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1150-1174

  • (Suppose) a rag is stuck fast upon the donkey's sore: when you wish to tear it off, bit by bit, 1150
  • خرقه‌ای بر ریش خر چفسید سخت  ** چونک خواهی بر کنی زو لخت لخت 

  • The donkey, because of the pain (inflicted on him), will certainly kick: happy the man who abstained from (touching) him!—
  • جفته اندازد یقین آن خر ز درد  ** حبذا آن کس کزو پرهیز کرد 

  • Especially (when there are) fifty sores, and a soaked rag stuck on the top of them in every case.
  • خاصه پنجه ریش و هر جا خرقه‌ای  ** بر سرش چفسیده در نم غرقه‌ای 

  • House and goods are like the rag, and this greed (of thine) is the sore: the greater the greed, the greater the sore.
  • خان و مان چون خرقه و این حرص‌ریش  ** حرص هر که بیش باشد ریش بیش 

  • The wilderness alone is the house and goods of the owl: he (the owl) will not listen to descriptions of Baghdád and Tabas.
  • خان و مان چغد ویرانست و بس  ** نشنود اوصاف بغداد و طبس 

  • If a royal falcon come from the road and bring to these owls a hundred reports of the King, 1155
  • گر بیاید باز سلطانی ز راه  ** صد خبر آرد بدین چغدان ز شاه 

  • (With) a full account of the imperial city and the orchards and the rivers—then a hundred enemies will jeer at him,
  • شرح دارالملک و باغستان و جو  ** پس برو افسوس دارد صد عدو 

  • Saying, ‘What has the falcon brought? An old story. He is weaving words of vanity and idle brag.’
  • که چه باز آورد افسانه‌ی کهن  ** کز گزاف و لاف می‌بافد سخن 

  • (’Tis) they (that) are old and rotten unto everlasting; otherwise (they would know that) that breath (of prophetic inspiration) makes the old new.
  • کهنه ایشانند و پوسیده‌ی ابد  ** ورنه آن دم کهنه را نو می‌کند 

  • It gives life to the old dead (spirits): it gives the crown of reason and the light of faith.
  • مردگان کهنه را جان می‌دهد  ** تاج عقل و نور ایمان می‌دهد 

  • Do not steal thy heart away from the spirit-bestowing heart-ravisher, for he will mount thee on the back of Rakhsh. 1160
  • دل مدزد از دلربای روح‌بخش  ** که سوارت می‌کند بر پشت رخش 

  • Do not steal thy head away from the crown-giving one whose head is exalted, for he will untie a hundred knots from the foot of thy heart.
  • سر مدزد از سر فراز تاج‌ده  ** کو ز پای دل گشاید صد گره 

  • Whom shall I tell? Where in the village is any (spiritually) living one? Where is any one that runs towards the Water of Life?
  • با کی گویم در همه ده زنده کو  ** سوی آب زندگی پوینده کو 

  • Thou art fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation: what dost thou know of Love except the name?
  • تو به یک خواری گریزانی ز عشق  ** تو به جز نامی چه می‌دانی ز عشق 

  • Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.
  • عشق را صد ناز و استکبار هست  ** عشق با صد ناز می‌آید به دست 

  • Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade. 1165
  • عشق چون وافیست وافی می‌خرد  ** در حریف بی‌وفا می‌ننگرد 

  • Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.
  • چون درختست آدمی و بیخ عهد  ** بیخ را تیمار می‌باید به جهد 

  • A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.
  • عهد فاسد بیخ پوسیده بود  ** وز ثمار و لطف ببریده بود 

  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 

  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 

  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel. 1170
  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او 

  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 

  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود 

  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
  • هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست  ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست 

  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
  • گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا  ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا 

  • When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’
  • چون وفاات نیست باری دم مزن  ** که سخن دعویست اغلب ما و من