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  • Who is the Devil that he should surpass Adam and win the game from him on such a board?
  • دیو که بود کاو ز آدم بگذرد ** بر چنین نطعی از او بازی برد

  • In truth, it all turned out to Adam’s advantage: that guile became a curse to the envious one.
  • در حقیقت نفع آدم شد همه ** لعنت حاسد شده آن دمدمه‏

  • He (the Devil) saw one game, (but) he did not see two hundred games (which he should lose): therefore he cut down the supports of his own house. 2510
  • بازیی دید و دو صد بازی ندید ** پس ستون خانه‏ی خود را برید

  • He set fire by night to the cornfield of others; (meanwhile) O wind, drive the fire into his field!
  • آتشی زد شب به کشت دیگران ** باد آتش را به کشت او بران‏

  • The (Divine) curse was a blind to the Devil, so that he regarded that trickery (of his) as harm to (his) enemy.
  • چشم بندی بود لعنت دیو را ** تا زیان خصم دید آن ریو را

  • The (Divine) curse is that which makes him (any one) see falsely, and makes him envious, self-conceited, and malicious,
  • لعنت این باشد که کژبینش کند ** حاسد و خود بین و پر کینش کند

  • To the end that he may not know that whoever does evil, it (that evil) will at last come back and smite him.
  • تا نداند که هر آن که کرد بد ** عاقبت باز آید و بر وی زند

  • He sees all the master-moves invertedly: (hence) they result in check-mate to him and (in) failure and defeat. 2515
  • جمله فرزین بندها بیند بعکس ** مات بر وی گردد و نقصان و وکس‏

  • (The curse blinds him), because, if he regard himself as naught, (if) he regard the wound (his moral and spiritual blindness) as deadly and festering,
  • ز انکه گر او هیچ بیند خویش را ** مهلک و ناسور بیند ریش را

  • Pain will arise from such looking within, and the pain will bring him out from the veil (of self-conceit).
  • درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون ** درد او را از حجاب آرد برون‏

  • Until mothers are overtaken by the pains of childbirth, the child finds no way to be born.
  • تا نگیرد مادران را درد زه ** طفل در زادن نیابد هیچ ره‏

  • This (God-given) trust is in the heart, and the heart is pregnant (with it): these counsels (of the prophets and saints) are like the midwife.
  • این امانت در دل و دل حامله ست ** این نصیحتها مثال قابله ست‏

  • The midwife may say that the woman has no pain; (but) pain is necessary, pain is (makes) a way for the child (to be born). 2520
  • قابله گوید که زن را درد نیست ** درد باید درد کودک را رهی است‏

  • He that is without pain is a brigand, because to be without pain is to say “I am God.”
  • آن که او بی‏درد باشد ره زن است ** ز انکه بی‏دردی انا الحق گفتن است‏

  • To say that “I” out of the (proper) time is a curse (to the speaker); to say that “I” at the (proper) time is a mercy (from God).
  • آن انا بی‏وقت گفتن لعنت است ** آن انا در وقت گفتن رحمت است‏

  • The “I” of Mansúr (Halláj) certainly became a mercy; the “I” of Pharaoh became a curse. Mark (this)!
  • آن انا منصور رحمت شد یقین ** آن انا فرعون لعنت شد ببین‏

  • Consequently, it is incumbent (on us) to behead every untimely bird (every cock that crows too soon), in order to give notice (warning).
  • لاجرم هر مرغ بی‏هنگام را ** سر بریدن واجب است اعلام را

  • What is “beheading”? Killing the fleshly soul in the holy (spiritual) war, and renouncing heat (sensual appetite). 2525
  • سر بریدن چیست کشتن نفس را ** در جهاد و ترک گفتن نفس را

  • Just as you would extract the scorpion’s sting in order that it might be saved from being killed,
  • آن چنان که نیش کژدم بر کنی ** تا که یابد او ز کشتن ایمنی‏

  • (Or) pull out the venomous fang of a snake, in order that the snake might escape from the calamity of being stoned (to death).
  • بر کنی دندان پر زهری ز مار ** تا رهد مار از بلای سنگسار

  • Nothing will slay the fleshly soul except the shadow (protection) of the Pír: grasp tightly the skirt of that slayer of the flesh.
  • هیچ نکشد نفس را جز ظل پیر ** دامن آن نفس کش را سخت گیر

  • When you grasp (it) tightly, that is (done by) the aid of Him (God): whatever strength comes into you is (the effect of) His drawing (you towards Him).
  • چون بگیری سخت آن توفیق هوست ** در تو هر قوت که آید جذب اوست‏

  • Know that true is (the text) thou didst not throw when thou threwest: whatsoever the soul soweth is from the Soul of the soul. 2530
  • ما رمیت إذ رمیت راست دان ** هر چه کارد جان بود از جان جان‏

  • He is the One that takes the hand (to help), and (He is) burden-bearing (long-suffering): have hope, from moment to moment, of (receiving) that breath (of inspiration) from Him.
  • دست گیرنده وی است و بردبار ** دم‏به‏دم آن دم از او امید دار

  • ‘Tis no harm if you have remained long without Him: you have read that He is long in gripping (sinners), (though) gripping (them) tight.
  • نیست غم گر دیر بی‏او مانده‏ای ** دیرگیر و سخت‏گیرش خوانده‏ای‏