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4061-4085

  • When it has become certain to him that he will checkmate (his Opponent), the loss of his horse (knight) and elephant (bishop) is a trifle to him
  • چون یقین گشتش که خواهد کرد مات  ** فوت اسپ و پیل هستش ترهات 

  • If his horse be taken by any one who desires to take the horse, let the horse go; (for) is not he (by God’s help), the winner?
  • گر برد اسپش هر آنک اسپ‌جوست  ** اسپ رو گو نه که پیش آهنگ اوست 

  • How should there be an affinity between a man and a horse? His love for the horse is (only) for the purpose of getting in front (of others).
  • مرد را با اسپ کی خویشی بود  ** عشق اسپش از پی پیشی بود 

  • Do not endure all this anguish for the sake of (mere) forms: grasp the reality without (suffering) headache on account of a form.
  • بهر صورتها مکش چندین زحیر  ** بی‌صداع صورتی معنی بگیر 

  • The ascetic feels anxiety concerning his latter end: (he considers) what will be his plight on the Day of Reckoning; 4065
  • هست زاهد را غم پایان کار  ** تا چه باشد حال او روز شمار 

  • (But) the gnostics, having become conscious of the beginning, are free from anxiety and (care for) the ultimate conditions.
  • عارفان ز آغاز گشته هوشمند  ** از غم و احوال آخر فارغ‌اند 

  • (Formerly) the gnostic had the same fear and hope (as the ascetic), (but) his knowledge of the past devoured both those (feelings).
  • بود عارف را همین خوف و رجا  ** سابقه‌دانیش خورد آن هر دو را 

  • He perceived that in the past he had sown pulse: he knows what the produce will be.
  • دید کو سابق زراعت کرد ماش  ** او همی‌داند چه خواهد بود چاش 

  • He is a gnostic and has been delivered from fear and dread: the sword of God has cut lamentation asunder
  • عارفست و باز رست از خوف و بیم  ** های هو را کرد تیغ حق دو نیم 

  • (Formerly) he had from God (feelings of) fear and hope: the fear has passed away and the hope has come into clear view. 4070
  • بود او را بیم و اومید از خدا  ** خوف فانی شد عیان گشت آن رجا 

  • When he (Ayáz) broke that choice pearl, thereupon from the Amirs arose a hundred clamours and outcries—
  • چون شکست او گوهر خاص آن زمان  ** زان امیران خاست صد بانگ و فغان 

  • “What recklessness is this! By God, whoever has broken this luminous pearl is an infidel”—
  • کین چه بی‌باکیست والله کافرست  ** هر که این پر نور گوهر را شکست 

  • And (yet) the whole company (of Amirs) in their ignorance and blindness had broken the pearl of the King’s command.
  • وآن جماعت جمله از جهل و عما  ** در شکسته در امر شاه را 

  • The precious pearl, the product of love and affection—why was it (ever) veiled from hearts like those?
  • قیمتی گوهر نتیجه‌ی مهر و ود  ** بر چنان خاطر چرا پوشیده شد 

  • How the Amirs reviled Ayáz, saying, “Why did he break it?” and how Ayáz answered them.
  • تشنیع زدن امرا بر ایاز کی چرا شکستش و جواب دادن ایاز ایشان را 

  • Ayáz said, “O renowned princes, is the King’s command more precious or the pearl? 4075
  • گفت ایاز ای مهتران نامور  ** امر شه بهتر به قیمت یا گهر 

  • In your eyes is the command of the sovereign or this goodly pearl superior? For God’s sake (tell me that)!
  • امر سلطان به بود پیش شما  ** یا که این نیکو گهر بهر خدا 

  • O ye whose gaze is (fixed) upon the pearl, not upon the King, the ghoul is your object of desire, not the highway.
  • ای نظرتان بر گهر بر شاه نه  ** قبله‌تان غولست و جاده‌ی راه نه 

  • I will never avert my gaze from the King, I will not turn my face towards a stone, like the polytheist.
  • من ز شه بر می‌نگردانم بصر  ** من چو مشرک روی نارم با حجر 

  • Devoid of the (spiritual) pearl is the soul that prefers a coloured stone and puts my King behind.”
  • بی‌گهر جانی که رنگین سنگ را  ** برگزیند پس نهد شاه مرا 

  • Turn thy back towards the rose-colored doll, lose thy reason in Him who bestows the colour. 4080
  • پشت سوی لعبت گل‌رنگ کن  ** عقل در رنگ‌آورنده دنگ کن 

  • Come into the river (of reality), dash the pitcher (of phenomenal form) against the stone, set fire to (mere) scent and colour.
  • اندر آ در جو سبو بر سنگ زن  ** آتش اندر بو و اندر رنگ زن 

  • If thou art not one of the brigands on the Way of the Religion, do not be addicted, like women, to colour and scent.
  • گر نه‌ای در راه دین از ره‌زنان  ** رنگ و بو مپرست مانند زنان 

  • Those princes cast down their heads, craving with (all) their soul to be excused for that (act of) forgetfulness.
  • سر فرود انداختند آن مهتران  ** عذرجویان گشه زان نسیان به جان 

  • At that moment from the heart of each one (of them) two hundred sighs were going (up), like a (great) smoke, to heaven.
  • از دل هر یک دو صد آه آن زمان  ** هم‌چو دودی می‌شدی تا آسمان 

  • The King made a sign to the ancient executioner, as though to say, "Remove these vile wretches from my seat of honour. 4085
  • کرد اشارت شه به جلاد کهن  ** که ز صدرم این خسان را دور کن