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  • Whenever I turned my face towards this world, I suffered blows and beating from them,
  • هر گهی که رو به دنیا کردمی ** من ازیشان زخم و ضربت خوردمی

  • And took refuge from the blows Yonder: the wolves were always bringing me back into the (right) Way.
  • کردمی از زخم آن جانب پناه ** باز آوردندمی گرگان به راه

  • Inasmuch as they contrived the means of my (spiritual) welfare, it behoves me to pray for them, O intelligent one.” 90
  • چون سبب‌ساز صلاح من شدند ** پس دعاشان بر منست ای هوشمند

  • The servant (of God) complains to God of pain and smart: he makes a hundred complaints of his pain.
  • بنده می‌نالد به حق از درد و نیش ** صد شکایت می‌کند از رنج خویش

  • God says, “After all, grief and pain have made thee humbly entreating and righteous.
  • حق همی گوید که آخر رنج و درد ** مر ترا لابه کنان و راست کرد

  • Make this complaint of the bounty that befalls thee and removes thee far from My door and makes thee an outcast.”
  • این گله زان نعمتی کن کت زند ** از در ما دور و مطرودت کند

  • In reality every foe (of yours) is your medicine: he is an elixir and beneficial and one that seeks to win your heart;
  • در حقیقت هر عدو داروی تست ** کیمیا و نافع و دلجوی تست

  • For you flee away from him into solitude and would fain implore help of God's grace. 95
  • که ازو اندر گریزی در خلا ** استعانت جویی از لطف خدا

  • Your friends are really enemies, for they make you far from the (Divine) Presence and occupied (with them).
  • در حقیقت دوستانت دشمن‌اند ** که ز حضرت دور و مشغولت کنند

  • There is an animal whose name is ushghur (porcupine): it is (made) stout and big by blows of the stick.
  • هست حیوانی که نامش اشغرست ** او به زخم چوب زفت و لمترست

  • The more you cudgel it, the more it thrives: it grows fat on blows of the stick.
  • تا که چوبش می‌زنی به می‌شود ** او ز زخم چوب فربه می‌شود

  • Assuredly the true believer's soul is a porcupine, for it is (made) stout and fat by the blows of tribulation.
  • نفس مومن اشغری آمد یقین ** کو به زخم رنج زفتست و سمین

  • For this reason the tribulation and abasement (laid) upon the prophets is greater than (that laid upon) all the (other) creatures in the world, 100
  • زین سبب بر انبیا رنج و شکست ** از همه خلق جهان افزونترست

  • So that their souls became stouter than (all other) souls; for no other class of people suffered that affliction.
  • تا ز جانها جانشان شد زفت‌تر ** که ندیدند آن بلا قوم دگر

  • The hide is afflicted by the medicine (tan-liquor), (but) it becomes sweet like Tá’if leather;
  • پوست از دارو بلاکش می‌شود ** چون ادیم طایفی خوش می‌شود

  • And if he (the tanner) did not rub the bitter and acrid (liquor) into it, it would become fetid, unpleasant, and foul-smelling.
  • ورنه تلخ و تیز مالیدی درو ** گنده گشتی ناخوش و ناپاک بو

  • Know that Man is an untanned hide, made noisome and gross by humours.
  • آدمی را پوست نامدبوغ دان ** از رطوبتها شده زشت و گران

  • Give (him) bitter and acrid (discipline) and much rubbing (tribulation), that he may become pure and lovely and exceedingly strong; 105
  • تلخ و تیز و مالش بسیار ده ** تا شود پاک و لطیف و با فره

  • But if you cannot (mortify yourself), be content, O cunning one, if God give you tribulation without choice (on your part),
  • ور نمی‌توانی رضا ده ای عیار ** گر خدا رنجت دهد بی‌اختیار

  • For affliction (sent) by the Friend is (the means of) your being purified: His knowledge is above your contrivance.
  • که بلای دوست تطهیر شماست ** علم او بالای تدبیر شماست

  • The affliction becomes sweet (to the sufferer) when he sees happiness: the medicine becomes sweet (to the sick man) when he regards health.
  • چون صفا بیند بلا شیرین شود ** خوش شود دارو چو صحت‌بین شود

  • He sees victory for himself in the very essence of checkmate; therefore he says, “Kill me, O trusty ones!”
  • برد بیند خویش را در عین مات ** پس بگوید اقتلونی یا ثقات

  • This policeman became a (source of) profit in respect of another, but he became reprobate in respect of himself. 110
  • این عوان در حق غیری سود شد ** لیک اندر حق خود مردود شد

  • The mercy appertaining to the Faith was cut off from him; the hate inherent in the Devil enfolded him.
  • رحم ایمانی ازو ببریده شد ** کین شیطانی برو پیچیده شد

  • He became a factory of anger and hatred: know that hate is the root of error and infidelity.
  • کارگاه خشم گشت و کین‌وری ** کینه دان اصل ضلال و کافری

  • How they asked Jesus, on whom be peace, saying, "O Spirit of God, what is the hardest thing to bear of all the hard things in existence?"
  • سال کردن از عیسی علیه‌السلام کی در وجود از همه‌ی صعبها صعب‌تر چیست