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1448-1472

  • They said respectfully, “We are some of thy friends: we have come hither in devotion to ask after thee.
  • با ادب گفتند ما از دوستان ** بهر پرسش آمدیم اینجا به جان‏

  • How art thou, O Sea of manifold intelligence? What aspersion on thy intelligence is this (alleged) madness?
  • چونی ای دریای عقل ذو فنون ** این چه بهتان است بر عقلت جنون‏

  • How should the smoke of the bath-stove attain unto the Sun? How should the ‘Anqá be crushed by the crow? 1450
  • دود گلخن کی رسد در آفتاب ** چون شود عنقا شکسته از غراب‏

  • Do not withhold (the truth) from us: explain this matter; we are lovers (of thee): do not behave to us in this fashion.
  • وامگیر از ما بیان کن این سخن ** ما محبانیم با ما این مکن‏

  • One ought not to drive lovers away or dupe them by mask and false pretence.
  • مر محبان را نشاید دور کرد ** یا به رو پوش و دغل مغرور کرد

  • Communicate the secret, O King: do not hide thy face in the cloud, O Moon!
  • راز را اندر میان آور شها ** رو مکن در ابر پنهانی مها

  • We are loving and true and with wounded (bleeding) hearts: in the two worlds we have fixed our hearts on thee (alone).”
  • ما محب و صادق و دل خسته‏ایم ** در دو عالم دل به تو در بسته‏ایم‏

  • He began (to use) foul words and bad names recklessly: he spoke gibberish like madmen. 1455
  • فحش آغازید و دشنام از گزاف ** گفت او دیوانگانه زی و قاف‏

  • He jumped up and let fly stones and sticks; the whole party fled for fear of blows.
  • بر جهید و سنگ پران کرد و چوب ** جملگی بگریختند از بیم کوب‏

  • He laughed loudly and tossed his head (in scorn). “Look,” said he, “at the vain bluster of these friends!
  • قهقهه خندید و جنبانید سر ** گفت باد ریش این یاران نگر

  • See the friends! Where is the sign of (true) friends? To (true) friends pain is as (dear as) life.”
  • دوستان بین، کو نشان دوستان ** دوستان را رنج باشد همچو جان‏

  • How should a friend turn aside from the pain inflicted by his friend? Pain is the kernel, and friendship is (only) as the husk to it.
  • کی کران گیرد ز رنج دوست دوست ** رنج مغز و دوستی آن را چو پوست‏

  • Has not joy in tribulation and calamity and suffering become the sign of (true) friendship? 1460
  • نه نشان دوستی شد سر خوشی ** در بلا و آفت و محنت کشی‏

  • A friend is like gold, tribulation is like the fire: the pure gold is glad in the heart of the fire.
  • دوست همچون زر بلا چون آتش است ** زر خالص در دل آتش خوش است‏

  • How Luqmán's master tested his sagacity.
  • امتحان کردن خواجه‏ی لقمان زیرکی لقمان را

  • (Was it) not (the case) that (this happened) to Luqmán, who was a pure (unselfish) slave, and day and night was brisk in service?
  • نه که لقمان را که بنده‏ی پاک بود ** روز و شب در بندگی چالاک بود

  • His master used to prefer him (to all others) in the work (of service) and deem him better than his own sons,
  • خواجه‏اش می‏داشتی در کار پیش ** بهترش دیدی ز فرزندان خویش‏

  • Because Luqmán, though he was slave-born, was the master (of himself) and was free from sensual desire.
  • ز انکه لقمان گر چه بنده زاد بود ** خواجه بود و از هوا آزاد بود

  • A certain king said to the Shaykh (spiritual Director) in conversation, “Ask me to bestow some bounty upon thee.” 1465
  • گفت شاهی شیخ را اندر سخن ** چیزی از بخشش ز من درخواست کن‏

  • He answered, “O King, are not you ashamed to say such a thing to me? Come higher!
  • گفت ای شه شرم ناید مر ترا ** که چنین گویی مرا زین برتر آ

  • I have two slaves, and they are vile, and those two are rulers and lords over you.”
  • من دو بنده دارم و ایشان حقیر ** و آن دو بر تو حاکمانند و امیر

  • Said the King, “What are those two? This is a mistake.” He replied, “The one is anger and the other is lust.”
  • گفت شه آن دو چه‏اند این زلت است ** گفت آن یک خشم و دیگر شهوت است‏

  • Regard as a king him that is unconcerned with kingship, him whose light shines forth without moon or sun.
  • شاه آن دان کاو ز شاهی فارغ است ** بی‏مه و خورشید نورش بازغ است‏

  • (Only) that one whose essence is the treasury (of spiritual truths) possesses the treasury: (only) he that is an enemy to (his own) existence possesses (real) existence. 1470
  • مخزن آن دارد که مخزن ذات اوست ** هستی او دارد که با هستی عدوست‏

  • Luqmán's master (was) like a master outwardly; in reality he was a slave, and Luqmán was his master.
  • خواجه‏ی لقمان به ظاهر خواجه‏وش ** در حقیقت بنده، لقمان خواجه‏اش‏

  • In the topsy-turvy world there is many a one of this (kind): a pearl is less than a straw in their sight.
  • در جهان باژگونه زین بسی است ** در نظرشان گوهری کم از خسی است‏