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  • (When you take) counsel with your fleshly soul concerning (your) actions––whatsoever she tells (you to do), the reverse of that is perfectly right. 2275
  • مشورت با نفس خویش اندر فعال ** هر چه گوید عکس آن باشد کمال‏

  • (If) you cannot cope with her and her contumacy, go to a friend and mix with him.
  • بر نیایی با وی و استیز او ** رو بر یاری بگیر آمیز او

  • Mind gains strength from another mind: the sugar-cane is made perfect by the sugar-cane.
  • عقل قوت گیرد از عقل دگر ** نی شکر کامل شود از نیشکر

  • I have seen (wondrous) things (arising) from the deceitfulness of the fleshly soul, for by her magic she takes away the faculties of discernment.
  • من ز مکر نفس دیدم چیزها ** کاو برد از سحر خود تمییزها

  • She will proffer afresh to you promises that she has broken thousands of times.
  • وعده‏ها بدهد ترا تازه به دست ** که هزاران بار آنها را شکست‏

  • If your life be prolonged even for a hundred years, she will lay before you a new pretext every day. 2280
  • عمر اگر صد سال خود مهلت دهد ** اوت هر روزی بهانه‏ی نو نهد

  • She utters cold (vain) promises (as though) warm (from the heart); (she is) a witch, she ties up the manhood of a man.
  • گرم گوید وعده‏های سرد را ** جادویی مردی ببندد مرد را

  • O (thou who art the) radiance of God, Husámu’ddín, come! for without thee no herbs will grow from the brackish soil.
  • ای ضیاء الحق حسام الدین بیا ** که نروید بی‏تو از شوره گیا

  • A curtain has been let down from heaven because of the curse of one whose heart is sorely vexed.
  • از فلک آویخته شد پرده‏ای ** از پی نفرین دل آزرده‏ای‏

  • This destiny only the (Divine) destiny can cure: the understanding of His creatures is stunned at His destiny, stunned.
  • این قضا را هم قضا داند علاج ** عقل خلقان در قضا گیج است گیج‏

  • The lack serpent that was (as) a worm fallen on the road has become a dragon; 2285
  • اژدها گشته ست آن مار سیاه ** آن که کرمی بود افتاده به راه‏

  • (But) in thy hand, O thou with (love for) whom the soul of Moses is intoxicated, the dragon or serpent became (as) the rod (in the hand of Moses).
  • اژدها و مار اندر دست تو ** شد عصا ای جان موسی مست تو

  • God gave thee command, saying, “Take it; fear not, so that the dragon may become a rod in thy hand.”
  • حکم خذها لا تخف دادت خدا ** تا به دستت اژدها گردد عصا

  • Hark, show the white hand, O King: out of the black nights reveal a new dawn!
  • هین ید بیضا نما ای پادشاه ** صبح نو بگشا ز شبهای سیاه‏

  • A hell hath blazed forth; breathe (thy) enchantment over it, O thou whose breath is more (excellent) than the breath of the sea.
  • دوزخی افروخت در وی دم فسون ** ای دم تو از دم دریا فزون‏

  • She (the fleshly soul) is the guileful sea that shows (but) a (little) foam; she is the hell that from guile shows (but) a (little) heat. 2290
  • بحر مکار است بنموده کفی ** دوزخ است از مکر بنموده تفی‏

  • She appears exiguous in your eyes, to the end that you may regard her as feeble and that your wrath may be stirred (against her);
  • ز آن نماید مختصر در چشم تو ** تا زبون بینیش جنبد خشم تو

  • Even as there was a dense host (of infidels), (but) to the Prophet’s eye it seemed small,
  • همچنان که لشکر انبوه بود ** مر پیمبر را به چشم اندک نمود

  • So that the Prophet set upon them without (fear of) the danger; but if he had deemed (them) more (in number), he would have acted cautiously in that (affair).
  • تا بر ایشان زد پیمبر بی‏خطر ** ور فزون دیدی از آن کردی حذر

  • That was the Divine favour, and thou wert worthy of it, O Ahmad (Mohammed); else, thou wouldst have become faint-hearted.
  • آن عنایت بود و اهل آن بدی ** احمدا ور نه تو بد دل می‏شدی‏

  • God caused the outward and inward warfare to seem little to him and his Companions, 2295
  • کم نمود او را و اصحاب و را ** آن جهاد ظاهر وباطن خدا

  • In order that He might make it easy for him to gain ease (success), and that he might turn away his face from difficulty (unsuccess).
  • تا میسر کرد یسری را بر او ** تا ز عسری او بگردانید رو

  • For him, (God’s) causing (the warfare) to seem little was victory, since God was his friend and taught him the way.
  • کم نمودن مر و را پیروز بود ** که حقش یار و طریق آموز بود

  • (But) he that hath not God for his victorious support, alas if the fierce lion seem to him a cat.
  • آن که حق پشتش نباشد از ظفر ** وای اگر گربش نماید شیر نر

  • Alas if from afar he see a hundred as one, so that in vain confidence he enters on the fray.
  • وای اگر صدرا یکی بیند ز دور ** تا به چالش اندر آید از غرور