- As soon as he saw it, he remembered his own, and ceased to covet the camel of that friend and kinsman. 2995
- چون بدیدش یاد آورد آن خویش ** بیطمع شد ز اشتر آن یار و خویش
- That imitator became a true searcher when he saw his camel browsing there.
- آن مقلد شد محقق چون بدید ** اشتر خود را که آن جا میچرید
- (Only) at that moment did he become a seeker of the camel: he was never (truly) seeking it till he saw it in the desert.
- او طلب کار شتر آن لحظه گشت ** مینجستش تا ندید او را به دشت
- After that, he began to go alone: he opened his eyes (and went) towards his own camel.
- بعد از آن تنها روی آغاز کرد ** چشم سوی ناقهی خود باز کرد
- The sincere one said, “You have left me, (although) till now you were paying regard to me.”
- گفت آن صادق مرا بگذاشتی ** تا به اکنون پاس من میداشتی
- He replied, “Hitherto I have been an idle scoffer and, from cupidity, have been (engaged) in flattering (thee); 3000
- گفت تا اکنون فسوسی بودهام ** وز طمع در چاپلوسی بودهام
- (But) now, when corporeally I have become parted from thee in the search, I have become sympathetic with thee (in spirit).
- این زمان هم درد تو گشتم که من ** در طلب از تو جدا گشتم به تن
- I was stealing the camel's description from thee; (but when) my spirit saw its own camel, it had its eye filled (with seeing).
- از تو میدزدیدمی وصف شتر ** جان من دید آن خود شد چشم پر
- Till I found it, I was not seeking it; now the copper is overcome, the gold overpowers it.
- تا نیابیدم نبودم طالبش ** مس کنون مغلوب شد زر غالبش
- My evil deeds have become pious acts entirely—thanks (to God)! Jest is vanished and earnest is realised—thanks (to God)!
- سیئاتم شد همه طاعات شکر ** هزل شد فانی و جد اثبات شکر
- Since my evil deeds have become the means of (my) attaining unto God, do not, then, throw any blame on my evil deeds. 3005
- سیئاتم چون وسیلت شد به حق ** پس مزن بر سیئاتم هیچ دق
- Thee thy sincerity had made a seeker; for me, toil and search opened (the way to) a sincere feeling.
- مر ترا صدق تو طالب کرده بود ** مر مرا جد و طلب صدقی گشود
- Thy sincerity led thee to seek; my seeking led me to a feeling of sincerity.
- صدق تو آورد در جستن ترا ** جستنم آورد در صدقی مرا
- I was sowing the seed of fortune in the earth, (though) I fancied it was labour without wages and hire.
- تخم دولت در زمین میکاشتم ** سخره و بیگار میپنداشتم
- ’Twas not labour without hire; ’twas an excellent earning: (for) every grain that I sowed, a hundred grew.
- آن نبد بیگار کسبی بود چست ** هر یکی دانه که کشتم صد برست
- The thief went underhand (by stealth) to a certain house: when he entered, he saw that it was his own house.” 3010
- دزد سوی خانهای شد زیر دست ** چون در آمد دید کان خانهی خود است
- Be hot, O cold one, that heat may come: put up with roughness, that ease may come.
- گرم باش ای سرد تا گرمی رسد ** با درشتی ساز تا نرمی رسد
- That (subject of my discourse) is not two camels; it is a single camel. Verbal expression is confined, the meaning (to be expressed) is very full.
- آن دو اشتر نیست آن یک اشتر است ** تنگ آمد لفظ معنی بس پر است
- The expression always fails to reach the meaning; hence the Prophet said, “(Whoso knows God), his tongue falters.”
- لفظ در معنی همیشه نارسان ** ز آن پیمبر گفت قد کل لسان
- Speech is (like) an astrolabe in (its) reckoning: how much does it know of the sky and the sun?—
- نطق اصطرلاب باشد در حساب ** چه قدر داند ز چرخ و آفتاب
- Especially, of that Sky whereof this heaven is (no more than) a blade of straw; (that Sky) of whose Sun the (terrestrial) sun is (but) a mote? 3015
- خاصه چرخی کاین فلک زو پرهای است ** آفتاب از آفتابش ذرهای است
- Showing that there is in every soul the mischief of the Mosque of Opposition.
- بیان آن که در هر نفسی فتنهی مسجد ضرار است
- When it appeared that that was not a mosque, (but) was a house of intrigue and a trap laid by the Jews,
- چون پدید آمد که آن مسجد نبود ** خانهی حیلت بد و دام جهود
- The Prophet then gave the command (and said), “Rase it and make it a dumping-place for rubbish and ashes.”
- پس نبی فرمود کان را بر کنید ** مطرحهی خاشاک و خاکستر کنید
- The founder of the Mosque was false, like the Mosque (itself): ‘tis not munificence if you sprinkle grain upon a snare.
- صاحب مسجد چو مسجد قلب بود ** دانهها بر دام ریزی نیست جود
- The meat that catches the fish on the hook––such a morsel is neither bounty nor generosity.
- گوشت کاندر شست تو ماهی رباست ** آن چنان لقمه نه بخشش نه سخاست