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875-899

  • You are not such as your fellow-servant declared: that envious one would (fain) have made me cold to (disgusted with) you, 875
  • آن نه‏ای که خواجه‏تاش تو نمود ** از تو ما را سرد می‏کرد آن حسود

  • (For) he said that you are thievish and dishonest and ill-behaved, immoral and infamous and so forth.”
  • گفت او دزد و کژ است و کژنشین ** حیز و نامرد و چنان است و چنین‏

  • The slave said, “He (my fellow-servant) has always been veracious; I have not seen any one so truthful as he is.
  • گفت پیوسته بده ست او راست گو ** راست گویی من ندیده ستم چو او

  • Veracity is inborn in his nature; whatever he says, I do not say it is void (of truth).
  • راست گویی در نهادش خلقتی است ** هر چه گوید من نگویم تهمتی است‏

  • I deem not that good-minded one malicious: I (rather) suspect my own person.
  • کژ ندانم آن نکو اندیش را ** متهم دارم وجود خویش را

  • Maybe, he sees in me faults I do not see in myself, O King.” 880
  • باشد او در من ببیند عیبها ** من نبینم در وجود خود شها

  • Any one saw his own faults before (seeing those of others) —how should he be unconcerned with correcting himself?
  • هر کسی گر عیب خود دیدی ز پیش ** کی بدی فارغ خود از اصلاح خویش‏

  • These people (of the world) take no heed of themselves, O father: consequently they blame one another.
  • غافلند این خلق از خود ای پدر ** لاجرم گویند عیب همدگر

  • O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality), I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.
  • من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن ** من ببینم روی تو تو روی من‏

  • He that beholds his own face (reality)—his light is greater than the light of the creatures (of God).
  • آن کسی که او ببیند روی خویش ** نور او از نور خلقان است بیش‏

  • Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator. 885
  • گر بمیرد دید او باقی بود ** ز انکه دیدش دید خلاقی بود

  • That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.
  • نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو

  • The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,
  • گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو

  • That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”
  • تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی‏

  • He replied, “O King, I will tell his faults, though he is to me a pleasing fellow-servant.
  • گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاش ** گر چه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجه‏تاش‏

  • His faults are affection and loyalty and humanity; his faults are sincerity and keen wittedness and cordial comradeship. 890
  • عیب او مهر و وفا و مردمی ** عیب او صدق و ذکا و هم دمی‏

  • His least fault is generosity and bounty—the generosity that even gives up life.”
  • کمترین عیبش جوانمردی و داد ** آن جوانمردی که جان را هم بداد

  • God has brought to view myriads of lives (in return for the life given up): what generosity would there be (in him) that saw not those?
  • صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدید ** چه جوانمردی بود کان را ندید

  • And if he saw them, how should he grudge his life? How should he become so grieved for the sake of one life?
  • ور بدیدی کی به جان بخلش بدی ** بهر یک جان کی چنین غمگین شدی‏

  • On the river-bank, water is grudged by him (alone) that is blind to the stream of water.
  • بر لب جو بخل آب آن را بود ** کاو ز جوی آب نابینا بود

  • The Prophet said, “Whosoever knows for sure his recompense on the day of Resurrection— 895
  • گفت پیغمبر که هر که از یقین ** داند او پاداش خود در یوم دین‏

  • That his compensation will be ten for one—at every moment a different (act of) munificence will issue from him.”
  • که یکی را ده عوض می‏آیدش ** هر زمان جودی دگرگون زایدش‏

  • All munificence is from seeing compensations; therefore seeing the compensation is opposed to fearing (and shrinking from the act of munificence).
  • جود جمله از عوضها دیدن است ** پس عوض دیدن ضد ترسیدن است‏

  • Miserliness consists in not seeing compensations: the prospect of pearls keeps the divers glad.
  • بخل نادیدن بود اعواض را ** شاد دارد دید در خواض را

  • Hence no one in the world is miserly, since no one hazards anything without (seeing) what is to be received in exchange.
  • پس به عالم هیچ کس نبود بخیل ** ز انکه کس چیزی نبازد بی‏بدیل‏