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2916-2940

  • He replied, “O reasonable man, since they are predominant I shall (necessarily) be on the side of the stronger.
  • گفت ای منصف چو ایشان غالب‌اند  ** یار او باشم که باشد زورمند 

  • I can side (only) with him who is predominant: I (must) fall in the direction to which the predominant one is pulling (me).
  • یار آن تانم بدن کو غالبست  ** آن طرف افتم که غالب جاذبست 

  • Since (according to thy assertion) God was desiring of me a firm belief (in Islam), what is the use of His desire when He does not succeed (in attaining His object)?
  • چون خدا می‌خواست از من صدق زفت  ** خواست او چه سود چون پیشش نرفت 

  • The carnal soul and the Devil have carried their will to success, while that act of (Divine) favour has been defeated and pulverised.
  • نفس و شیطان خواست خود را پیش برد  ** وآن عنایت قهر گشت و خرد و مرد 

  • (’Tis as if) thou hadst built a palace and pavilion and erected therein a hundred beautiful (ornamental) designs, 2920
  • تو یکی قصر و سرایی ساختی  ** اندرو صد نقش خوش افراختی 

  • And desired that that goodly place should be a mosque— and (then) some one else had come and made it a Christian monastery;
  • خواستی مسجد بود آن جای خیر  ** دیگری آمد مر آن را ساخت دیر 

  • Or (as if) thou hadst woven a piece of linen cloth, in order deftly to make it a coat for some one to wear,
  • یا تو بافیدی یکی کرباس تا  ** خوش بسازی بهر پوشیدن قبا 

  • And (when) thou wert desiring (it to be) a coat, a rival, from (motives of) hostility, made the linen stuff into a pair of trousers in spite of thee.
  • تو قبا می‌خواستی خصم از نبرد  ** رغم تو کرباس را شلوار کرد 

  • What resource has the linen, my dear friend, but to submit to the purpose of the one who is predominant?
  • چاره کرباس چه بود جان من ** جز زبون رای آن غالب شدن

  • (Since) he (the owner of the cloth) is reduced to submission, what is the crime of this linen? Who is he that is not dominated by the predominant? 2925
  • او زبون شد جرم این کرباس چیست  ** آنک او مغلوب غالب نیست کیست 

  • When some one has forced his way in against his (the householder's) will and planted a thornbush in his property and house,
  • چون کسی بی‌خواست او بر وی براند  ** خاربن در ملک و خانه‌ی او نشاند 

  • The master of the house is humiliated because such a shabbiness (abasement) is inflicted on him.
  • صاحب خانه بدین خواری بود  ** که چنین بر وی خلاقت می‌رود 

  • I too, though I am fresh and new, would become shabby (abased) through being associated with such a contemptible person.
  • هم خلق گردم من ار تازه و نوم  ** چونک یار این چنین خواری شوم 

  • Since the will of the carnal soul is besought for help, ’tis mockery (to say) that whatever God wills shall come to pass.
  • چونک خواه نفس آمد مستعان  ** تسخر آمد ایش شاء الله کان 

  • (Even) if I am a disgrace to the Magians or am an infidel, I am not such (a miscreant) as to think this of God, 2930
  • من اگر ننگ مغان یا کافرم  ** آن نیم که بر خدا این ظن برم 

  • That any one should seek to exercise authority in His kingdom against His will and in spite of Him,
  • که کسی ناخواه او و رغم او  ** گردد اندر ملکت او حکم جو 

  • And thus should occupy His kingdom, so that the Creator of the breath dare not breathe a word (in opposition),
  • ملکت او را فرو گیرد چنین  ** که نیارد دم زدن دم آفرین 

  • (And that though) He wishes to repel him and must needs (do so), (yet) the Devil at every moment is increasing His anxiety.
  • دفع او می‌خواهد و می‌بایدش  ** دیو هر دم غصه می‌افزایدش 

  • (On this hypothesis) I must worship the Devil, inasmuch as he is predominant in every assembly,
  • بنده‌ی این دیو می‌باید شدن  ** چونک غالب اوست در هر انجمن 

  • Lest the Devil take vengeance on me—and then in that case how can the Gracious (God) lend me a (helping) hand? 2935
  • تا مبادا کین کشد شیطان ز من  ** پس چه دستم گیرد آنجا ذوالمنن 

  • That which he (the Devil) wills, his desire (therein) is fulfilled: by whom (except him) shall my affairs be restored to prosperity?
  • آنک او خواهد مراد او شود  ** از کی کار من دگر نیکو شود 

  • Parable of the Devil at the door of the Merciful God.
  • مثل شیطان بر در رحمان 

  • God forfend! Whatsoever God wills shall come to pass. He is the Ruler over the worlds of space and non-spatiality.
  • حاش لله ایش شاء الله کان  ** حاکم آمد در مکان و لامکان 

  • Without His command no one in His kingdom shall add (so much as) the tip of a single hair.
  • هیچ کس در ملک او بی‌امر او  ** در نیفزاید سر یک تای مو 

  • The kingdom is His kingdom, the command is His: that Devil of His is the meanest dog at His door.
  • ملک ملک اوست فرمان آن او  ** کمترین سگ بر در آن شیطان او 

  • If a Turcoman's dog is lying at the door (of the tent), with his face and head resting on the threshold, 2940
  • ترکمان را گر سگی باشد به در  ** بر درش بنهاده باشد رو و سر