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  • What, indeed, does it matter if he has prevailed (against us) several times? Time (Fortune) brings every one to predominance (now and then).
  • خود چه شد گر غالب آمد چند بار ** هر کسی را غالب آرد روزگار

  • We also were made successful by the Days (Fortune), and at times became victorious over him.” 4495
  • ما هم از ایام بخت‌آور شدیم ** بارها بر وی مظفر آمدیم

  • (But) again they were saying (to themselves), “Although he was defeated, it was not disgraceful and vile like our defeat,”
  • باز گفتندی که گرچه او شکست ** چون شکست ما نبود آن زشت و پست

  • Because in (the hour of) defeat (his) good fortune gave him underhand a hundred secret joys;
  • زانک بخت نیک او را در شکست ** داد صد شادی پنهان زیردست

  • For he did not at all resemble one defeated, as he felt no sorrow or distress thereat,
  • کو باشکسته نمی‌مانست هیچ ** که نه غم بودش در آن نه پیچ پیچ

  • Since to be vanquished is the mark of the true believers; yet in the true believer's defeat there is goodness.
  • چون نشان مومنان مغلوبیست ** لیک در اشکست ممن خوبیست

  • If you crush some musk or ambergris, you will fill a (whole) world with (a scent like) the exhalation of sweet herbs; 4500
  • گر تو مشک و عنبری را بشکنی ** عالمی از فوح ریحان پر کنی

  • And if you suddenly crush the dung of an ass, the houses will be filled to the top with stench.
  • ور شکستی ناگهان سرگین خر ** خانه‌ها پر گند گردد تا به سر

  • At the moment of the (Prophet's) ignominious return from Hudaybiya, the empire of Lo, We have opened (to thee the way to a conspicuous) victory proclaimed itself.
  • وقت واگشت حدیبیه بذل ** دولت انا فتحنا زد دهل

  • The hidden reason why God most High gave the title of “victory” to the return of the Prophet, on whom be peace, from Hudaybiya without having gained his purpose: as (God said), “Lo, We have opened (to thee the way to) victory”; for it was a locking in appearance (only), and in reality an opening, just as the crushing of musk is apparently a crushing, but really the confirmation of its muskiness and the exhibition of its virtues in their perfection.
  • سر آنک بی‌مراد بازگشتن رسول علیه السلام از حدیبیه حق تعالی لقب آن فتح کرد کی انا فتحنا کی به صورت غلق بود و به معنی فتح چنانک شکستن مشک به ظاهر شکستن است و به معنی درست کردنست مشکی او را و تکمیل فواید اوست

  • From the (Divine) empire came to him the message, “Go, be not saddened by the withholding of this victory,
  • آمدش پیغام از دولت که رو ** تو ز منع این ظفر غمگین مشو

  • For in this present abasement of thee there are victories: lo, such and such a fortress, such and such a town, are (given) to thee.”
  • کاندرین خواری نقدت فتحهاست ** نک فلان قلعه فلان بقعه تراست

  • Consider, after all, when he retreated in haste, what (great things) he did against Qurayza and Nadír. 4505
  • بنگر آخر چونک واگردید تفت ** بر قریظه و بر نضیر از وی چه رفت

  • The fortresses, also, round those two settlements submitted (to him), and (many) advantages (in the shape) of spoils (came into his hands).
  • قلعه‌ها هم گرد آن دو بقعه‌ها ** شد مسلم وز غنایم نفعها

  • And if that be not so, consider that this class (of persons) are sorrowful and woeful and distraught and enamoured (of God).
  • ور نباشد آن تو بنگر کین فریق ** پر غم و رنجند و مفتون و عشیق

  • They eat the poison of abasement, like sugar; they feed, like camels, on the thistle of sorrows.
  • زهر خواری را چو شکر می‌خورند ** خار غمها را چو اشتر می‌چرند

  • (This they do) for the sake of the sorrow itself, not for the sake of relief (from sorrow): in their eyes this lowliness is as a ladder.
  • بهر عین غم نه از بهر فرج ** این تسافل پیش ایشان چون درج

  • So glad are they at the bottom of the pit that they are afraid of the throne and the tiara. 4510
  • آنچنان شادند اندر قعر چاه ** که همی‌ترسند از تخت و کلاه

  • Every place where the Beloved himself is their companion is above the sky, not below the earth.
  • هر کجا دلبر بود خود همنشین ** فوق گردونست نه زیر زمین

  • Commentary on the Tradition that Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, said, “Do not declare me to be more excellent than Yúnus ibn Mattá.”
  • تفسیر این خبر کی مصطفی علیه السلام فرمود لا تفضلونی علی یونس بن متی

  • The Prophet said, “No preference is (to be given) to my ascension as being superior to the ascension of Yúnus (Jonah).
  • گفت پیغامبر که معراج مرا ** نیست بر معراج یونس اجتبا

  • Mine was up to heaven, and his was down below (in the belly of the Fish), because nighness unto God is beyond calculation.”
  • آن من بر چرخ و آن او نشیب ** زانک قرب حق برونست از حساب

  • To be nigh (unto God) is not to go up or down: to be nigh unto God is to escape from the prison of existence.
  • قرب نه بالا نه پستی رفتنست ** قرب حق از حبس هستی رستنست

  • What room hath non-existence for “up” and “down”? Non-existence hath no “soon” or “far” or “late.” 4515
  • نیست را چه جای بالا است و زیر ** نیست را نه زود و نه دورست و دیر

  • The laboratory and treasure of God is in non-existence. Thou art deluded by existence: how shouldst thou know what non-existence is?
  • کارگاه و گنج حق در نیستیست ** غره‌ی هستی چه دانی نیست چیست

  • The sum of the matter (is that) this defeat of theirs, O sire, does not resemble our defeat at all.
  • حاصل این اشکست ایشان ای کیا ** می‌نماند هیچ با اشکست ما

  • They rejoice in being abased and destroyed, just as we (rejoice) in the hour of success and honour.
  • آنچنان شادند در ذل و تلف ** همچو ما در وقت اقبال و شرف