- (As for) his saying, from deceit and feint and artifice, ‘The King with his retinue is searching after me,’
- آن چه میگوید ز مکر و فعل و فن ** هست سلطان با حشم جویای من
- Here's an absurd mad fancy for you, here's a vain boast and a snare to catch blockheads! 1150
- اینت مالیخولیای ناپذیر ** اینت لاف خام و دام گول گیر
- Any one who believes this—’tis because of (his) foolishness: how is a slender little bird fit for (friendship with) royalty?
- هر که این باور کند از ابلهی است ** مرغک لاغر چه در خورد شهی است
- If the smallest owl should strike at his brain, where is succour for him from the King?”
- کمترین جغد ار زند بر مغز او ** مر و را یاریگری از شاه کو
- The falcon said, “If a single feather of mine be broken, the King of kings will uproot the (whole) owlery.
- گفت باز ار یک پر من بشکند ** بیخ جغدستان شهنشه بر کند
- What is an owl? Even if a falcon vex my heart and maltreat me,
- جغد چه بود خود اگر بازی مرا ** دل برنجاند کند با من جفا
- The King will heap up in every lowland and highland hundreds of thousands of stacks of falcons' heads. 1155
- شه کند توده به هر شیب و فراز ** صد هزاران خرمن از سرهای باز
- His favours keep watch over me; wherever I go, the King is (following) behind.
- پاسبان من عنایات وی است ** هر کجا که من روم شه در پی است
- The phantasy of me is abiding in the King's heart: sick (would be) the King's heart without the phantasy of me.
- در دل سلطان خیال من مقیم ** بیخیال من دل سلطان سقیم
- When the King bids me fly in His Way I fly up to the heart's zenith, like His beams.
- چون بپراند مرا شه در روش ** میپرم بر اوج دل چون پرتوش
- I fly as a moon and sun, I rend the curtains of the skies.
- همچو ماه و آفتابی میپرم ** پردههای آسمانها میدرم
- The light of intellects is from my thought; the bursting forth of heaven (into existence) is from my original nature. 1160
- روشنی عقلها از فکرتم ** انفطار آسمان از فطرتم
- I am a falcon, and (yet) the humá becomes lost in amazement at me: who is an owl, that it should know my secret?
- بازم و حیران شود در من هما ** جغد که بود تا بداند سر ما
- For my sake the King bethought him of the prison (this world), and set free hundreds of thousands of those in bondage.
- شه برای من ز زندان یاد کرد ** صد هزاران بسته را آزاد کرد
- He made me familiar with the owls for a moment, and by means of my breath (words) he made the owls (to be) falcons.
- یک دمم با جغدها دمساز کرد ** از دم من جغدها را باز کرد
- Oh, happy (is) the owl that in my (soaring) flight (towards God) had the good fortune to apprehend my mystery.
- ای خنک جغدی که در پرواز من ** فهم کرد از نیک بختی راز من
- Cling to me, that ye may become exultant (enjoying bliss), (and that) ye may become royal falcons, although ye are owls. 1165
- در من آویزید تا نازان شوید ** گر چه جغدانید شهبازان شوید
- He that is dear to such a King—wheresoever he light, why should he be a stranger?
- آن که باشد با چنان شاهی حبیب ** هر کجا افتد چرا باشد غریب
- Any one for whose pain the King is the remedy—though he wail like the reed (flute), he is not without plenty.
- هر که باشد شاه دردش را دوا ** گر چو نی نالد نباشد بینوا
- I am the owner of the (spiritual) kingdom, I am not a lickspittle: the King is beating the falcon-drum for me from the shore.
- مالک ملکم نیم من طبل خوار ** طبل بازم میزند شه از کنار
- My falcon-drum is the call, ‘Return!’ God is my witness in despite of adversary.
- طبل باز من ندای ارجعی ** حق گواه من به رغم مدعی
- I am not a congener of the King of kings—far be it from Him!—but I have light from Him in (His) self-manifestation. 1170
- من نیم جنس شهنشه دور از او ** لیک دارم در تجلی نور از او
- Homogeneity is not in respect of form and essence: water becomes homogeneous with earth in the plant.
- نیست جنسیت ز روی شکل و ذات ** آب جنس خاک آمد در نبات
- Wind (air) becomes homogeneous with fire in consistency; wine at last becomes homogeneous with the constitution (of the body).
- باد جنس آتش آمد در قوام ** طبع را جنس آمده ست آخر مدام
- Since my genus is not the genus of my King, my ego has passed away (faná) for the sake of His ego.
- جنس ما چون نیست جنس شاه ما ** مای ما شد بهر مای او فنا