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2551-2575

  • This shop is held on hire: be quick, take the pick-axe and break up its foundation,
  • هست این دکان کرایی زود باش ** تیشه بستان و تکش را می‌تراش

  • That of a sudden thou mayst lay the axe on the mine and be delivered from the shop and from patch-sewing.
  • تا که تیشه ناگهان بر کان نهی ** از دکان و پاره‌دوزی وا رهی

  • What is patch-sewing? The drinking of water and the eating of bread: thou art applying these patches to the heavy cloak.
  • پاره‌دوزی چیست خورد آب و نان ** می‌زنی این پاره بر دلق گران

  • This cloak, thy body, is always being torn, and thou art patching it by this eating and drinking of thine.
  • هر زمان می‌درد این دلق تنت ** پاره بر وی می‌زنی زین خوردنت

  • O thou who art of the progeny of the fortunate King, come to thyself, be ashamed of this patch-sewing. 2555
  • ای ز نسل پادشاه کامیار ** با خود آ زین پاره‌دوزی ننگ دار

  • Tear a patch (piece) from off this shop-floor, in order that two mines (of treasure) may lift up their head (emerge into view) before thee,
  • پاره‌ای بر کن ازین قعر دکان ** تا برآرد سر به پیش تو دو کان

  • Ere this lease of the hired house come to an end without thy having gained any profit from it.
  • پیش از آن کین مهلت خانه‌ی کری ** آخر آید تو نخورده زو بری

  • Then the owner of the shop will turn thee out and will demolish this shop for the sake of the (hidden) mine,
  • پس ترا بیرون کند صاحب دکان ** وین دکان را بر کند از روی کان

  • (While) thou at one moment wilt beat thy head in remorse, and at another tear thy foolish beard,
  • تو ز حسرت گاه بر سر می‌زنی ** گاه ریش خام خود بر می‌کنی

  • Saying, “Alas, this shop was mine, (but) I was blind and got no profit from this place of abode. 2560
  • کای دریغا آن من بود این دکان ** کور بودم بر نخوردم زین مکان

  • Alas, the wind swept our existence away: (the text) O sorrow for the servants of God is come (true) unto everlasting.
  • ای دریغا بود ما را برد باد ** تا ابد یا حسرتا شد للعباد

  • [How Man is deluded by the sagacity and imaginations of his (carnal) nature and does not seek knowledge of the Unseen, which is the knowledge possessed by the prophets.]
  • غره شدن آدمی به ذکاوت و تصویرات طبع خویشتن و طلب ناکردن علم غیب کی علم انبیاست

  • I saw (beautiful) pictures and paintings in the house: I was without self-control in (my) love of the house.
  • دیدم اندر خانه من نقش و نگار ** بودم اندر عشق خانه بی‌قرار

  • I was unaware of any hidden treasure; otherwise, the axe would have been (as) the pomander in my hand.
  • بودم از گنج نهانی بی‌خبر ** ورنه دستنبوی من بودی تبر

  • Ah, if I had given the axe its due, I should now have given a quittance to (should have been quit of) grief.
  • آه گر داد تبر را دادمی ** این زمان غم را تبرا دادمی

  • I was casting my eye on the picture and falling idly in love (with it), like children.” 2565
  • چشم را بر نقش می‌انداختم ** هم‌چو طفلان عشقها می‌باختم

  • That fortunate Sage, then, has said well, “Thou art a child: the house is full of pictures and paintings.”
  • پس نکو گفت آن حکیم کامیار ** که تو طفلی خانه پر نقش و نگار

  • In the Iláhí-náma he gave many an injunction, saying, “Raise the dust from (utterly demolish) thine own household.”
  • در الهی‌نامه بس اندرز کرد ** که بر آر دودمان خویش گرد

  • (Pharaoh said), “Enough, O Moses! Tell (me) the third promise, for my heart has become lost (distraught) from the agitation caused by (eagerness to hear) it.”
  • بس کن ای موسی بگو وعده‌ی سوم ** که دل من ز اضطرابش گشت گم

  • Moses said, “This third (promise) is a twofold empire—(an empire) appertaining to the two worlds (temporal and spiritual), free from adversary and enemy;
  • گفت موسی آن سوم ملک دوتو ** دو جهانی خالص از خصم و عدو

  • Greater than the empire of which thou art now in possession; for that was (whilst thou wert) at war (with God), and this (will be whilst thou art) at peace (with Him). 2570
  • بیشتر زان ملک که اکنون داشتی ** کان بد اندر جنگ و این در آشتی

  • He who bestows on thee, (whilst thou art) at war, such an empire as this— consider how (bounteously) He will lay the table for thee (when thou art) at peace.
  • آنک در جنگت چنان ملکی دهد ** بنگر اندر صلح خوانت چون نهد

  • That (Divine) bounty which gave thee those (goodly) things in thy unrighteousness—consider what will be (its) care (for thee) in thy faithfulness.”
  • آن کرم که اندر جفا آنهات داد ** در وفا بنگر چه باشد افتقاد

  • “O Moses,” said he, “what is the fourth (promise)? Quickly declare (it): my patience is gone and my desire has waxed great.”
  • گفت ای موسی چهارم چیست زود ** بازگو صبرم شد و حرصم فزود

  • He said, “The fourth is that thou wilt remain (ever) young, (with) hair (black) like pitch and cheeks (pink) like the arghawán (flower of the Judas-tree).
  • گفت چارم آنک مانی تو جوان ** موی هم‌چون قیر و رخ چون ارغوان

  • To us (prophets) colour and perfume are very worthless, but thou art low, (so) we have made our words low. 2575
  • رنگ و بو در پیش ما بس کاسدست ** لیک تو پستی سخن کردیم پست