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4041-4065

  • That is, “I fear God: I have no help from Him. Get ye gone! Verily, I see what ye see not.”
  • ای اخاف الله ما لی منه عون ** اذهبوا انی اری ما لاترون

  • Hárith said, “Hey, O thou that hast the form of Suráqa, why wert not thou saying such-like words yesterday?”
  • گفت حارث ای سراقه شکل هین ** دی چرا تو می‌نگفتی اینچنین

  • He replied, “At this moment I see destruction (before me).” He (Hárith) said, “Thou seest the most puny of the Arabs.
  • گفت این دم من همی‌بینم حرب ** گفت می‌بینی جعاشیش عرب

  • Thou art seeing naught but this; but, O thou disgrace, that was the time of talk, and this is the time of battle.
  • می‌نبینی غیر این لیک ای تو ننگ ** آن زمان لاف بود این وقت جنگ

  • Yesterday thou wert saying, ‘I pledge myself that victory and Divine aid will always be yours.’ 4045
  • دی همی‌گفتی که پایندان شدم ** که بودتان فتح و نصرت دم‌بدم

  • Yesterday thou wert the surety for the army, O accursed one, and now thou art cowardly, good-for-nothing, and vile,
  • دی زعیم الجیش بودی ای لعین ** وین زمان نامرد و ناچیز و مهین

  • So that (after) we swallowed those (deceitful) words of thine and came (to battle), thou hast gone to the bath-stove and we have become the fuel.”
  • تا بخوردیم آن دم تو و آمدیم ** تو بتون رفتی و ما هیزم شدیم

  • When Hárith said this to Suráqa, that accursed one was enraged at his reproaches.
  • چونک حارث با سراقه گفت این ** از عتابش خشمگین شد آن لعین

  • He angrily withdrew his hand from his (Hárith's) hand, since his heart was pained by his words.
  • دست خود خشمین ز دست او کشید ** چون ز گفت اوش درد دل رسید

  • Satan smote his (Hárith's) breast and fled: by means of this plot he shed the blood of those wretched men. 4050
  • سینه‌اش را کوفت شیطان و گریخت ** خون آن بیچارگان زین مکر ریخت

  • After he had ruined so great a multitude, he then said, “Lo, I am quit of you.”
  • چونک ویران کرد چندین عالم او ** پس بگفت این بری منکم

  • He smote him on the breast and overthrew him; then he turned to flee, since terror urged him on.
  • کوفت اندر سینه‌اش انداختش ** پس گریزان شد چو هیبت تاختش

  • The fleshly soul and the Devil both have (ever) been one person (essentially); (but) they have manifested themselves in two forms,
  • نفس و شیطان هر دو یک تن بوده‌اند ** در دو صورت خویش را بنموده‌اند

  • Like the angel and the intellect, which were (really) one, (but) became two forms for the sake of His (God's) wise purposes.
  • چون فرشته و عقل کایشان یک بدند ** بهر حکمتهاش دو صورت شدند

  • You have such an enemy as this in your inward part: he is the preventer of the intellect, and the adversary of the spirit and of religion. 4055
  • دشمنی داری چنین در سر خویش ** مانع عقلست و خصم جان و کیش

  • At one moment he dashes forward like the Libyan lizard; then (again) in flight he darts away into a hole.
  • یکنفس حمله کند چون سوسمار ** پس بسوراخی گریزد در فرار

  • Just now he has (many) holes in the (human) heart, and from every hole he is putting out his head.
  • در دل او سوراخها دارد کنون ** سر ز هر سوراخ می‌آرد برون

  • The name that denotes the Devil's becoming hidden from (men's) souls and going into that hole is khunús (slinking back),
  • نام پنهان گشتن دیو از نفوس ** واندر آن سوراخ رفتن شد خنوس

  • For his khunús is like the khunús of the hedgehog: like the head of the hedgehog, he pops in and out;
  • که خنوسش چون خنوس قنفذست ** چون سر قنفذ ورا آمد شذست

  • For God hath called the Devil Khannás (the slinker), because he resembles the head of the little hedgehog. 4060
  • که خدا آن دیو را خناس خواند ** کو سر آن خارپشتک را بماند

  • The head of the hedgehog is continually being hidden because of its fear of the cruel hunter,
  • می نهان گردد سر آن خارپشت ** دم‌بدم از بیم صیاد درشت

  • Until, when it has found an opportunity, it puts out its head: by such a stratagem the snake becomes its prey.
  • تا چو فرصت یافت سر آرد برون ** زین چنین مکری شود مارش زبون

  • If the fleshly soul had not waylaid you from within, how would the brigands have any power to lay a hand upon you?
  • گرنه نفس از اندرون راهت زدی ** ره‌زنان را بر تو دستی کی بدی

  • On account of the exigent myrmidon, who is Lust, the heart is captive to greed and cupidity and bane.
  • زان عوان مقتضی که شهوتست ** دل اسیر حرص و آز و آفتست

  • On account of that inward myrmidon you have become thievish and depraved, so that the way is (open) for the (external) myrmidons to coerce you. 4065
  • زان عوان سر شدی دزد و تباه ** تا عوانان را به قهر تست راه