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2607-2631

  • Nay, but in sovereignty he saw a hundred dangers: the kingdom of this world was (has ever been), hair by hair (in every respect), fear for one's head.
  • بلکه اندر ملک دید او صد خطر ** مو به مو ملک جهان بد بیم سر

  • Fear for head with fear for heart with fear for religion— there is no trial for us like this.
  • بیم سر با بیم سر با بیم دین ** امتحانی نیست ما را مثل این‌‌

  • Therefore one must needs possess the high aspiration of a Solomon in order to escape from these myriads of colours and perfumes (enticing vanities).
  • پس سلیمان همتی باید که او ** بگذرد زین صد هزاران رنگ و بو

  • Even with such (great) strength (of spirit) as he had, the waves of that (worldly) kingdom were stifling his breath (choking him). 2610
  • با چنان قوت که او را بود هم ** موج آن ملکش فرومی‌‌بست دم‌‌

  • Since dust settled on him from this sorrow, he had compassion for all the kings of the world.
  • چون بر او بنشست زین اندوه گرد ** بر همه شاهان عالم رحم کرد

  • He interceded (with God on their behalf) and said, “Give this kingdom and banner (to them) with (accompanied by) the (spiritual) perfection which Thou hast given to me.
  • شد شفیع و گفت این ملک و لوا ** با کمالی ده که دادی مر مرا

  • To whomsoever Thou wilt give (it), and (on whomsoever) Thou wilt confer that bounty, he (that person) is Solomon, and I also am he.
  • هر که را بدهی و بکنی آن کرم ** او سلیمان است و آن کس هم منم‌‌

  • He is not ‘after me,’ he is with me. What of ‘with me,’ indeed? I am without rival.”
  • او نباشد بعدی او باشد معی ** خود معی چه بود منم بی‌‌مدعی‌‌

  • ’Tis my duty to explain this, but (now) I will return to the story of the man and wife. 2615
  • شرح این فرض است گفتن لیک من ** باز می‌‌گردم به قصه‌‌ی مرد و زن‌‌

  • The moral of the altercation of the Arab and his wife.
  • مخلص ماجرای عرب و جفت او

  • The heart of one who is sincere is seeking (to find) a moral for the altercation of the man and wife.
  • ماجرای مرد و زن را مخلصی ** باز می‌‌جوید درون مخلصی‌‌

  • The altercation of the man and wife has been related (as a story): know that it is a parable of your own flesh (nafs) and reason.
  • ماجرای مرد و زن افتاد نقل ** آن مثال نفس خود می‌‌دان و عقل‌‌

  • This man and wife, which are the flesh and the reason, are very necessary for (the manifestation of) good and evil;
  • این زن و مردی که نفس است و خرد ** نیک بایسته ست بهر نیک و بد

  • And this necessary pair in this house of earth are (engaged) in strife and altercation day and night.
  • وین دو بایسته در این خاکی سرا ** روز و شب در جنگ و اندر ماجرا

  • The wife is craving requisites for the household, that is to say, reputation and bread and viands and rank. 2620
  • زن همی‌‌خواهد هویج خانگاه ** یعنی آب رو و نان و خوان و جاه‌‌

  • Like the wife, the flesh, in order to contrive the means (of gratifying its desires), is at one time seeking (having recourse to) humility and at another time to domination.
  • نفس همچون زن پی چاره‌‌گری ** گاه خاکی گاه جوید سروری‌‌

  • The reason is really unconscious of these (worldly) thoughts: in its brain is nothing but love of God.
  • عقل خود زین فکرها آگاه نیست ** در دماغش جز غم الله نیست‌‌

  • Although the inner meaning of the tale is this bait and trap, listen now to the outward form of the tale in its entirety.
  • گر چه سر قصه این دانه ست و دام ** صورت قصه شنو اکنون تمام‌‌

  • If the spiritual explanation were sufficient, the creation of the world would have been vain and idle.
  • گر بیان معنوی کافی شدی ** خلق عالم عاطل و باطل بدی‌‌

  • If love were (only spiritual) thought and reality, the form of your fasting and prayer would be non-existent. 2625
  • گر محبت فکرت و معنیستی ** صورت روزه و نمازت نیستی‌‌

  • The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect of love, naught but forms;
  • هدیه‌‌های دوستان با همدیگر ** نیست اندر دوستی الا صور

  • (But the purpose is) that the gifts may have borne testimony to feelings of love which are concealed in secrecy,
  • تا گواهی داده باشد هدیه‌ها ** بر محبتهای مضمر در خفا

  • Because outward acts of kindness bear witness to feelings of love in the heart, O dear friend.
  • ز آن که احسانهای ظاهر شاهدند ** بر محبتهای سر ای ارجمند

  • Your witness is sometimes true, sometimes false, sometimes drunken with wine, sometimes with sour curds.
  • شاهدت گه راست باشد گه دروغ ** مست گاهی از می و گاهی ز دوغ‌‌

  • He that has drunk sour curds makes a show of intoxication, shouts ecstatically, and behaves like one whose head is heavy (with the fumes of wine); 2630
  • دوغ خورده مستیی پیدا کند ** های و هوی و سر گرانیها کند

  • That hypocrite is (assiduous) in fasting and praying, in order that it may be supposed that he is drunken with devotion (to God).
  • آن مرایی در صیام و در صلاست ** تا گمان آید که او مست ولاست‌‌