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3790-3799

  • She is hidden like the spirit and like the embryo: she is (kept) in a secret bower and palace. 3790
  • هم‌چو جان و چون جنین پنهانست او  ** در مکتم پرده و ایوانست او 

  • Neither man nor woman is admitted to her (presence): the King has concealed her on account of her fascinations.
  • سوی او نه مرد ره دارد نه زن  ** شاه پنهان کرد او را از فتن 

  • The King has a (great) jealousy for her (good) name, so that not even a bird flies above her roof.”
  • غیرتی دارد ملک بر نام او  ** که نپرد مرغ هم بر بام او 

  • Alas for the heart that such an insane passion has stricken: may no one feel a passion like this!
  • وای آن دل کش چنین سودا فتاد  ** هیچ کس را این چنین سودا مباد 

  • This is the retribution due to him who sowed the seed of ignorance and held light and cheap that (precious) counsel,
  • این سزای آنک تخم جهل کاشت  ** وآن نصیحت را کساد و سهل داشت 

  • And put a (great) trust in his own management, saying, “By dint of intelligence I will carry my affair to success.” 3795
  • اعتمادی کرد بر تدبیر خویش  ** که برم من کار خود با عقل پیش 

  • Half a mite of the (King's) favour is better than three hundred spells (expedients) devised by the intellect.
  • نیم ذره زان عنایت به بود  ** که ز تدبیر خرد سیصد رصد 

  • Abandon your own cunning, O Amír: draw back your foot before the (Divine) favour and gladly die.
  • ترک مکر خویشتن گیر ای امیر  ** پا بکش پیش عنایت خوش بمیر 

  • This is not (to be gained) by a certain amount of contrivance: nothing avails until you die to (all) these contrivings.
  • این به قدر حیله‌ی معدود نیست  ** زین حیل تا تو نمیری سود نیست 

  • Story of the Sadr-i Jahán of Bukhárá. (It was his custom that) any beggar who begged with his tongue was excluded from his universal and unstinted charity. A certain poor savant, forgetting (this rule) and being excessively eager and in a hurry, begged (alms) with his tongue (while the Sadr was passing) amidst his cavalcade. The Sadr-i Jahán averted his face from him, and (though) he contrived a new trick every day and disguised himself, now as a woman veiled in a chádar and now as a blind man with bandaged eyes and face, he (the Sadr) always had discernment enough to recognize him, etc.
  • حکایت صدر جهان بخارا کی هر سایلی کی به زبان بخواستی از صدقه‌ی عام بی‌دریغ او محروم شدی و آن دانشمند درویش به فراموشی و فرط حرص و تعجیل به زبان بخواست در موکب صدر جهان از وی رو بگردانید و او هر روز حیله‌ی نو ساختی و خود را گاه زن کردی زیر چادر وگاه نابینا کردی و چشم و روی خود بسته به فراستش بشناختی الی آخره 

  • It was the habit of that most noble lord in Bukhárá to deal kindly with beggars.
  • در بخارا خوی آن خواجیم اجل  ** بود با خواهندگان حسن عمل