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  • “It is from age, O emaciated Shaykh” said the doctor. “Whatever I eat,” said he, “is not digested.”
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ نزار ** گفت هر چه می‏خورم نبود گوار

  • The doctor replied, “Weakness of stomach also is (the result) of age.” Said he, “When I breathe, respiration is hard for me.”
  • گفت ضعف معده هم از پیری است ** گفت وقت دم مرا دم گیری است‏

  • “Yes,” he said, “it is asthma*; when old age arrives, two hundred diseases come on.”
  • گفت آری انقطاع دم بود ** چون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود

  • “O fool,” he exclaimed, “you have stuck at this: this is all that you have learned of medicine.
  • گفت ای احمق بر این بر دوختی ** از طبیبی تو همین آموختی‏

  • O crack-brained man, your intellect has not given you this knowledge, that God hath appointed a remedy for every pain. 3095
  • ای مدمغ عقلت این دانش نداد ** که خدا هر رنج را درمان نهاد

  • You, stupid ass, from poorness of ability have remained (fallen) on the ground for want of a sufficient foothold.”
  • تو خر احمق ز اندک مایگی ** بر زمین ماندی ز کوته‏پایگی‏

  • Then the doctor said to him, “O sexagenarian, this anger and this choler are also from old age.
  • پس طبیبش گفت ای عمر تو شصت ** این غضب وین خشم هم از پیری است‏

  • Since all the functions and parts (of your body) are atrophied, your self-control and patience have become weak.”
  • چون همه اوصاف و اجزا شد نحیف ** خویشتن‏داری و صبرت شد ضعیف‏

  • He (an old man) cannot endure two words, he cries out thereat; he cannot retain one draught, he vomits (it)—
  • بر نتابد دو سخن زو هی کند ** تاب یک جرعه ندارد قی کند

  • Except, to be sure, the Ancient (Pír) that is drunken with God, and in whose inward being there is “a goodly life.” 3100
  • جز مگر پیری که از حق است مست ** در درون او حیات طیبه است‏

  • Outwardly he is old, but within he is young. What thing, verily, is he? He is the saint and the prophet.
  • از برون پیر است و در باطن صبی ** خود چه چیز است آن ولی و آن نبی‏

  • If they are not manifest to the good and the evil (alike), what is this envy which the worthless bear against them?
  • گر نه پیدایند پیش نیک و بد ** چیست با ایشان خسان را این حسد

  • And if they do not know them with certain knowledge, what is this hatred and hatching of plots and enmity?
  • ور نمی‏دانندشان علم الیقین ** چیست این بغض و حیل سازی و کین‏

  • And (again), if they know the retribution (which shall take place) at the Resurrection and rising from the dead, how should they dash themselves against a sharp sword?
  • ور نمی‏دانند بعث و رستخیز ** چون زنندی خویش بر شمشیر تیز

  • He (the prophet or saint) smiles upon you, (but) do not deem him to be such (as he appears): in his inward consciousness are hidden a hundred Resurrections. 3105
  • بر تو می‏خندد مبین او را چنان ** صد قیامت در درون استش نهان‏

  • Hell and Paradise are entirely parts of him: he is beyond any thought that you may conceive (of him).
  • دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوست ** هر چه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست‏

  • All that you may think of is liable to pass away; he that comes not into thought is God.
  • هر چه اندیشی پذیرای فناست ** آن که در اندیشه ناید آن خداست‏

  • Wherefore (then do they behave with) presumption at the door of this house, if they know who is within the house?
  • بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیست ** گر همی‏دانند کاندر خانه کیست‏

  • Fools venerate the mosque and exert themselves in maltreating them that have the heart (in which God dwells).
  • ابلهان تعظیم مسجد می‏کنند ** در جفای اهل دل جد می‏کنند

  • That (mosque) is phenomenal, this (heart) is real, O asses! The (true) mosque is naught but the hearts of the (spiritual) captains. 3110
  • آن مجاز است این حقیقت ای خران ** نیست مسجد جز درون سروران‏

  • The mosque that is the inward (consciousness) of the saints is the place of worship for all: God is there.
  • مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاست ** سجده‏گاه جمله است آن جا خداست‏

  • Until the heart of the man of God was grieved, never did God put any generation to shame.
  • تا دل مرد خدا نامد به درد ** هیچ قومی را خدا رسوا نکرد

  • They were going to make war on the prophets: they saw the body (of the prophet), they supposed he was a man.
  • قصد جنگ انبیا می‏داشتند ** جسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند

  • In thee are the moral natures of those peoples of yore: how art not thou afraid lest thou be the same (as they)?
  • در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیان ** چون نمی‏ترسی که تو باشی همان‏

  • Forasmuch as all those marks are in thee, and thou art (one) of them, how wilt thou be saved? 3115
  • آن نشانیها همه چون در تو هست ** چون تو زیشانی کجا خواهی برست‏

  • The story of Júhí and the child who cried lamentably beside his father's bier.
  • قصه‏ی جوحی و آن کودک که پیش جنازه‏ی پدر خویش نوحه می‏کرد