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
Wherever a pain is, the remedy goes there: wherever a lowland is, the water runs there.
هر کجا دردی دوا آن جا رود ** هر کجا پستی است آب آن جا دود
If thou want the water of mercy, go, become lowly, and then drink the wine of mercy and become drunken.1940
آب رحمت بایدت رو پست شو ** و آن گهان خور خمر رحمت مست شو
Mercy upon mercy comes (and rises like a flood) up to the head; do not thou come down to (and dwell upon) a single mercy, O son!
رحمت اندر رحمت آمد تا به سر ** بر یکی رحمت فرومای ای پسر
Bring the sky under thy feet, O brave one! Hear from above the firmament the noise of the (celestial) music!
چرخ را در زیر پا آر ای شجاع ** بشنو از فوق فلک بانگ سماع
Put out of thine ear the cotton of evil suggestion, that the cries from heaven may come into thine ear.
پنبهی وسواس بیرون کن ز گوش ** تا به گوشت آید از گردون خروش
Purge thy two eyes from the hair of defect, that thou mayst behold the garden and cypress-plot of the world unseen.
پاک کن دو چشم را از موی عیب ** تا ببینی باغ و سروستان غیب