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538-562

  • From sweet-lipped ones (even) bitterness becomes sweet; from the rose-garden (even) thorns become charming.
  • تلخ از شیرین‌لبان خوش می‌شود ** خار از گلزار دلکش می‌شود

  • Colocynth turns into dates (when it comes) from the beloved; the (narrow) house is made (like) spacious fields by the house-mate.
  • حنظل از معشوق خرما می‌شود ** خانه از همخانه صحرا می‌شود

  • Oh, (there is) many a dainty youth that suffers thorns (of anguish) in the hope of (winning) a rose-cheeked moon-like (sweetheart). 540
  • ای بسا از نازنینان خارکش ** بر امید گل‌عذار ماه‌وش

  • Oh, (there is) many a porter, his back torn with wounds for the sake of the moon-faced one to whom he has lost his heart.
  • ای بسا حمال گشته پشت‌ریش ** از برای دلبر مه‌روی خویش

  • The ironsmith has blackened his beauty, that (when) night comes he may kissthe face of (a beloved like) the moon.
  • کرده آهنگر جمال خود سیاه ** تا که شب آید ببوسد روی ماه

  • The merchant (sits), racked, on a bench (in his shop) till nightfall, because (some one tall and slender as) a cypress has taken root in his heart.
  • خواجه تا شب بر دکانی چار میخ ** زانک سروی در دلش کردست بیخ

  • A trader is faring over sea and land: he runs (makes those swift journeys) for live of one who sits at home.
  • تاجری دریا و خشکی می‌رود ** آن بمهر خانه‌شینی می‌دود

  • Whoever has a passion for that which is dead, ‘tis in hope of (gaining) one who has the features of the living. 545
  • هر که را با مرده سودایی بود ** بر امید زنده‌سیمایی بود

  • The carpenter turns his face (attention) to wood, in the hope of rendering service to a fair one whose face is like the moon.
  • آن دروگر روی آورده به چوب ** بر امید خدمت مه‌روی خوب

  • Do thou exert thyself in hope of the Living One who does not become lifeless after a day or two!
  • بر امید زنده‌ای کن اجتهاد ** کو نگردد بعد روزی دو جماد

  • Do not from meanness choose a mean person as thy friend: that friendship in him is borrowed (unessential).
  • مونسی مگزین خسی را از خسی ** عاریت باشد درو آن مونسی

  • If thy friends other than God possess constancy (permanence), where is thy friendship with the mother and father?
  • انس تو با مادر و بابا کجاست ** گر بجز حق مونسانت را وفاست

  • If any one but God is worthy to be relied upon, what has become of thy friendship with thy nurse and tutor? 550
  • انس تو با دایه و لالا چه شد ** گر کسی شاید بغیر حق عضد

  • Thy friendship with the milk and the teat did not endure, thy shyness of (going to) school did not endure.
  • انس تو با شیر و با پستان نماند ** نفرت تو از دبیرستان نماند

  • That (friendship) was a radiance (cast) upon their wall: that sign (of the Sun) went back towards the Sun.
  • آن شعاعی بود بر دیوارشان ** جانب خورشید وا رفت آن نشان

  • On whatsoever thing that radiance may fall, thou becomest in love with that (thing), O brave man.
  • بر هر آن چیزی که افتد آن شعاع ** تو بر آن هم عاشق آیی ای شجاع

  • On whatsoever existent thing thy love (is bestowed), that (thing) is gilded with Divine qualities.
  • عشق تو بر هر چه آن موجود بود ** آن ز وصف حق زر اندود بود

  • When the goldenness has gone to its original source and (only) the copper remains, (thy) nature is surfeited and proceeds to divorce (discard) it. 555
  • چون زری با اصل رفت و مس بماند ** طبع سیر آمد طلاق او براند

  • Withdraw thy foot from that which is gilded by His qualities, do not from ignorance call the base alloy beautiful;
  • از زر اندود صفاتش پا بکش ** از جهالت قلب را کم گوی خوش

  • For in base coin the beauty is borrowed: beneath the comeliness is the substance uncomely.
  • کان خوشی در قلبها عاریتست ** زیر زینت مایه‌ی بی زینتست

  • The gold is going from the face of the false coin into the mine (whence it came): do thou too go towards the Mine to which it is going.
  • زر ز روی قلب در کان می‌رود ** سوی آن کان رو تو هم کان می‌رود

  • The light is going from the wall up to the sun: do thou go to that Sun which ever goes (moves) in proportion (with eternal right and justice).
  • نور از دیوار تا خور می‌رود ** تو بدان خور رو که در خور می‌رود

  • Henceforth take thou the water (that comes) from Heaven, forasmuch as thou hast not found faithfulness in the aqueduct. 560
  • زین سپس پستان تو آب از آسمان ** چون ندیدی تو وفا در ناودان

  • The lure to catch the wolf is (the sheep’s tail; it is) not the place (shop) where the sheep’s tail came from: how should that fierce wolf know the place of provenance?
  • معدن دنبه نباشد دام گرگ ** کی شناسد معدن آن گرگ سترگ

  • They (the Khwaja and his family) imagined (that they would be) gold tied in knots, (so) the deluded (party) were making haste to (reach) the countryside.
  • زر گمان بردند بسته در گره ** می‌شتابیدند مغروران به ده