderful that he took that water.
  • کای عجب لطف این شه وهاب را ** وین عجبتر کو ستد آن آب را

  • How did that Sea of munificence so quickly accept from me such spurious coin as that?”
  • چون پذیرفت از من آن دریای جود ** آن چنان نقد دغل را زود زود

  • Know, O son, that everything in the universe is a jug which is (filled) to the brim with wisdom and beauty. 2860
  • کل عالم را سبو دان ای پسر ** کاو بود از علم و خوبی تا به سر

  • It (everything in the universe) is a drop of the Tigris of His beauty, which (beauty) because of its fullness is not contained under the skin (that should enclose it).
  • قطره‌‌ای از دجله‌‌ی خوبی اوست ** کان نمی‌‌گنجد ز پری زیر پوست‌‌

  • ’Twas a hidden treasure: because of its fullness it burst forth and made the earth more shining than the heavens.
  • گنج مخفی بد ز پری چاک کرد ** خاک را تابان تر از افلاک کرد

  • ’Twas a hidden treasure: because of its fullness it surged up and made the earth (like) a sultan robed in satin.
  • گنج مخفی بد ز پری جوش کرد ** خاک را سلطان اطلس پوش کرد

  • And if he (the Arab) had seen a branch of the Divine Tigris, he would have destroyed that jug, destroyed it.
  • ور بدیدی شاخی از دجله‌‌ی خدا ** آن سبو را او فنا کردی فنا

  • They that saw it are always beside themselves: like one beside himself, they hurled a stone at the jug (of their self-existence). 2865
  • آن که دیدندش همیشه بی‌‌خودند ** بی‌‌خودانه بر سبو سنگی زدند

  • O thou who from jealousy hast hurled a stone at the jug, and thy brokenness has in truth become soundness,
  • ای ز غیرت بر سبو سنگی زده ** و این سبو ز اشکست کاملتر شده‌‌