“This cat has eaten the meat,” she replied: “hey, go and buy some more meat if you can!”
گفت زن این گربه خورد آن گوشت را ** گوشت دیگر خر اگر باشد هلا
He said (to the servant), “O Aybak, fetch the balance: I will weigh the cat.3415
گفت ای ایبک ترازو را بیار ** گربه را من بر کشم اندر عیار
He weighed her. The cat was half a mann. Then the man said, “O deceitful wife,
بر کشیدش بود گربه نیم من ** پس بگفت آن مرد کای محتال زن
The meat was half a mann and one sitír over; the cat is just half a mann, my lady.
گوشت نیم من بود و افزون یک ستیر ** هست گربه نیممن هم ای ستیر
If this is the cat, then where is the meat? Or, if this is the meat, where is the cat? Search (for her)!”
این اگر گربهست پس آن گوشت کو ** ور بود این گوشت گربه کو بجو
If Báyazíd is this (body), what is that spirit? And if he is that spirit, who is this (bodily) image?
بایزید ار این بود آن روح چیست ** ور وی آن روحست این تصویر کیست
’Tis bewilderment on bewilderment. O my friend, (the solution of) this (problem) is not your affair, nor is it mine either.3420
حیرت اندر حیرتست ای یار من ** این نه کار تست و نه هم کار من
He is both (spirit and body), but in the corn-crop the grain is fundamental, while the stalk is derivative.
هر دو او باشد ولیک از ریع زرع ** دانه باشد اصل و آن که پره فرع
(The Divine) Wisdom has bound these contraries together: O butcher, this fleshy thigh-bone goes along with the neck.
حکمت این اضداد را با هم ببست ** ای قصاب این گردران با گردنست
The spirit cannot function without the body; your body is frozen (inanimate) and cold (inert) without the spirit.
روح بیقالب نداند کار کرد ** قالبت بیجان فسرده بود و سرد
Your body is visible, while your spirit is hidden from view: the business of the world is conducted by means of them both.
قالبت پیدا و آن جانت نهان ** راست شد زین هر دو اسباب جهان
If you throw earth at (some one's) head, his head will not be broken; if you throw water at his head, it will not be broken.3425
خاک را بر سر زنی سر نشکند ** آب را بر سر زنی در نشکند
If you wish to break his head, you bring the earth and the water into contact with each other (and make a lump of clay).
گر تو میخواهی که سر را بشکنی ** آب را و خاک را بر هم زنی
When you have broken your head, its water (the spirit) returns to its source, and earth returns to earth on the day of separation.
چون شکستی سر رود آبش به اصل ** خاک سوی خاک آید روز فصل
The providential purpose that God had—namely, humble supplication or obstinate contumacy—was fulfilled by means of the marriage (of body and spirit).
حکمتی که بود حق را ز ازدواج ** گشت حاصل از نیاز و از لجاج
Then (afterwards) there are other marriages that no ear hath heard and no eye hath seen.
باشد آنگه ازدواجات دگر ** لا سمع اذن و لا عین بصر
If the ear had heard, how should the ear have remained (in action) or how should it have apprehended words any more?3430
گر شنیدی اذن کی ماندی اذن ** یا کجا کردی دگر ضبط سخن
If the snow and ice were to behold the sun, they would despair of (retaining their) iciness;
گر بدیدی برف و یخ خورشید را ** از یخی برداشتی اومید را
They would become water (formless and) devoid of roots and knobs: the air, David-like, would make of the water a mail-coat (of ripples),
آب گشتی بیعروق و بیگره ** ز آب داود هوا کردی زره
And then it (the water) would become a life-giving medicine for every tree: every tree (would be made) fortunate by its advent.
پس شدی درمان جان هر درخت ** هر درختی از قدومش نیکبخت
(But) the frozen ice that remains (locked) within itself cries to the trees,Touch me not!
آن یخی بفسرده در خود مانده ** لا مساسی با درختان خوانده
Its body makes none its friend nor is it made a friend by any: its portion is naught but miserly selfishness.3435
لیس یالف لیس یلف جسمه ** لیس الا شح نفس قسمه
It is not wasted (entirely), the heart is refreshed by it; but it is not the herald and lord of (the vernal) greenery.
نیست ضایع زو شود تازه جگر ** لیک نبود پیک و سلطان خضر
“O Ayáz, thou art a very exalted star: not every sign of the zodiac is worthy of its transit.
ای ایاز استارهی تو بس بلند ** نیست هر برجی عبورش را پسند
How should thy lofty spirit be satisfied with every loyalty? How should thy pureness choose (to accept) every sincerity?”
هر وفا را کی پسندد همتت ** هر صفا را کی گزیند صفوتت
Story of the Amír who bade his slave fetch some wine: the slave went off and was bringing a jug of wine, (when) an ascetic (who) was on the road admonished him that he should act righteously and threw a stone and smashed the jug; the Amír heard (of this) and resolved to punish the ascetic. That happened in the epoch of the religion of Jesus, on whom be peace, when wine had not yet been declared unlawful; but the ascetic was showing an abhorrence (for worldly pleasure) and preventing (others) from indulging themselves.
حکایت آن امیر کی غلام را گفت کی می بیار غلام رفت و سبوی می آورد در راه زاهدی بود امر معروف کرد زد سنگی و سبو را بشکست امیر بشنید و قصد گوشمال زاهد کرد و این قصد در عهد دین عیسی بود علیهالسلام کی هنوز می حرام نشده بود ولیکن زاهد تقزیزی میکرد و از تنعم منع میکرد