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  • (Where) a hundred groves come (are offered) to thee in exchange for one seed, a hundred mines in exchange for one groat?
  • دانه‌ای را صد درختستان عوض ** حبه‌ای را آمدت صد کان عوض

  • Kána lilláh is the giving of that groat, in order that kána ’lláh lahú may come into (thy) hand;
  • کان لله دادن آن حبه است ** تا که کان‌الله له آید به دست

  • For this weak unstable hú (personality) was brought into being by the steadfast (permanent) hú of the Lord.
  • زآنک این هوی ضعیف بی‌قرار ** هست شد زان هوی رب پایدار

  • When the hú that passes away has surrendered itself to Him, it becomes everlasting and never dies. 2615
  • هوی فانی چونک خود فا او سپرد ** گشت باقی دایم و هرگز نمرد

  • (’Tis) like a drop of water (which is) afraid of wind (air) and earth; for by means of these twain it is made to pass away (and perish.
  • هم‌چو قطره‌ی خایف از باد و ز خاک ** که فنا گردد بدین هر دو هلاک

  • When it has leaped (thrown itself) into the sea, which was its source, it is delivered from the heat of the sun and from wind and earth.
  • چون به اصل خود که دریا بود جست ** از تف خورشید و باد و خاک رست

  • Its outward form has disappeared in the sea, but its essence is inviolate and permanent and goodly.
  • ظاهرش گم گشت در دریا و لیک ** ذات او معصوم و پا بر جا و نیک

  • Hark, O (thou who art like a) drop, give thyself up without repenting, that in recompense for the drop thou mayst gain the Ocean.
  • هین بده ای قطره خود را بی‌ندم ** تا بیابی در بهای قطره یم

  • Hark, O drop, bestow on thyself this honour, and in the hand of the Sea become safe from destruction. 2620
  • هین بده ای قطره خود را این شرف ** در کف دریا شو آمن از تلف

  • Whom indeed should fortune like this befall? A Sea has become the suitor for a drop.
  • خود کرا آید چنین دولت به دست ** قطره‌ای را بحری تقاضاگر شدست

  • In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take (in return) the Sea which is full of pearls.
  • الله الله زود بفروش و بخر ** قطره‌ای ده بحر پر گوهر ببر

  • In God's name, in God's name, do not make any postponement, for these words (of Moses) come from the Sea of Grace.
  • الله الله هیچ تاخیری مکن ** که ز بحر لطف آمد این سخن

  • (All other) grace is lost (vanishes away) in (comparison with) this grace, that one of the lowest is going up to the Seventh Heaven.
  • لطف اندر لطف این گم می‌شود ** که اسفلی بر چرخ هفتم می‌شود

  • Hark, for a marvellous falcon has fallen to thee: no seeker will find it in (his) search.” 2625
  • هین که یک بازی فتادت بوالعجب ** هیچ طالب این نیابد در طلب

  • He (Pharaoh) said, “I will tell Hámán, O veiled (modest) one: the counsel of the vizier is necessary to the king.”
  • گفت با هامان بگویم ای ستیر ** شاه را لازم بود رای وزیر

  • She said, “Do not tell Hámán this secret: what should a blind decrepit old woman know about a falcon?”
  • گفت با هامان مگو این راز را ** کور کمپیری چه داند باز را

  • Story of the king's falcon and the decrepit old woman.
  • قصه‌ی باز پادشاه و کمپیر زن

  • (If) you give a white falcon to a decrepit old woman, she will clip its talons for the sake of (its supposed) welfare.
  • باز اسپیدی به کمپیری دهی ** او ببرد ناخنش بهر بهی

  • The blind old woman will blindly clip the talons which are the source of its usefulness in the chase,
  • ناخنی که اصل کارست و شکار ** کور کمپیری ببرد کوروار

  • Saying, “Where has thy mother been, that thy talons are so long, O prince?” 2630
  • که کجا بودست مادر که ترا ** ناخنان زین سان درازست ای کیا

  • She clipped its talons and beak and wings: the filthy old hag does this at the time of (at the time when she is moved by) affection.
  • ناخن و منقار و پرش را برید ** وقت مهر این می‌کند زال پلید

  • When she gives it tutmáj, it will not eat; (then) she is enraged and tears up her feelings of affection,
  • چونک تتماجش دهد او کم خورد ** خشم گیرد مهرها را بر درد

  • Saying, “I have cooked such (fine) tutmáj for thee, and thou art showing pride and insolence.
  • که چنین تتماج پختم بهر تو ** تو تکبر می‌نمایی و عتو

  • Thou deservest to be in that trouble and affliction: how should happiness and prosperity be suitable for thee?”
  • تو سزایی در همان رنج و بلا ** نعمت و اقبال کی سازد ترا

  • She gives it the tutmáj broth, saying, “Take this, if thou dost not wish to eat of the pastry.” 2635
  • آن تتماجش دهد کین را بگیر ** گر نمی‌خواهی که نوشی زان فطیر

  • The falcon's nature does not accept (rejects) tutmáj broth: the old woman frowns, and her anger is prolonged.
  • آب تتماجش نگیرد طبع باز ** زال بترنجد شود خشمش دراز