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1386-1410

  • O lover, your carob is falseness: why do you creep, like children, towards the false?
  • عاشقا خروب تو آمد کژی ** هم‌چو طفلان سوی کژ چون می‌غژی

  • Know yourself a sinner and calf yourself a sinner—do not be afraid—so that that Master may not steal (secretly take away) the lesson from you.
  • خویش مجرم دان و مجرم گو مترس ** تا ندزدد از تو آن استاد درس

  • When you say, “I am ignorant; give (me) instruction,” such fair-dealing is better than (a false) reputation.
  • چون بگویی جاهلم تعلیم ده ** این چنین انصاف از ناموس به

  • Learn from your father (Adam), O clear-browed man: he said heretofore, “O our Lord” and “We have done wrong.”
  • از پدر آموز ای روشن‌جبین ** ربنا گفت و ظلمنا پیش ازین

  • He made no excuse, nor did he invent falsehood nor lift up the banner of deceit and evasion. 1390
  • نه بهانه کرد و نه تزویر ساخت ** نه لوای مکر و حیلت بر فراخت

  • That Iblís, on the other hand, began to dispute, saying, “I was red-faced (honourable): Thou hast made me yellow (disgraced).
  • باز آن ابلیس بحث آغاز کرد ** که بدم من سرخ رو کردیم زرد

  • The colour is Thy colour: Thou art my dyer, Thou art the origin of my sin and bane and brand.”
  • رنگ رنگ تست صباغم توی ** اصل جرم و آفت و داغم توی

  • Beware! Recite (the text) because Thou hast seduced me, in order that you may not become a necessitarian and may not weave untruth.
  • هین بخوان رب بما اغویتنی ** تا نگردی جبری و کژ کم تنی

  • How long will you leap up the tree of necessitarianism and lay your free-will aside,
  • بر درخت جبر تا کی بر جهی ** اختیار خویش را یک‌سو نهی

  • Like that Iblís and his progeny, (engaged) in battle and argument with God? 1395
  • هم‌چو آن ابلیس و ذریات او ** با خدا در جنگ و اندر گفت و گو

  • How should there be compulsion when you are trailing your skirt (sweeping along) into sin with such complacence?
  • چون بود اکراه با چندان خوشی ** که تو در عصیان همی دامن کشی

  • Does any one under compulsion walk so complacently? Does any one, having lost his way’, go dancing (gleefully) like that?
  • آن‌چنان خوش کس رود در مکرهی ** کس چنان رقصان دود در گم‌رهی

  • You were fighting like twenty men (to prevail) in the matter concerning which those others were giving you good advice.
  • بیست مرده جنگ می‌کردی در آن ** کت همی‌دادند پند آن دیگران

  • You said, “This is right and this is the only (approved) way: how should any one but a nobody (worthless person) rail at me?”
  • که صواب اینست و راه اینست و بس ** کی زند طعنه مرا جز هیچ‌کس

  • How should one who is compelled speak thus? How should one who has lost his way wrangle like this? 1400
  • کی چنین گوید کسی کو مکر هست ** چون چنین جنگد کسی کو بی‌رهست

  • Whatever your fleshly soul desires, you have free-will (in regard to that); whatever your reason desires, you plead necessity (as an excuse for rejecting it).
  • هر چه نفست خواست داری اختیار ** هر چه عقلت خواست آری اضطرار

  • He that is blessed and familiar (with spiritual mysteries) knows that intelligence is of Iblís, while love is of Adam.
  • داند او کو نیک‌بخت و محرمست ** زیرکی ز ابلیس و عشق از آدمست

  • Intelligence is (like) swimming in the seas: he (the swimmer) is not saved: he is drowned at the end of the business.
  • زیرکی سباحی آمد در بحار ** کم رهد غرقست او پایان کار

  • Leave off swimming, let pride and enmity go: this is not a Jayhun (Oxus) or a (lesser) river, it is an ocean;
  • هل سباحت را رها کن کبر و کین ** نیست جیحون نیست جو دریاست این

  • And, moreover, (it is) the deep Ocean without refuge: it sweeps away the seven seas like straw. 1405
  • وانگهان دریای ژرف بی‌پناه ** در رباید هفت دریا را چو کاه

  • Love is as a ship for the elect: seldom is calamity (the result); for the most part it is deliverance.
  • عشق چون کشتی بود بهر خواص ** کم بود آفت بود اغلب خلاص

  • Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.
  • زیرکی بفروش و حیرانی بخر ** زیرکی ظنست و حیرانی نظر

  • Sacrifice your understanding in the presence of Mustafá (Mohammed) say, “hasbiya ‘lláh, for God sufficeth me.”
  • عقل قربان کن به پیش مصطفی ** حسبی الله گو که الله‌ام کفی

  • Do not draw back your head from the ship (ark), like Kan‘án (Canaan), whom his intelligent soul deluded,
  • هم‌چو کنعان سر ز کشتی وا مکش ** که غرورش داد نفس زیرکش

  • Saying, “I will go up to the top of the lofty mountain: why must I bear gratitude (be under an obligation) to Noah?” 1410
  • که برآیم بر سر کوه مشید ** منت نوحم چرا باید کشید