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3139-3163

  • I have laid down a distinction between good and evil; I have also laid down a distinction between the bad and the worse.’
  • فرق بنهادم میان خیر و شر  ** فرق بنهادم ز بد هم از بتر 

  • If there be in you a single mote of self-discipline in excess of (that of) your companion, the grace of God will know, 3140
  • ذره‌ای گر در تو افزونی ادب  ** باشد از یارت بداند فضل رب 

  • And will bestow on you that mote's amount of superiority: the mote will step forth as (big as) a mountain (to meet you).
  • قدر آن ذره ترا افزون دهد  ** ذره چون کوهی قدم بیرون نهد 

  • A king before whose throne there is no distinction between the faithful (friend) and the seeker of iniquity—
  • پادشاهی که به پیش تخت او  ** فرق نبود از امین و ظلم‌جو 

  • Between him who trembles in fear of his (the king's) disapproval and him who intrigues against his fortune (empire)—
  • آنک می‌لرزد ز بیم رد او  ** وانک طعنه می‌زند در جد او 

  • (So that) there is no difference, but both of them are one to him: he is not a king, may dark earth be on his head!
  • فرق نبود هر دو یک باشد برش  ** شاه نبود خاک تیره بر سرش 

  • If your (devotional) labour exceed (that of another) by a single mote, it (that mote) will be weighed in God's balance. 3145
  • ذره‌ای گر جهد تو افزون بود  ** در ترازوی خدا موزون بود 

  • You continually work yourself to death in the service of these (worldly) kings, (yet) they are ignorant of (the difference between) treachery and honesty.
  • پیش این شاهان هماره جان کنی  ** بی‌خبر ایشان ز غدر و روشنی 

  • The words of a tale-bearer who speaks ill of you will cause your service (rendered) during (many) years to be wasted;
  • گفت غمازی که بد گوید ترا  ** ضایع آرد خدمتت را سالها 

  • (But) the words of tale-bearers do not take their abode in the presence of the King who is hearing and seeing.
  • پیش شاهی که سمیعست و بصیر  ** گفت غمازان نباشد جای‌گیر 

  • All the tale-bearers are reduced to despair by Him: they come to us and increase (our) bondage.
  • جمله غمازان ازو آیس شوند  ** سوی ما آیند و افزایند پند 

  • They speak much abuse of the King before us, saying, ‘Go! The Pen has dried (after writing your destiny). (Therefore) do not keep faith (with Him).’ 3150
  • بس جفا گویند شه را پیش ما  ** که برو جف القلم کم کن وفا 

  • How should the meaning of ‘the Pen has dried’ be (this), that acts of perfidy and acts of faithfulness are alike?
  • معنی جف القلم کی آن بود  ** که جفاها با وفا یکسان بود 

  • Nay, perfidy (in return) for acts of perfidy: the Pen has dried (on that); and faithfulness (in return) for those acts of faithfulness: the Pen has dried (on that).
  • بل جفا را هم جفا جف القلم  ** وآن وفا را هم وفا جف القلم 

  • (True), there may be pardon (for the sinner), but where (for him) is the glorious hope that through piety the servant of God may be (spiritually) illumined?
  • عفو باشد لیک کو فر امید  ** که بود بنده ز تقوی روسپید 

  • If a robber be pardoned, he saves his life, (but) how should he become a vizier and keeper of the treasury?
  • دزد را گر عفو باشد جان برد  ** کی وزیر و خازن مخزن شود 

  • Come, O godly Amínu’ddín, for every tiara and ensign has grown from trustworthiness (amánat). 3155
  • ای امین الدین ربانی بیا  ** کز امانت رست هر تاج و لوا 

  • If the Sultan's son become a traitor to him, on that account his head will be severed from his body;
  • پور سلطان گر برو خاین شود  ** آن سرش از تن بدان باین شود 

  • And if a Hindú slave show faithfulness, sovereignty will applaud him (and cry), ‘Long may he live!’
  • وز غلامی هندوی آرد وفا  ** دولت او را می‌زند طال بقا 

  • What of a slave? If a dog is faithful (in keeping watch) at a door, there are a hundred feelings of satisfaction with him in the heart of the master (of the house).
  • چه غلام ار بر دری سگ باوفاست  ** در دل سالار او را صد رضاست 

  • Since, because of this (faithfulness), he kisses the mouth of a dog, if he (the faithful one) be a lion, how triumphant he will make him!
  • زین چو سگ را بوسه بر پوزش دهد  ** گر بود شیری چه پیروزش کند 

  • (Robbers get nothing but pardon), except, to be sure, the robber who performs acts of service (to God) and whose sincerity uproots his (former) perfidy, 3160
  • جز مگر دزدی که خدمتها کند  ** صدق او بیخ جفا را بر کند 

  • Like Fudayl, the brigand who played straight, because he ran with the strength of ten men towards repentance;
  • چون فضیل ره‌زنی کو راست باخت  ** زانک ده مرده به سوی توبه تاخت 

  • And as the magicians (who) blackened the face of Pharaoh by their fortitude and faithfulness.
  • وآنچنان که ساحران فرعون را  ** رو سیه کردند از صبر و وفا 

  • They gave their hands and feet (to be cut off as a penalty) for the crime that entailed retaliation: how should that (degree of faithfulness) be attained by means of a hundred years' devotional service?
  • دست و پا دادند در جرم قود  ** آن به صد ساله عبادت کی شود