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1531-1555

  • When the torrent reached the sea, it became the sea; when the seed reached the cornland, it became the crop of corn.
  • سیل چون آمد به دریا بحر گشت ** دانه چون آمد به مزرع گشت کشت‌‌

  • When the bread attained to connexion with Man, the dead bread became living and endowed with knowledge.
  • چون تعلق یافت نان با بو البشر ** نان مرده زنده گشت و با خبر

  • When the wax and firewood were devoted to the fire, their dark essence became (filled with) light.
  • موم و هیزم چون فدای نار شد ** ذات ظلمانی او انوار شد

  • When the (powdered) stone of antimony went into the eyes, it turned to sight and there became a scout (one who observes the enemy from some point of vantage).
  • سنگ سرمه چون که شد در دیده‌‌گان ** گشت بینایی شد آن جا دیدبان‌‌

  • Oh, happy is the man who was freed from himself and united with the existence of a living one! 1535
  • ای خنک آن مرد کز خود رسته شد ** در وجود زنده‌‌ای پیوسته شد

  • Alas for the living one who consorted with the dead! He became dead, and life sped away from him.
  • وای آن زنده که با مرده نشست ** مرده گشت و زندگی از وی بجست‌‌

  • When you have fled (for refuge) to the Qur’án of God, you have mingled with the spirit of the prophets.
  • چون تو در قرآن حق بگریختی ** با روان انبیا آمیختی‌‌

  • The Qur’án is (a description of) the states of the prophets, (who are) the fishes of the holy sea of (Divine) Majesty.
  • هست قرآن حالهای انبیا ** ماهیان بحر پاک کبریا

  • And if you read and do not accept (take to heart) the Qur’án, suppose you have seen the prophets and saints (what will that avail you?);
  • ور بخوانی و نه‌‌ای قرآن پذیر ** انبیا و اولیا را دیده گیر

  • But if you are accepting (the Qur’án), when you read the stories (of the prophets), the bird, your soul, will be distressed in its cage. 1540
  • ور پذیرایی چو بر خوانی قصص ** مرغ جانت تنگ آید در قفص‌‌

  • The bird that is a prisoner in a cage, (if it) is not seeking to escape, ’tis from ignorance.
  • مرغ کاو اندر قفس زندانی است ** می‌‌نجوید رستن از نادانی است‌‌

  • The spirits which have escaped from their cages are the prophets, (those) worthy guides.
  • روحهایی کز قفسها رسته‌‌اند ** انبیای رهبر شایسته‌‌اند

  • From without comes their voice, (telling) of religion, (and crying), “This, this is the way of escape for thee.
  • از برون آوازشان آید ز دین ** که ره رستن ترا این است این‌‌

  • By this we escaped from this narrow cage: there is no means of escape from this cage but this way,
  • ما به دین رستیم زین ننگین قفس ** جز که این ره نیست چاره‌‌ی این قفس‌‌

  • (That) thou shouldst make thyself ill, exceedingly wretched, in order that thou mayst be let out from (the cage of) reputation.” 1545
  • خویش را رنجور سازی زار زار ** تا ترا بیرون کنند از اشتهار

  • Worldly reputation is a strong chain: in the Way how is this less than a chain of iron?
  • که اشتهار خلق بند محکم است ** در ره این از بند آهن کی کم است‌‌

  • The story of the merchant to whom the captive parrot gave a message for the parrots of India on the occasion of his going (thither) to trade.
  • قصه‌‌ی بازرگان که طوطی محبوس او او را پیغام داد به طوطیان هندوستان هنگام رفتن به تجارت‌‌

  • There was a merchant, and he had a parrot imprisoned in a cage, a pretty parrot.
  • بود بازرگانی او را طوطیی ** در قفس محبوس زیبا طوطیی‌‌

  • When the merchant made ready for travel and was about to depart to India,
  • چون که بازرگان سفر را ساز کرد ** سوی هندستان شدن آغاز کرد

  • Because of his generosity he said to each male slave and each handmaid, “What shall I bring (home) for you? Tell (me) quickly.”
  • هر غلام و هر کنیزک را ز جود ** گفت بهر تو چه آرم گوی زود

  • Each one asked him for some object of desire: that good man gave his promise to them all. 1550
  • هر یکی از وی مرادی خواست کرد ** جمله را وعده بداد آن نیک مرد

  • He said to the parrot, “What present would you like me to bring for you from the land of India?”
  • گفت طوطی را چه خواهی ارمغان ** کارمت از خطه‌‌ی هندوستان‌‌

  • The parrot said to him, “When thou seest the parrots there, explain my plight (and say),
  • گفتش آن طوطی که آن جا طوطیان ** چون ببینی کن ز حال من بیان‌‌

  • ‘Such and such a parrot, who is longing for you, is in my prison by the destiny of Heaven.
  • کان فلان طوطی که مشتاق شماست ** از قضای آسمان در حبس ماست‌‌

  • She salutes you and asks for justice and desires (to learn) from you the means and way of being rightly guided.
  • بر شما کرد او سلام و داد خواست ** وز شما چاره و ره ارشاد خواست‌‌

  • She says, “Is it meet that I in yearning (after you) should give up the ghost and die here in separation? 1555
  • گفت می‌‌شاید که من در اشتیاق ** جان دهم اینجا بمیرم در فراق‌‌