Coming from afar, like the new moon (in slenderness and radiance): he was nonexistent, though existent in the form of phantasy.
میرسید از دور مانند هلال ** نیست بود و هست بر شکل خیال
In the spirit phantasy is as naught, (yet) behold a world (turning) on a phantasy!70
نیست وش باشد خیال اندر روان ** تو جهانی بر خیالی بین روان
Their peace and their war (turn) on a phantasy, and their pride and their shame spring from a phantasy;
بر خیالی صلحشان و جنگشان ** وز خیالی فخرشان و ننگشان
(But) those phantasies which ensnare the saints are the reflexion of the fair ones of the garden of God.
آن خیالاتی که دام اولیاست ** عکس مه رویان بستان خداست
In the countenance of the stranger-guest was appearing that phantasy which the king beheld in his dream.
آن خیالی که شه اندر خواب دید ** در رخ مهمان همیآمد پدید
The king himself, instead of the chamberlains, went forward to meet his guest from the Invisible.
شه به جای حاجبان واپیش رفت ** پیش آن مهمان غیب خویش رفت
Both were seamen who had learned to swim, the souls of both were knit together without sewing.75
هر دو بحری آشنا آموخته ** هر دو جان بیدوختن بر دوخته
The king said, “Thou wert my Beloved (in reality), not she; but in this world deed issues from deed.
گفت معشوقم تو بوده ستی نه آن ** لیک کار از کار خیزد در جهان
O thou who art to me (as) Mustafá (Mohammed), while I am like unto ‘Umar—I will gird my loins to do thee service.”
ای مرا تو مصطفی من چون عمر ** از برای خدمتت بندم کمر
Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper, to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline.
از خداوند ولی التوفیق در خواستن توفیق رعایت ادب در همه حالها و بیان کردن وخامت ضررهای بیادبی
Let us implore God to help us to self-control: one who lacks self-control is deprived of the grace of the Lord.
از خدا جوییم توفیق ادب ** بیادب محروم گشت از لطف رب
The undisciplined man does not maltreat himself alone, but he sets the whole world on fire.
بیادب تنها نه خود را داشت بد ** بلکه آتش در همه آفاق زد
A table (of food) was coming down from heaven without buying and selling and without speaking and hearing,80
مایده از آسمان در میرسید ** بیشری و بیع و بیگفت و شنید
(When) some of the people of Moses cried disrespectfully, “Where is garlic and lentils?”
در میان قوم موسی چند کس ** بیادب گفتند کو سیر و عدس
(Straightway) the dishes (of food) and the bread from heaven were cut off: there remained for us the toil of sowing and (labouring with) mattock and scythe.
منقطع شد خوان و نان از آسمان ** ماند رنج زرع و بیل و داسمان
Again, when Jesus made intercession, God sent food and bounty (from heaven) on trays,
باز عیسی چون شفاعت کرد، حق ** خوان فرستاد و غنیمت بر طبق
But once more the insolent fellows omitted to show respect and, like beggars, snatched away the viands.
باز گستاخان ادب بگذاشتند ** چون گدایان زلهها برداشتند
(Although) Jesus entreated them, saying, “This is lasting and will not fail from off the earth.”85
لابه کرده عیسی ایشان را که این ** دایم است و کم نگردد از زمین
To show suspicion and greed at the table of Majesty is ingratitude.
بد گمانی کردن و حرص آوری ** کفر باشد پیش خوان مهتری
Because of those impudent wretches who were blinded by greed, that gate of mercy was closed upon them.
ز ان گدا رویان نادیده ز آز ** آن در رحمت بر ایشان شد فراز
On account of withholding the poor-tax no rain-clouds arise, and in consequence of fornication the plague spreads in all directions.
ابر برناید پی منع زکات ** وز زنا افتد وبا اندر جهات
Whatever befalls thee of gloom and sorrow is the result of irreverence and insolence withal.
هر چه بر تو آید از ظلمات و غم ** آن ز بیباکی و گستاخی است هم
Any one behaving with irreverence in the path of the Friend is a brigand who robs men, and he is no man.90
هر که بیباکی کند در راه دوست ** ره زن مردان شد و نامرد اوست
Through discipline this Heaven has been filled with light, and through discipline the angels became immaculate and holy.
از ادب پر نور گشته است این فلک ** وز ادب معصوم و پاک آمد ملک
By reason of irreverence the sun was eclipsed, and insolence caused an ‘Azázíl to be turned back from the door.
بد ز گستاخی کسوف آفتاب ** شد عزازیلی ز جرات رد باب
The meeting of the king with the saint whose coming had been shown to him in a dream.
ملاقات پادشاه با آن ولی که در خوابش نمودند
He (the king) opened his hands and clasped him to his breast and received him, like love, into his heart and soul,
دست بگشاد و کنارانش گرفت ** همچو عشق اندر دل و جانش گرفت