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  • Whenever he went to the Friday service at prayer-time, in order that the wolf might not raid and ravage there:
  • چون به جمعه می‌‌شد او وقت نماز ** تا نیارد گرگ آن جا ترک تاز

  • No wolf would go into that (circle), nor would any sheep stray beyond that mark;
  • هیچ گرگی در نرفتی اندر آن ** گوسفندی هم نگشتی ز آن نشان‌‌

  • The wind of the wolf's and sheeps' concupiscence was barred because of (by) the circle of the man of God.
  • باد حرص گرگ و حرص گوسفند ** دایره‌‌ی مرد خدا را بود بند

  • Even so, to those who know God (‘árifán) the wind of Death is soft and pleasant as the breeze (that wafts the scent) of (loved) ones like Joseph. 860
  • همچنین باد اجل با عارفان ** نرم و خوش همچون نسیم یوسفان‌‌

  • The fire did not set its teeth in Abraham: how should it bite him, since he is the chosen of God?
  • آتش ابراهیم را دندان نزد ** چون گزیده‌‌ی حق بود چونش گزد

  • The religious are not burned by the fire of lust which bore all the rest down to the bottom of the earth.
  • ز آتش شهوت نسوزد اهل دین ** باقیان را برده تا قعر زمین‌‌

  • The waves of the sea, when they charged on by God's command, discriminated the people of Moses from the Egyptians.
  • موج دریا چون به امر حق بتاخت ** اهل موسی را ز قبطی واشناخت‌‌

  • The earth, when the (Divine) command came, drew Qárún (Korah) with his gold and throne into its lowest depth.
  • خاک قارون را چو فرمان در رسید ** با زر و تختش به قعر خود کشید

  • The water and clay, when it fed on the breath of Jesus, spread wings and pinions, became a bird, and flew. 865
  • آب و گل چون از دم عیسی چرید ** بال و پر بگشاد مرغی شد پرید

  • Your glorification (of God) is an exhalation from the water and clay (of your body): it became a bird of Paradise through the breathing (into it) of your heart's sincerity.
  • هست تسبیحت بخار آب و گل ** مرغ جنت شد ز نفخ صدق دل‌‌

  • Mount Mount Sinai, from (seeing) the radiance of Moses, began to dance, became a perfect Súfí, and was freed from blemish.
  • کوه طور از نور موسی شد به رقص ** صوفی کامل شد و رست او ز نقص‌‌

  • What wonder if the mountain became a venerable Súfí? The body of Moses also was (formed) from a piece of clay.
  • چه عجب گر کوه صوفی شد عزیز ** جسم موسی از کلوخی بود نیز

  • How the Jewish king scoffed and denied and would not accept the counsel of his intimates.
  • طنز و انکار کردن پادشاه جهود و قبول نکردن نصیحت خاصان خویش‌‌

  • The king of the Jews beheld these marvellous things, (but) he had naught (to say) except mockery and denial.
  • این عجایب دید آن شاه جهود ** جز که طنز و جز که انکارش نبود

  • His counsellors said, “Do not let (this injustice) go beyond bounds, do not drive the steed of obstinacy so far.” 870
  • ناصحان گفتند از حد مگذران ** مرکب استیزه را چندین مران‌‌

  • He handcuffed the counsellors and confined them, he committed one injustice after another.
  • ناصحان را دست بست و بند کرد ** ظلم را پیوند در پیوند کرد

  • When the matter reached this pass, a shout came—“Hold thy foot (stop), O cur! For Our vengeance is come.”
  • بانگ آمد کار چون اینجا رسید ** پای دار ای سگ که قهر ما رسید

  • After that, the fire blazed up forty ells high, became a ring, and consumed those Jews.
  • بعد از آن آتش چهل گز بر فروخت ** حلقه گشت و آن جهودان را بسوخت‌‌

  • From fire was their origin in the beginning: they went (back) to their origin in the end.
  • اصل ایشان بود آتش ابتدا ** سوی اصل خویش رفتند انتها

  • That company were born of fire: the way of particulars is towards the universal. 875
  • هم ز آتش زاده بودند آن فریق ** جزوها را سوی کل باشد طریق‌‌

  • They were only a fire to consume the true believers: their fire consumed itself like rubbish.
  • آتشی بودند مومن سوز و بس ** سوخت خود را آتش ایشان چو خس‌‌

  • He whose mother is Háwiya (Hell-fire)—Háwiya shall become his cell (abode).
  • آن که بوده ست امه الهاویه ** هاویه آمد مر او را زاویه‌‌

  • The mother of the child is (always) seeking it: the fundamentals pursue the derivatives.
  • مادر فرزند جویان وی است ** اصلها مر فرعها را در پی است‌‌

  • If water is imprisoned in a tank, the wind sucks it up, for it (the wind) belongs to the original (source):
  • آب اندر حوض اگر زندانی است ** باد نشفش می‌‌کند کار کانی است‌‌

  • It sets it free, it wafts it away to its source, little by little, so that you do not see its wafting; 880
  • می‌‌رهاند می‌‌برد تا معدنش ** اندک اندک تا نبینی بردنش‌‌

  • And our souls likewise this breath (of ours) steals away, little by little, from the prison of the world.
  • وین نفس جانهای ما را همچنان ** اندک اندک دزدد از حبس جهان‌‌