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  • A wondrous folk put their heads down (from the roof), (saying), “We are going round by night for the purpose of search.”
  • سر فرو کردند قومی بوالعجب ** ما همی گردیم شب بهر طلب

  • “Eh, what are ye seeking?” “Camels,” they replied. He said, “Take heed! who ever sought camel on a roof?”
  • هین چه می‌جویید گفتند اشتران ** گفت اشتر بام بر کی جست هان

  • Then they said to him, “How art thou seeking to meet with God on the throne of state?”
  • پس بگفتندش که تو بر تخت جاه ** چون همی جویی ملاقات اله

  • That was all. None saw him again: he vanished like a genie from (the sight of) man. 835
  • خود همان بد دیگر او را کس ندید ** چون پری از آدمی شد ناپدید

  • His reality (real self) was hidden, though he was in people’s presence: how should the people see aught but beard and frock (of the dervish)?
  • معنی‌اش پنهان و او در پیش خلق ** خلق کی بینند غیر ریش و دلق

  • When he became far (disappeared) from his own and the people’s eyes, he became renowned in the world, like the ‘Anqá.
  • چون ز چشم خویش و خلقان دور شد ** هم‌چو عنقا در جهان مشهور شد

  • Whenever the soul of any (spiritual) bird has come to (Mount) Qáf, all the world boast and brag on account of it.
  • جان هر مرغی که آمد سوی قاف ** جمله‌ی عالم ازو لافند لاف

  • When this orient light (from Solomon) reached Sabá, a tumult arose in Bilqís and her people.
  • چون رسید اندر سبا این نور شرق ** غلغلی افتاد در بلقیس و خلق

  • All the dead spirits took wing: the dead put forth their heads from the grave, (which is) the body. 840
  • روحهای مرده جمله پر زدند ** مردگان از گور تن سر بر زدند

  • They gave the good news to one another, saying, “Hark! Lo, a voice is coming from Heaven.”
  • یک دگر را مژده می‌دادند هان ** نک ندایی می‌رسد از آسمان

  • At (the sound of) that voice (men’s) religions wax great; the leaves and boughs of the heart become green.
  • زان ندا دینها همی‌گردند گبز ** شاخ و برگ دل همی گردند سبز

  • Like the blast of the trumpet (on Judgement-Day) that breath from Solomon delivered the dead from the tombs.
  • از سلیمان آن نفس چون نفخ صور ** مردگان را وا رهانید از قبور

  • May (such) felicity be thine after this (epoch of Solomon)! This (epoch) is past. God best knoweth the certain truth.
  • مر ترا بادا سعادت بعد ازین ** این گذشت الله اعلم بالیقین

  • The rest of the story of the people of Sabá, and of the admonition and guidance given by Solomon, on whom be peace, to the kinsfolk of Bilqís—to every one (the particular guidance) suitable to his religious and spiritual difficulties; and how he caught (decoyed) each sort of conceptional bird with the whistle and bait proper for that sort of bird.
  • بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی اهل سبا و نصیحت و ارشاد سلیمان علیه‌السلام آل بلقیس را هر یکی را اندر خور خود و مشکلات دین و دل او و صید کردن هر جنس مرغ ضمیری به صفیر آن جنس مرغ و طعمه‌ی او

  • I will tell the story of Sabá in lover’s style. When the Zephyr came towards the tulip-field, 845
  • قصه گویم از سبا مشتاق‌وار ** چون صبا آمد به سوی لاله‌زار

  • The bodies met (experienced) the day of their union (with the spirits which dwell in them)’: the children turned again in the direction of their home.
  • لاقت الاشباح یوم وصلها ** عادت الاولاد صوب اصلها

  • Amongst the communities the community of secret Love is like a liberality surrounded by the meanness of (spiritual) distemper.
  • امة العشق الخفی فی الامم ** مثل جود حوله لوم السقم

  • The baseness of spirits is (derived) from their bodies; the nobility of bodies is (derived) from their spirits.
  • ذلة الارواح من اشباحها ** عزة الاشباح من ارواحها

  • O lovers, the draught (of Love) is given to you. Ye are the everlasting: everlastingness is bestowed on you.
  • ایها العشاق السقیا لکم ** انتم الباقون و البقیالکم

  • O ye that are forgetful, arise and love! That is the wind of Joseph: smell (its perfume)! 850
  • ایها السالون قوموا واعشقوا ** ذاک ریح یوسف فاستنشقوا

  • Come, O (master of the) bird-speech of Solomon, sing the song of every bird that comes.
  • منطق‌الطیر سلیمانی بیا ** بانگ هر مرغی که آید می‌سرا

  • Since God hath sent thee to the birds, He hath instructed thee in the note of every bird.
  • چون به مرغانت فرستادست حق ** لحن هر مرغی بدادستت سبق

  • To the necessitarian bird speak the language of necessitarianism ; to the bird whose wings are broken speak of patience (quietism).
  • مرغ جبری را زبان جبر گو ** مرغ پر اشکسته را از صبر گو

  • Keep the patient bird happy and free from harm; to the bird (resembling the) ‘Anqá recite the descriptions of (Mount) Qáf.
  • مرغ صابر را تو خوش دار و معاف ** مرغ عنقا را بخوان اوصاف قاف

  • Bid the pigeon beware of the falcon; to the falcon speak of forbearance and being on its guard (against acting unjustly). 855
  • مر کبوتر را حذر فرما ز باز ** باز را از حلم گو و احتراز

  • And as for the bat that is left destitute (of spiritual illumination), make it to consort and to be familiar with the Light.
  • وان خفاشی را که ماند او بی‌نوا ** می‌کنش با نور جفت و آشنا