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1224-1248

  • If you are not one of (illumined) heart, be awake (keep vigil), be a seeker of the (illumined) heart, and be (always) in strife (with your fleshly soul);
  • گر تو اهل دل نه‌ای بیدار باش ** طالب دل باش و در پیکار باش

  • But if your heart hath been awakened, sleep sound: thy (spiritual) eye is not absent from the seven (heavens) and the six (directions). 1225
  • ور دلت بیدار شد می‌خسپ خوش ** نیست غایب ناظرت از هفت و شش

  • The Prophet said, “Mine eye slumbers, but when doth my heart slumber in drowsiness?”
  • گفت پیغامبر که خسپد چشم من ** لیک کی خسپد دلم اندر وسن

  • The King is awake: suppose the guardsman is asleep, (what does it matter?). May (my) soul be sacrificed to the sleepers whose hearts are seeing!
  • شاه بیدارست حارس خفته گیر ** جان فدای خفتگان دل‌بصیر

  • The description of the heart's wakefulness, O spiritual man, would not be contained in thousands of rhymed couplets.
  • وصف بیداری دل ای معنوی ** در نگنجد در هزاران مثنوی

  • When they (the magicians) saw that he was sleeping outstretched, they made preparations for stealing the rod.
  • چون بدیدندش که خفتست او دراز ** بهر دزدی عصا کردند ساز

  • The magicians quickly approached the rod, saying, “We must go behind him and then snatch it (from him).” 1230
  • ساحران قصد عصا کردند زود ** کز پسش باید شدن وانگه ربود

  • When they prepared (to approach) a little nearer, the rod began to shake.
  • اندکی چون پیشتر کردند ساز ** اندر آمد آن عصا در اهتزاز

  • The rod quivered upon itself in such wise (that) both (magicians) on the spot became petrified by the shock (of terror).
  • آنچنان بر خود بلرزید آن عصا ** کان دو بر جا خشک گشتند از وجا

  • After that, it turned into a dragon and made a rush (at them): both fled, and pale of countenance
  • بعد از آن شد اژدها و حمله کرد ** هر دوان بگریختند و روی‌زرد

  • Began to fall on their faces from affright, tumbling panic-stricken down every slope.
  • رو در افتادن گرفتند از نهیب ** غلط غلطان منهزم در هر نشیب

  • Then to them it became certain that he (Moses) was from Heaven, since they were seeing the limit of (the power of) magicians. 1235
  • پس یقینشان شد که هست از آسمان ** زانک می‌دیدند حد ساحران

  • Afterwards diarrhoea and fever appeared in them, and their case reached the last gasp and the death-agony.
  • بعد از آن اطلاق و تبشان شد پدید ** کارشان تا نزع و جان کندن رسید

  • Then at once they sent a man to Moses to excuse that (which they had done),
  • پس فرستادند مردی در زمان ** سوی موسی از برای عذر آن

  • Saying, “We have put (thee) to the test, and how should (the thought of) testing thee occur to us unless there be envy (as a motive)?
  • کامتحان کردیم و ما را کی رسد ** امتحان تو اگر نبود حسد

  • We are sinners against the King (God): do thou crave pardon for us, O thou that art the elect of the elect of the Court of God.”
  • مجرم شاهیم ما را عفو خواه ** ای تو خاص الخاص درگاه اله

  • He pardoned (them), and at once they became well; they were striking their heads upon the earth (prostrating themselves) in the presence of Moses. 1240
  • عفو کرد و در زمان نیکو شدند ** پیش موسی بر زمین سر می‌زدند

  • Moses said, “I pardon (you), O nobles: your bodies and souls have become unlawful to (immune from) Hell.
  • گفت موسی عفو کردم ای کرام ** گشت بر دوزخ تن و جانتان حرام

  • Verily (’tis as though) I did not see you; O (my) two friends, make yourselves strangers to (refrain from) exculpation.
  • من شما را خود ندیدم ای دو یار ** اعجمی سازید خود را ز اعتذار

  • Come, even as ye are, alien in appearance (but) familiar (in reality), to combat for the King (God).”
  • همچنان بیگانه‌شکل و آشنا ** در نبرد آیید بهر پادشا

  • Then they kissed the earth and departed: they were waiting in expectation of the time and opportunity.
  • پس زمین را بوسه دادند و شدند ** انتظار وقت و فرصت می‌بدند

  • How the magicians from the cities assembled before Pharaoh and received robes of honour and laid their hands upon their breasts, (pledging themselves) to subdue his enemy (Moses), and saying, “Write this down against us.”
  • جمع آمدن ساحران از مداین پیش فرعون و تشریفها یافتن و دست بر سینه زدن در قهر خصم او کی این بر ما نویس

  • Those magicians came unto Pharaoh, and he gave them robes of honour exceedingly precious. 1245
  • تا بفرعون آمدند آن ساحران ** دادشان تشریفهای بس گران

  • He made promises to them, and also gave them in advance slaves and horses and money and goods and provisions.
  • وعده‌هاشان کرد و پیشین هم بداد ** بندگان و اسپان و نقد و جنس و زاد

  • After that, he was saying, “Hark, O ye that are foremost (in your art), if ye prove superior in the trial,
  • بعد از آن می‌گفت هین ای سابقان ** گر فزون آیید اندر امتحان

  • I will scatter over you so many gifts that the veil of bounty and munificence will be rent.”
  • برفشانم بر شما چندان عطا ** که بدرد پرده‌ی جود و سخا