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1162-1171

  • Whom shall I tell? Where in the village is any (spiritually) living one? Where is any one that runs towards the Water of Life?
  • با کی گویم در همه ده زنده کو  ** سوی آب زندگی پوینده کو 

  • Thou art fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation: what dost thou know of Love except the name?
  • تو به یک خواری گریزانی ز عشق  ** تو به جز نامی چه می‌دانی ز عشق 

  • Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.
  • عشق را صد ناز و استکبار هست  ** عشق با صد ناز می‌آید به دست 

  • Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade. 1165
  • عشق چون وافیست وافی می‌خرد  ** در حریف بی‌وفا می‌ننگرد 

  • Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.
  • چون درختست آدمی و بیخ عهد  ** بیخ را تیمار می‌باید به جهد 

  • A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.
  • عهد فاسد بیخ پوسیده بود  ** وز ثمار و لطف ببریده بود 

  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 

  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 

  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel. 1170
  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او 

  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 

  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود