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  • Until the thief say to him, “’Tis I that stole from thee, for I am an artful thief,”
  • تا نگوید دزد او را کان منم ** کز تو دزدیدم که دزد پر فنم‏

  • How should the blind man know his thief, since he hath not the eye's light and that radiance (of vision)?
  • کی شناسد کور دزد خویش را ** چون ندارد نور چشم و آن ضیا

  • When he (the thief) speaks (and confesses), at once take tight hold of him, that he may tell the marks (descriptive) of the (stolen) goods.
  • چون بگوید هم بگیر او را تو سخت ** تا بگوید او علامتهای رخت‏

  • The Greater Jihád (Holy War), then, consists in squeezing the thief, in order that he may tell what he has stolen and what he has carried off.
  • پس جهاد اکبر آمد عصر دزد ** تا بگوید که چه دزدیده است مزد

  • First, he has stolen your eye-salve; when you take it (from him), you will regain (your) insight. 2380
  • اولا دزدید کحل دیده‏ات ** چون ستانی باز یابی تبصرت‏

  • The goods of wisdom, which have been lost by (your) heart, are certainly to be found with the man of heart (the saint).
  • کاله‏ی حکمت که گم کرده‏ی دل است ** پیش اهل دل یقین آن حاصل است‏

  • The blind of heart, notwithstanding (his possession of) life and hearing and sight, is never knowing the devilish thief by the traces (which he leaves).
  • کوردل با جان و با سمع و بصر ** می‏نداند دزد شیطان را ز اثر

  • Seek (that knowledge) from the man of heart; do not seek it from the inanimate, for (all other) people are inanimate beside (in comparison with) him.
  • ز اهل دل جو از جماد آن را مجو ** که جماد آمد خلایق پیش او

  • The seeker of counsel approached him (the saint who was feigning madness), saying, “O father who hast become (as) a child, tell (me) a secret.”
  • مشورت جوینده آمد نزد او ** کای اب کودک شده رازی بگو

  • He answered, “Begone from this door-ring, for this door is not open. Turn back: to-day is not the day for secrets. 2385
  • گفت رو زین حلقه کاین در باز نیست ** باز گرد امروز روز راز نیست‏

  • If the spatial had (any) access to the non-spatial, I should be (seated) on the bench, (giving instruction) like the Shaykhs (spiritual directors).”
  • گر مکان را ره بدی در لامکان ** همچو شیخان بودمی من بر دکان‏

  • How the Police Inspector summoned the man who had fallen dead-drunk (on the ground) to (go to) prison.
  • خواندن محتسب مست خراب افتاده را به زندان‏

  • The Inspector came at midnight to a certain place: he saw a drunken man lying at the bottom of a wall.
  • محتسب در نیم شب جایی رسید ** در بن دیوار مستی خفته دید

  • He cried, “Hey, you are drunk: tell (me), what have you been drinking?” Said the man, “I have drunk of this which is in the jar.”
  • گفت هی مستی چه خورده ستی بگو ** گفت از این خوردم که هست اندر سبو

  • “Pray,” said he, “explain what is in the jar.” He replied, “Some of what I have drunk.” “(But),” said the Inspector, “this is hidden (from sight).”
  • گفت آخر در سبو واگو که چیست ** گفت از آن که خورده‏ام گفت این خفی است‏

  • He asked (again), “What is it that you have drunk?” He rejoined, “That which is hidden in the jar.” 2390
  • گفت آن چه خورده‏ای آن چیست آن ** گفت آن که در سبو مخفی است آن‏

  • These questions and answers were becoming a (vicious) circle. The Inspector was left (stuck) in the mud, like an ass.
  • دور می‏شد این سؤال و این جواب ** ماند چون خر محتسب اندر خلاب‏

  • The Inspector said to him, “Come now, say ‘Ah’”; (but) the drunken man, at the moment of utterance, said “Hú, Hú.”
  • گفت او را محتسب هین آه کن ** مست هو هو کرد هنگام سخن‏

  • “I told you to say ‘Ah’,” said he; “you are saying ‘Hú’.” “(Because) I am glad,” he replied, “while you are bent with grief.
  • گفت گفتم آه کن هو می‏کنی ** گفت من شاد و تو از غم دم زنی‏

  • ‘Ah’ is (uttered) on account of pain and grief and injustice; the ‘Hú, Hú’ of the wine-drinkers is from joy.”
  • آه از درد و غم و بی‏دادی است ** هوی هوی می خوران از شادی است‏

  • The Inspector said, “I know nothing about this. Get up, get up! Don't retail mystic lore, and leave off this wrangling.” 2395
  • محتسب گفت این ندانم خیز خیز ** معرفت متراش و بگذار این ستیز

  • “Go away,” said the man; “what have you to do with me?” “You are drunk,” the Inspector said. “Get up and come to prison.”
  • گفت رو تو از کجا من از کجا ** گفت مستی خیز تا زندان بیا

  • Said the drunken man, “O Inspector, let me alone and go away. How is it possible to carry off pledges from one that is naked?
  • گفت مست ای محتسب بگذار و رو ** از برهنه کی توان بردن گرو

  • If indeed I had had the power to walk, I should have gone to my house—and (then) how would this (affair between us) have occurred?
  • گر مرا خود قوت رفتن بدی ** خانه‏ی خود رفتمی وین کی شدی‏

  • Were I (still) possessed of understanding and of contingent (unreal) existence, I should be on the bench, (giving instruction) like the Shaykhs.”
  • من اگر با عقل و با امکانمی ** همچو شیخان بر سر دکانمی‏

  • How the inquirer, for the second time, drew that eminent (saint) into conversation, in order that his condition might be made better known (to the inquirer).
  • دوم بار در سخن کشیدن سایل آن بزرگ را تا حال او معلوم تر گردد

  • That seeker said, “O thou mounted on the cane, pray, ride thy horse this way for one moment.” 2400
  • گفت آن طالب که آخر یک نفس ** ای سواره بر نی این سو ران فرس‏