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327-351

  • He said only, ‘O Lord, verily we have done wrong,’ when he saw the (angelic) life-guards in front and behind.
  • ربنا انا ظلمنا گفت و بس ** چونک جانداران بدید از پیش و پس

  • He saw the life-guards who are invisible, as the spirit is—each one’s mace (reaching) to the sky—-
  • دید جانداران پنهان هم‌چو جان ** دورباش هر یکی تا آسمان

  • Saying, ‘Hola! be (as) the ant before Solomon, lest this mace cleave thee asunder.
  • که هلا پیش سلیمان مور باش ** تا بنشکافد ترا این دورباش

  • Do not for one moment stand (anywhere) but in the place of truth: a man hath no guardian like the (seeing) eye. 330
  • جز مقام راستی یک دم مه‌ایست ** هیچ لالا مرد را چون چشم نیست

  • (Even) if the blind man be purified by admonition, he continually becomes polluted again.
  • کور اگر از پند پالوده شود ** هر دمی او باز آلوده شود

  • O Adam, thou art not blind of vision, but when the Divine destiny comes, the sight becomes blind.’”
  • آدما تو نیستی کور از نظر ** لیک اذا جاء القضا عمی البصر

  • Lifetimes are needed—(so) rarely and occasionally (does it happen)—for the seeing man to fall by destiny into the pit.
  • عمرها باید به نادر گاه‌گاه ** تا که بینا از قضا افتد به چاه

  • As regards the blind man, this destiny in sooth is his companion on the way; for ‘tis his nature and disposition to fall.
  • کور را خود این قضا همراه اوست ** که مرورا اوفتادن طبع و خوست

  • He falls into the filth and does not know what the smell is; (he asks himself), “Is this smell from me or from (my) being polluted?” 335
  • در حدث افتد نداند بوی چیست ** از منست این بوی یا ز آلودگیست

  • And likewise, if any one sprinkle some musk over him, he thinks it (comes) from himself and not from the kindness of his friend.
  • ور کسی بر وی کند مشکی نثار ** هم ز خود داند نه از احسان یار

  • Therefore to you, O man of vision, two clear eyes are (as) a hundred mothers and a hundred fathers;
  • پس دو چشم روشن ای صاحب‌نظر ** مر ترا صد مادرست و صد پدر

  • Especially the eye of the heart (the spiritual eye), which is seventy-fold and of which these two sensible eyes are (only) the gleaners.
  • خاصه چشم دل آن هفتاد توست ** وین دو چشم حس خوشه‌چین اوست

  • Oh, alas, the highwaymen are seated (and lying in wait for me): they have tied a hundred knots beneath my tongue.
  • ای دریغا ره‌زنان بنشسته‌اند ** صد گره زیر زبانم بسته‌اند

  • How should the smooth-paced horse move well, when his leg is tied? This is a very heavy chain: hold me excused! 340
  • پای‌بسته چون رود خوش راهوار ** بس گران بندیست این معذور دار

  • These words (of mine) are coming (forth) brokenly, O heart; for these words are pearls, and (the Divine) jealousy is the mill (which breaks them);
  • این سخن اشکسته می‌آید دلا ** کین سخن درست غیرت آسیا

  • (But), though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become tutty (collyrium) for the sore eye (of the spirit).
  • در اگر چه خرد و اشکسته شود ** توتیای دیده‌ی خسته شود

  • O pearl, do not beat thy head (in grief) at thy being broken, for through being broken thou wilt become (radiant) light.
  • ای در از اشکست خود بر سر مزن ** کز شکستن روشنی خواهی شدن

  • It (the word) has to be uttered thus brokenly and in bandages: God, who is Self-sufficient, will make it whole at last.
  • همچنین اشکسته بسته گفتنیست ** حق کند آخر درستش کو غنیست

  • If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!” 345
  • گندم ار بشکست و از هم در سکست ** بر دکان آمد که نک نان درست

  • “Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).
  • تو هم ای عاشق چو جرمت گشت فاش ** آب و روغن ترک کن اشکسته باش

  • Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’
  • آنک فرزندان خاص آدم‌اند ** نفحه‌ی انا ظلمنا می‌دمند

  • Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.
  • حاجت خود عرضه کن حجت مگو ** هم‌چو ابلیس لعین سخت‌رو

  • If impudence concealed his fault, go, exert thyself in (showing) obstinacy and impudence!
  • سخت‌رویی گر ورا شد عیب‌پوش ** در ستیز و سخت‌رویی رو بکوش

  • Abu Jahl, like a vindictive Ghuzz Turcoman, demanded a miracle from the Prophet; 350
  • آن ابوجهل از پیمبر معجزی ** خواست هم‌چون کینه‌ور ترکی غزی

  • But that Siddiq of God (Abu Bakr) did not crave a miracle: he said, ‘Verily, this face speaks naught but truth.’
  • لیک آن صدیق حق معجز نخواست ** گفت این رو خود نگوید جز که راست