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371-395

  • Without making trial, know this of the King's (God's) knowledge: when you are a (spiritual) chief, He will not send you (down) to the vestibule.
  • این بدان بی‌امتحان از علم شاه ** چون سری نفرستدت در پایگاه

  • Does any intelligent man let a precious pearl fall into the midst of a privy full of ordure?
  • هیچ عاقل افکند در ثمین ** در میان مستراحی پر چمین

  • Inasmuch as a sagacious and attentive man will nowise send wheat to a straw-barn,
  • زانک گندم را حکیم آگهی ** هیچ نفرستد به انبار کهی

  • If a novice has made trial of the Shaykh who is the (spiritual) leader and guide, he is an ass.
  • شیخ را که پیشوا و رهبرست ** گر مریدی امتحان کرد او خرست

  • If you make trial of him in the way of religion, you will be tried (by tribulation), O man without faith. 375
  • امتحانش گر کنی در راه دین ** هم تو گردی ممتحن ای بی‌یقین

  • Your audacity and ignorance will become naked and exposed to view: how should he be made naked by that scrutiny?
  • جرات و جهلت شود عریان و فاش ** او برهنه کی شود زان افتتاش

  • If the mote come and weigh the mountain, its scales will be shattered by the mountain, O youth;
  • گر بیاید ذره سنجد کوه را ** بر درد زان که ترازوش ای فتی

  • For he (the novice) applies the scales of his own judgement and puts the man of God in the scales;
  • کز قیاس خود ترازو می‌تند ** مرد حق را در ترازو می‌کند

  • (But) since he (the Shaykh) is not contained by the scales of intellect, consequently he shatters the scales of intellect.
  • چون نگنجد او به میزان خرد ** پس ترازوی خرد را بر درد

  • Know that to make trial (of him) is like exercising authority over him: do not seek to exercise authority over such a (spiritual) king. 380
  • امتحان هم‌چون تصرف دان درو ** تو تصرف بر چنان شاهی مجو

  • What authority should the pictures (phenomenal forms) desire to exercise over such an Artist for the purpose of testing Him?
  • چه تصرف کرد خواهد نقشها ** بر چنان نقاش بهر ابتلا

  • If it (the picture) has known and experienced any trial, is it not the case that the Artist brought that (trial) upon it?
  • امتحانی گر بدانست و بدید ** نی که هم نقاش آن بر وی کشید

  • Indeed, this form that He fashioned—what is it worth in comparison with the forms which are in His knowledge?
  • چه قدر باشد خود این صورت که بست ** پیش صورتها که در علم ویست

  • When the temptation to make this trial has come to you, know that ill fortune has come and smitten your neck.
  • وسوسه‌ی این امتحان چون آمدت ** بخت بد دان کمد و گردن زدت

  • When you feel such a temptation, at once, at once turn unto God and begin the prostration (in prayer). 385
  • چون چنین وسواس دیدی زود زود ** با خدا گرد و در آ اندر سجود

  • Make the place of prostration wet with flowing tears and say, “O God, do Thou deliver me from this doubt!”
  • سجده گه را تر کن از اشک روان ** کای خدا تو وا رهانم زین گمان

  • At the time when it is your object to make trial (of God), the mosque, namely, your religion, becomes filled with kharrúb (carob).
  • آن زمان کت امتحان مطلوب شد ** مسجد دین تو پر خروب شد

  • Story of the Farther Mosque and the carob and how, before (the reign of) Solomon, on whom be peace, David, on whom be peace, resolved on building that Mosque.
  • قصه‌ی مسجد اقصی و خروب و عزم کردن داود علیه‌السلام پیش از سلیمان علیه‌السلام بر بنای آن مسجد

  • When David's resolve that he would build the Farther Mosque with stone came to sore straits,
  • چون درآمد عزم داودی به تنگ ** که بسازد مسجد اقصی به سنگ

  • God made a Revelation to him, saying, “Proclaim the abandonment of this (enterprise), for (the building of) this place will not be achieved by thy hand.
  • وحی کردش حق که ترک این بخوان ** که ز دستت برنیاید این مکان

  • ’Tis not in Our fore-ordainment that thou shouldst raise this Farther Mosque, O chosen one.” 390
  • نیست در تقدیر ما آنک تو این ** مسجد اقصی بر آری ای گزین

  • He said, “O Knower of the secret, what is my crime, that Thou forbiddest me to construct the Mosque?”
  • گفت جرمم چیست ای دانای راز ** که مرا گویی که مسجد را مساز

  • He (God) said, “Without (committing) a crime, thou hast wrought much bloodshed: thou hast taken upon thy neck (art responsible for) the blood of (many) persons who have suffered injustice;
  • گفت بی‌جرمی تو خونها کرده‌ای ** خون مظلومان بگردن برده‌ای

  • For from (hearing) thy voice a countless multitude gave up the ghost and fell a prey to it (thy voice).
  • که ز آواز تو خلقی بی‌شمار ** جان بدادند و شدند آن را شکار

  • Much blood has gone to the score of (is chargeable to) thy voice, to thy beautiful soul-ravishing song.”
  • خون بسی رفتست بر آواز تو ** بر صدای خوب جان‌پرداز تو

  • He (David) said, “I was overpowered by Thee, drunken with Thee: my hand (power) was tied up by Thy hand. 395
  • گفت مغلوب تو بودم مست تو ** دست من بر بسته بود از دست تو