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  • When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).
  • چون نباشی راست می‌دان که چپی  ** هست پیدا نعره‌ی شیر و کپی 

  • He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”
  • آنک گل را شاهد و خوش‌بو کند  ** هر چپی را راست فضل او کند 

  • He bestows “rightness” on every one belonging to the “left” He bestows a(fresh) running water on the (salt) sea.
  • هر شمالی را یمینی او دهد  ** بحر را ماء معینی او دهد 

  • If you are “left,” be “right” (in perfect harmony) with His Lordship, that you may see His mercies prevail (over His wrath). 2160
  • گر چپی با حضرت او راست باش  ** تا ببینی دست‌برد لطفهاش 

  • Do you think it allowable that this vile scroll (of yours) should pass from the left hand and come into the right?
  • تو روا داری که این نامه‌ی مهین  ** بگذرد از چپ در آید در یمین 

  • How indeed should a scroll like this, which is full of iniquity and injury, be fit (to place) in the right hand?
  • این چنین نامه که پرظلم و جفاست  ** کی بود خود درخور اندر دست راست 

  • Explaining the case of a person who makes a statement when his behaviour is not consistent with that statement and profession, like the infidels (of whom God hath said): “and if thou ask them who created the heavens and the earth they will surely say, ‘Allah.’” How is the worship of a stone idol and the sacrifice of life and wealth for its sake appropriate to a soul which knows that the creator of heaven and earth and (all) created beings is a God, all-hearing, all-seeing, omnipresent, all-observing, all dominating, jealous, etc.?
  • در بیان کسی کی سخنی گوید کی حال او مناسب آن سخن و آن دعوی نباشد چنان که کفره و لن سالتهم من خلق السموات والارض لیقولن الله خدمت بت سنگین کردن و جان و زر فدای او کردن چه مناسب باشد با جانی کی داند کی خالق سموات و ارض و خلایق الهیست سمیعی بصیری حاضری مراقبی مستولی غیوری الی آخره 

  • A certain ascetic had a very jealous wife: he also had a maid-servant (beautiful) as a houri.
  • زاهدی را یک زنی بد بس غیور  ** هم بد او را یک کنیزک هم‌چو حور 

  • The wife used to watch her husband jealously and not let him be alone with the maid.
  • زان ز غیرت پاس شوهر داشتی  ** با کنیزک خلوتش نگذاشتی 

  • For a long time the wife watched them both, lest an opportunity should occur for their being alone (together)— 2165
  • مدتی زن شد مراقب هر دو را  ** تاکشان فرصت نیفتد در خلا 

  • Until the decree and fore-ordainment of God arrived: (then) the watchman, Reason, became giddy-headed and good-for-nothing.
  • تا در آمد حکم و تقدیر اله  ** عقل حارس خیره‌سر گشت و تباه 

  • When His decree and fore-ordainment arrives unawares, who is Reason? Eclipse overtakes (even) the moon.
  • حکم و تقدیرش چو آید بی‌وقوف  ** عقل کی بود در قمر افتد خسوف 

  • The wife was at the (public) bath: suddenly she remembered the wash-basin and (that) it was (had been left) at home.
  • بود در حمام آن زن ناگهان  ** یادش آمد طشت و در خانه بد آن 

  • She said to the maid, “Hark, go like a bird and fetch the silver basin from our house.”
  • با کنیزک گفت رو هین مرغ‌وار  ** طشت سیمین را ز خانه‌ی ما بیار 

  • On hearing this, the maid came to life, for (she knew that) now she would obtain (a meeting with) the master, 2170
  • آن کنیزک زنده شد چون این شنید  ** که به خواجه این زمان خواهد رسید 

  • (Since) the master was then at home and alone. So she ran joyously to the house.
  • خواجه در خانه‌ست و خلوت این زمان  ** پس دوان شد سوی خانه شادمان 

  • For six years the maid had been longing to find the master alone like this.
  • عشق شش ساله کنیزک را بد این  ** که بیابد خواجه را خلوت چنین 

  • She flew off and hastened towards the house: she found the master at home and alone.
  • گشت پران جانب خانه شتافت  ** خواجه را در خانه در خلوت بیافت 

  • Desire took possession of both the lovers so (mightily) that they had no care or thought of bolting the door.
  • هر دو عاشق را چنان شهوت ربود  ** که احتیاط و یاد در بستن نبود 

  • Ambo summa alacritate coierunt: copulatis corporibus anima cum anima conjuncta est. [Both moved toward one another from joy; by means of (bodily) copulation, soul joined to soul (in) that moment.] 2175
  • هر دو با هم در خزیدند از نشاط  ** جان به جان پیوست آن دم ز اختلاط 

  • Then the wife recollected (and said to herself), “Why did I send her (back) to the house?
  • یاد آمد در زمان زن را که من  ** چون فرستادم ورا سوی وطن 

  • I have set the cotton on fire with my own hand, I have put the lusty ram to the ewe.”
  • پنبه در آتش نهادم من به خویش  ** اندر افکندم قج نر را به میش 

  • She washed off the clay (soap) from her head and ran, beside herself (with anxiety): she went in pursuit of her (the maid), drawing the chádar (over her head as she ran).
  • گل فرو شست از سر و بی‌جان دوید  ** در پی او رفت و چادر می‌کشید 

  • The former (the maid) ran because of the love in her soul, and the latter (the wife) because of fear. What is fear in comparison with love? (There is) a great difference.
  • آن ز عشق جان دوید و این ز بیم  ** عشق کو و بیم کو فرقی عظیم 

  • The mystic's progress is (an ascension) at every moment to the throne of the (Divine) King; the ascetic's progress is one day's journey every month. 2180
  • سیر عارف هر دمی تا تخت شاه  ** سیر زاهد هر مهی یک روزه راه 

  • Although, for the ascetic, one day is of great value, (yet) how should his one day be (equal to) fifty thousand (years)?
  • گرچه زاهد را بود روزی شگرف  ** کی بود یک روز او خمسین الف