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2325-2349

  • It is above the angels––what occasion is there for (comparing it with) the Jinn? (But) you have the wings of a gnat, you are flying downwards. 2325
  • از ملک بالاست چه جای پری ** تو مگس پری به پستی می‏پری‏

  • Although your intellect is flying upward, the bird of your conventional notions is feeding below.
  • گر چه عقلت سوی بالا می‏پرد ** مرغ تقلیدت به پستی می‏چرد

  • Conventional knowledge is the bane of our souls; it is a borrowed thing, but we rest (at ease in the belief) that it is ours.
  • علم تقلیدی وبال جان ماست ** عاریه ست و ما نشسته کان ماست‏

  • It behoves us to become ignorant of this (worldly) wisdom; (rather) must we clutch at madness.
  • زین خرد جاهل همی باید شدن ** دست در دیوانگی باید زدن‏

  • Always flee from whatever you deem profitable to your (lower) self: drink poison and spill the water of life.
  • هر چه بینی سود خود ز آن می‏گریز ** زهر نوش و آب حیوان را بریز

  • Revile any one that praises you: lend (both) interest and capital to the destitute. 2330
  • هر که بستاند ترا دشنام ده ** سود و سرمایه به مفلس وام ده‏

  • Let safety go, and dwell in the place of fear (danger): leave reputation behind and be disgraced and notorious.
  • ایمنی بگذار و جای خوف باش ** بگذر از ناموس و رسوا باش و فاش‏

  • I have tried far-thinking (provident) intellect; henceforth I will make myself mad.
  • آزمودم عقل دور اندیش را ** بعد از این دیوانه سازم خویش را

  • How Dalqak excused himself to the Sayyid-i Ajall (who asked him) why he had married a harlot.
  • عذر گفتن دلقک با سید که چرا فاحشه را نکاح کرد

  • One night the Sayyid-i Ajall said to Dalqak, “You have married a harlot in haste.
  • گفت با دلقک شبی سید اجل ** قحبه‏ای را خواستی تو از عجل‏

  • You ought to have disclosed this (matter) to me, so that we might have made a chaste (woman) your wife.”
  • با من این را باز می‏بایست گفت ** تا یکی مستور کردیمیت جفت‏

  • Dalqak replied, “I have (already) married nine chaste and virtuous women: they became harlots, and I wasted away with grief. 2335
  • گفت نه مستور صالح خواستم ** قحبه گشتند و ز غم تن کاستم‏

  • I married this harlot without (previous) acquaintance (with her), in order to see how this one (also) would turn out in the end.
  • خواستم این قحبه را بی‏معرفت ** تا ببینم چون شود این عاقبت‏

  • Often have I tried (sound) intelligence; henceforth I will seek a nursery for insanity.”
  • عقل را من آزمودم هم بسی ** زین سپس جویم جنون را مغرسی‏

  • How an inquirer managed to draw into conversation an eminent (saintly) man who had feigned to be mad.
  • به حیلت در سخن آوردن سائل آن بزرگ را که خود را دیوانه ساخته بود

  • A certain man was saying, “I want some one of intelligence, (that) I may consult him about a difficulty.”
  • آن یکی می‏گفت خواهم عاقلی ** مشورت آرم بدو در مشکلی‏

  • One said to him, “In our city there is nobody of intelligence except yonder man who appears to be mad.
  • آن یکی گفتش که اندر شهر ما ** نیست عاقل جز که آن مجنون‏نما

  • Look, there is (one named) so-and-so: mounted on a cane, he rides (it as a cock-horse) amongst the children. 2340
  • بر نیی گشته سواره نک فلان ** می‏دواند در میان کودکان‏

  • He is possessed of judgment and (keen as) a spark of fire; he is as the sky in dignity, and as the stars in high estate.
  • صاحب رای است و آتش پاره‏ای ** آسمان قدر است و اختر باره‏ای‏

  • His glory has become the (rational) soul of the Cherubim; he has become concealed in this (feigned) madness.”
  • فر او کروبیان را جان شده ست ** او در این دیوانگی پنهان شده ست‏

  • But you must not account every madman a (rational) soul: do not, like Sámirí, lay down your head (in worship) to a calf.
  • لیک هر دیوانه را جان نشمری ** سر منه گوساله را چون سامری‏

  • When a manifest saint has declared unto you hundreds of thousands of unseen things and hidden mysteries,
  • چون ولیی آشکارا با تو گفت ** صد هزاران غیب و اسرار نهفت‏

  • And you have not had the (proper) understanding and knowledge, (so that) you have not distinguished dung from aloes-wood— 2345
  • مر ترا آن فهم و آن دانش نبود ** واندانستی تو سرگین را ز عود

  • How, when the saint has made for himself a veil of madness, will you recognise him, O blind one?
  • از جنون خود را ولی چون پرده ساخت ** مر و را ای کور کی خواهی شناخت‏

  • If your eye of intuitive certainty is open, behold a (spiritual) captain under every stone.
  • گر ترا باز است آن دیده‏ی یقین ** زیر هر سنگی یکی سرهنگ بین‏

  • To the eye that is open and (as) a guide, every dervish-cloak hath a Moses in its embrace.
  • پیش آن چشمی که باز و رهبر است ** هر گلیمی را کلیمی در بر است‏

  • ’Tis only the saint (himself) that makes the saint known and makes fortunate whomsoever he will.
  • مر ولی را هم ولی شهره کند ** هر که را او خواست با بهره کند