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462-486

  • Each amír would have given up his life in his presence at the time and hour (on the spot), if he (the vizier) had bidden him die.
  • پیش او در وقت و ساعت هر امیر ** جان بدادی گر بدو گفتی بمیر

  • How the vizier confused the ordinances of the Gospel.
  • تخلیط وزیر در احکام انجیل

  • He prepared a scroll in the name of (addressed to) each one, the (written) form of each scroll (of) a different tenor,
  • ساخت طوماری به نام هر یکی ** نقش هر طومار دیگر مسلکی‌‌

  • The ordinances of each (of) a diverse kind, this contradicting that from the end to the beginning.
  • حکم‌‌های هر یکی نوعی دگر ** این خلاف آن ز پایان تا به سر

  • In one he made the path of asceticism and hunger to be the basis of repentance and the condition (necessary) for conversion. 465
  • در یکی راه ریاضت را و جوع ** رکن توبه کرده و شرط رجوع‌‌

  • In one he said: “Asceticism profits naught: in this Way there is no place (means) of deliverance but generosity.”
  • در یکی گفته ریاضت سود نیست ** اندر این ره مخلصی جز جود نیست‌‌

  • In one he said: “Your hunger and generosity are (imply) association on your part (of other objects) with (Him who is) the object of your worship.
  • در یکی گفته که جوع و جود تو ** شرک باشد از تو با معبود تو

  • Excepting trust (in God) and complete resignation in sorrow and joy, all is a deceit and snare.”
  • جز توکل جز که تسلیم تمام ** در غم و راحت همه مکر است و دام‌‌

  • In one he said: “It is incumbent (on you) to serve (God); else the thought of putting trust (in Him) is (a cause of) suspicion.”
  • در یکی گفته که واجب خدمت است ** ور نه اندیشه‌‌ی توکل تهمت است‌‌

  • In one he said: “There are (Divine) commands and prohibitions, (but they) are not for practice (observance): they are (only) to show our weakness (inability to fulfil them), 470
  • در یکی گفته که امر و نهیهاست ** بهر کردن نیست شرح عجز ماست‌‌

  • So that we may behold our weakness therein and at that time recognise the power of Him.”
  • تا که عجز خود ببینیم اندر آن ** قدرت حق را بدانیم آن زمان‌‌

  • In one he said: “Do not regard your weakness: that weakness is an act of ingratitude. Beware!
  • در یکی گفته که عجز خود مبین ** کفر نعمت کردن است آن عجز هین‌‌

  • Regard your power, for this power is from Him: know that your power is the gift of Him who is Hú (the Absolute God).”
  • قدرت خود بین که این قدرت از اوست ** قدرت تو نعمت او دان که هوست‌‌

  • In one he said: “Leave both these (qualities) behind: whatsoever is contained in sight (regard for other than God) is an idol (something which involves dualism).”
  • در یکی گفته کز این دو بر گذر ** بت بود هر چه بگنجد در نظر

  • In one he said: “Do not put out this candle (of sight), for this sight is as a candle (lighting the way) to (interior) concentration. 475
  • در یکی گفته مکش این شمع را ** کین نظر چون شمع آمد جمع را

  • When you relinquish sight and phantasy (too soon), you will have put out the candle of union at midnight.”
  • از نظر چون بگذری و از خیال ** کشته باشی نیم شب شمع وصال‌‌

  • In one he said: “Put it out—have no fear—that you may see myriads of sights in exchange;
  • در یکی گفته بکش باکی مدار ** تا عوض بینی نظر را صد هزار

  • For by putting it out the candle of the spirit is increased: by your self-denial your Laylá (beloved) becomes your Majnún (lover).
  • که ز کشتن شمع جان افزون شود ** لیلی‌‌ات از صبر تو مجنون شود

  • If any one abandons the world by his own (act of) renunciation, the world comes to him (with homage) more and more.”
  • ترک دنیا هر که کرد از زهد خویش ** بیش آید پیش او دنیا و پیش‌‌

  • In one he said: “That which God hath given you He made sweet to you in (at the time of) bringing it into existence. 480
  • در یکی گفته که آن چه‌‌ت داد حق ** بر تو شیرین کرد در ایجاد حق‌‌

  • He made it easy (blessed) to you, and do you take it gladly: do not throw yourself into anguish.”
  • بر تو آسان کرد و خوش آن را بگیر ** خویشتن را در میفگن در زحیر

  • In one he said: “Let go all that belongs to self, for it is wrong and bad to comply with your nature.”
  • در یکی گفته که بگذار آن خود ** کان قبول طبع تو ردست و بد

  • (Many) different roads have become easy (to follow): every one's religion has become (to him) as (dear) as life.
  • راههای مختلف آسان شده ست ** هر یکی را ملتی چون جان شده ست‌‌

  • If God's making (religion) easy were the (right) road, every Jew and Zoroastrian would have knowledge of Him.
  • گر میسر کردن حق ره بدی ** هر جهود و گبر از او آگه بدی‌‌

  • In one he said: “That (alone) is made easy (blessed) that (nothing but) spiritual food should be the life of the heart.” 485
  • در یکی گفته میسر آن بود ** که حیات دل غذای جان بود

  • When the enjoyments of the (sensual) nature are past, like brackish soil they raise no produce and crop.
  • هر چه ذوق طبع باشد چون گذشت ** بر نیارد همچو شوره ریع و کشت‌‌