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2819-2843

  • Because the graciousness of the good and wise King had made a mark (impressed itself) on all the courtiers.
  • ز آن که لطف شاه خوب با خبر ** کرده بود اندر همه ارکان اثر

  • The disposition of kings settles (becomes implanted) in their subjects: the green sky makes the earth verdant. 2820
  • خوی شاهان در رعیت جا کند ** چرخ اخضر خاک را خضرا کند

  • Regard the king as a reservoir, his retainers as the pipes: the water runs through the pipe into the ponds (receptacles).
  • شه چو حوضی دان حشم چون لوله‌‌ها ** آب از لوله روان در کوله‌‌ها

  • When the water in all (the pipes) is from a pure reservoir, every single one gives sweet water, pleasant to taste;
  • چون که آب جمله از حوضی است پاک ** هر یکی آبی دهد خوش ذوقناک‌‌

  • But if the water in the reservoir is brackish and dirty, every pipe brings the same to view,
  • ور در آن حوض آب شور است و پلید ** هر یکی لوله همان آرد پدید

  • Because every pipe is connected with the reservoir. Dive, dive into (ponder deeply) the meaning of these words.
  • ز آن که پیوسته ست هر لوله به حوض ** خوض کن در معنی این حرف خوض‌‌

  • (Consider) how the imperial grace of the homeless Spirit has produced effects on the whole body; 2825
  • لطف شاهنشاه جان بی‌‌وطن ** چون اثر کرده ست اندر کل تن‌‌

  • How the grace of Reason, which is of goodly nature, of goodly lineage, brings the entire body into discipline;
  • لطف عقل خوش نهاد خوش نسب ** چون همه تن را در آرد در ادب‌‌

  • How Love, saucy, uncontrolled, and restless, throws the whole body into madness.
  • عشق شنگ بی‌‌قرار بی‌‌سکون ** چون در آرد کل تن را در جنون‌‌

  • The purity of the water of the Sea that is like Kawthar (is such that) all its pebbles are pearls and gems.
  • لطف آب بحر کاو چون کوثر است ** سنگ ریزه‌‌ش جمله در و گوهر است‌‌

  • For whatever science the master is renowned, the souls of his pupils become endued with the same.
  • هر هنر که استا بدان معروف شد ** جان شاگردان بدان موصوف شد

  • With the master-theologian the quick and industrious pupil reads (scholastic) theology. 2830
  • پیش استاد اصولی هم اصول ** خواند آن شاگرد چست با حصول‌‌

  • With the master-jurist the student of jurisprudence reads jurisprudence, when he (the teacher) expounds it, not theology.
  • پیش استاد فقیه آن فقه خوان ** فقه خواند نی اصول اندر بیان‌‌

  • With the master who is a grammarian—the soul of his pupil becomes imbued by him with grammar.
  • پیش استادی که او نحوی بود ** جان شاگردش از او نحوی شود

  • Again, the master who is absorbed in the Way (of Súfism)— because of him the soul of his pupil is absorbed in the King (God).
  • باز استادی که او محو ره است ** جان شاگردش از او محو شه است‌‌

  • Of all these various kinds of knowledge, on the day of death the (best) equipment and provision for the road is the knowledge of (spiritual) poverty.
  • زین همه انواع دانش روز مرگ ** دانش فقر است ساز راه و برگ‌‌

  • The story of what passed between the grammarian and the boatman.
  • حکایت ماجرای نحوی و کشتیبان‌‌

  • A certain grammarian embarked in a boat. That self-conceited person turned to the boatman 2835
  • آن یکی نحوی به کشتی درنشست ** رو به کشتیبان نهاد آن خود پرست‌‌

  • And said, “Have you ever studied grammar?” “No,” he replied. The other said, “Half your life is gone to naught.”
  • گفت هیچ از نحو خواندی گفت لا ** گفت نیم عمر تو شد در فنا

  • The boatman became heart-broken with grief, but at the time he refrained from answering.
  • دل شکسته گشت کشتیبان ز تاب ** لیک آن دم کرد خامش از جواب‌‌

  • The wind cast the boat into a whirlpool: the boatman spoke loud (shouted) to the grammarian,
  • باد کشتی را به گردابی فگند ** گفت کشتیبان به آن نحوی بلند

  • “Tell me, do you know how to swim?” “No,” said he, “O fair-spoken good-looking man!”
  • هیچ دانی آشنا کردن بگو ** گفت نی ای خوش جواب خوب رو

  • “O grammarian,” said he, “your whole life is naught, because the boat is sinking in these whirlpools.” 2840
  • گفت کل عمرت ای نحوی فناست ** ز آن که کشتی غرق این گردابهاست‌‌

  • Know that here mahw (self-effacement) is needed, not nah? (grammar): if you are mahw (dead to self), plunge into the sea without peril.
  • محو می‌‌باید نه نحو اینجا بدان ** گر تو محوی بی‌‌خطر در آب ران‌‌

  • The water of the sea places the dead one on its head (causes him to float on the surface); but if he be living, how shall he escape from the sea?
  • آب دریا مرده را بر سر نهد ** ور بود زنده ز دریا کی رهد

  • Inasmuch as you have died to the attributes of the flesh, the Sea of (Divine) consciousness will place you on the crown of its head (will raise you to honour).
  • چون بمردی تو ز اوصاف بشر ** بحر اسرارت نهد بر فرق سر