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428-452

  • (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

  • O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.
  • ای برادر طفل طفل چشم تست ** کام خود موقوف زاری دان درست‏

  • If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.
  • گر همی‏خواهی که آن خلعت رسد ** پس بگریان طفل دیده بر جسد

  • How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”
  • ترسانیدن شخصی زاهد را که کم گری تا کور نشوی

  • A comrade in the work (of religion) said to an ascetic, “Weep little, lest thine eye come to harm.” 445
  • زاهدی را گفت یاری در عمل ** کم گری تا چشم را ناید خلل‏

  • The ascetic said, “The case is not outside of (admits only) two (alternatives): the eye will see, or it will not see, that (Divine) Beauty.
  • گفت زاهد از دو بیرون نیست حال ** چشم بیند یا نبیند آن جمال‏

  • If it see the Light of God, what is there to grieve about? How little are two eyes (to him that is) in union with God!
  • گر ببیند نور حق خود چه غم است ** در وصال حق دو دیده چه کم است‏

  • And if it shall not see God, let it go! Let such a miserable eye become blind!”
  • ور نخواهد دید حق را گو برو ** این چنین چشم شقی گو کور شو

  • Do not grieve for your eye when that Jesus is yours; do not go to the left (but to the right), that he may give you two right (sound) eyes.
  • غم مخور از دیده کان عیسی تراست ** چپ مرو تا بخشدت دو چشم راست‏

  • The Jesus of your spirit is present with you: beg aid from him, for he is a goodly aider; 450
  • عیسی روح تو با تو حاضر است ** نصرت از وی خواه کاو خوش ناصر است‏

  • But do not every moment lay on the heart of (that) Jesus the unprofitable work of (providing for) a body full of bones,
  • لیک بیگار تن پر استخوان ** بر دل عیسی منه تو هر زمان‏

  • Like the fool whom we mentioned in the story for the sake of the righteous.
  • همچو آن ابله که اندر داستان ** ذکر او کردیم بهر راستان‏