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439-463

  • The prudent Khwája offered many an excuse and made many a pretext to the (countryman who resembled the) obstinate Devil.
  • خواجه‌ی حازم بسی عذر آورید ** بس بهانه کرد با دیو مرید

  • “At this moment,” said he, “I have serious matters (in hand); if I come (to visit you), they will not be set in order. 440
  • گفت این دم کارها دارم مهم ** گر بیایم آن نگردد منتظم

  • The King has charged me with a delicate affair, and because of (anxiously) expecting me he has not slept during the night.
  • شاه کار نازکم فرموده است ** ز انتظارم شاه شب نغنوده است

  • I dare not neglect the King's command, I cannot fall into disgrace with the King.
  • من نیارم ترک امر شاه کرد ** من نتانم شد بر شه روی‌زرد

  • Every morning and evening a special officer arrives and requests of me (desires me to provide) a means of escape (from the difficulty).
  • هر صباح و هر مسا سرهنگ خاص ** می‌رسد از من همی‌جوید مناص

  • Do you deem it right that I should go into the country, with the result that the King would knit his brows (in wrath)?
  • تو روا داری که آیم سوی ده ** تا در ابرو افکند سلطان گره

  • How should I heal (assuage) his anger after that? Surely, by this (offence) I should bury myself alive.” 445
  • بعد از آن درمان خشمش چون کنم ** زنده خود را زین مگر مدفون کنم

  • He related a hundred pretexts of this sort, (but his) expedients did not coincide with God's decree.
  • زین نمط او صد بهانه باز گفت ** حیله‌ها با حکم حق نفتاد جفت

  • If (all) the atoms of the world contrive expedients, they are naught, naught, against the ordinance of Heaven.
  • گر شود ذرات عالم حیله‌پیچ ** با قضای آسمان هیچند هیچ

  • How shall this earth flee from Heaven, how shall it conceal itself from it?
  • چون گریزد این زمین از آسمان ** چون کند او خویش را از وی نهان

  • Whatsoever may come from Heaven to the earth, it (the earth) has no refuge or device or hiding-place.
  • هرچه آید ز آسمان سوی زمین ** نه مفر دارد نه چاره نه کمین

  • Is fire from the sun raining upon it, it has laid its face (low) before his fire; 450
  • آتش ار خورشید می‌بارد برو ** او بپیش آتشش بنهاده رو

  • And if the rain is making a flood upon it and devastating the cities upon it,
  • ور همی طوفان کند باران برو ** شهرها را می‌کند ویران برو

  • It (the earth) has become resigned to it (Heaven), like Job, saying, “I am captive: bring (on me) whatever thou wilt.”
  • او شده تسلیم او ایوب‌وار ** که اسیرم هرچه می‌خواهی ببار

  • O thou who art a part of this earth, do not lift up thy head (in rebellion); when thou seest the decree of God, do not withdraw (from it disobediently).
  • ای که جزو این زمینی سر مکش ** چونک بینی حکم یزدان در مکش

  • Since thou hast heard “We created thee of dust,” (know that) He (God) hath required thee to be (humble and submissive as) dust: do not avert thy face (from Him).
  • چون خلقناکم شنودی من تراب ** خاک باشی جست از تو رو متاب

  • (God saith), “Mark how I have sown a seed in the earth: thou art dust of the earth, and I have raised it aloft. 455
  • بین که اندر خاک تخمی کاشتم ** کرد خاکی و منش افراشتم

  • Do thou once more adopt the practice of earthiness (self-abasement), that I may make thee prince over all princes.”
  • حمله‌ی دیگر تو خاکی پیشه گیر ** تا کنم بر جمله میرانت امیر

  • Water goes from above to below; then from below it goes up above.
  • آب از بالا به پستی در رود ** آنگه از پستی به بالا بر رود

  • The wheat went beneath the earth from above; afterwards it became ears of corn and sprang up quickly.
  • گندم از بالا بزیر خاک شد ** بعد از آن او خوشه و چالاک شد

  • The seed of every fruit entered into the earth; afterwards it raised up heads (shoots) from the buried (root).
  • دانه‌ی هر میوه آمد در زمین ** بعد از آن سرها بر آورد از دفین

  • The source of (all) blessings descended from Heaven to the earth and became the nutriment of the pure (vital) spirit. 460
  • اصل نعمتها ز گردون تا بخاک ** زیر آمد شد غذای جان پاک

  • Forasmuch as it came down from Heaven on account of humility, it became part of the living and valiant man.
  • از تواضع چون ز گردون شد بزیر ** گشت جزو آدمی حی دلیر

  • Hence that inanimate matter (rain and sunlight) was turned into human qualities and soared joyously above the empyrean,
  • پس صفات آدمی شد آن جماد ** بر فراز عرش پران گشت شاد

  • Saying, “We came at first from the living world, and have (now) gone back from below to above.”
  • کز جهان زنده ز اول آمدیم ** باز از پستی سوی بالا شدیم