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  • When Moses came up from the remotest part of the desert, at his advent Mount Sinai began to dance.
  • چون بر آمد موسی از اقصای دشت ** کوه طور از مقدمش رقاص گشت

  • Commentary on (the text), O ye mountains, repeat (the praise of God) in accord with him, and the birds (likewise).
  • تفسیر یا جبال اوبی معه والطیر

  • The face of David shone with His glory: the mountains sang plaintively after him.
  • روی داود از فرش تابان شده ** کوهها اندر پیش نالان شده

  • The mountain became an accompanist to David: both the minstrels (were) drunken in love for a King.
  • کوه با داود گشته همرهی ** هردو مطرب مست در عشق شهی

  • Came the (Divine) command, “O ye mountains, repeat (the praise of God)”: both joined their voices and kept the tune together. 4270
  • یا جبال اوبی امر آمده ** هر دو هم‌آواز و هم‌پرده شده

  • He (God) said, “O David, thou hast suffered separation: for My sake thou hast parted from thine intimates.”
  • گفت داودا تو هجرت دیده‌ای ** بهر من از همدمان ببریده‌ای

  • O lonely stranger who hast become friendless, from whose heart the fire of longing hath flamed up,
  • ای غریب فرد بی مونس شده ** آتش شوق از دلت شعله زده

  • Thou desirest minstrels and singers and boon-companions: the Eternal One brings the mountains unto thee.
  • مطربان خواهی و قوال و ندیم ** کوهها را پیشت آرد آن قدیم

  • He makes (them) minstrels and singers and pipers: He makes the mountain blow in measure before thee,
  • مطرب و قوال و سرنایی کند ** که به پیشت بادپیمایی کند

  • To the end that thou mayst know that, since the mountain is permitted to sing, the saint (likewise) hath plaintive songs (uttered) without lips or teeth. 4275
  • تا بدانی ناله چون که را رواست ** بی لب و دندان ولی را ناله‌هاست

  • The melody of the particles of that pure-bodied one is reaching his sensuous ear every moment.
  • نغمه‌ی اجزای آن صافی‌جسد ** هر دمی در گوش حسش می‌رسد

  • His companions hear it not, (but) he hears (it): oh, happy is the soul that believes in his hidden mystery.
  • همنشینان نشنوند او بشنود ** ای خنک جان کو به غیبش بگرود

  • He (the saint) beholds a hundred discourses in himself, while his companion has gotten no scent (perception thereof).
  • بنگرد در نفس خود صد گفت و گو ** همنشین او نبرده هیچ بو

  • Within thy heart a hundred questions and a hundred answers are coming from (the realm of) non-spatiality to thy dwelling-place.
  • صد سال و صد جواب اندر دلت ** می‌رسد از لامکان تا منزلت

  • Thou hearest (them); the ears (of another) do not hear (them), (even) if he bring his ear nigh to thee. 4280
  • بشنوی تو نشنود زان گوشها ** گر به نزدیک تو آرد گوش را

  • O deaf man, I grant that truly thou hearest them not; (but) since thou hast seen their (external) emblem, how wilt not thou believe?
  • گیرم ای کر خود تو آن را نشنوی ** چون مثالش دیده‌ای چون نگروی

  • Reply to him who rails at the Mathnawí on account of his being deficient in understanding.
  • جواب طعنه‌زننده در مثنوی از قصور فهم خود

  • O railing cur, you are bow-wowing and practising evasion for the purpose of railing at the Qur’án.
  • ای سگ طاعن تو عو عو می‌کنی ** طعن قرآن را برون‌شو می‌کنی

  • This is not such a lion that you will save your life from it or carry off your faith (secure) from the claws of its vengeance.
  • این نه آن شیرست کز وی جان بری ** یا ز پنجه‌ی قهر او ایمان بری

  • The Qur’án is proclaiming till the Resurrection—“O people devoted to ignorance,
  • تا قیامت می‌زند قرآن ندی ** ای گروهی جهل را گشته فدی

  • Who were deeming me to be an idle tale and were sowing the seed of raillery and infidelity, 4285
  • که مرا افسانه می‌پنداشتید ** تخم طعن و کافری می‌کاشتید

  • (Now) ye yourselves have seen (the truth of) what ye were scoffing at, (namely), that ye were perishable and idle tale.
  • خود بدیدیت آنک طعنه می‌زدیت ** که شما فانی و افسانه بدیت

  • I am the Word of God and subsistent through the (Divine) Essence; I am the Food of the soul of the soul. And (I am) the Jacinth of purity.
  • من کلام حقم و قایم به ذات ** قوت جان جان و یاقوت زکات

  • I am the Sunlight that hath fallen upon you, but I have not become separate from the Sun.
  • نور خورشیدم فتاده بر شما ** لیک از خورشید ناگشته جدا

  • Lo, I am the Fountain of the Water of Life, that I may deliver the lovers (of God) from death.
  • نک منم ینبوع آن آب حیات ** تا رهانم عاشقان را از ممات

  • If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.” 4290
  • گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعه‌ای بر گورتان حق ریختی

  • Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.
  • نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم

  • Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.
  • مثل زدن در رمیدن کره‌ی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان