English    Türkçe    فارسی   

4
2048-2072

  • O Messenger of God, (even) if the youth is lion-born (heroic), may none but an old man be head of the army!
  • یا رسول الله جوان ار شیرزاد ** غیر مرد پیر سر لشکر مباد

  • Thou too hast said, and thy word is (a true) witness, ‘The leader must be old, must be old.’
  • هم تو گفتستی و گفت تو گوا ** پیر باید پیر باید پیشوا

  • O Messenger of God, look on this army, (in which) there are so many elders and (persons) superior to him.” 2050
  • یا رسول‌الله درین لشکر نگر ** هست چندین پیر و از وی پیشتر

  • Do not regard the yellow leaves of this tree, (but) pick its ripe apples.
  • زین درخت آن برگ زردش را مبین ** سیبهای پخته‌ی او را بچین

  • How, in sooth, are its yellow leaves void (of worth)? This is the sign of maturity and perfection.
  • برگهای زرد او خود کی تهیست ** این نشان پختگی و کاملیست

  • The yellow leaf of the (elder's) beard and his white hair bring tidings of joy on account of his mature intelligence.
  • برگ زرد ریش و آن موی سپید ** بهر عقل پخته می‌آرد نوید

  • The newly-arrived green-coloured leaves signify that this fruit is unripe.
  • برگهای نو رسیده‌ی سبزفام ** شد نشان آنک آن میوه‌ست خام

  • The provision of leaflessness (spiritual poverty) is the sign of being a gnostic; the yellowness of gold is the (cause of the) money-changer's ruddiness of face (cheerful countenance). 2055
  • برگ بی‌برگی نشان عارفیست ** زردی زر سرخ رویی صارفیست

  • If he that (still) is rosy-cheeked has fresh down (on his face), (yet) he has just begun to learn writing in the school of knowledge.
  • آنک او گل عارضست ار نو خطست ** او به مکتب گاه مخبر نوخطست

  • The letters of his handwriting are very crooked (misshapen): he is a cripple in respect of intelligence, though his body moves with agility.
  • حرفهای خط او کژمژ بود ** مزمن عقلست اگر تن می‌دود

  • Although an old man's feet are deprived of rapid movement, his intelligence has gotten two wings and has sped to the zenith.
  • پای پیر از سرعت ار چه باز ماند ** یافت عقل او دو پر بر اوج راند

  • If you wish for an example (of this), look at Ja‘far: God gave him wings instead of hands and feet.
  • گر مثل خواهی به جعفر در نگر ** داد حق بر جای دست و پاش پر

  • Cease from (speaking of) gold (pallor), for this topic is recondite: this heart of mine has become agitated like quicksilver. 2060
  • بگذر از زر کین سخت شد محتجب ** هم‌چو سیماب این دلم شد مضطرب

  • From within me a hundred sweet-breathing silent ones put their hands on their lips, signifying, “It is enough.”
  • ز اندرونم صدخموش خوش‌نفس ** دست بر لب می‌زند یعنی که بس

  • Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking thee: do not seek the river.
  • خامشی بحرست و گفتن هم‌چو جو ** بحر می‌جوید ترا جو را مجو

  • Do not turn thy head away from the indications given by the sea: conclude (the subject)—and God best knoweth the right course.
  • از اشارتهای دریا سر متاب ** ختم کن والله اعلم بالصواب

  • That irreverent (objector) made no pause in the words (which he poured forth) in this fashion from those cold (insipid) lips (of his) in the presence of the Prophet.
  • هم‌چنین پیوسته کرد آن بی‌ادب ** پیش پیغامبر سخن زان سرد لب

  • Words were assisting (did not fail) him, (but) he was ignorant that hearsay (traditional knowledge) is mere babble in the presence of sight (immediate vision). 2065
  • دست می‌دادش سخن او بی‌خبر ** که خبر هرزه بود پیش نظر

  • Indeed, these matters of hearsay are (only) a substitute for sight: they are not for him who is present, (but) for him who is absent.
  • این خبرها از نظر خود نایبست ** بهر حاضر نیست بهر غایبست

  • Whoever has been caused to attain unto sight, before him these matters of hearsay are idle.
  • هر که او اندر نظر موصول شد ** این خبرها پیش او معزول شد

  • When you have sat down beside your beloved, after this banish the dallálas (the old women who act as go-betweens).
  • چونک با معشوق گشتی همنشین ** دفع کن دلالگان را بعد ازین

  • When any one has passed beyond childhood and has become a man, the letter and the dallála become irksome to him.
  • هر که از طفلی گذشت و مرد شد ** نامه و دلاله بر وی سرد شد

  • He reads letters, (but only) for the purpose of teaching (others); he utters words, (but only) for the purpose of making (others) understand. 2070
  • نامه خواند از پی تعلیم را ** حرف گوید از پی تفهیم را

  • ’Tis wrong to speak by hearsay in the presence of those who see (who are endowed with vision), for it is a proof of our heedlessness and deficiency.
  • پیش بینایان خبر گفتن خطاست ** کان دلیل غفلت و نقصان ماست

  • In the presence of the seer silence is to your advantage: on this account came (from God) the allocution, Be ye silent.
  • پیش بینا شد خموشی نفع تو ** بهر این آمد خطاب انصتوا