If I am not a Sharíf and worthy (of thee) and a (true) bosom-friend, (at any rate) I am no worse for thee than such a ruffian as this.”
گر شریف و لایق و هم دم نیام ** از چنین ظالم تو را من کم نیام
He (the gardener) finished with him (the Sharíf), and came up, saying, “O jurist, what (sort of) jurist are you, O you disgrace to every fool?
شد از او فارغ بیامد کای فقیه ** چه فقیهی ای تو ننگ هر سفیه
Is it your legal opinion, O convicted thief, that you may come (into my orchard) without asking leave?
فتویات این است ای ببریده دست ** کاندر آیی و نگویی امر هست
Have you read such a license in the Wasít, or has this question been (so decided) in the Muhít?”2210
این چنین رخصت بخواندی در وسیط ** یا بدست این مسئله اندر محیط
“You are right,” he replied; “beat (me): you have got the upper hand. This is the fit penalty for him that parts from friends.”
گفت حق استت بزن دستت رسید ** این سزای آن که از یاران برید
Returning to the story of the sick man and the visit paid (to him) by the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace!
رجعت به قصه مریض و عیادت پیغامبر علیه السلام
This visiting of the sick is for the sake of this (spiritual) attachments, and this attachment is pregnant with a hundred lovingkindnesses.
این عیادت از برای این صله است ** وین صله از صد محبت حامله است
The peerless Prophet went to visit the sick man; he found that Companion at the last gasp.
در عیادت شد رسول بیندید ** آن صحابی را به حال نزع دید
When you become far from the presence of the saints, you have in reality become far from God.
چون شوی دور از حضور اولیا ** در حقیقت گشتهای دور از خدا
Inasmuch as the result of parting from fellow-travellers is sorrow, how is separation from the countenance of the kings (saints) less (grievous) than that?2215
چون نتیجه هجر همراهان غم است ** کی فراق روی شاهان ز آن کم است
Hasten every moment to seek the shadow (protection) of (those) kings, that by means of that shadow you may become superior to the sun.
سایه شاهان طلب هر دم شتاب ** تا شوی ز آن سایه بهتر ز آفتاب