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1245-1269

  • He bestows on a man a name according to his final state, not according to that (state) to which He gives the name of ‘a loan.’ 1245
  • مرد را بر عاقبت نامی نهد ** نه بر آن کاو عاریت نامی نهد

  • Inasmuch as the eye of Adam saw by means of the Pure Light, the soul and inmost sense of the names became evident to him.
  • چشم آدم چون به نور پاک دید ** جان و سر نامها گشتش پدید

  • Since the angels perceived in him the rays of God, they fell in worship and hastened to do homage.
  • چون ملک انوار حق در وی بیافت ** در سجود افتاد و در خدمت شتافت‌‌

  • If until the Resurrection I reckon up the praise of this Adam whose name I am celebrating, I fall short (of what is due).
  • مدح این آدم که نامش می‌‌برم ** قاصرم گر تا قیامت بشمرم‌‌

  • All this he knew; (yet) when the Divine destiny came, he was at fault in the knowledge of a single prohibition,
  • این همه دانست و چون آمد قضا ** دانش یک نهی شد بر وی خطا

  • Wondering whether the prohibition was for the purpose of making unlawful (the thing prohibited), or whether it admitted of an interpretation and was a cause of perplexity. 1250
  • کای عجب نهی از پی تحریم بود ** یا به تاویلی بد و توهیم بود

  • When (the view that it admitted of) interpretation prevailed in his mind, his nature hastened in bewilderment towards the wheat.
  • در دلش تاویل چون ترجیح یافت ** طبع در حیرت سوی گندم شتافت‌‌

  • When the thorn went into the foot of the gardener (Adam), the thief (Satan) found an opportunity and quickly carried off the goods.
  • باغبان را خار چون در پای رفت ** دزد فرصت یافت، کالا برد تفت‌‌

  • As soon as he escaped from bewilderment, he returned into the (right) road; (then) he saw that the thief had carried off the wares from the shop.
  • چون ز حیرت رست باز آمد به راه ** دید برده دزد رخت از کارگاه‌‌

  • He cried, ‘O Lord, we have done wrong,’ and ‘Alas,’ that is to say, ‘darkness came and the way was lost.’
  • ربنا إنا ظلمنا گفت و آه ** یعنی آمد ظلمت و گم گشت راه‌‌

  • Divine destiny, then, is a cloud that covers the sun: thereby lions and dragons become as mice. 1255
  • پس قضا ابری بود خورشید پوش ** شیر و اژدرها شود زو همچو موش‌‌

  • If I (the hoopoe) do not see a snare in the hour of Divine ordainment, ’tis not I alone who am ignorant in the course of Divine ordainment.”
  • من اگر دامی نبینم گاه حکم ** من نه تنها جاهلم در راه حکم‌‌

  • Oh, happy he that clave to righteousness, he (that) let (his own) strength go and took to supplication!
  • ای خنک آن کاو نکو کاری گرفت ** زور را بگذاشت او زاری گرفت‌‌

  • If the Divine destiny shrouds thee in black like night, yet the Divine destiny will take thy hand (and guide thee) at the last.
  • گر قضا پوشد سیه همچون شبت ** هم قضا دستت بگیرد عاقبت‌‌

  • If the Divine destiny a hundred times attempts thy life, yet the Divine destiny gives thee life and heals thee.
  • گر قضا صد بار قصد جان کند ** هم قضا جانت دهد درمان کند

  • This Divine destiny, if a hundred times it waylays thee, (nevertheless) pitches thy tent on the top of Heaven. 1260
  • این قضا صد بار اگر راهت زند ** بر فراز چرخ خرگاهت زند

  • Know that this is from the loving kindness (of God), that He terrifies thee in order that He may establish thee in the kingdom of security.
  • از کرم دان این که می‌‌ترساندت ** تا به ملک ایمنی بنشاندت‌‌

  • This subject hath no end. ’Tis late. Hearken (now) to the story of the hare and the lion.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد گشت دیر ** گوش کن تو قصه‌‌ی خرگوش و شیر

  • How the hare drew back from the lion when he approached the well.
  • پای واپس کشیدن خرگوش از شیر چون نزدیک چاه رسید

  • When the lion came near the well, he saw that the hare lagged on the way and stepped back.
  • چون که نزد چاه آمد شیر دید ** کز ره آن خرگوش ماند و پا کشید

  • He said, “Why have you stepped back? Do not step back, come on!”
  • گفت پا واپس کشیدی تو چرا ** پای را واپس مکش پیش اندر آ

  • The hare said, “Where is my (power to move a) foot? for (both) hand and foot are gone. My soul trembles and my heart (courage) has fled. 1265
  • گفت کو پایم که دست و پای رفت ** جان من لرزید و دل از جای رفت‌‌

  • Seest thou not the colour of my face (pale) as gold? My colour indeed is giving knowledge of my inward state.
  • رنگ رویم را نمی‌‌بینی چو زر ** ز اندرون خود می‌‌دهد رنگم خبر

  • Since God has called the (external) sign (aspect) informative, the eye of the gnostic has remained turned towards the sign.
  • حق چو سیما را معرف خوانده است ** چشم عارف سوی سیما مانده است‌‌

  • Colour and scent are significant like a bell: the neigh of a horse makes (one) acquainted with the horse.
  • رنگ و بو غماز آمد چون جرس ** از فرس آگه کند بانگ فرس‌‌

  • The sound made by any thing conveys knowledge of it, so that you may distinguish the bray of an ass from the creak of a door.
  • بانگ هر چیزی رساند زو خبر ** تا بدانی بانگ خر از بانگ در