The Messiah (Jesus) brings the dead to life, and the Jew tears his moustache in wrath.
آن مسیحا مرده زنده میکند ** و آن جهود از خشم سبلت میکند
Does the dog's bark ever reach the moon's ear, especially that Moon who is the chosen of God?
بانگ سگ هرگز رسد در گوش ماه ** خاصه ماهی کاو بود خاص اله
The king drinks wine on the bank of the stream till dawn, and in listening to the music is unaware of the croaking of the frogs.
میخورد شه بر لب جو تا سحر ** در سماع از بانگ چغزان بیخبر
The division of (the money due to) the boy (amongst the creditors) would have been (only a few dángs (for each to pay); (but) the Shaykh's (spiritual) influence stopped that generosity,
هم شدی توزیع کودک دانگ چند ** همت شیخ آن سخا را کرد بند
So that no one should give the boy anything: the power of the Pírs is even greater than this.425
تا کسی ندهد به کودک هیچ چیز ** قوت پیران از این بیش است نیز
(When) it was (time for) afternoon prayers, a servant came with a tray in his hand from one like Hátim,
شد نماز دیگر آمد خادمی ** یک طبق بر کف ز پیش حاتمی
A man of property and condition: he sent it as a present to the Pír (Shaykh), for he knew about him.
صاحب مالی و حالی پیش پیر ** هدیه بفرستاد کز وی بد خبیر
(There were) four hundred dinars, and in a corner of the tray another half-dinar in a piece of paper.
چار صد دینار بر گوشهی طبق ** نیم دینار دگر اندر ورق
The servant advanced and did honour to the Shaykh, and laid the tray before the peerless Shaykh.
خادم آمد شیخ را اکرام کرد ** و آن طبق بنهاد پیش شیخ فرد
When he (the Shaykh) uncovered the face of the tray, the people beheld the miracle (manifested) from him.430
چون طبق را از غطا واکرد رو ** خلق دیدند آن کرامت را از او
Immediately cries of sorrow and lamentation arose from all —“O head of the Shaykhs and (spiritual) kings, what was (the meaning of) this?
آه و افغان از همه برخاست زود ** کای سر شیخان و شاهان این چه بود
What secret is this? Once more, what sovereignty is this, O lord of the lords of mystery?
این چه سر است این چه سلطانی است باز ** ای خداوند خداوندان راز
We knew not. Pardon us. Very deranged were the words that went out from us.
ما ندانستیم ما را عفو کن ** بس پراکنده که رفت از ما سخن
We who blindly brandish staffs cannot help breaking lamps.
ما که کورانه عصاها میزنیم ** لاجرم قندیلها را بشکنیم
We, like deaf men, without having heard a single thing spoken (to us), are answering idly from our own surmise.435
ما چو کران ناشنیده یک خطاب ** هرزه گویان از قیاس خود جواب
We have not taken warning from Moses, who was made shamefaced by disbelief in a Khizr,
ما ز موسی پند نگرفتیم کاو ** گشت از انکار خضری زرد رو
Notwithstanding (that he had) an eye that sped aloft, and the light of his eye was piercing heaven.
با چنان چشمی که بالا میشتافت ** نور چشمش آسمان را میشکافت
O Moses (of this age), through foolishness the eye of a mill-mouse has fanatically set itself against thine eye.”
کرده با چشمت تعصب موسیا ** از حماقت چشم موش آسیا
The Shaykh said, “I forgive all that talk and palaver: it is lawful to you.
شیخ فرمود آن همه گفتار و قال ** من بحل کردم شما را آن حلال
The secret of this (matter) was that I besought God: consequently He showed me the right way,440
سر این آن بود کز حق خواستم ** لاجرم بنمود راه راستم
And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.
گفت آن دینار اگر چه اندک است ** لیک موقوف غریو کودک است
Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”
تا نگرید کودک حلوا فروش ** بحر رحمت در نمیآید به جوش