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394-418

  • We are food for the wolf, and we are not for the Friend; we are fuel for the Fire, and we are not for dishonour.”
  • طعمه‌ی گرگیم و آن یار نه ** هیزم ناریم و آن عار نه

  • A heathen pride was in their brains: the raven croaked disaster over the traces of their habitation. 395
  • حمیتی بد جاهلیت در دماغ ** بانگ شومی بر دمنشان کرد زاغ

  • They were digging a pit for the oppressed” they (themselves) fell into the pit, crying “Alas!”
  • بهر مظلومان همی‌کندند چاه ** در چه افتادند و می‌گفتند آه

  • They tore the coats of the Josephs (the prophets and saints), and that which they gave they got, piece by piece.
  • پوستین یوسفان بکشافتند ** آنچ می‌کردند یک یک یافتند

  • Who is that Joseph? Thy God-seeking heart, bound as a captive in thy abode.
  • کیست آن یوسف دل حق‌جوی تو ** چون اسیری بسته اندر کوی تو

  • Thou hast bound a Gabriel on a pillar, thou hast wounded his wings and plumes in a hundred places.
  • جبرئیلی را بر استن بسته‌ای ** پر و بالش را به صد جا خسته‌ای

  • Thou settest before him a roasted calf, thou fetchest (ground) straw and bringest him to the straw-barn, 400
  • پیش او گوساله بریان آوری ** گه کشی او را به کهدان آوری

  • Saying, “Eat; this is a dainty meal for us,” (although) for him there is no food but meeting God face to face.
  • که بخور اینست ما را لوت و پوت ** نیست او را جز لقاء الله قوت

  • On account of this torment and tribulation that afflicted (heart) is complaining of thee to God,
  • زین شکنجه و امتحان آن مبتلا ** می‌کند از تو شکایت با خدا

  • Crying, “O God, deliver (me) from this old wolf!” He (God) saith to it, “Lo, the hour is (wellnigh) come: have patience.
  • کای خدا افغان ازین گرگ کهن ** گویدش نک وقت آمد صبر کن

  • I will demand justice for thee from every heedless one: who gives justice but God, the Dealer of justice?”
  • داد تو وا خواهم از هر بی‌خبر ** داد کی دهد جز خدای دادگر

  • It (the heart) says, “ My patience is lost in separation from Thy face, O Lord. 405
  • او همی‌گوید که صبرم شد فنا ** در فراق روی تو یا ربنا

  • I am (like) Ahmad ( Mohammad) left forsaken in the hands of the Jews, I am (like) Salih fallen into prison (amongst the people) of Thamud.
  • احمدم در مانده در دست یهود ** صالحم افتاده در حبس ثمود

  • O Thou that bestowed felicity on the souls of the prophets, either slay me or call me back (to Thee) or come (Thyself).
  • ای سعادت‌بخش جان انبیا ** یا بکش یا باز خوانم یا بیا

  • (Even) the infidels cannot endure to be separated from Thee: he (every infidel) is saying, ‘O would that I had been dust!’
  • با فراقت کافران را نیست تاب ** می‌گود یا لیتنی کنت تراب

  • This is the state of him (the infidel) who in sooth belongs to that side (is beyond the pale): how (then) should one that belongs to Thee be (patient) without Thee?”
  • حال او اینست کو خود زان سوست ** چون بود بی تو کسی کان توست

  • God saith, “Yea, O pure (heart); but hearken (unto Me) and have patience, for patience is better. 410
  • حق همی‌گوید که آری ای نزه ** لیک بشنو صبر آر و صبر به

  • The dawn is near. Hush, do not wail! I am striving for thee, do not thou strive.”
  • صبح نزدیکست خامش کم خروش ** من همی‌کوشم پی تو تو مکوش

  • The rest of the Story of the Khwaja’s going to the village on the invitation of the countryman.
  • بقیه‌ی داستان رفتن خواجه به دعوت روستایی سوی ده

  • It (this digression) has passed beyond bounds: return, O valiant friend. The countryman, mark you, took the Khwaja to his house.
  • شد ز حد هین باز گرد ای یار گرد ** روستایی خواجه را بین خانه برد

  • Put aside the story of the people of Saba: tell how the Khwaja came to the village.
  • قصه‌ی اهل سبا یک گوشه نه ** آن بگو کان خواجه چون آمد به ده

  • The countryman used blandishments in ingratiating himself, until he made the Khwaja’s prudence crazy.
  • روستایی در تملق شیوه کرد ** تا که حزم خواجه را کالیوه کرد

  • He ( the Khwaja) was distracted by message upon message, till the clear water of his prudence became turbid. 415
  • از پیام اندر پیام او خیره شد ** تا زلال حزم خواجه تیره شد

  • On the same side his children in approval (of the country-man’s invitation) were joyously striking up “Let us frolic and play,”
  • هم ازینجا کودکانش در پسند ** نرتع و نلعب بشادی می‌زدند

  • Like Joseph, whom by the wondrous (act of Divine) predestination (the words). “Let us frolic and play” carried off from his father’s shadow (protection).
  • همچو یوسف کش ز تقدیر عجب ** نرتع و نلعب ببرد از ظل آب

  • That is not (joyful) play; nay, ‘tis play with one’s life, ‘tis cunning and deceit and contrivance of fraud.
  • آن نه بازی بلک جانبازیست آن ** حیله و مکر و دغاسازیست آن