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4145-4169

  • If the sheep are beyond count, (yet) how should the butcher be afraid of their numerousness? 4145
  • گوسفندان گر برونند از حساب ** ز انبهیشان کی بترسد آن قصاب

  • ‘Each of you is a shepherd’: the prophet is as the shepherd. The people are like the flock; he is the overseer.
  • کلکم راع نبی چون راعیست ** خلق مانند رمه او ساعیست

  • The shepherd is not afraid of the sheep in (his) contention (with them), but is their protector from hot and cold (from all calamities).
  • از رمه چوپان نترسد در نبرد ** لیکشان حافظ بود از گرم و سرد

  • If he cry out in wrath against the flock, know ’tis from the love which he hath for them all.
  • گر زند بانگی ز قهر او بر رمه ** دان ز مهرست آن که دارد بر همه

  • (My) new Fortune says (whispers) into my ear every moment, ‘I will make thee sorrowful, (but) be not sorrowful (on that account).
  • هر زمان گوید به گوشم بخت نو ** که ترا غمگین کنم غمگین مشو

  • I will make thee sorrowful and weeping, to the end that I may hide thee from the eyes of the wicked. 4150
  • من ترا غمگین و گریان زان کنم ** تا کت از چشم بدان پنهان کنم

  • I will cause thy temper to be soured with sorrows, in order that the evil eye may be averted from thy face.
  • تلخ گردانم ز غمها خوی تو ** تا بگردد چشم بد از روی تو

  • Thou art not (really) a hunter and seeker of Me; (nay), thou art My slave and prostrate before My providence.
  • نه تو صیادی و جویای منی ** بنده و افکنده‌ی رای منی

  • Thou art thinking of devices whereby thou mayst attain unto Me: (both) in quitting and in seeking Me thou art helpless.
  • حیله اندیشی که در من در رسی ** در فراق و جستن من بی‌کسی

  • Thy anguish is seeking a means for (attaining unto) Me: I was hearkening yestereve to thy heavy sighs.
  • چاره می‌جوید پی من درد تو ** می‌شنودم دوش آه سرد تو

  • I am even able, without this waiting, to give (thee) access and show unto thee the way of passage, 4155
  • من توانم هم که بی این انتظار ** ره دهم بنمایمت راه گذار

  • That thou mayst be delivered from this whirlpool of Time and mayst set thy foot upon the treasure of union with Me;
  • تا ازین گرداب دوران وا رهی ** بر سر گنج وصالم پا نهی

  • But the sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain of the journey.
  • لیک شیرینی و لذات مقر ** هست بر اندازه‌ی رنج سفر

  • (Only) then wilt thou enjoy thy (native) town and thy kinsfolk when thou sufferest pains and tribulations from exile.’”
  • آنگه ا ز شهر و ز خویشان بر خوری ** کز غریبی رنج و محنتها بری

  • Comparison of the true believer's fleeing (from tribulation) and his impatience in affliction to the agitation and restlessness of chick-peas and other pot-herbs when boiling in the pot, and to their running upwards in order to jump out.
  • تمثیل گریختن مومن و بی‌صبری او در بلا به اضطراب و بی‌قراری نخود و دیگر حوایج در جوش دیگ و بر دویدن تا بیرون جهند

  • Look at a chickpea in the pot, how it leaps up when it is subjected to the fire.
  • بنگر اندر نخودی در دیگ چون ** می‌جهد بالا چو شد ز آتش زبون

  • At the time of its being boiled, the chickpea comes up continually to the top of the pot and raises a hundred cries, 4160
  • هر زمان نخود بر آید وقت جوش ** بر سر دیگ و برآرد صد خروش

  • Saying, “Why are you setting the fire on me? Since you bought (and approved) me, how are you turning me upside down?”
  • که چرا آتش به من در می‌زنی ** چون خریدی چون نگونم می‌کنی

  • The housewife goes on hitting it with the ladle. “No!” says she: “boil nicely and don't jump away from one who makes the fire.
  • می‌زند کفلیز کدبانو که نی ** خوش بجوش و بر مجه ز آتش‌کنی

  • I do not boil you because you are hateful to me: nay, ’tis that you may get taste and savour,
  • زان نجوشانم که مکروه منی ** بلک تا گیری تو ذوق و چاشنی

  • So that you may become nutriment and mingle with the (vital) spirit: this affliction of yours is not on account of (your) being despised.
  • تا غذی گردی بیامیزی بجان ** بهرخواری نیستت این امتحان

  • You, when green and fresh, were drinking water in the garden: that water-drinking was for the sake of this fire.” 4165
  • آب می‌خوردی به بستان سبز و تر ** بهراین آتش بدست آن آب خور

  • His (God's) mercy is prior to His wrath, to the end that by (God's) mercy he (the afflicted person) may suffer affliction.
  • رحمتش سابق بدست از قهر زان ** تا ز رحمت گردد اهل امتحان

  • His (God's) mercy (eternally) preceded His wrath in order that the stock-in-trade, (which is) existence, should come to hand (be acquired);
  • رحمتش بر قهر از آن سابق شدست ** تا که سرمایه‌ی وجود آید بدست

  • For, without pleasure, flesh and skin do not grow; and unless they grow, what shall the love of the Friend consume?
  • زانک بی‌لذت نروید لحم و پوست ** چون نروید چه گدازد عشق دوست

  • If, because of that requirement, acts of wrath come to pass, to the end that you may give up that stock-in-trade,
  • زان تقاضا گر بیاید قهرها ** تا کنی ایثار آن سرمایه را