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1441-1465

  • Dryness of lip is a message from the water (to say) that this agitation (anxious search) will certainly bring thee to the water,
  • خشکی لب هست پیغامی ز آب ** که بمات آرد یقین این اضطراب

  • For this seeking is a blessed motion; this search is a killer of obstacles on the Way to God.
  • کین طلب‌کاری مبارک جنبشیست ** این طلب در راه حق مانع کشیست

  • This search is the key to the things sought by thee; this (search) is thy army and the victory of thy banners.
  • این طلب مفتاح مطلوبات تست ** این سپاه و نصرت رایات تست

  • This search is like a cock crowing and proclaiming that the dawn is at hand.
  • این طلب همچون خروسی در صیاح ** می‌زند نعره که می‌آید صباح

  • Although thou hast no equipment, do thou be ever seeking: equipment is not necessary on the Way of the Lord. 1445
  • گرچه آلت نیستت تو می‌طلب ** نیست آلت حاجت اندر راه رب

  • Whomsoever thou seest engaged in search, O son, become his friend and cast thy head before him,
  • هر که را بینی طلب‌کار ای پسر ** یار او شو پیش او انداز سر

  • For through being the neighbour of the seekers thou (thyself) wilt become a seeker, and from the shadows (protection) of the conquerors thou (thyself) wilt become a conqueror.
  • کز جوار طالبان طالب شوی ** وز ظلال غالبان غالب شوی

  • If an ant has sought (to attain) the rank of Solomon, do not look languidly (contemptuously) on its quest.
  • گر یکی موری سلیمانی بجست ** منگر اندر جستن او سست سست

  • Everything that thou hast of wealth and (skill in) a handicraft (or profession)— was it not at first a quest and a thought?
  • هرچه داری تو ز مال و پیشه‌ای ** نه طلب بود اول و اندیشه‌ای

  • Story of the person who in the time of David, on whom be peace, used to pray night and day, crying, “Give me a lawful livelihood without trouble (on my part).”
  • حکایت آن شخص کی در عهد داود شب و روز دعا می‌کرد کی مرا روزی حلال ده بی رنج

  • In the time of the prophet David a certain man, beside every sage and before every simpleton, 1450
  • آن یکی در عهد داوود نبی ** نزد هر دانا و پیش هر غبی

  • Used always to utter this prayer: “O God, bestow on me riches without trouble!
  • این دعا می‌کرد دایم کای خدا ** ثروتی بی رنج روزی کن مرا

  • Since Thou hast created me a lazybones, a receiver of blows, a slow mover, a sluggard,
  • چون مرا تو آفریدی کاهلی ** زخم‌خواری سست‌جنبی منبلی

  • One cannot place on sore-backed luckless asses the load carried by horses and mules.
  • بر خران پشت‌ریش بی‌مراد ** بار اسپان و استران نتوان نهاد

  • Inasmuch as Thou, O perfect One, hast created me lazy, do Thou accordingly give me the daily bread by the way of laziness.
  • کاهلم چون آفریدی ای ملی ** روزیم ده هم ز راه کاهلی

  • I am lazy and sleeping in the shade in (the world of) existence: I sleep in the shade of this Bounty and Munificence. 1455
  • کاهلم من سایه‌ی خسپم در وجود ** خفتم اندر سایه‌ی این فضل و جود

  • Surely for them that are lazy and sleeping in the shade Thou hast prescribed a livelihood in another fashion.
  • کاهلان و سایه‌خسپان را مگر ** روزیی بنوشته‌ای نوعی دگر

  • Every one that has a foot (power to move) seeks a livelihood: do Thou show some pity towards every one that has no foot.
  • هر که را پایست جوید روزیی ** هر که را پا نیست کن دلسوزیی

  • Send the daily bread to that sorrowful one: cause the cloud to rain in the direction of every land.
  • رزق را می‌ران به سوی آن حزین ** ابر را باران به سوی هر زمین

  • Since the land has no foot, Thy munificence drives the clouds doubly towards it.
  • چون زمین را پا نباشد جود تو ** ابر را راند به سوی او دوتو

  • Since the babe has no foot (means of seeking nutriment), its mother comes and pours the ration (of milk) upon it. 1460
  • طفل را چون پا نباشد مادرش ** آید و ریزد وظیفه بر سرش

  • I crave a daily portion (that is bestowed) suddenly without fatigue (on my part), for I have naught of endeavour except the seeking.”
  • روزیی خواهم بناگه بی تعب ** که ندارم من ز کوشش جز طلب

  • Thus was he praying for a long time, (all) day until night and all night until morning.
  • مدت بسیار می‌کرد این دعا ** روز تا شب شب همه شب تا ضحی

  • The people were laughing at his words, at the folly of his hope, and at his contention,
  • خلق می‌خندید بر گفتار او ** بر طمع‌خامی و بر بیگار او

  • Saying, “Marvellous! What is he saying—this idiot? Or has some one given him beng (that is the cause) of senselessness?
  • که چه می‌گوید عجب این سست‌ریش ** یا کسی دادست بنگ بیهشیش

  • The way of (getting) daily bread is work and trouble and fatigue; He (God) hath given every one a handicraft and (the capacity for) seeking (a livelihood): 1465
  • راه روزی کسب و رنجست و تعب ** هر کسی را پیشه‌ای داد و طلب