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1554-1578

  • So that you may have two wings (fear and hope); for the bird that has (only) one wing is unable to fly, O excellent (reader).
  • تا دو پر باشی که مرغ یک پره ** عاجز آید از پریدن ای سره‏

  • (O God), either let me not come to speech (at all), or give me leave to tell (the whole) to the end. 1555
  • یا رها کن تا نیایم در کلام ** یا بده دستور تا گویم تمام‏

  • But if Thou willest neither this nor that, ’tis Thine to command: how should any one know what Thou intendest?
  • ور نه این خواهی نه آن فرمان تراست ** کس چه داند مر ترا مقصد کجاست‏

  • One must needs have the spirit of Abraham to see in the fire Paradise and its palaces by the light (of mystic knowledge);
  • جان ابراهیم باید تا به نور ** بیند اندر نار فردوس و قصور

  • And mount step by step above the moon and the sun, lest he remain like the door-ring fastened on the door;
  • پایه پایه بر رود بر ماه و خور ** تا نماند همچو حلقه بند در

  • And, like the Friend, pass beyond the Seventh Heaven, saying, “I love not them that set.”
  • چون خلیل از آسمان هفتمین ** بگذرد که لا أحب الآفلین‏

  • This bodily world is deceptive, save to him that has escaped from lust. 1560
  • این جهان تن غلط انداز شد ** جز مر آن را کاو ز شهوت باز شد

  • Conclusion of (the story) how the (other) retainers envied the favourite slave.
  • تتمه‏ی حسد آن حشم بر آن غلام خاص‏

  • The story of the King and the amirs and their envy of the favourite slave and lord of wisdom
  • قصه‏ی شاه و امیران و حسد ** بر غلام خاص و سلطان خرد

  • Has been left far (behind) on account of the powerful attraction of the discourse.(Now) we must turn back and conclude it.
  • دور ماند از جر جرار کلام ** باز باید گشت و کرد آن را تمام‏

  • The happy and fortunate gardener of the (Divine) kingdom — how should not he know one tree from another?
  • باغبان ملک با اقبال و بخت ** چون درختی را نداند از درخت‏

  • The tree that is bitter and reprobate, and the tree whose one is (as) seven hundred (of the other)—
  • آن درختی را که تلخ و رد بود ** و آن درختی که یکش هفصد بود

  • How, in rearing (them), should he deem (them) equal, when he beholds them with the eye (that is conscious) of the end, 1565
  • کی برابر دارد اندر تربیت ** چون ببیندشان به چشم عاقبت‏

  • (And knows) what (different) fruit those trees will ultimately bear, though at this moment they are alike in appearance'?
  • کان درختان را نهایت چیست بر ** گر چه یکسانند این دم در نظر

  • The Shaykh who has become seeing by the light of God has become acquainted with the end and the beginning.
  • شیخ کاو ینظر بنور الله شد ** از نهایت وز نخست آگاه شد

  • He has shut for God's sake the eye that sees the stable the world); he has opened, in priority, the eye that sees the en .
  • چشم آخر بین ببست از بهر حق ** چشم آخر بین گشاد اندر سبق‏

  • Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.
  • آن حسودان بد درختان بوده‏اند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بوده‏اند

  • They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret, 1570
  • از حسد جوشان و کف می‏ریختند ** در نهانی مکر می‏انگیختند

  • That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;
  • تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند

  • (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?
  • چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود

  • The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.
  • شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده‏

  • In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).
  • در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** می‏زدی خنبک بر آن کوزه‏گران‏

  • Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug; 1575
  • مکر می‏سازند قومی حیله‏مند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند

  • (But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?
  • پادشاهی بس عظیمی بی‏کران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران‏

  • They knitted a net for the King; (yet) after all, they (had) learnt this contrivance from Him.
  • از برای شاه دامی دوختند ** آخر این تدبیر از او آموختند

  • Ill-starred is the pupil that begins rivalry with his master and comes forward (to contend with him).
  • نحس شاگردی که با استاد خویش ** همسری آغازد و آید به پیش‏