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1492-1516

  • If just now (recently) you have sown seed, (as) I will suppose, in a soil which you thought (would be) a means (of producing crops)—
  • گیرم اکنون تخم را گر کاشتی  ** در زمینی که سبب پنداشتی 

  • When it (the seed) does not grow during two or three years, how can you do aught but put your hand (to your head) in supplication and prayer?
  • چون دو سه سال آن نروید چون کنی  ** جز که در لابه و دعا کف در زنی 

  • You will beat your hand on your head in the presence of God: (your) hand and head bear witness to His giving sustenance;
  • دست بر سر می‌زنی پیش اله  ** دست و سر بر دادن رزقش گواه 

  • So that you may know that He is the Source of the source of (all) sustenance, and that the seeker of sustenance may seek only Him. 1495
  • تا بدانی اصل اصل رزق اوست  ** تا همو را جوید آنک رزق‌جوست 

  • Seek sustenance from Him, do not seek it from Zayd and ‘Amr: seek intoxication from Him, do not seek it from beng and wine.
  • رزق از وی جو مجو از زید و عمرو  ** مستی از وی جو مجو از بنگ و خمر 

  • Desire wealth from Him, not from treasure and possessions: desire aid from Him, not from paternal and maternal uncles.
  • توانگری زو خو نه از گنج و مال  ** نصرت از وی خواه نه از عم و خال 

  • At the last you will be left without (all) these things: hark, unto whom will you call then?
  • عاقبت زینها بخواهی ماندن  ** هین کرا خواهی در آن دم خواندن 

  • Call unto Him now, and leave (all) the rest, that you may inherit the kingdom of the world.
  • این دم او را خوان و باقی را بمان  ** تا تو باشی وارث ملک جهان 

  • When comes (the Day on which) a man shall flee from his brother and on such a Day the son will flee from his father, 1500
  • چون یفر المرء آید من اخیه  ** یهرب المولود یوما من ابیه 

  • In that hour every friend will become your foe, because (in the world) he was your idol and one who hindered (you) from (following) the (right) Way.
  • زان شود هر دوست آن ساعت عدو  ** که بت تو بود و از ره مانع او 

  • You were averting your face from the Painter of the face, since you were gaining heart's delight from a (mere) picture.
  • روی از نقاش رو می‌تافتی  ** چون ز نقشی انس دل می‌یافتی 

  • If at this (present) time your friends become hostile to you and turn aside from you and quarrel (with you),
  • این دم ار یارانت با تو ضد شوند  ** وز تو برگردند و در خصمی روند 

  • Take heed and say, “Lo, my fortune is triumphant: that which would have happened to-morrow (at the Last Judgement) has happened to-day.
  • هین بگو نک روز من پیروز شد  ** آنچ فردا خواست شد امروز شد 

  • The people of this caravanseray (the world) have become my enemies, in order that the Resurrection might be made clearly visible to me beforehand, 1505
  • ضد من گشتند اهل این سرا  ** تا قیامت عین شد پیشین مرا 

  • Ere I should lose my time and associate with them to the end of my life.
  • پیش از آنک روزگار خود برم  ** عمر با ایشان به پایان آورم 

  • I had bought defective goods: thanks (to God) that I have become aware of their defectiveness in time,
  • کاله‌ی معیوب بخریده بدم  ** شکر کز عیبش بگه واقف شدم 

  • Ere the stock-in-trade should go out of my hands and finally come forth (be exposed) as defective.
  • پیش از آن کز دست سرمایه شدی  ** عاقبت معیوب بیرون آمدی 

  • My wealth was (all but) gone, my life was (all but) gone, O man of noble lineage: I had (all but) given away my wealth and life for damaged goods.
  • مال رفته عمر رفته ای نسیب  ** ماه و جان داده پی کاله‌ی معیب 

  • I sold my merchandise, I received base gold: I was going home in great jubilation. 1510
  • رخت دادم زر قلبی بستدم  ** شاد شادان سوی خانه می‌شدم 

  • Thanks (to God) that this gold was shown to be base now, before too much of my life had passed.
  • شکر کین زر قلب پیدا شد کنون  ** پیش از آنک عمر بگذشتی فزون 

  • The base coin would have remained (as a shackle) on my neck for ever: to waste my life (thus) would have been an iniquity.
  • قلب ماندی تا ابد در گردنم  ** حیف بودی عمر ضایع کردنم 

  • Since its (the coin's) baseness has been revealed earlier (in good time), I will step back from it very quickly.”
  • چون بگه‌تر قلبی او رو نمود  ** پای خود زو وا کشم من زود زود 

  • When your friend displays enmity (and when) the itch of his hatred and jealousy shoots forth (manifests itself),
  • یار تو چون دشمنی پیدا کند  ** گر حقد و رشک او بیرون زند 

  • Do not bewail his aversion, do not make yourself (do not let yourself behave as) a fool and ignoramus; 1515
  • تو از آن اعراض او افغان مکن  ** خویشتن را ابله و نادان مکن 

  • Nay, thank God and give bread (alms), (in gratitude) that you have not become old (and rotten) in his sack,
  • بلک شکر حق کن و نان بخش کن  ** که نگشتی در جوال او کهن