The tiara began to speak, saying, “O king, (now) display pride (proud independence): since thou hast shaken thy wings free from the clay, take flight (soar aloft).1910
تاج ناطق گشت کای شه ناز کن ** چون فشاندی پر ز گل پرواز کن
I have no permission to pass beyond this (point) and tear to pieces the veils of the mystery of this (matter).
نیست دستوری کزین من بگذرم ** پردههای غیب این برهم درم
Lay thy hand on my mouth: shut my mouth (so as to restrain me) from unacceptable speech.”
بر دهانم نه تو دست خود ببند ** مر دهانم را ز گفت ناپسند
Do not you, then, whatsoever grief befall you, resentfully accuse any one: turn upon yourself.
پس ترا هر غم که پیش آید ز درد ** بر کسی تهمت منه بر خویش گرد
Do not think evil of another, O you who gratify the desire of your friend: do not do that which that slave was meditating—
ظن مبر بر دیگری ای دوستکام ** آن مکن که میسگالید آن غلام
Now his quarrel (was) with the messenger and the steward, now his anger (was directed) against the generous emperor.1915
گاه جنگش با رسول و مطبخی ** گاه خشمش با شهنشاه سخی
You are like Pharaoh, who had left Moses (alone) and was taking off the heads of the people's babes:
همچو فرعونی که موسی هشته بود ** طفلکان خلق را سر میربود
The enemy (Moses) was in the house of that blind-hearted man, (while) he (outside) was cutting the necks of the children.
آن عدو در خانهی آن کور دل ** او شده اطفال را گردن گسل
You also are bad (malign) to others outside, while you have become complaisant to the grievous self (carnal soul) within.
تو هم از بیرون بدی با دیگران ** واندرون خوش گشته با نفس گران
It is your enemy indeed, (yet) you are giving it candy, while outside you are accusing every one.
خود عدوت اوست قندش میدهی ** وز برون تهمت به هر کس مینهی
You are like Pharaoh, blind and blind-hearted: complaisant to your enemy and treating the guiltless with ignominy.1920
همچو فرعونی تو کور و کوردل ** با عدو خوش بیگناهان را مذل
How long, O (imitator of) Pharaoh, will you slay the innocent and pamper your noxious body?
چند فرعونا کشی بیجرم را ** مینوازی مر تن پر غرم را
His understanding was superior to that of (other) kings: God's ordainment had made him without understanding and blind.
عقل او بر عقل شاهان میفزود ** حکم حق بیعقل و کورش کرده بود
God's seal upon the eye and ear of the intelligence makes him (the intelligent man) an animal, (even) if he is a Plato.
مهر حق بر چشم و بر گوش خرد ** گر فلاطونست حیوانش کند
God's ordainment comes into view on the tablet (of the heart) in such wise as Báyazíd's prediction of the hidden (future event).
حکم حق بر لوح میآید پدید ** آنچنان که حکم غیب بایزید
How Shaykh Abu ’l-Hasan, may God be well-pleased with him, heard Báyazíd's announcement of his coming into existence and of what should happen to him.
شنیدن شیخ ابوالحسن رضی الله عنه خبر دادن ابویزید را و بود او و احوال او
It came to pass just as he (Báyazíd) had said. Bu ’l-Hasan heard from the people that (prediction),1925
همچنان آمد که او فرموده بود ** بوالحسن از مردمان آن را شنود
(Namely), “Hasan will be my disciple and my true follower (umma), and will receive lessons from my tomb at every dawn.”
که حسن باشد مرید و امتم ** درس گیرد هر صباح از تربتم
He (Abu ’l-Hasan) said, “I have also seen him in a dream and have heard this from the spirit of the Shaykh.”
گفت من هم نیز خوابش دیدهام ** وز روان شیخ این بشنیدهام
Every dawn he would set his face towards the grave and stand (there) in attention till the forenoon,
هر صباحی رو نهادی سوی گور ** ایستادی تا ضحی اندر حضور
And either the apparition of the Shaykh would come to him, or without anything spoken his difficulty would be solved,
یا مثال شیخ پیشش آمدی ** یا که بیگفتی شکالش حل شدی
Till one day he came auspiciously (to visit the grave): the graves were covered with new-fallen snow.1930
تا یکی روزی بیامد با سعود ** گورها را برف نو پوشیده بود
He saw the snows, wreath on wreath like flags, mound (piled) on mound; and his soul was grieved.
توی بر تو برفها همچون علم ** قبه قبه دیده و شد جانش به غم
From the shrine of the (spiritually) living Shaykh came to him a cry, “Hark, I call thee that thou mayst run to me.
بانگش آمد از حظیرهی شیخ حی ** ها انا ادعوک کی تسعی الی
Hey, come quickly in this direction, towards my voice: if the world is (full of) snow, (yet) do not turn thy face away from me.”
هین بیا این سو بر آوازم شتاب ** عالم ار برفست روی از من متاب
From that day his (spiritual) state became excellent, and he saw (experienced) those wondrous things which at first he was (only) hearing (knowing by hearsay).
حال او زان روز شد خوب و بدید ** آن عجایب را که اول میشنید
How the slave wrote another letter to the king when he received no reply to the first letter.
رقعهی دیگر نوشتن آن غلام پیش شاه چون جواب آن رقعهی اول نیافت