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1914-1938

  • He would become (good for) nothing as a mouse before a cat; he would be distraught as a lamb before a wolf.
  • همچو موشی پیش گربه لا شود ** همچو بره پیش گرگ از جا رود

  • No power to plan or move would remain in him: therefore I tend you without speaking. 1915
  • اندر او نه حیله ماند نه روش ** پس کنم ناگفته تان من پرورش‏

  • I am mute, like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí; I handle the iron, like David,
  • همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زنم ** دست چون داود در آهن زنم‏

  • So that by my hand the (seemingly) impossible is brought to pass, and wings are restored to the bird whose plumes were torn away.
  • تا محال از دست من حالی شود ** مرغ پر برکنده را بالی شود

  • Since there is (the text) the hand of God is above their hands, the One (God) has declared our hand to be His hand.
  • چون ید الله فوق أیدیهم بود ** دست ما را دست خود فرمود احد

  • Therefore mine is surely a long hand that has passed beyond the Seventh Heaven.
  • پس مرا دست دراز آمد یقین ** بر گذشته ز آسمان هفتمین‏

  • My hand showed (its) cunning upon the sky: O teacher of the Qur’án, recite the moon hath been cleft asunder.’ 1920
  • دست من بنمود بر گردون هنر ** مقریا بر خوان که انشق القمر

  • This characteristic, moreover, is on account of the weakness of (men's) understandings: how is it possible to explain the (Divine) omnipotence to the weak?
  • این صفت هم بهر ضعف عقلهاست ** با ضعیفان شرح قدرت کی رواست‏

  • You will surely know when you lift your head from (this sensuous) sleep. ’Tis the end (of my discourse), and God knows best what is right.
  • خود بدانی چون بر آری سر ز خواب ** ختم شد و الله أعلم بالصواب‏

  • “(If I had told you about the snake), you would not have been able to eat, nor would you have been capable of vomiting or cared (to do so).
  • مر ترا نه قوت خوردن بدی ** نه ره و پروای قی کردن بدی‏

  • I heard (your) abuse and went on with my work; I kept repeating under my lip (breath), ‘O Lord, make (it) easy!’
  • می‏شنیدم فحش و خر می‏راندم ** رب یسر زیر لب می‏خواندم‏

  • I had not permission to speak of the cause, and I had not power to abandon you. 1925
  • از سبب گفتن مرا دستور نه ** ترک تو گفتن مرا مقدور نه‏

  • From the grief in my heart I was saying continually, ‘Guide my people; verily, they know not’.”
  • هر زمان می‏گفتم از درد درون ** اهد قومی إنهم لا یعلمون‏

  • The man that had been delivered from woe was falling on his knees and saying, “O (thou who art) my bliss, O my fortune and treasure,
  • سجده‏ها می‏کرد آن رسته ز رنج ** کای سعادت ای مرا اقبال و گنج‏

  • Thou wilt get rewards from God, O noble one; this weakling has not the power to thank thee.
  • از خدا یابی جزاها ای شریف ** قوت شکرت ندارد این ضعیف‏

  • God will say thanks to thee, O leader; I have not the lips and the chin and the voice for that.”
  • شکر حق گوید ترا ای پیشوا ** آن لب و چانه ندارم و آن نوا

  • Of this fashion is the enmity of the wise: their poison is gladness to the soul. 1930
  • دشمنی عاقلان زین‏سان بود ** زهر ایشان ابتهاج جان بود

  • The friendship of the fool is woe and perdition: hear this tale as a parable.
  • دوستی ابله بود رنج و ضلال ** این حکایت بشنو از بهر مثال‏

  • On putting trust in the fawningness and good faith of the bear.
  • اعتماد کردن بر تملق و وفای خرس‏

  • A dragon was pulling a bear (into its jaws); a valiant man went and succoured it.
  • اژدهایی خرس را در می‏کشید ** شیر مردی رفت و فریادش رسید

  • The valiant (holy) men are a help in the world when the wail of the oppressed reaches (them).
  • شیر مردانند در عالم مدد ** آن زمان کافغان مظلومان رسد

  • From every quarter they hear the cry of the oppressed and run in that direction, like the mercy of God.
  • بانگ مظلومان ز هر جا بشنوند ** آن طرف چون رحمت حق می‏دوند

  • Those buttresses for the breaches of the world, those physicians for hidden maladies, 1935
  • آن ستونهای خللهای جهان ** آن طبیبان مرضهای نهان‏

  • Are pure love and justice and mercy; even as God, they are flawless (incorruptible) and unbribed.
  • محض مهر و داوری و رحمتند ** همچو حق بی‏علت و بی‏رشوتند

  • (If you ask one of them), “Why dost thou give him this aid all at once?” he says, “On account of his grief and helplessness.”
  • این چه یاری می‏کنی یک بارگیش ** گوید از بهر غم و بی‏چارگیش‏

  • Lovingkindness is fallen a prey to the valiant (holy) man, (for) medicine seeks naught in the world but the pain (which it should cure).
  • مهربانی شد شکار شیر مرد ** در جهان دارو نجوید غیر درد