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1567-1576

  • The Shaykh who has become seeing by the light of God has become acquainted with the end and the beginning.
  • شیخ کاو ینظر بنور الله شد ** از نهایت وز نخست آگاه شد

  • He has shut for God's sake the eye that sees the stable the world); he has opened, in priority, the eye that sees the en .
  • چشم آخر بین ببست از بهر حق ** چشم آخر بین گشاد اندر سبق‏

  • Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.
  • آن حسودان بد درختان بوده‏اند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بوده‏اند

  • They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret, 1570
  • از حسد جوشان و کف می‏ریختند ** در نهانی مکر می‏انگیختند

  • That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;
  • تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند

  • (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?
  • چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود

  • The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.
  • شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده‏

  • In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).
  • در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** می‏زدی خنبک بر آن کوزه‏گران‏

  • Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug; 1575
  • مکر می‏سازند قومی حیله‏مند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند

  • (But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?
  • پادشاهی بس عظیمی بی‏کران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران‏