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1986-2010

  • The reason that is allied to Faith is like a just police-inspector: it is the guardian and magistrate of the city of the heart.
  • عقل ایمانی چو شحنه‌ی عادلست ** پاسبان و حاکم شهر دلست

  • It is mentally alert like a cat: the thief remains in the hole, like a mouse.
  • هم‌چو گربه باشد او بیدارهوش ** دزد در سوراخ ماند هم‌چو موش

  • Wherever the mouse gets the upper hand, no cat is there, or (at least) there is (only) the (unreal) form of a cat.
  • در هر آنجا که برآرد موش دست ** نیست گربه یا که نقش گربه است

  • What cat (is to be compared with the reason)? The Faith-regarding reason which is in the body is the lion that overthrows the lions.
  • گربه‌ی چه شیر شیرافکن بود ** عقل ایمانی که اندر تن بود

  • Its roar is the magistrate (controller) of the tearing (carnivorous) animals; its shout is the preventer of the browsing (herbivorous) animals. 1990
  • غره‌ی او حاکم درندگان ** نعره‌ی او مانع چرندگان

  • (If) the city is full of thieves and clothes-robbers, let there be a police-inspector if you will, or let there be none.
  • شهر پر دزدست و پر جامه‌کنی ** خواه شحنه باش گو و خواه نی

  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, appointed a youth of Hudhayl to be commander of an expeditionary force in which there were elders and veteran warriors.
  • امیر کردن رسول علیه‌السلام جوان هذیلی را بر سریه‌ای کی در آن پیران و جنگ آزمودگان بودند

  • The Prophet was sending a force to fight against the unbelievers and repel insolence.
  • یک سریه می‌فرستادش رسول ** به هر جنگ کافر و دفع فضول

  • He chose a youth of Hudhayl and appointed him commander of the army and leader of the cavalry.
  • یک جوانی را گزید او از هذیل ** میر لشکر کردش و سالار خیل

  • The foundation of an army is unquestionably the chief in command: a people without a chief are a body without a head.
  • اصل لشکر بی‌گمان سرور بود ** قوم بی‌سرور تن بی‌سر بود

  • That you are (spiritually) dead and decrepit—all this is because you have abandoned the chief. 1995
  • این همه که مرده و پژمرده‌ای ** زان بود که ترک سرور کرده‌ای

  • On account of laziness and avarice and egoism you are drawing your head back (behaving in a headstrong manner) and making yourself the head.
  • از کسل وز بخل وز ما و منی ** می‌کشی سر خویش را سر می‌کنی

  • (You are) like the beast that flees from the burden: it takes its head (goes its own way) into the mountains.
  • هم‌چو استوری که بگریزد ز بار ** او سر خود گیرد اندر کوهسار

  • Its master is running after it, crying, “O giddy-headed one, on every side there is a wolf in quest of an ass.
  • صاحبش در پی دوان کای خیره سر ** هر طرف گرگیست اندر قصد خر

  • If thou disappear now from mine eye, the mighty wolf will approach thee from every direction.
  • گر ز چشمم این زمان غایب شوی ** پیشت آید هر طرف گرگ قوی

  • He will chew thy bones like sugar, so that thou wilt never see life again. 2000
  • استخوانت را بخاید چون شکر ** که نبینی زندگانی را دگر

  • (Or) do not suppose that (immediate destruction); at any rate thou wilt be left without fodder: fire is (finally) extinguished by lack of faggots.
  • آن مگیر آخر بمانی از علف ** آتش از بی‌هیزمی گردد تلف

  • Beware! Do not flee from my control and from the heaviness of the burden, for I am thy (rational) soul.”
  • هین بمگریز از تصرف کردنم ** وز گرانی بار که جانت منم

  • You also are a beast (of burden), for your carnal soul predominates: the predominant (quality) determines (a thing's nature), O worshipper of self.
  • تو ستوری هم که نفست غالبست ** حکم غالب را بود ای خودپرست

  • The Almighty did not call you an ass, He called you a horse: the Arabs say to the Arab horse “ta‘ál” (“come”).
  • خر نخواندت اسپ خواندت ذوالجلال ** اسپ تازی را عرب گوید تعال

  • Mustafá (Mohammed) was God's stable-overseer for the beasts, (which are) the iniquitous carnal soul. 2005
  • میر آخر بود حق را مصطفی ** بهر استوران نفس پر جفا

  • Moved by lovingkindness, He (God) said, “Say, ‘ta‘álaw (come ye), to the end that I may train you: I am the trainer.’”
  • قل تعالوا گفت از جذب کرم ** تا ریاضتتان دهم من رایضم

  • (The Prophet said), “Since I have trained the carnal souls, I have suffered many kicks from these beasts.
  • نفسها را تا مروض کرده‌ام ** زین ستوران بس لگدها خورده‌ام

  • Wherever there is one fond of training, he hath no means of avoiding kicks.
  • هر کجا باشد ریاضت‌باره‌ای ** از لگدهااش نباشد چاره‌ای

  • Of necessity the most affliction falls on the prophets, for ’tis an affliction to give training to the raw (ignorant).
  • لاجرم اغلب بلا بر انبیاست ** که ریاضت دادن خامان بلاست

  • Ye are stumbling along: at my word (in obedience to my command) go at a jog-trot, that ye may become gentle and be suitable for the king to ride. 2010
  • سکسکانید از دمم یرغا روید ** تا یواش و مرکب سلطان شوید